Celebrate the most historic year in modern American history with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring AUGUST

“Street Fightin’ August 1968” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

AUGUST 1968

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
and the Year that Shattered American and World History

– THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME –
SEE: AUGUST 29, 1968, BELOW

Happenings:
Aug 3-4 The First Annual Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California 100,000 attend
Regular Admission $5.50 !!
00individual was there!

Aug 8 Race riot in Miami, Florida
Aug 8 Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president
Aug 10 Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock
Aug 11 Beatles launch “Apple Records” label
Aug 20 During the night 200,00 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops begin to invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring
Aug 21 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate Hubert Humphrey
Aug 23 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement (temporarily).
Aug 25 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
Aug 26 “Hey Jude” single released by the Beatles (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)
Aug 28 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago’s Democratic National Convention

AUGUST 29, 1968 – Chicago Transit Authority: “Prologue / Someday August 29, 1968”
“Would you look around you now, And tell me what you see
Faces full of hate and fear, Faces full of me
Do you feel the rumblings, As your head comes crumbling down
Do you know what I mean, 
Run, you better, run you know The End is getting near
Feel the wind of something hard, Come whistling past your ear
As they try to get you, Where it will upset you
Now you know what I mean,
Someday you will see how long, We’ve waited for the time,
To show you how we’ve died, To get together with you all
Twist and turn your head around, ‘Till everything’s unclear
Twist and turn your arm around, Until it is not there
And they’d love to burn you, Or at least to turn you around
Now you know what I mean
Can you look around you now, And tell us what’s to be
Can you look inside yourself, And tell us what you see
As you feel the rumblings, As your head comes crumbling down
And you know what I mean
Someday you will see how long, We’ve been waiting for the time

Aug 30 First record under Apple label (Beatle’s Hey Jude)
Aug 30 John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “One on One” benefit for children at Madison Square Garden, New York
Aug 31 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover

Let’s Rock: Album Releases:
Aug 10 Ten Years After – Undead
Aug 12 Big Brother & Holding Company – Cheap Thrills
Aug 19 The Beach Boys – The Best of Vol. 3
Aug 19 The Beach Boys- Stack-O-Tracks
Aug 21 Etta James – Tell Mama
Aug 23 Fleetwood Mac – Mr. WonderFul
Aug 26 Diana Ross/Supremes Sing – “Funny Girl”
Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Supremes Live – Live at London’s Talk of the Town
Aug 30 The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Donovan – Live in Concert
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Every One of Us
Frank Sinatra – Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits
James Brown – Plays Nothing But Soul
James Brown – Live at the Apollo, Volume II
Sammy Davis Jr. – Lonely Is the Name
The Vogues – Memories
Blue Cheer – Outsideinside
The Miracles – Special Occasion
The 5th Dimension – Stoned Soul Picnic
Country Joe and the Fish – Together
The Jeff Beck Group – Truth
The Vogues – Turn Around, Look at Me
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – You’re All I Need

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending August 10, 1968:
Check out these Half-Century Classic Singles in bold that still Rock and Inspire:
Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll! 
1 HELLO, I LOVE YOU – The Doors (Elektra)
2 CLASSICAL GAS – Mason Williams (Warner Brothers/Seven Arts)
3 STONED SOUL PICNIC – The 5th Dimension (Soul City)
4 GRAZING IN THE GRASS – Hugh Masekela (Uni)
5 PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE – The Rascals (Atlantic)

6 HURDY GURDY MAN – Donovan (Epic)
Heavy Rock Trivia!!
For decades there have been disagreements as to who played on this seminal entry into Heavy Metal Rock; especially lead electric guitar.
As per John Paul Jones 2005, “I would like to confirm that the musicians on the record were as follows: Arrangement/Musical Director and Bass Guitar: John Paul Jones, Accoustic Guitar – Donovan, Lead (electric) Guitar – Alan Parker, Drums – Clem Cattini, No other musicians were involved in this session.”
Two members of the Greatest Unknown Rock Band Ever; Rumpelstiltskin: Alan Parker (The Hurdy Gurdy Axe Man), Clem Cattini (The Hurdy Gurdy Drum Lord) laid down the heavy guitar and drums and joined the rest of Rumpelstiltskin; Herbie Flowers (The Master) Bass,  Drums, Alan Hawkshaw (The Hammerin’ Hammond Honcho) keyboards, Peter Stirling (Sterling Silver Voice) – vocals – as the next super session group like Led Zeppelin.

7 LADY WILLPOWER – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Columbia)
8 TURN AROUND, LOOK AT ME – The Vogues (Reprise)
9 SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE – Cream (Atco)
10 JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH – The Rolling Stones (London)
11 BORN TO BE WILD – Steppenwolf (Dunhill)
12 THE HORSE – Cliff Nobles and Co. (Phil-L.A. Of Soul)
13 STAY IN MY CORNER – The Dells (Cadet)
14 PICTURES OF MATCHSTICK MEN – The Status Quo (Cadet Concept)
15 YOU KEEP ME HANGIN’ ON – Vanilla Fudge (Atco)
16 THIS GUY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU – Herb Alpert (A&M)
17 JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE MIND – The Amboy Dukes /Ted Nugent (Mainstream)
18 DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME – Mama Cass  (Dunhill)
19 AUTUMN OF MY LIFE – Bobby Goldsboro (United Artists)
20 LIGHT MY FIRE – Jose Feliciano (RCA Victor)

August Movies
August 1
Destroy All Monsters (Japan)
August 3
Hang ‘Em High
The first film of The Malpaso Company, Clint Eastwood’s production company.
August 7
With Six You Get Eggroll
August 15
Targets
Boris Karloff’s last straight dramatic role.
August 26
Rachel, Rachel

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The Psychedelic Train Hits The Beach!

“The Psychedelic Train Hits The Beach!” Copyright 2017 00individual TLL

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Pen Mania! and PSYCHEDELIC DOODLE!

“Psychedelic Rapidograph Pen Doodle!” 12″ x 12″ Copyright 1970 00individual  TLL

PSYCHEDELIC DOODLE!
and
Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Pen Mania!

From 1969 and throughout the 1970s, 00ndividual’s artistic medium weapon of choice was Koh-In-Noor Rapidograph Pens. Although they could be like brain surgery to clean, when the ink flowed so did the creativity.

He was introduced to technical pens through his first professional job in 1969 at eighteen at SWRL: SouthWest Regional Labs’ art department doing production work and wrangling Rapidograph ink pens.

“Psychedelic Dream” 12″ x 14″ Copyright 1971 00individual  TLL

This scene was from a very vivid dream in 1970. Not all elements were in the dream but the structure, city in a cauldron, the Lizardman, and stairs to a portal were as if real. Trippy still.

“Psychedelic Rapidograph Pen Ancient Future Bar Scene” 11.5″ x 12″
Copyright 1971 00individual  TLL

Five years before Star Wars, this 1971 Rapidograph drawing of an ancient future barscene has all the elements; a wookie, a slave girl, a bar band, a lizard alien, a humanoid, a sea horse globe aquarium, and a castle and a floating sea space ship in the background. 00individual was going by Terry Dactyl back then.

Here is an original ’70s artifact and 00individual’s ’70s arsenal: Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph humidifier carousel with pens from 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, 2 1/2, 3, 4, and with a perfectly-sized Playboy magazine cut-out insert half-Moon nude visual lid enhancer.

00individual progressed in his art in many mediums, but back then Rapidograph pens were quick and fun. Just to show the extreme detail that was achieved here are two samples of a mid-to-late ’70s series of African animals done on Bristol board. Above is a Leopard in a tree. Approx. 10″ x 12″.

Above is a Lioness in a tree. Approx.  9″ x 12″.
Somewhere there is Waldo, find Waldo – let’s not find Waldo, there is no Waldo . . . but let’s find a nude woman!

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1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . The BYRDS – Greatest Hits – August 7, 1967

EXPERIENCE FOLK ROCK HISTORY!

THE BYRDS GREATEST HITS
Columbia CS 9516 – August 7, 1967

To hear Mr. Tambourine Man for the first time back in early 1965 was a exciting introduction to a new level: Electric Folk Rock.  Here’s where the separation between Pop and Rock become a genre unto itself. With the phenomenal response and success of the single, Mr. Tambourine Man, #1 US and #1 UK, The Byrds created Pop Rock history.

Excepting Turn, Turn, Turn, side one is entirely from The Byrds debut album – these tracks were so ingrained from repeated listenings that at fourteen, 00individual and his teenage cohorts would exaggerate the Byrds’ lyrics and vocals, Jim McGuin’s mainly, in a sort of Lollipop Guild nasal tweak – a twist on previous exaggerations of current Bob Dylan vocal impersonations.  In doing so, each song’s lyrics, timing, and accents were memorized – and sung – out loud – with enthusiasm and raucous fun.

The BYRDS:
Jim McGuinn – guitar, vocals (Solo, Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue”, McGuinn, Clark and Hillman)
Gene Clark – tambourine, vocals (Solo, Dillard & Clarke)
David Crosby – guitar, vocals (Crosby, Stills & Nash, C S N & Young, Solo, Crosby & Nash)
Chris Hillman – electric bass, vocals (Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, Souther-Hillman-Furay)
Michael Clarke – drums (Flying Burrito Brothers, Firefall)

THE BYRDS GREATEST HITS
Side 1
“Mr. Tambourine Man” (Bob Dylan) – 2:29
“I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” (Gene Clark) – 2:32
“The Bells of Rhymney” (Idris Davies, Pete Seeger) – 3:30
“Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (Book of Ecclesiastes/Pete Seeger) – 3:49
“All I Really Want to Do” (Bob Dylan) – 2:04
“Chimes of Freedom” (Bob Dylan) – 3:51
Side 2
“Eight Miles High” (Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, David Crosby) – 3:34
“Mr. Spaceman” (Jim McGuinn) – 2:09
“5D (Fifth Dimension)” (Jim McGuinn) – 2:33
“So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” (Jim McGuinn, Chris Hillman) – 1:50
“My Back Pages” (Bob Dylan) – 3:08

Dylan was covered by everyone from Cher to Hendrix, but the Byrds took Dylan’s songs to a much wider audience and in doing so served as the pioneers and inspiration for Folk Rock’s rise in the ’70s, and its continued popularity as a solid music category.

As much as they wanted to make excuses for the basis of “Eight Miles High”, it was posssibly the first real Psychedelic Hit Single. Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” is deemed by some to be the first, but it was released four months later in ’66. With the oncoming tide of psychedelia, there became a wide interpretation of what was psychedelic; while Sunshine Superman is trippy, within a Pop Rock level, Eight Miles High is cosmic, high energy, Psychedelic Rock.

and then there’s this:

“My guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now”

My Back Pages – Bob Dylan / The Byrds

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1960′s Historic & Classic Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . The ROLLING STONES – “FLOWERS” – 06/26/67 plus – Vinyl Record Listening Culture

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

The ROLLING STONES – “FLOWERS” –  June 26, 1967

The Rolling Stones’ “Flowers” compilation album was sandwiched in Between The Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request album releases and was a righteously brilliant album of unreleased, previously U.K. released, and never released in the U.S. tracks.

The Summer of Love was epic for many cultural reasons and music was at the forefront presenting truly historic albums by truly historic bands; “Flowers” was a perfect example. Besides the righteous vinyl tracks, the album cover featured a perfect expression of the fun to look at and fun to read 1960’s psychedelic lettering. The mugshot portraits of the band are taken from the Decca UK album cover of “Aftermath”, and it is rumored that Brian Jones had no leaves as a joke perpetuated by Jagger.

Over-looked and slightly derided as a quick buck grab from mostly US fans (thank you!); this was nothing less than an exquisite greatest hits of the “evolved” Stones. This album captures some monster era classics as well as the first peek of what was to come in ’68’s “Beggars Banquet” and ’69’s “Let It Bleed”.

Although a compilation, “Flowers” has a concept album feel as all of the tracks are about women, and relationships.

00individual easily played this album more than Sgt’s and even more than Satanic, and here’s the reason:
Side one
“Ruby Tuesday” – 3:17
(a January 1967 single release also featured on the American edition of Between the Buttons)
“Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?” – 2:34
(a September 1966 single release)
“Let’s Spend the Night Together” – 3:36
(a January 1967 single release also featured on the American edition of Between the Buttons)
“Lady Jane” – 3:08
(Also featured on Aftermath in 1966, as well as the b-side of the U.S.-only “Mother’s Little Helper” single in July 1966)
“Out of Time” – 3:41
(An abridged alternate mix of the version originally released on the British edition of Aftermath in 1966)
“My Girl” (Smokey Robinson/Ronald White) – 2:38
(Previously unreleased; recorded in May 1965, with strings added in autumn 1966)
Side two
“Backstreet Girl” – 3:26
(Originally released on the British edition of Between the Buttons)
“Please Go Home” – 3:17
(Originally released on the British edition of Between the Buttons)
“Mother’s Little Helper” – 2:46
(Originally released on the British edition of Aftermath; first released in the U.S. as a single in July 1966)
“Take It or Leave It” – 2:46
(Originally released on the British edition of Aftermath)
“Ride On, Baby” – 2:52
(Previously unreleased; recorded during the 1965 sessions for Aftermath)
“Sittin’ on a Fence” – 3:03
(Previously unreleased; recorded during the 1965 sessions for Aftermath)
All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Vinyl Record Listening Culture
Back then there were two main competing AM radio stations in Los Angeles, KHJ 93 and KFWB 98, and the great KRLA 1110 the “oldies” station, and then there was Wolfman Jack on XERB 1090 the 250,000 watt ‘border blaster’ station in Rosarito, Mexico, but beyond those stations, and any appearences of bands and singers on television shows like Shindig, Hullabaloo, and late night shows In Concert, Midnight Special, and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, the way to really get the most of the music was to buy the album or single.

Repeated listenings of any album allowed Record Collectors, Rockers, and Music Lovers the abilty to savor every bit of every song, over and over again; this was the Vinyl Record Listening Culture.
You bought an album and basically played it so much that you could remember every nuance (even the occaisional pop and/or click – Imported virgin vinyl eventually solved that issue) to the point that those special anticipated moments of joy uplifted the soul.

And then there was the social aspect; 00individual and friends actually sat and listened to music silently while getting stoned, or as background ambient music. Righteous album sides stacked on a turntable provided continuous self-programmed music choices – 00individual was great at gauging the “room”.

Granted, not all albums had both sides worthy of repeated listenings, but with “Flowers” it was an absolute pleasure – still is.

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Celebrate the most historic year in modern American history with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring JULY

“00individual Welcomes Summer July 1968” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

JULY 1968

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
and the Year that Shattered American and World History

Happenings:
Jul 1 John Lennon’s 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
Jul 1 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Jul 1 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Jul 1 The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
Jul 1 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
Jul 5 The Doors persorm at the Hollywood Bowl
Jul 7 Rock group “Yardbirds” disband
Jul 15 “One Life to Live”, American soap opera, premieres on TV
Jul 15 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
Jul 18 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
Jul 20 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
Jul 20 Iron Butterfly‘s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
Jul 29 Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
Jul 31 The Beatles close Apple Boutique in London, giving clothes away for free

Let’s Rock: Album Releases:
1 The Band – Music from Big Pink – July 1, 1968
3 The Doors -Waiting for the Sun
5 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tyrannosaurus Rex –  My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair
12 Tom Jones – Delilah
18 Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun
19 Family – Music in a Doll’s House
22 Miles Davis – Miles in the Sky Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Stephen Stills – Super Session
26 The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord
30 Buffalo Springfield – Last Time Around
Savoy Brown – Getting to the Point
West End cast – Hair
Waylon Jennings – Only the Greatest
Deep Purple US – Shades of Deep Purple
Phil Ochs – Tape from California
Cream – Wheels of Fire 

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending June 22, 1968:
1 THIS GUY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU – Herb Alpert (A&M)
2 THE HORSE – Cliff Nobles and Co. (Phil-L.A. Of Soul)
3 JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH – The Rolling Stones (London)
4 LADY WILLPOWER – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Columbia)
5 GRAZING IN THE GRASS – Hugh Masekela (Uni)
6 THE LOOK OF LOVE – Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 (A&M)
7 ANGEL OF THE MORNING – Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts (Bell)
8 STONED SOUL PICNIC – The 5th Dimension (Soul City)
9 HERE COMES THE JUDGE – Shorty Long (Soul)
10 INDIAN LAKE – The Cowsills (MGM)
11 REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESS – Friend & Lover (Verve Forecast)
12 HURDY GURDY MAN – Donovan (Epic)
13  MONY MONY – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
14 MACARTHUR PARK – Richard Harris (Dunhill)
15 YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY – The Ohio Express (Buddah)16 MRS. ROBINSON – Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia)
17 I LOVE YOU – People (Capitol)
18 THINK – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
19 D.W. WASHBURN – The Monkees (Colgems)
20 SHE’S A HEARTBREAKER – Gene Pitney (Musicor) 

July Movies
July 12
Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
A Lovely Way to Die
July 17
For Love of Ivy
Yellow Submarine
July 19
Inspector Clouseau
July 24
Anzio
July 31
5 Card Stud
Asterix the Gaul
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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The Psychedelic Train Surfs The Perpetual Pipeline!

“The Psychedelic Train Surfs the Perpetual Pipeline!” Copyright 2018 00individual TLL

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