Green eyed Lady - ouch...

[Major Seven]

He had enough drug culture around him to observe. Hence the tales about drugs and their effect on the youth of America


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“Dats der sh!t man!”

I got to see Flo and Eddie with Zappa @ Lewis and Clark College

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As well seeing during the Joe’s Garage tour. I was in a band, The Reef Aires, and one of the local bands we hung with won the Joe’s Garage contest for Portland. Zappa came by their rehearsal space to watch them play “Joe’s Garage.” The guitarist in our band, Mike Rose, had Zappa sign his guitar

Good times

Todays coolness award.

 

[edmidlifecrisis]

I played it at my gig last night! Our band has been playing it for a few years. It's fun, and gives our guitarists and keys some stretching out to jam. The bass line is pretty repetitive of the two main motifs. We dumped the really dated opening section and added a simple jam to open the song. My wife kills the keys parts.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Yeah, the Winters were great.
I did see Edgar and White Trash at a different time, the line-up with Derringer.
I came across a Edgar's website last month.
Great family photos.
Those Texas boys, they got a sound down there.

FAMILY PHOTOS – Edgar Winter

edgarwinter.com

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I saw the Edgar Winter Group with Rick, and Johnny Winter, on separate occasions a month or so apart at the same venue. Both killer shows.

 

[Hot Rats]

I was always afraid of scratching my albums by doing that, or screwing up the stylus. Cassettes were easier to deal with, cheap, and I recorded my own compilation tapes. I found that whole needle drop thing a pain in the ass.
The 80’s for me, the cassette culture had exploded with the advent of the Walkman, increased portability/personal listening(or if you wanted to force your tastes on others, boomboxes). Then, by that point I really wasn’t copping too much stuff off of records anyway, plus I was primarily buying expensive imports, and certainly didn’t want those to get messed up.

Yea, I was 15 years old and don't recall how much of a crap I gave about the stylus or records in that particular time in my life. I don't even recall if I even knew about caring about the integrity of those components. I just knew that if I held my thumb against the arm, I could make that needle skip one grove back, or maybe two and repeat the note I was straining to hear. The cassette was so much more inconsistent. I am glad you had a system that worked for you. I think there should be a camaraderie amongst us old timers that bonds us to a time of ingenuity within the times we were given.

 

[DownRound]

"Green Eyed Lady" kept running through my head last night, after this thread.
Getting back to the original subject: I always liked it.

There was definitely a wider range of music getting played and a distinct mid-stream flavor of popular rock music that ran from about 68 to 72.
(I wrote down a list last night, as they songs came to memory, all over the map. It was a great era.)

In retrospect, it seems like the last phase/winding down of the period of explosion from the mid-sixties on, before the next creative expansion around 1980, at least to my mind.

 

[tothemax]

Funny you should mention that, this article just came down my news feed…

Ranked: the 25 greatest albums of 1970, the Sixties' hard, bluesy hangover — BBC Music Magazine

From heavy metal’s birth to the Beatles’ final bow, discover 21 essential albums that defined rock’s gritty, hungover transition into 1970 January 16, 2026 The 1960s ended not with a whimper, but with a series of tectonic crashes. By 1970, the Sixties' 'Technicolor Dream' had faded into a cold...

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I was pretty much ensconced in FM programming, ignoring AM as much as I could(although with most cars, that’s all you had, but I wasn’t going to be driving just yet). That was the year of the Woodstock hangover, right before the big money really took over the music business and what had been alternative radio programming. Corporations were buying up the minor and major labels, FM playlists were starting to get more regimented.
People were just coming to grips with the Beatles being over, and it was confusing that Let It Be was released after Abbey Road.

MD,
Just looked through the list, my lawn mowing and after school work money pretty much went to the majority of those albums in that list from our local five and dime. Like so many other one of the first riff's I remember working on was Iron Man... RIP Ozzie (and I'm not a metal head, but Kudo's to BS and Steppenwolf for getting that edge started). My father knew I had a cassette player (inexpensive cheap mono player/recorder with the handheld mic, probably closer to a later model telephone answering machine than recording gear) and was in a store and saw that they had pre-recorded cassettes. He must have asked for help, because the two that he brought home were Cosmos Factory and Woodstock (double cassette). Little did he know what great choices they were. and many thanks to the sales person that put me on the path... A few years later for Christmas, my grandparents bought my first stereo with a cassette deck, a Denon all in one... And... pre-Dolby we all remember the hiss, not to mention how many times you had to use a pencil to roll the tape back into the cassette if you could get it out of the player without breaking it, or trying to fix that stupid felt pad when the glue gave it up... and... finally when the Sony Walkman came out and you were portable. Anyway it's all good...

In the DC, MD, No. VA area, the main large concert venue was the Capital Center in Largo MD, I think it was about 72' or so when a HS buddy talked me into going to Alice Cooper, what a show... I was hooked. Those were great years between the colleges in DC (and old RFK stadium), Largo, and the Baltimore Civic center we really had a lot of great shows passing through, and tickets were cheap. One show I remember in particular was when an unknown act, ZZ Top (don't remember the beards at all), opened for Marshall Tucker and Savoy Browne - and we all found a new cool southern rock sound. It was a good time to be a teen... and into music. The 60's acts were still around and popular as well, we caught CSN&Y on the 4-Way street tour, awesome...

Well, I got the studio shed warming up and have a hot date with a "Green eyed lady" on my agenda...

Just looked through some of the posts, and I remember the Alexandria Roller rink... not sure if I caught that show, definitely saw Humble Pie at the Capital Center... I think I saw Zappa at DAR Constitution hall... killer show.

Cheers

 

[Bent77]

My first incantation with trying to learn a bass line was pawn shop beater and an 8 track of Rumours by the Mac
I was outgunned on all fronts