Grateful Dead

....Angry. I like it

Alright then, the first is from Mott The Hoople's "All The Young Dudes", the second is The Clash - from "London Calling" I would think - I'm a bit less confident with that one.
That Mott single, from 1972, was one of the defining records of the year for this pup - along with "Silver Machine", "Starman", School's Out", "Virginia Plain","Metal Guru" - it's great to be young.

Young people in England in the 70's were very unforgiving - anything from about two years ago, from whatever year you were in, could be dismissed as hopelessly outdated. None of which matters a jot when you grow up of course - great music is great music, whatever decade it was made in.

Mandatory viewing

"He didn't have a lot of what you might call luck
But he had a lot of get up and go
Get up and go
Get up and go
Get up and go back home"

A sense of humor is a prerequisite for making it through life

(Look up David Cross's take on the GD and jam bands)

Ha, remember them?

The bus come by…
So, it was a dark and stormy night….wasn’t it?
Well, it was dark. Surely I don’t recall exactly when the first time was I heard the Beatles?
I do clearly remember a time, perhaps more than once, when I had been left with my cousins for the WE, and we were in their parents room (perhaps that’s where the only radio was as that room was normally verboten). It was some kind of show about the Beatles, and I think it might have had something to do with the whole Paul is a dead hype?
Not sure, so long ago and I was still in the single digits so….
But I remember that though I was annoyed because my cousins wouldn’t play with me, they kept shushing me, and I had to lay on the hardwood floor because I wasn’t allowed on the bed lol. But I remember after that the Beatles now being more in my lexicon, and liking them, I just wish we could play instead lol.
Of course over the years afterwards, since they were still everywhere, you couldn’t help but internalize them via osmosis if nothing else. Can’t recall if I saw them on Ed, possibly?
Anywho, FF to mid to late seventies when my childhood BF John and I were becoming Beavis and Butthead like punks.
His family had a huge, awesome record collection, and his father, who was some kind of nuclear scientist, had built this sweet Heathkit type stereo that was way better than most anybody had back then, at least anybody we knew!
Better yet, his mother bought in bulk (both albums and booze lol) so there was always plenty of Canadian Harwood Whiskey, Fresca, and tab? (Whatever the brand of diet cola was?) Better yet, as his folks had split up, his mother was never home, his sisters had all moved out except the oldest who never left her room except to occasionally yell at us to turn it down lol. We were totally free to freak and rock out whenever we wanted!
So among other things, we “discovered” the Beatles and drinking about the same time lol.
I can remember glorious nights getting slightly stoopid and binging out on the Fab Four all night long, especially the red and blue albums!
Eventually we didn’t outgrow them so much, but moved on to “cooler” things (yeah, by that point the Beatles weren’t so cool anymore, relatively speaking): Zeppelin, Hendrix, Floyd, Peter Frampton and most of the usual suspects of the times, and maybe a little Dead?
Well then the balanced started to shift as I started being indoctrinated by David Homel (long time Dead style guitar and band leader, some might know from the infamous Sutters mill In Syracuse as Homel Alaniz band).
He was dating John’s sister at the time and didn’t waste anytime steering us toward the light lol.
By 78 we were listening more and more to Dead albums and being fed tapes by Dave (and joints lol).
Finally after about a year of waiting, the Dead came close enough to see, and the rest is history!
So one might argue the Beatles were the original gateway drug to all things R&R for this freak!
Man, that is a looonnnggg time ago…
Hail hail the Beatles forever!

with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that Revolution stuff"

Name that tune!

"Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust"

Name that tune!

As for me...Beatles awareness started in the early 70s with a picture of Ringo in Time magazine. "Former Beatle..."

Other mentions of former Beatles over the next few years and references to albums...especially when I see them at record stores. I hear various tracks on the radio. Elton John covers Lucy in the Sky...I check out SPLHCB from the library...hmm. "oook....nice, but wassup with this?"

1980 some ratfucker offs John Lennon; I buy "1962-66" and "1967-70". The local radio station plays White Album and Let it Be in full. I buy more Beatles. My friend and I listen to taped copies regularly on our way to and from the beach.

Respectful interest for years.

Various life events over the past few months now has me on the "this stuff is truly miraculous" track.

I can identify with 1stshows comment that it was uncool to like The Beatles in the early 70's. Being born in 1957, my first memory of them was dancing at a children's party when I must have been about 7. The first record player I had ever seen in my life, and it had The Beatles on it ! Singles like Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane reminded me of the world of comics a bit - plus the Batman T.V. series with Adam West and ( deep breath)Julie Newmar as Catwoman.

Fast forward to 1972/3 and we are in a different world brother. To me, the most significant and relevant bands from the 60's were the heavier ones-Hendrix, Cream..plus The Stones who were still great. Through reading magazines, I discovered that a lot of the bands I liked were psychedelic - and that Sergeant Pepper was such an album. So I got it, and thought it was wonderful. But it did seem very much to be music from an earlier era, when life was very different. A more optimistic time, or so it seemed. The swinging 60's myth and all that. None of my friends in the 70's liked The Beatles.

I still think Sergeant Pepper is one of the best albums ever made. After that, Revolver, Rubber Soul and Magical Mystery Tour are the ones I like best. I then tend to go for the earlier albums rather than the later ones.

I was 68 days old.

Far out...

I wasn't there, but the guy who turned me on to the GD was. He said UJB touched his soul. I fully believe him.

Where are you, Mike?

40 years ago today, I was at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds for a knockout of a show with the Good old Grateful Dead. What a blast! Great show & great venue. This would make a great release.

....my smack talking Broncos loving cousin had more excuses than usual.
And that's saying a lot. Believe me.
He finally caved and left the chat. Had to do "stuff".
I guarantee the "stuff" could've waited until after the game.
Collingsworth is on. Time for the Magical Mystery Tour.
Like cry. Cry Baby Cry. Make your mother sigh.
It's Getting Better all the time over here.