Before my time....

[mikewalker]

I recently bumped into an old musical friend I used to play in bands with back in high school. (He's now Dean of science at a big university) He reminded me of a pretty big gig one of our groups played and I had absolutely zero recollection of it ( late 70s era)!

Anyway in trying to google the archives to jog my memory, I stumbled on something more intriguing... A pretty extensive blog detailing the music scene of the same city - but a dozen years earlier!!

Really interesting to read about all the stuff "before my time" that was going on. This is the link

I Was A Teenage Music Head In the Land of the Newly Wed and Nearly Dead

When I read stuff like this, I get a new appreciation of the "invisible generation" that came before us and set the stage for the rich music scene we were lucky enough to inherit and grow up in!

If you have found anything similar from the histories of "your neck of the woods" , please post the link. Inspirational stuff...

 

[Michedelic]

I recently bumped into an old musical friend I used to play in bands with back in high school. (He's now Dean of science at a big university) He reminded me of a pretty big gig one of our groups played and I had absolutely zero recollection of it ( late 70s era)!

Anyway in trying to google the archives to jog my memory, I stumbled on something more intriguing... A pretty extensive blog detailing the music scene of the same city - but a dozen years earlier!!

Really interesting to read about all the stuff "before my time" that was going on. This is the link

I Was A Teenage Music Head In the Land of the Newly Wed and Nearly Dead

When I read stuff like this, I get a new appreciation of the "invisible generation" that came before us and set the stage for the rich music scene we were lucky enough to inherit and grow up in!

If you have found anything similar from the histories of "your neck of the woods" , please post the link. Inspirational stuff...

I’m not so sure they were “invisible”, that age group was at the vanguard of boomers most affected by the advent of The Beatles, and they responded in droves, creating the great garage rock nation of ‘65, ‘66, ‘67, culminating in the Woodstock moment. They certainly got all the attention and good times, and I have to say I was a little jealous. By the time I started playing, it was all about Cream and Hendrix and the like, which was fine and all, but as my contemporaries and I were struggling along with the hand-me-down gear from their era(Tiescos, Silvertone amps, etc)it was obvious that it was much easier to have gotten away with “Gloria” and “Last Time” on that kind of equipment than “Voodoo Chile” or “Inna gadda da vida”. There was no ‘teen scene’, that was all over with. We were sweating getting drafted, even in junior high, as we didn’t know how long it was going to go on.

 

[mikewalker]

By 'invisible", I only mean invisible to us (the teenagers of the mid-late 70s). Those sixties musicians local to us had mostly moved on, they weren't active on the scene any more, and the timing was such that we weren't yet paying attention back when they were there. We really thought we were building the local scene from scratch! (despite the fact that oddly enough there were lots of thriving music stores and a lot of available venues around). It's interesting to finally hear the stories of those who came before

 

[Michedelic]

By 'invisible", I only mean invisible to us (the teenagers of the mid-late 70s). Those sixties musicians local to us had mostly moved on, they weren't active on the scene any more, and the timing was such that we weren't yet paying attention back when they were there. We really thought we were building the local scene from scratch! (despite the fact that oddly enough there were lots of thriving music stores and a lot of available venues around). It's interesting to finally hear the stories of those who came before

Being in between those two segments, I went to go see the first wave perform, some were still around by the time I started getting out there. In fact, I briefly flirted with playing in an actual Holiday Inn/top 40 band with members 10 years older than me, but it collapsed due to internal drama, by which point I was over it anyway.
In my hometown, there was a guy that probably fits your bill…he played in Kingsmen style fratrock outfits, got into recording, mentored a local hippie blues/rock band that got one major label album out, became a DJ on the local ‘free-form’ underground FM station, moved to SF, and went on to produce the Grateful Dead, CSN, Brewer and Shipley(hometown boys)——Steve Barncard. Here’s his blog…
Brushes With Greatness | a non-sequential journal of moments of my life

Top Engineers – Stephen Barncard – The Skeptical Audiophile

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[Michedelic]

You might find this interesting; from a site concerning all Vox equipment, profiles of local/unknown bands using the gear back in the day…

The VOX Showroom - www.voxshowroom.com