OT As Good Now as 40 Years Ago.....

[Mattingly23NY]

No, this isn't about the Yanx......

long drive to LA and back, at least there was some damn good music on the radio, (If you've never driven LA freeways during the Xmas Holidays, don't attempt it, .....save yourself the hell. A normal 60 minute drive, took 3hrs-50 mins). These are but a few of the Classic tunes played over the radio, .... obviously, that long drive gave me too much to think about.......music, where its come from since the late 60s-early to mid 70s, and what transpired here in LA, as the traffic has only grown worse, not the music...!!!

Led Zeppelin/Stairway to Heaven - Released 1971




Lynrd Skynrd/Freebird - Released 1973 (single released in 74)





The Who/Baba O'Riley - Released 1971



then came the advent of bullshit; or the beginnings of Disco, and other shit, ie,
'Cameo', say WHO, no not The Who, ....'cameo' pure garbage shit, some had the nerve to call muzak, neurotic gay crap muzak genre, ie 'Men at Work'.

Music in the first half of the 70's went from Epic-greatness, and from "greatness" often-decadence is born.......as a counter ego culture, like great music needs a counter balance??? WTF...? that's what I say when I see the last POS video, not worth 1 minute of your time, unless you want a helluva hysterical laugh...!!! [***3]....
No need for Ipecac when ya' got this on video, shocked there are people in the world who actually liked this utter defecation, or feeble attempt at destruction of 'Music's Golden Era'.....ie,
[***3] (put a gun at my head, and I still will not post 'cameo', as a video, only a URL mention, for those curious as to what shit muzak was, back then), "I will NOT post this"....had I of heard this 'shit' on the radio, I'd of blown a .44 slug right thru my nice Ford Pickup's Sound System....

Odd coincidence that Punk Music had already began in obscure NY and London club scenes, which would counter disco......."London Calling to the faraway towns,
Now war is declared and battle come down,
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust- (*1)
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing"
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin' thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river

[*1] there was nothing 'phony about Beatlemania', its as much alive today over 55 years of record sales, multi-platinum records still flying off the shelves. NTM- The Beatles on their own, were even more successful financially as individual performers/recording artists, once they were out from under their demanding & low royalty-revenue shares from the Apple Records contracts....

ask those who aren't music buffs or critics, "Who were the Beatles" and everyone knows The Beatles, ask the same, "who are the Clash", and you'll get a Who? No not the Who.....tho' I heard The Clash in 76, and bought their LP's, this was anything but Iconic Classic Music, unless You began listening to Punk as your first genre, following up with Nirvana, and Pearl Jam, (nothing wrong with that, just sayin'_ ) shit, I love Pearl Jam.....

Prior - Hendrix's prophetic view of suckening music too come:

"Scuse me while I kiss the sky' [**2]
you've got me blowing, blowing my mind
is it tomorrow or just the end of time?"

[**2] (Purple Haze-1969, ya' think Jimi was trying to tell us something about musics future?).....In concert, Hendrix sometimes substituted lyrics for comic effect; “‘scuse me while I kiss the sky” was rendered “'scuse me while I kiss this guy” (while gesturing towards bass player Mitchell), (had he of lived to of seen disco or cameo, boy george, et al.) - “Scuse me while I kiss that policeman” (at a near riot in Los Angeles), or “'scuse me while I fuck the sky” (during a downpour in Seattle).

from the countrysides of England's Chateau Beatle's Castle's to The Band on the Run across the planet, Beatlemania was anything but 'phony', and Joe Strummer never saw the notoriety any Beatle saw, tho' I don't hold it against him.....Rock the Casbah Joe.....







Somewhere in b/t Classic Rock, being disturbed by Disco, Punk, came a more peaceful time of Classic Ballads, putting everything into perspective, once again....while the "L.A. Music Scene" exploded internationally, and a ton of other bands came to the forefront, Bob Dylan came back out of hiding, and His "Blood" was indeed "On the Tracks" of his new LP of the same name.....while Neil Young reminded us "Rust Never Sleeps", and rock and roll has never died, but perhaps for a day or dozen, ie (Don McLean's American Pie).....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...merican-pie-and-sells-lyrics-for-1-2-million/



only a distractions, or bumps in the road, R&R ran over........leaving behind, a more peaceful, softer gentler era of Rock and Roll classics.....






part 2 continued in next post: "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Los Angeles Music Scene"


please feel free to jump in, and give us your take on Music over time......the mic is all yours......!!~~

 

[Mattingly23NY]

Courtesy of: https://rockhall.com/story-of-rock/timelines/los-angeles/more/

By 1964, when McGuinn met David Crosby during a hootenanny at the Troubadour, the British Invasion had taken hold in America. When McGuinn and Crosby teamed up with Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke to form the Byrds, they were as influenced by the Beatles as by Bob Dylan. The Byrds' music was a new hybrid -- electric folk-rock -- and in the wake of their success, there were dozens of bands playing clubs on the city's fabled Sunset Strip.


But it was the Troubadour, which had opened as a jazz club in the Fifties, that was the hub of L.A.'s new music scene. "On any given night, you'd have the kind of eclectic mix that was pure L.A., " said one musician. "You might have Phil Ochs, David Blue, Eric Anderson, Joni Mitchell, the Everly Brothers, Jackson Browne, Mick Fleetwood, Elton John, Harry Nilsson, every established or would-be rock journalist and wanna-be photographer. And, always, prodigious amounts of booze."


Texas exile Don Henley, who went on to form the Eagles with Detroit native Glenn Frey, remembers going to the Troubadour his first night in L.A. and seeing Graham Nash, Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt. Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, one of the originators of L.A.'s country-rock sound, made its debut at the Troubadour, as did Poco, another country-rock group formed by Buffalo Springfield alumni.


By the turn of the decade, several of the artists associated with the Troubadour scene -- including Crosby, Stills and Nash, Mitchell, Young, Browne and Ronstadt -- were enjoying significant commercial success. Time magazine declared it the era of the singer-songwriter, and on the surface, the L.A. scene did seem to be dominated by singer-songwriters and country-rock bands. But the reality was that the music being made in L.A. was much more diverse, incorporating everyone from blues enthusiasts like Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal and Little Feat, to quirky composers like Randy Newman and Van Dyke Parks to eccentrics like Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.


By 1976, Los Angeles had become the nexus of the music industry. This period climaxed with the phenomenal sales of the Eagles' Hotel California and Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Each album sold more than 15 million copies. By the end of the decade, though, tastes had begun to change, and the focus shifted back to New York, where punk, New Wave and rap were gaining in commercial popularity.

- See more at: https://rockhall.com/story-of-rock/timelines/los-angeles/more/#sthash.xQ1t2LAk.dpuf

 

[Yankeefan5545]

Mc Guinn and Mc Guire, still getting higher,
in LA you know where that's at,
and no ones getting fat except Mama Cass.

The original Byrds, my favorite track being the Bells of Rhmney.

 

[Rick2583]

^^^ Mine would have to be Turn turn turn & Eight miles high.

 

[totus44]

Rob you really shouldn't post and drive, lol!

 

[Mattingly23NY]

Rob you really shouldn't post and drive, lol!

posting and driving, makes texting look pedestrian. Down time: stop 5 mins., and go 20 feet, worst driving in the Nation....? or - driver....? LOL..

LA Freeways,....: - a NASCAR Grand Prix Track; and America's largest Parking Lot, and/or Library.

The only place I've constantly seen people race like hell, only to stop and go for hours...... read books, Papers, text, hell, use the laptop......