Celebrate the Most Historic Year in Modern American History with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring OCTOBER – A Record Classic Movie Month! ——– and Trip On The “Ice Station Zebra” Mind Blower!

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OCTOBER 1968

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

Happenings:
Oct 1 Cult zombie film “Night of the Living Dead” directed by George A. Romero
Oct 2 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
Oct 5 Civil rights march in Derry stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)and resulting clashes lead to two days of serious rioting, often considered the start of ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland
Oct 7 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
Oct 7 Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down civil rights march two days earlier
Oct 9 2,000 students from Queen’s University Belfast try to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against ‘police brutality’, but blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley; leads for formation of student civil rights group People’s Democracy
Oct 11 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
Oct 14 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
Oct 14 Beatles “White Album” completed
Oct 16 Tommie Smith and John Carlos give the black power salute during the Olympics on the podium in Mexico City
Oct 18 Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas, largest permanent big top in the world
Oct 18 John Lennon & Yoko One fined £150 for marijuana possession. Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s apartment.
Oct 22 Apollo 7 returns to Earth
Oct 24 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail
Oct 31 US President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
Oct 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Album Releases:
3 Mama Tried – Merle Haggard
5 Electric Mud – Muddy Waters
12 Aretha in Paris – Aretha Franklin Live
14 Prophets, Seers & Sages: The Angels of the Ages – Tyrannosaurus Rex

16 Electric Ladyland
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
. . and there they were, witnessing the birth of Electric Ladyland. In late ’68 Rockers were chosen to connect to a higher level of Sophisticated Psychedelic Sounds.
Shit got primal with deep emotion as Hendrix carved arcane history with his supernatural ax. Not-so-strangely, Electric Ladyland served as an actual place, a safe harbor, a place they could call home. The sounds struck spiritually-soothing chords within them – the first true excursions into Psychedelic Soul – Hendrix was the original, Hendrix was the best.

16 Three Dog Night – Three Dog Night
19 Dream a Little Dream – Cass Elliot
25 This Was – Jethro Tull                                                (Customized “American Pop” animation cel.)
1, 2, 3, Red Light – 1910 Fruitgum Company
The Book of Taliesyn – Deep Purple US
Bradley’s Barn – The Beau Brummels
The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark – Dillard & Clark
The Hurdy Gurdy Man – Donovan
In Person at the Whisky a Go Go – Otis Redding Live
Nazz – Nazz
Sailor – Steve Miller Band
The Second – Steppenwolf
Traffic – Traffic
The Tumbler – John Martyn
The Wonderful World of The Osmond Brothers – The Osmonds

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending October 26, 1968:
1  HEY JUDE – The Beatles (Apple)
2  LITTLE GREEN APPLES – O.C. Smith (Columbia)
3  FIRE – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (Atlantic)
4  THOSE WERE THE DAYS – Mary Hopkin (Apple)
5  GIRL WATCHER – The O’Kaysions (ABC)
6  MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS – The Grass Roots (Dunhill)
7  OVER YOU – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Columbia)
8  HARPER VALLEY P.T.A. – Jeannie C. Riley (Plantation)
9  ELENORE – The Turtles (White Whale)
10  I’VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU – The Bee Gees (Atco)
11  HOLD ME TIGHT – Johnny Nash (JAD)
12  SUZIE Q. (Part 1) – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
13  PIECE OF MY HEART – Big Brother and the Holding Company (Columbia)
14  MY SPECIAL ANGEL – The Vogues (Reprise)
15  WHITE ROOM – Cream (Atco)
16  SAY IT LOUD – I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD (Part 1) – James Brown (King)
17  REVOLUTION – The Beatles (Apple)
18  HEY, WESTERN UNION MAN – Jerry Butler (Mercury)
19  LOVE CHILD – Diana Ross and the Supremes (Motown)
20  ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER – The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Reprise)

 OCTOBER 1968 MOVIES 50th ANNIVERSARY!

October 1
Night of the Living Dead*

No matter when or where you saw this for the first time in ’68 (for 00individual it was at the Drive-In), it was a gore-filled and viscerally-scary introduction of a full-blown genre:
Zombies and the Undead!
Filmed in glorious black and white and shades of gray, the graphic intense build was riveting!

October 2
Coogan’s Bluff*

Eastwood, straight up. A modern-day take on the Western. The first of five films directed by Don Siegel: Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), The Beguiled and Dirty Harry (1971), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979) – and the second release for Clint’s production company Malpaso.

October 7
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas*

Comic genius Peter Sellers and the luscious Leigh Taylor Young (yum) get stoned on
Alice B. Toklas’ “brownies”.

October 9
Finian’s Rainbow
October 10
Barbarella (US)*

Outer space fantasy with sex kitten Jane Fonda doin’ her thing!

October 13
The Subject Was Roses
October 16
The Boston Strangler
October 17
Bullitt*

Steve McQueen; the Man’s Man.
Car chase history was made throughout the streets of San Francisco.

October 22
Vixen!

Hubba-hubba!

Live a Little, Love a Little
October 30
The Lion in Winter*

Iconic actors in top form recreate the debates between men and women, power, and love,
within a believable cold castle environment.

October 23
ICE STATION ZEBRA*

ICE STATION ZEBRA MIND BLOWER

Viewed repeatedly by Howard Hughes in his later years; Hughes was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an influential figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle in Las Vegas – oddities that were caused in part by a worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.

The straight-forward elements of Ice Station Zebra’s story, acting, and direction left no room for comedy, this was all serious business with a startling revelation at the very end that was the most important “political” behind-the-scenes reveal ever. 

Ice Station Zebra was the first movie that caused 00individual to really understand that much of what was reported in, and on the news was only what was deemed for public consumption, and that the truth was beneath the lies and cover stories.  It was a very profound reveal, one that must have fascinated Hughes. And one that truly opened 00individual’s eyes to the reality of the machinations of the world – 50 years ago this month in 70 mm Cinerama!

Although based on Alistair MacLean’s book, Ice Station Zebra, it was also based on real-life events that took place in 1959 – the year of the “International Geophysical Year” program. 00individual had the I.G.Y. Marx playset and even as a kid wondered why there was a need for rockets and missiles. Maybe Ice Station Zebra the movie was an exact re-enactment of what happened and was covered-up world-wide by the “I.G.Y.” story. 

Now I get it, Hughes knew that he was watching the first movie to replicate the truth delivered as a “story”, a movie disguised as pure fiction based on fact to a public, who, just like 00individual, got the end message, but was fooled by the truth.

00individual is sure that the brilliant Howard Hughes, in any one of his repeated viewings, considered, or knew this to be possible. 

Also, dig this, a once in a lifetime experience: M.G.M. STUDIO BACK-LOT 3 ADVENTURES . . . on moonlit nights, in western towns, on pirate ships, and on the Ice Station Zebra set!

*Movies 00individual saw at the Theater – or Drive In.

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The Psychedelic Train enjoys a stop at Helloween Town Theme Park,
then back on through 1968 toward November.

“The Psychedelic Train Cruises Helloween Town!” Copyright 2017 00individual TLL

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1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . The BEATLES . . . ABBEY ROAD . . . . . . . . . . . September 26, 1969 – – – 50th Anniversary in 2019! plus 00INDIVIDUAL, DEFENSE FOR THE DEAD

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EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

The BEATLES – ABBEY ROAD – September 26, 1969

00individual Celebrates Abbey Road’s 50th Anniversary – a Year Early!

00individual for the first time in a long, long time is not living in the moment. With project(ion)s already plotted for 2019 – that’s where his head is at, in the future.
And in 2019 many 50th Anniversaries will be celebrated . . .

So . . . 00individual has decided to be the first one on his block to initiate a preemptive strike of the onslaught of attention that the 50th Anniverary Celebration Of The Historic And Classic Beatles’ Album; Abbey Road will unleash by starting the madness a year early!

“It was nearly 50 years ago today . . ,”
September 26, 1969 would be the last true Beatles album release where all four participated in the recording sessions.

The Beatles were in a perfect place in 1969, maybe not as the classic Phenomenal Pop Combo as they were known, but they were definitely at their creative peak.  And if there is one single album where the Beatles rocked, it was on “Abbey Road” ( . . . and standouts on the White Album).

“Shoot coke. Shoot coke. Shoot coke. Shoot coke.”
“Here come old flattop, He come groovin’ up slowly, He got ju-ju eyeball, He one holy roller, He got hair down to his knees, Got to be a joker – He just do what he please.”
“Shoot coke. Shoot coke. Shoot coke. Shoot coke.”
He wear no shoeshine, He got toe jam football, He got monkey finger, He shoot Coca Cola, He say I know you, you know me, One thing I can tell you is you got to be free Come Together, right now, over me.”
Easily one of the hippest songs ever.

There’s no discussion as to what Lennon really says for just like “I Am The Walrus” “Smoke Pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot” that is what was heard and served as a joyful sing-along.
Shoot coke, smoke pot – this kind of fun has been goin’ on since The Kingsmen’s “Louie, Louie” with suggestive alternative lyrics and the well-placed “Fuck” in the background,

Although guilty of using Chuck Berry’s songs (and lyrics, like Come Together) as the basis for their hits like The Beach Boys had successfully done, the Beatles turned Berry-inspired, as well as others’, ’50’s Rock ‘n’ Roll hits as basis for their ’60s hits with new titles and “new” lyrics.

Imagine hearing this album for the first time in 1969 – this was brand new never heard before sounds. 00individual’s mind had been altered by then so to hear the Beatles outdo themselves with this cool and far-out Psychedelic Rocker; it just dovetailed with life.

This album would be more important than anyone knew, as this would be the Beatles’ official unofficial “Farewell Album”.

While writing this post nearly 50 years later, Abbey Road still astounds 00individual. It is the essence, quality, and attitude of Rock. 00individual didn’t cast this off as just another Beatles album – far from it. Not to sound creepy but this album has always had a mystical quality that he cannot separate from the music. It’s all good, pleasurable even, but still, mysterious . . . like the times and the state of minds.

Despite tales of dissent among the band, their genius came forth and Music Lovers benefited with a Time Machine Album that is not only sublime whacked Rock, but a sound that triggers instant memories and ambient vibes of truly trippy times.

Released late September 1969, the Abbey Road album rocked throughout and was on heavy rotation back when 00individual and two best buddies had a righteous beach pad rental that was the center of all of the activity for their Tribe of fifteen to twenty regulars.
That winter he had it all, he was nineteen, had his own place, a bitchen art department job, a car, a motorcycle, two girlfriends, a cool group of fellow stoners, classic concerts to attend and classic Rock album releases to enjoy and all the drugs he wanted – Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the best environment – and Abbey Road provided the perfect soundtrack music for the Psychedelic Winter of ’69 – across America, Europe and around the world. Historic! Classic!

50 Years Later This Album Still Oozes Acid-Drenched Beatles Goodness!

The BEATLES – ABBEY ROAD – FULL ALBUM

Side one
1. “Come Together” Lennon 4:20
2. “Something” (George Harrison) Harrison 3:03
3. “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” McCartney 3:27
4. “Oh! Darling” McCartney 3:26
5. “Octopus’s Garden” (Richard Starkey) Starr 2:51
6. “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” Lennon 7:47

Side two
1. “Here Comes the Sun” (George Harrison) Harrison 3:05
2. “Because” Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison 2:45
3. “You Never Give Me Your Money” McCartney 4:02
4. “Sun King” Lennon, with McCartney and Harrison 2:26
5. “Mean Mr. Mustard” Lennon 1:06
6. “Polythene Pam” Lennon 1:12
7. “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” McCartney 1:57
8. “Golden Slumbers” McCartney 1:31
9. “Carry That Weight” McCartney, Lennon, Harrison, and Starr 1:36
10. “The End” McCartney 2:05
11. “Her Majesty” McCartney 0:23

The Beatles – Black Leather Working Class Street Thugs – the Cavern – circa 1960

00individual is sincerely thrilled to know that the Beatles went out as Rockers –
for if truth be known the Beatles were the thugs portrayed as good boys
and the Stones were the good boys portrayed as thugs,
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00INDIVIDUAL, DEFENSE FOR THE DEAD

00individual would be remiss in his duties in regard to the continuing history and tales of Rock ‘n’ Roll to not stand up for the dead.
In this case, John Lennon.
If the stories Paul McCartney has so happily and graphically related recently regarding that he, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon masturbated together, (once or twice) when John is not here to defend or confirm the story is, to use the psychological term, chicken-shit.

00individual has no emotional investment in any Rocker’s sexual preferences; Bowie, Jagger, Bowie and Jagger, Freddie Mercury, Elton John, Elvis – the list is probably endless. None of it matters unless they make it an issue, and then the fun stops.

But for the living to make claims that may tarnish an artist’s talents and publicly-known personality after they are no longer available to respond, is, to use the legal criminal term, slander (interview with GQ magazine) and once printed, libelous. It is defamation of character at the very least; even if John was a willing participant, which will never be known.

Is McCartney that ignorant, does not care, or better yet, still in an everlasting beyond-the-grave feud with John to the point of sacrificing the integrity of half of the Beatles catalog of songs, let alone the humans involved, including himself?

Here is a small example of the mockery now in place, that can’t be undone.
They all take on a whole new underlying meaning:

Come Together
With a Little Help From My Friends
Meet the Beatles (Beat the Meatles)
We Can Work It Out
All Together Now
Boys
Do You Want to Know a Secret
You Really Got a Hold on Me (circle jerk action?)
I’ve Got a Feeling
It Won’t Be Long
Two of Us
Here Comes the Sun
A Hard Day’s Night
and of course;
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

Is this what we have to look forward to after nearly every entertainment icon has already revealed their level of intelligence – the new wave of Rock Stars in deteriorating states of mind feeling the need to reveal things no one needs to hear, read, or know? 

Oh well, grab some popcorn, and let the show begin with your emcee:
Sir Paul McCartney.

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

“Born To Be Wild – September 1968” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

SEPTEMBER 1968

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

Happenings:
Sep 6 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
Sep 8 Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
Sep 14 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Sep 14 1st broadcast of “60 Minutes” on CBS-TV
Sep 14 USSR’s Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight
Sep 15 Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park” Show on CBS TV
Sep 15 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
Sep 16 Richard Nixon appears on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in”
Sep 17 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
Sep 20 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
Sep 22 Zond 5 completes flight
Sep 26 1st broadcast of “Hawaii Five-O” on CBS-TV
Sep 26 Theatre censorship ends in Britain
Sep 26 “Oliver!”premieres in London (Best Picture 1969)
Sep 27 “Hair” opens in London
Sep 28 Beatles’ “Hey Jude” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks, 50th Anniversary for this classic!!
Sep 28 Janis Joplin announces she’s leaving “Big Brother & the Holding Co”
Sep 30 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
Sep 30 Supremes release “Love Child”

Let’s Rock: Album Releases:
Status Quo – Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo
Bobby Darin – Bobby Darin Born Walden Robert Cassotto
Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation
Bee Gees – Idea
Sly & the Family Stone – Life
The Who – Magic Bus: The Who on Tour
Procol Harum – Shine On Brightly 

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending September 28, 1968:
1 HEY JUDE – The Beatles (Apple)
2 HARPER VALLEY P.T.A. – Jeannie C. Riley (Plantation)
3 PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE – The Rascals (Atlantic)
4 HUSH – Deep Purple (Tetragrammaton)
5 FIRE – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (Atlantic)
6 THE FOOL ON THE HILL – Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 (A&M)
7 1, 2, 3, RED LIGHT – 1910 Fruitgum Co. (Buddah)
8  I’VE GOTTA GET A MESSAGE TO YOU – The Bee Gees (Atco)
9 GIRL WATCHER – The O’Kaysions (ABC)
10 SLIP AWAY – Clarence Carter (Atlantic)
11 TIME HAS COME TODAY – The Chambers Brothers (Columbia)
12 REVOLUTION – The Beatles (Apple)
13 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
14 I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
15 BORN TO BE WILD – Steppenwolf (Dunhill)
16 ON THE ROAD AGAIN – Canned Heat (Liberty)
17 LIGHT MY FIRE – Jose Feliciano (RCA Victor)
18 MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS – The Grass Roots (Dunhill)
19 MY SPECIAL ANGEL – The Vogues (Reprise)
20 LITTLE GREEN APPLES – O.C. Smith (Columbia)

September Movies
September 18
Funny Girl
Pretty Poison
September 19
Hot Millions
September 22
Psych-Out
September 23
Charly
September 26
Oliver! (UK)

 PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE MONSTER OCTOBER MOVIE RELEASES
THE BEST MOVIE MONTH OF ANY YEAR!  

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On The Way Through 1968, The Psychedelic Train Dives Deep
And Cruises The Cities Beneath The Ocean’s Floor!

“The Psychedelic Train Dives Deep!” Copyright 2018 00individual TLL

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1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . CREAM . . . WHEELS OF FIRE . . . August 9, 1968 50th Anniversary Album & Concert Review

00individual was blessed to be in attendance for a truly classic and historic concert:
CREAM with Spirit – March 18, 1968
Anaheim Convention Center Arena, Anaheim, CA (capacity: 9,100)

00individual and a few friends’ seats were mid-way back and mid-way up to the left of stage; back then the music, sound, and performances were great but the band members are these brightly-lit miniature Rock Stars on stage. There were no huge monitor/screens to bring the artists closer to their less-fortunately seated fans back in ’68.
This was 00individual’s first indoor arena concert and it seemed huge even though it was half the size of the Fabulous Forum, so relatively speaking these were good seats!

This concert has always left a definite “flavor” in his mind; it was/is one of those memories that brings him right back to that era of experience – virtually all music can have that effect for one reason or another, but this is sideways from that, more emblematic of a period-shift or state of mind shift.

In August 1968, 00individual was six months away from high school graduation – he was One of the Last of the Los Angeles City School District Mid-Termers and graduated high school in February 1969.
This is important because in 00individual’s world most all of the major bands like Cream were five to ten years older, (The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Rollng Stones, and Jimi Hendrix were all ten years older) so there was a nice feel that all of these guys were like older brothers that he grew up with that always pulled 00individual forward into their world of experience which made the real world an incredible adventure.

The “Wheels of Fire” album live cuts were featured, and the fans were treated to lengthy jams plus “Sunshine of Your Love”; Groovy!

00individual had listened to “Wheels”, “Gears”, and “Fresh” so many times that to hear the songs live was truly Far Out!

Cream Lineup: Eric Clapton (guitar), Jack Bruce (bass) and Ginger Baker (drums).
Set List: Spoonful, Sunshine of Your Love, Rollin’ & Tumblin’, Stepping Out, Traintime, Toad, I’m So Glad.

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

CREAM – WHEELS OF FIRE – August 9, 1968

Here’s what made the ’60s and ’70s sooooo grrrreat; the music!
Those getting high from Marijuana, Uppers, Downers, and Hashish were all wonderful introductions into new worlds where the five senses became heightened, and a sixth became known.  These ventures into mind-altering drugs and plants saw the emergence of a culture that was represented musically by bands that were experiencing the same things that they were.  The revelations and experiences from LSD, Mescaline, Psilocybin, and Peyote were pressed into vinyl and heard by greatful thankful ears, minds, and bodies.

For an example of what Psychonauts, Rockers, and the Counter-Culture were into in ’68 just take a good look at the Cream Wheels of Fire album cover and the music inside – Psychedelic Hard Rock Blues!

Disc one: In the Studio
Side one
1. “White Room  (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) 4:58
2. “Sitting on Top of the World” (Walter Vinson, Lonnie Chatmon; arr. Chester Burnett) 4:58
3. “Passing the Time” (Ginger Baker, Mike Taylor) 4:37
4. “As You Said” (Bruce, Brown) 4:20
Side two
1. “Pressed Rat and Warthog” (Baker, Taylor) 3:13
2. “Politician” (Bruce, Brown) 4:12
3. “Those Were the Days” (Baker, Taylor) 2:53
4. “Born Under a Bad Sign” (Booker T. Jones, William Bell) 3:09
5. “Deserted Cities of the Heart” (Bruce, Brown) 3:38
Disc two: Live at the Fillmore
Side three
1. “Crossroads” (Robert Johnson, arr. Clapton) 10 March 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco, CA. (1st show) 4:13
2. “Spoonful” (Willie Dixon) 10 March 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco, CA. (1st show) 16:43
Side four
1. “Traintime” (Bruce) 8 March 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco, CA. (1st show) 7:01
2. “Toad” (Baker) 7 March 1968 at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA. (2nd show) 16:15

“Wheels” was an end of Summer ’68 monster, and possibly the highpoint of the originators of the Super Group Power Trio; those were the days, yes they were, those were the days.

This double album cover was done in a monochromatic metallic gray and the images were a deliberate display of the psychedelic vibe that CREAM led with Disraeli Gears as part of the Top 13 Historic & Classic Psychedelic Albums of 1967.

Martin Sharp designed the Wheels of Fire gatefold sleeve for which he won the New York Art Directors Prize for Best Album Design in 1969.

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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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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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