Celebrate the Most Historic Year in Modern American History with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring DECEMBER

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DECEMBER 1968

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

Happenings:
Dec 2 US President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
Dec 3 Elvis comeback special airs on NBC

Dec 6 Rolling Stones release “Beggar’s Banquet” LP
Dec 7 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
Dec 7 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati
Dec 9 NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
Dec 10 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Dec 10 Japan’s biggest heist, the still-unsolved “300 million yen robbery”, occurs in Tokyo.
Dec 12 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
Dec 12 Rolling Stones film TV show “Rock ‘n Roll Circus”- it is never aired
Dec 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 20 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
Dec 21 Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders
Dec 21 David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash (CSN) premiere together in California
Dec 21 Glen Campbell’s album “Wichita Lineman” goes to No. 1 in the US
Dec 23 1st US case of space motion sickness
Dec 23 82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea
Dec 23 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the 1st men to orbit the Moon
Dec 24 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
Dec 25 Frank Borman’s Christmas reading while orbiting the Moon
Dec 26 Led Zeppelin’s concert debut in Denver as opener for Vanilla Fudge
Dec 26 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY’s Madison Square Garden
Dec 27 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
Dec 27 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Dec 28 -30 Miami Pop Festival – first major rock festival on America’s east coast – 100,000 attend

Dec 28 Beatles’ “White Album” goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
Dec 30 Frank Sinatra records “My Way” with lyrics written by Paul Anka and based on the French song “Comme d’habitude”
Dec 31 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
Dec 31 NY Jets win AFL championship

Album Releases:
1 Head – The Monkees Soundtrack
2 Cruising with Ruben & the Jets – The Mothers of Invention
6 Beggars Banquet – The Rolling Stones
6 James Taylor – James Taylor
8 For Once in My Life – Stevie Wonder
11 Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears
23 The Natch’l Blues – Taj Mahal
23 Any Day Now – Joan Baez
Brooklyn Bridge – Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge
The Circle Game – Tom Rush
The Family That Plays Together – Spirit
I Love How You Love Me – Bobby Vinton
Jewels – Waylon Jennings
Live at the Copa The Temptations
Love Is – Eric Burdon & The Animals
The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas – Frank Sinatra
The Soft Machine – The Soft Machine
Sweet Child – Pentangle

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending December 21, 1968:
1  I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE – Marvin Gaye (Tamla)
2  LOVE CHILD – Diana Ross and the Supremes (Motown)
3  FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE – Stevie Wonder (Tamla)
4  ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN – Dion (Laurie)
5  WICHITA LINEMAN – Glen Campbell (Capitol)
6  STORMY – The Classics IV Featuring Dennis Yost (Imperial)
7  WHO’S MAKING LOVE – Johnnie Taylor (Stax)
8  BOTH SIDES NOW – Judy Collins (Elektra)
9  I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME – Bobby Vinton (Epic)
10  MAGIC CARPET RIDE – Steppenwolf (Dunhill)
11  HEY JUDE – The Beatles (Apple)
12  CLOUD NINE – The Temptations (Gordy)
13  CINNAMON – Derek (Bang)
14  SEE SAW – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
15  CHEWY CHEWY – The Ohio Express (Buddah)
16  SCARBOROUGH FAIR – Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 (A&M)
17  I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME – Diana Ross & the Supremes & the Temptations (Motown)
18  BRING IT ON HOME TO ME – Eddie Floyd (Stax)
19  THOSE WERE THE DAYS – Mary Hopkin (Apple)
20  SOULFUL STRUT – Young-Holt Unlimited (Brunswick)

 DECEMBER 1968 MOVIES
December 12
The Killing of Sister George
December 16
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK)
December 18
Hell in the Pacific
December 19
Skidoo
December 20
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Three in the Attic
December 21
Once Upon a Time in the West (Italy)
December 22
The Night They Raided Minsky’s
December 24
The Love Bug
December 25
The Sergeant
The Stalking Moon

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Celebrate the Most Historic Year in Modern American History with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring NOVEMBER

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NOVEMBER 1968

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

Happenings:
Nov 1 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
Nov 4 “Wichita Lineman” by Glen Campbell, his 12th album and Billboard Album of the Year 1969
Nov 5 Republican candidate Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Hubert Humphrey. Clueless Nixon co-opts the peace/victory sign as his signature trademark at the height of the Counter-Culture’s Peace and Love movement – and wondered why people thought he was a Dick.

Nov 11 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of “2 Virgins” album. Was this absolutely necessary? Nobody wanted to see that.
Image shown hair as a pubic service.
Nov 12 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools
Nov 14 “National Turn in Your Draft Card Day” features draft card burning
Nov 14 First European lung transplant
Nov 14 Yale University announces it is going co-educational
Nov 22 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek – Captain Kirk and Uhura) Really?

Nov 22 Beatles release “Beatles” (White Album), their only double album
Nov 26 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O.J. Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)
Nov 28 John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession
Nov 29 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their 1st album “Two Virgins” in UK

Album Releases:
Nov 1 Living the Blues – Canned Heat double LP; studio + live
Nov 1 Wonderwall Music – George Harrison Soundtrack
Nov 8 Diana Ross & the Supremes & The Temptations Duets
Nov 12 Neil Young – debut album
Nov 13 Love Child – Diana Ross & the Supremes
Nov 20 Eivets Rednow – Stevie Wonder released under pseudonym Eivets Rednow
Nov 22 The Beatles (The White Album) – The Beatles
Nov 22 Dusty… Definitely Dusty Springfield
Nov 22 Elvis – Elvis Presley Soundtrack to 1968 TV special
Nov 22 The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society – The Kinks
Nov 29 Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins – John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Ars Longa Vita Brevis – The Nice
Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
Back Here on Earth – Gordon Lightfoot

Blues from Laurel Canyon – John Mayall
50th anniversary for this great Blues album AND this month also marks John Mayall, Father of the British Blues, 85th Birthday!
00individual has a ticket to see him perform live and celebrate his 85th birthday at the Canyon Club this month! Rock ‘n’ Roll ‘n’ Blues; the Fountain of Youth! Mayall is proof.

Born to Be – Melanie Safka
The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse – Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Gentle on My Mind – Dean Martin
Help Yourself – Tom Jones
I’ve Gotta Be Me – Sammy Davis Jr.
The Ice Man Cometh – Jerry Butler
The Marble Index – Nico
Promises, Promises – Dionne Warwick
Release of an Oath – The Electric Prunes
This Is My Country – The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield
Time Out! Time In For Them – Them
The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands – The Turtles
Wee Tam and the Big Huge – The Incredible String Band

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending November 16, 1968:
1 HEY JUDE – The Beatles (Apple)
2 THOSE WERE THE DAYS – Mary Hopkin (Apple)
3 LOVE CHILD – Diana Ross and the Supremes (Motown)
4 MAGIC CARPET RIDE – Steppenwolf (Dunhill)
5 HOLD ME TIGHT – Johnny Nash (JAD)
6 WHITE ROOM – Cream (Atco)
7 LITTLE GREEN APPLES – O.C. Smith (Columbia)
8 WHO’S MAKING LOVE – Johnnie Taylor (Stax)
9 ABRAHAM, MARTIN AND JOHN – Dion (Laurie)
10 ELENORE – The Turtles (White Whale)
11 FIRE – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (Atlantic)
12 OVER YOU – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Columbia)
13 SWEET BLINDNESS – The 5th Dimension (Soul City)
14 FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE – Stevie Wonder (Tamla)
15 MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS – The Grass Roots (Dunhill)
16 HEY, WESTERN UNION MAN – Jerry Butler (Mercury)
17 CHEWY CHEWY – The Ohio Express (Buddah)
18 ALWAYS TOGETHER – The Dells (Cadet)
19 SUZIE Q. (Part 1) – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
20 REVOLUTION – The Beatles (Apple)

NOVEMBER 1968 MOVIES
November 6
Head
November 15
The Shoes of the Fisherman
November 16
The Legend of Lylah Clare
November 20
Lady in Cement
November 24
Faces
November 27
Hellfighters
November 30
The Shakiest Gun in the West.

The Psychedelic Train goes full-on Holographic Psychedelectriglide, and cruises the transition of seasons, then on through 1968 toward December.

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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.

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

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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
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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

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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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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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