Celebrate the Height of Psychedelic Culture with the 50th Anniversary of 1967 – featuring MAY!

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

MAY EXPLODES!  

Let’s Rock:

May 1: Elvis marries 21 year old Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.
He has been dating her since she was fourteen.

May 4: Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7.

May 6: Pearls Before Swine begin recording an album called “One Nation Underground”. The LP includes a song called “Miss Morse”, which would be banned in New York when it was discovered that lead singer Tom Rapp was singing F-U-C-K in Morse code. After disc jockey Murray The K played the record on the air, local Boy Scouts
correctly interpreted the chorus and phoned in a complaint.

May 6: The Who’s Keith Moon offers this insightful advice to young
drummers during an interview in Melody Maker Magazine: “To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder.”

May 6: Two weeks after being pushed out of the top spot on the Cashbox Best Sellers list by The Monkees’ “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You”, Nancy and Frank Sinatra return to number one with “Something Stupid”.

May 6: 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania

May 7: Soviet youths openly defied police and danced The Twist in Moscow’s Red Square during May Day celebrations.

May 8: Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army.

May 8: Gerry And The Pacemakers announced that they were splitting up, recognizing that they could ‘no longer keep pace with the rapidly changing UK Rock scene.’

May 10: Rolling Stones Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges.

May 11: The 100,000,000th U.S. phone connected.

May 11: The Bee Gees made their debut on the UK TV show Top Of The Pops, performing “New York Mining Disaster, 1941” which will enter the UK Pop chart two days later and go on to reach #12. In reality, there was no mining disaster in New York in 1941, although there was one in McIntire, Pennsylvania which killed 6 people.

May 12: The Jimi Hendrix Experience release their debut album, “Are You Experienced”; and with it Hendrix creates an Art Form. This album takes Rock and Psychedelia to its highest eschalon.  Guitarists re-evaluate their career; Rockers, their lives.

May 12: 20th Cannes Film Festival; “Blowup” directed by Michelangelo Antonioni wins the Grand Prix du Festivall International du Film.  The Yardbirds Beck/Page lineup were featured in the genre-spawning London-set psychedelic noire mystery, “Blow Up”, in a club scene performing “Stroll On”; (the “legal” version of “The Train kept A- Rollin’”). Toward the end of the scene Beck destroys his guitar onstage to emulate the soon-to-be legendary
destructo-showmanship of the Who’s Pete Townshend.

May 13: NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller.

May 15: Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman.

May 15: “In re Gault”, US Supreme Court rules juveniles accused of crimes should be given same legal rights as adults.

May 16: The Monkees’ third LP, “Headquarters” was released. It was their first album recorded primarily by the four members of the group and would reach #1 in the US for one week before being relegated to second place for eleven consecutive weeks by “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.

May 17: Dylan’s filmed 1965 UK Tour is released as “Don’t Look Back”.

May 19: US bombs Hanoi (Vietnam War).

May 19: USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space.

May 20: 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.

May 20: The BBC announces that it will not play The Beatles’ “A Day In The Life”, claiming it contained explicit drug references. On the same day, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr go to the BBC to record interviews for the show Where It’s At.

May 20: The Young Rascals scores the second of their three Billboard #1 records when “Groovin” reaches the top. It made #8 in the UK. Felix Cavalieri and Eddie Brigati wrote this song because their work schedule would only allow them to see their girlfriends on Sunday afternoons.

May 20: Manuel Fernandez, founding member and organist for Los Bravos on their 1966 hit “Black Is Black”, committed suicide at 23.

May 22: “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” debuts on NET (now PBS).

May 25: John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelically painted Rolls Royce.

May 26: The Mothers of Invention release the classic “Absolutely Free” album.

May 26: The Beatles masterpiece, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released in the UK, one week before its American June 1st debut. The album took over 700 hours to record under the direction of George Martin and cost $75,000 to produce. A then state-of-the-art four track recorder was used to build each song layer by layer. The LP spent 22 weeks at the top of the UK albums chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. The iconic album cover, depicting the band posing in front of a collage of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth based on a sketch by Paul McCartney. “Sgt. Pepper” has now sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

May 27: Otis Redding’s backup band, The Bar-Kays, enter the US charts with “Soul Finger”, an instrumental that will peak at #3 R&B and #17 Pop. Six months later, four members of the band died in the plane crash that killed Redding.

May 27: Columbia and RCA Victor, two of America’s biggest record labels, announce that they will raise the list price of L.P.s by one dollar on June 1st. It’s the first increase since 1953.

May 28: 1967: Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Pink Floyd were among the performers at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall in Spalding, Lincoln, England.

May 28: A new band from Los Angeles,
The Doors, release their first single, “Light My Fire”. It reached #1 and became one of the Top 20 Songs of the Rock Era. The Doors went on to have 17 hits, including three Top 10 songs.

May 30: World-Class Daredevil, Robert “Evel” Knievel, jumps 16 automobiles on his motorcycle.

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending
May 20, 1967:
1  GROOVIN’ – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
2 THE HAPPENING – The Supremes (Motown)
3  SWEET SOUL MUSIC – Arthur Conley (Atco)
4  SOMETHIN’ STUPID – Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
5  RESPECT – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
6  I GOT RHYTHM – The Happenings (B.T. Puppy)
7  RELEASE ME (And Let Me Love Again) – Engelbert Humperdinck (Parrot)
8  CLOSE YOUR EYES – Peaches and Herb (Date)
9  DON’T YOU CARE – The Buckinghams (Columbia)
10  YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES – The Dave Clark Five (Epic)
11  GIRL, YOU’LL BE A WOMAN SOON – Neil Diamond (Bang)
12  ON A CAROUSEL – The Hollies (Imperial)
13  CREEQUE ALLEY – The Mamas and the Papas (Dunhill)
14  HIM OR ME – WHAT’S IT GONNA BE – Paul Revere and the Raiders/Mark Lindsay (Columbia)
15  WHEN I WAS YOUNG – Eric Burdon and the Animals (MGM)
16  FRIDAY ON MY MIND – The Easybeats (United Artists)
17  I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
18  HERE COMES MY BABY – The Tremeloes (Epic)
19  MIRAGE – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
20  A LITTLE BIT ME, A LITTLE BIT YOU – The Monkees (Colgems)

MAY MOVIES

May 10: Per qualche dollaro in più  (For A Few Dollars More) – Clint Eastwood
May 17: Don’t Look Back – Bob Dylan concert tour documentary
May 25: Barefoot in the Park – Robert Redford & Jane Fonda
May 27: The War Wagon – John Wayne & Kirk Douglas

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OK, Cosmic Kids, 1967’s Psychedelic Train is headed for seven more monthly psychedelic stops and psyide-trips on the way through Historic Psychedelic 1967!

“Psychedelic Train Takin’ A Trip And Manifestin’ A Reality” copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

After April’s sumptuous breakfast at the Psychedelic Coffee Shop, off Route 67, and back on the rails, the effects of the “Rainbow Plate Special” are coming on –
please enjoy the scenery. 

Next stop – June 1967!
And the Official Beginning of the Summer of Love!

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1960’s & 1970′s Album Track Gems . . . . . . . . . . . . . The CLASH – “Charlie Don’t Surf” – February 1980

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The CLASH – “Charlie Don’t Surf”

Just as there were righteous late ’50’s classics that became part of the ’60s by their endurance and popularity, so were there albums and songs that sustained the energy and true spirit of the ’60’s and ’70’s decades beyond the Pinnacle of Classic Rock.

This can be applied to countless songs influenced by the massive creativity of those two decades, but there were a few that encapsulated the very essence and best expressions of those historic times.

Recorded in the spilled-over months of the ’70’s decade’s end in early 1980, Charlie Don’t Surf by The Clash: Joe Strummer lead and backing vocals, guitar, Mick Jones guitar, backing and lead vocals, Paul Simonon bass guitar, backing vocals, and Topper Headon drums, vocals, was released late 1980 as a track on their triple album, “Sandinista!”.  

Charlie Don’t Surf embodies early Who, Dylan, the Ventures, the Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, the Doors, the Stones, the Beatles, Duane Eddy, and Santo and Johnny – all backed by a driving Tribal beat and tubular silver-stringed guitar.  Sincere, sardonic, playful, serious, heartbreaking, soulful, bare bones emotions are felt were Psychedelic Bluesy ’50s and swinging ’60s meets ’70s emerging punk and new wave – wait for the subtle etheric “Pink Floyd” fade and resurge.

Ironic how the “Apocolypse, Now” lyrics are not only timely, but currently take on multi-faceted viewpoints.  Anyway, within anyone’s earshot, this is a definite Album Track Gem and a Haunting Heart ‘n’ Soul ’60s and ’70s Rocker.

Loop or replay, it’s that good:

Charlie Don’t Surf
Charlie don’t surf and we think he should
Charlie don’t surf and you know that it ain’t no good
Charlie don’t surf for his hamburger Momma
Charlie’s gonna be a napalm star

Everybody wants to rule the world
Must be something we get from birth
One truth is we never learn
Satellites will make space burn

We’ve been told to keep the strangers out
We don’t like them starting to hang around
We don’t like them all over town
Across the world we are going to blow them down

Charlie don’t surf and we think he should
Charlie don’t surf and you know that it ain’t no good
Charlie don’t surf for his hamburger Momma
Charlie’s gonna be a napalm star

The reign of the super powers must be over
So many armies can’t free the earth
Soon the rock will roll over
Africa is choking on their Coca Cola

It’s a one a way street in a one horse town
One way people starting to brag around
You can laugh, put them down
These one way people gonna blow us down

Charlie don’t surf he’ll never learn
Charlie don’t surf though he’s got a gun
Charlie don’t surf think that he should
Charlie don’t surf we really think he should
Charlie don’t surf

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Mick Jones went on to form Big Audio Dynamite (B.A.D.)
and released the 1985 Mondo-Classic Album “This Is Big Audio Dynamite”.

A 00individual ERA – Essential Record Award.

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1970′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . RUMPLESTILTSKIN – A Tribute To THEE BEST “Unknown” ROCK BAND EVER!

EXPERIENCE “UNKNOWN ROCK BAND” HISTORY!

RUMPLESTILTSKIN – RUMPLESTILTSKIN – 1970 – Bell 6047

With over 6,000 hits over a four year period, the eponymous debut album, RUMPLESTILTSKIN ranks third among 00individual’s 379 posts.  This is extremely impressive when reviews of concerts, albums and events with the likes of The Stones, The Who, The Doors, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Hendrix even, trail behind.

1970 was a historic and heavyweight year for Rock ‘n’ Roll; with many new releases by talented bands and releases by the icons who remain that way today.  But it took more than talent, for one reason or another there were a few select bands whose potential was evident, yet the Rock Gods did not shine upon them.  This divine action deprived the band and Rockers the satisfaction of more of a good thing.

RUMPLESTILTSKIN were a world-class Rock group and the classic example of a band that very few even knew existed.  Another band whose record company’s handling of them was apparently tragic.  Whenever 00individual would be thumbing through the “R” bins of his vinyl collection – it got played.

As a Record Store Manager and a Record and Tape Rack Jobber 00individual admits that he had access to just about any recordings and when he saw the comic book cover he was certainly curious – and Shel Talmy’s name as producer sealed the deal.

Shel Talmy, the producer of The Who and The Kinks (during their early successful years) whose heavy influence with The Who created a historic recording, “My Generation,” has this to say: “I produced a band called “Rumpelstiltskin”, which was a put-together band of very good session guys, and we almost made it with that one.  We had a whole concept.  We were going to do a comic strip and all kinds of stuff.  It was really a fun thing. And good songs, great music, ’cause these guys really could play. That went on Bell Records, [who] just totally screwed the whole thing up.  It was really unfortunate.  We made two albums that I was very pleased with; that I think should have made it.”  00individual. agrees.

Remember that Led Zeppelin were quality session players that made it big – Rumplestiltskin were on the right path with the wrong record company.

One listen to this absolute gem of a record and he was hooked!  Every cut is really, really great – big chunks of guitar with monster hooks, bass-lines that shake the ground and slabs of hot, hot Hammond organ with a commanding unique soulful voice soaring and roaring through it all unscathed.  Really solid unique soulful heavy meaty tracks!  This album is seriously great!

Unfortunately, the internet “takes down” most all of their songs – which only makes
RUMPLESTILTSKIN that much more mysterious.

Take the first track; “Make Me Make You” this track seriously rivals the best of the aforemetioned bands – classic hooks, transitions, and totally hip and cool passages – at a little past six minutes it sounds as though Keith Emerson dropped-in for a bit.  This track alone demands repeat listenings – plus – this is the “Gateway Drug” song for the rest of the album, if you like it you’ll love the rest.

In any case get a hold of this great band and great album any way you can!

It is apparently available on line as a Limited Edition CD – REP 4208-WP.
– Info courtesy of BOB.

RUMPLESTILTSKIN
Side One:
1 Make Me Make You
2 Poor Billy Brown
3 Knock in My Door
4 No One to Turn To

Side Two:
1 Mr. Joe (Witness for the Defence)
2 Pate de foie gras
3 Rumplestiltskin
4 Squadron Leader Johnson

Rumpelstiltskin (Superb “Session” Band – remember, Led Zeppelin was a “session” band!!)
Alan Parker (The Axe Man) Guitar,
Herbie Flowers (The Master) Bass,
Clem Cattini (The Drum Lord) Drums,
Alan Hawkshaw (The Hammerin’ Hammond Honcho) keyboards
Peter Stirling  (Sterling Silver Voice) – vocals

Unverified: Alan Parker, Herbie Flowers, and Alan Hawkshaw also worked as part of Blue Mink for several years, and Hawkshaw wrote music for various TV shows and films. Clem Cattini was in one of the variants of Colloseum for a while and wound up drumming for Humble Pie circa Smokin’ album and Peter Stirling took on the name of Daniel Boone and became a one hit wonder.

Like Frijid Pink and a few select bands, 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.

Due in part by the consistent high number of visits/views to the original Rumplestiltskin post, there is definitely a very high – and highly deserved – current (over the past four years) interest in this band.  The vinyl album is available on auction sites.  There is also a Limited Edition CD in the net ethers.

CHECK OUT THE REST OF THE
TOP 79 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1970s ROCK ALBUMS!

“Psychedelic Rendition of 1051 Gayley Ave, Westwood Village, L.A., California – circa 1974”
copyright 2014 00individual  TLL

Here’s something fun for all of you Rockers out there:
The above storefront 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 of original post.

EXPERIENCE RECORD STORE CULTURE CHRONICLES!

Adventures as a Manager of the Record and Tape Store of the Stars!
1974 – 1975

This is a revised and updated re-post from October 2012.

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1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Psychedelic Man – 1970 Authentic Counter-Culture Hippie Art Sculpture . . . and Quotes of the Stoned Intellegentsia

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EXPERIENCE COUNTER-CULTURE ARTIFACTS
and quotes of the Stoned Intelligentsia

00individual offers another archival piece of art from the Cultural Archives of the Psychedelic Era; the Psychedelic Man.

Being indicative of 00individual’s future ’90’s and ’00’s profession specialty of hand-sculpting head likenesses for the action figure and collectibles market; the Psychedelic Man exhibits the DIY “folk art” of the time.  So, despite his unrefined sculpting abilities in 1970, the Psychedelic Man’s eyes look really stoned – 00individual nailed that.

The transition from 1969 to 1970 seemed like a decade had passed in just one year. Momentous events historically and culturally had coalesced into a new decade where glorious expectations were met.

Along the way, philosophical concepts were discussed over bowls of Weed, Hash, and doses of Hallucinogens.  While cosmic ramblings among stoned intelligentsia seemed, and sometimes were, profound at the time, sometimes later upon reflection they were not.

However, there were quotes that held Tribal Truth; here are some examples: “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”,  “Make love, not war.”, “Do your own thing.”, “Your mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work unless it’s open.”,”Don’t let the man keep you down.”, “Give peace a chance.”, “Don’t trust anyone over thirty.”, “Power to the People.”, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world.”, “Drop acid not bombs.”,  “Get up, stand up! Stand up for your right! Don’t give up the fight!”, “Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.”, and the ever popular, “Question Authority.”.

It is safe to say that 00individual was in an altered state while creating this Psychedelic Man, not that it was a prerequisite for creativity, but in reference to the inscription on the base.  Thanks to the Acrylic “weapon of choice” paint the base’s cosmic quote can still be read;“If you don’t think about it you can do it every time.”

Now, while this may have had a revelatory meaning to 00individual back then while under heavy cosmic contemplation, its true meaning has been lost in the ethers over the decades.

Some may view this negatively, as it sounds like a catch-all phrase for denial, irresponsibility, and sociopathic behavior.  On the positive side there is the fact that not thinking / dwelling on or about something allows for spontaneity.

Does one go with “the Beast” Alistair Crowley and embrace willfullness; “…in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

Or release willpower, live in the now, and allow one’s higher self to resolve the issue.

With the latter concept, the saying takes on a transcendent meaning of a Zen like state where a clear mind, a cosmic mind, an unbiased mind lets the magick in to do its, magick.  By not buying into negativity and rising above, one can do it every time.

 “If you don’t think about it you can do it every time.”

“What is “it”?

“It” would be what is relevant to you.

Or Mr. King’s Demon Clown.

Tim Curry Rocks!

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