When Woodstock took place the following year, my father had a side job working as a screener at the New Jersey Horse Racing Commission. Dad had passes to every event held at the local race tracks in New Jersey, Two weeks before Woodstock took place my Dad asked me if I wanted to go to a Rock Festival at Atlantic City Race Track, I was thrilled! We had passes to all three days, and even though my Dad was in his 40's he was a pretty hip man, and he loved Soul and Jazz music. He knew that I loved Rock music, as well as the Jazz and Soul he introduced me to by buying the records of many of the Stax and Motown artists, and the Jazz artists on Impulse and Columbia. Many of the bands who played at Woodstock appeared at the Atlantic City Pop Festival. It was the first East coast appearance of Santana and they were outstanding. My Dad absolutely loved Janis Joplin's music, Canned Heat, Paul Butterfield Blues Band,Booker T and The MG's, Mississippi Fred McDowell B.B. King, all of those acts and more were at that show. When my older cousins asked if I wanted to go with them to Woodstock my Dad gave the okay, so at 12 years old I was an attendee of Woodstock. Those times were so different than today, and the transitional times we were living through helped many of us later Boomers to either bond with our parents or grow more separate from them. I disagreed with my Dad's view of politics, but he understood my love of music. He also let me know that if I was going to be drafted when I reached the age of 18 he would help me go to Canada, or help me move to the U.K. to live with our relatives in Newcastle upon Tyne. Massy, I love that you post these cool videos, it brings back memories for me. My memories from Woodstock are vivid and they stand out to me, as that festival helped form my thought pattern for life. I have been accepting and I have loved diversity ever since being exposed to so much "stimulation" at a very young age. In many ways I am still that muddy hippy kid from 1969.
In the spring of 1968 I was on my father's shoulders and a chance to shake the hand of RFK for a fleeting second. I was about 7 years old. It is a dreamlike memory. This was in The Bronx, NY. He was standing on a flatbed of a truck. That much I do remember.
Yes sir. 1968 was insane. Harvey Mandel was the Canned Heat guitarist you were thinking of. He did an a,bum called Cristo Redentor with a killer version of Wade In The Water. But I digress. I was a freshman at Las Lomas High in Walnut Creek, having just moved back to the Bay from southern New Jersey. First thing I heard at lunch at school was Blue Cheer. Blew my mind. A great year and a great video.
I’m fairly new to your channel and binge watching your episodes. This one: fucking fantastic. My high school years were ‘67-‘69 and although in Kansas, I was obsessed with the SanFrancisco sound. This has been such a joyful walk back through a tumultuous year. You’re awesome mazzi! Thank you for all you do!
1968! I was 13/14. My favorite year for music. Two albums each by : Blue Cheer The Kinks Traffic Spirt Fever Tree Canned Heat Steppenwolf & Iron Butterfly.
Hi Mazzy, I turned 13 in April of 68, buying records with paper route money weekly. Donovan, Hollies, Beatles and the Stones, Shondells were some of my favorites. Viet Nam in our living rooms every night ( via TV ) freaked me out. Geez Mazzy, we bought and listened to the same albums! I played Itchycoo Park a zillion times back then. You said it, " What a fuckin' year! " Thank you for doing this series.
1968 ! . . .. turned 16. . . got driver’s license . . . instant freedom driving to concerts, the beach etc throughout southern New England . . .10th grade high school in Connecticut. . . rapidly changing fashion (Nehru jacket anyone?) . . . fabulous music . . activism . . social change. . . what a stimulating and energetic time to grow up. thanks for the memories, Mazzy. Peace ✌️
I must be within a year of your age, Massy, I had parallel musical experiences with many of these albums. I visited SF throughout the 60s but I lived in the suburbs of Los Gatos and South San Jose, at the inland foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Battle-of-the-Bands at the local school, or occasionally bands like Chocolate Watchband might play at the Oak Meadow Park bandstand on a Sunday afternoon. My neighborhood seemed to have at least a couple of garage bands practicing on every block on weekends, the closest one to my house was a hangout as much as a practice space, and had a jukebox packed with the latest singles where I first heard CTA and S&G, et al. Anyone who bought a new album frequently meant also inviting a friend over to hear it and I can still remember who I was with the first time I heard many, many albums circa 1964-1969: “What? Your big brother has the new Beatles album! It’s a double album? Seriously?!”
As the U.K. prepares to enter another national lockdown it’s a pleasure to have these videos to enjoy and lighten up the days. Thanks to your recommendations I bought the Joachim Cooder Record and it’s a gem. I hope you will give us the benefit of your best of 2020 in the coming weeks. As ever stay safe.
1968 is 13 years for i was born , but what a great year filled with great albums. A great portion of my collection is filled with albums out of that year. Best album of that year by my opinion is The Village Green Preservation Society by the Kinks. Thanks again for a great video Mazzy!
brilliant as always...and what a year...brought back alot of memories...you and a have had so many similar experiences, two different coasts and a few years apart...but new york and san franscico were the times for a time like '68...great stuff man...peace always...rocky
Great memories, Mazzy. I was 10 in '68. Our high school did modular scheduling, too. Claremont High in SoCal. I loved it, some kids did not do well with it. My Dad's parents lived in Berkley, visiting opened my eyes to hippies. Two of my all time favorite songs...Fire and Classical Gas. Great stuff!
Hey Mazzy, being bourn in '68, it was wonderful how you depicted what you experienced and lived. Truly enjoyed your video! Oddly touching and personal. So cool. Thank you for offering a small break from these current times of anger, fear, and confusion.
I wasn't alive in 1968 so I have no experience living through that time, but instead I'll list some favorites from that year: - The Doors: Waiting For the Sun Not as good as their first two but still full of great material. - Jethro Tull: This Was Ian Anderson always dismisses the Mick Abrahams-era probably because he got bored of the blues quickly but I always find it a trip to hear the band play the blues with Anderson's trademark flute playing. - David Axelrod: Song of Innocence I became aware of him through the Electric Prunes' Mass in F Minor. I really dig this album with the use of orchestration, harpsichord, organ and rock instruments. - Family: Music in a Doll's House One of my favorite UK psych albums with the demented voice of Roger Chapman. This, and their next album (Family Entertainment) features Ric Grech, pre-Blind Faith. - The Mothers of Invention: We're Only In It for the Money Zappa poking fun of Sgt. Pepper, and of the hippies (he also poked fun of the squares). I always got a kick off "Flower Punk" given it was "Hey Joe" with changed lyrics. - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown More than just "Fire", the rest of the album is great! - The Byrds: Notorious Byrd Brothers I love how the band goes all over the place. The only country I noticed is "Wasn't Born to Follow" and maybe a couple others, but I agree, very much a psych album. Love the use of Moog synthesizer on "Natural Harmony". Too bad much of the band imploded during the recording of the album. - Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation - Soft Machine: The Soft Machine This one is their only one to feature Kevin Ayers. - Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver Messenger Service - Procol Harum: Shine on Brightly "In Held Twas in I" was a huge influence on prog rock bands exploring multi-movement suites. - Vanilla Fudge: Renaissance I do actually enjoy the Beat Goes On, an album few defend, it's literally all over the place. But I really love their follow-up, released the same year where the band gets heavy again, but this time all but two songs are originals. Only Sandy Hurvitz's "The Spell That Comes After" and of course Donovan's "Season of the Witch" were covers. To my ears it sounds like Cream with Hammond organ on this particular album. - Cream: Wheels of Fire Say what you like of the live album (it's either brilliant or simply self-indulgent), the studio material shows the band able to follow Disraeli Gears successfully. More experimental than anything they did before ("Pressed Rat and Warthog" would have been totally out of the question on any of their previous albums). - H.P. Lovecraft: II Chicago band's second album and a great one! They do covers of "High Flying Bird" (that Judy Henske made famous) and Brewer & Shipley's "Keeper of the Keys" and great originals like "Spin, Spin, Spin", "Moebius Trip", "Blue Jack of Diamonds" and "At the Mountain of Madness".
Loved hearing 'If I Were A Carpenter!' Such a great tune. I love Classical Gas myself and it was great to see the Mothers of Invention. That record was one of the ones I scored when I got back into vinyl early on.
We are Both music obsessed fans with my taste cover a lot of ground compared with yours.i can tell you always want to add some edgy art elements whenever it is appropriate.i like that i'm always keen on your next posting.Thank you Mazzy.
JUST LIKE YOU... I bought 'Electric Mud' because of the Cover. .... Although many at the time put the album down, there are 10s of thousands of Musicians who found that album and decided to start their music careers because of it.
Greetings from Chicago. Recently stumbled on your channel and subscribed. What a great video this is. I recently moved back to Chicago after 13 years in NorCal. I’m back in the Midwest to care for my elderly parents. I lived in the Central Valley, but as a professional drummer and drum instructor, my gigs were all in the Bay Area, San Francisco, and Marin county. I miss those areas often. I was born in ‘67 and have always been fascinated with the music and political culture of the late sixties and early seventies. I got to play some iconic SF venues, the filmore, Slims, the great American music hall. Amazing history in those venues. You can feel the ghosts of the bands that played those iconic stages. Any info to share on that beautiful Gretsch drum kit? I own two and would love to know it’s history. Thanks for the amazing channel. Grateful to have found it🎶✌️🥁👍
Wow, what a procession of wonderful records. What a year that was, there won't be a similar showing in 52 years time! Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come (with Victor Peraino and also Victor Peraino's Kingdom Come) are worth checking out too. Thanks for the reminders!
sorry. . .my third memory posting :). I can’t believe the similarities between your high school experiences in california and mine in Connecticut at that time. . .. we too had our share of teachers who were young hippies recently out of college. . . many Fridays in english classes were sitting on the floor (on blankets), burning insense and analyzing rock lyrics etc. My math teacher would begin the algebra class playing a selection from a new album he discovered. Those were the days my friend. . we thought they’d never end. Peace Mazzy!
Late to this one but I watched it all and loved every minute. I was -1 in '68 but just about all of the records you showed I either own or know pretty well. Yeah, 2 Virgins and Beefheart are duds, but everything else is great. I love these videos. Jeffy loves you.
Loving these reviews. Thank you for including the Small Faces (who I have always loved). Slightly surprised there is no mention of The Who in any of these series. Perhaps you weren't a fan?
Big Who fan. First saw them in 69 at the Fillmore West. I’ll show their albums when the year fits. Not sure if I covered one of those years yet. Don’t think I’d miss them. ✌🏽
@@mazzysmusic excellent. They weren't in the 64, 66, 67 reviews. So much great music. Their impact on Woodstock was immense. They also did a fantastic Isle of Wight concert in 69 too. So much great music from that era. I was born in 65, but often go back to that era, although my real musical awakening was in the 1977-81 epoch which was also phenomenal.
@@BaldyFella my favorite Who album is Sell Out so they should be in my 67 video and then Tommy in 69. Haven’t made a 69 one yet or 71 when Next came out.
While the places we grew up up were completely different (I, in small town midwest) I think our love of the music and culture at the time are very similar. Like you, Music was and is a large part of my life. In the late 60’s (pre FM rock) we would listen to CKLW radio, out of Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit. I think it was called Big Boss radio at the time. They would play all the current hits, along with much Motown and Canadian artists. Being the rebel I was (not really) I would sneak into the post office lobby at night and occasionally pilfer some of the FBI ten most wanted posters. I had quite a few of SDS and Weathermen fugitives. Ha! I always wondered if they wondered where those posters went! The first “real” album I bought (after I got my first real stereo) was the B,S, and T album. I still have it and after hundreds of playing that is still one of my best sounding records! And memories of a friend bringing the White Album to my house and playing it on my brother’s Sony system. Of course, I was a Beatles nut, too. Have a good one, Mazzy.
I wished I had attended a high school like what you attended. I was born in 1972 and entered high school in the fall of 1986. There were no hippies in my school, the kids either looked like something out of a hair metal video (like Mötley Crüe, Poison or Cinderella) or were jocks and preppies. I was constantly picked on by the jocks and preppies. The school was ran the very traditional way with seven periods and classes were always the same every day. Neither the students nor teachers and staff were particularly tolerant in my school. The teachers and staff were so stuck in the 1950s, some of them old enough to been teaching in the '50s. Not to mention the school was so obsessed with their football and wrestling teams that it was very much a coverup for how lousy the school was.
1968! So much going on. In my life my mother had died in '66 and by '68 my father had found a new partner and they got married in the spring. I gained a stepbrother and stepsister. Both older than me. Bob was a biker, in gangs and had a monster hog. He had dropped out of school, had a crazy woman and a baby. He spent time in jail off and on. Gloria, now Genet was going to UC Irvine and totally different from her brother. She was into folk and I loved listening to her Dylan, Joni, Judy, Tim B and H and all the others. Bob into the bluesy rock and that scene. Meanwhile my friends and I were stealing records and consequently I grabbed everything. The Deviants "Disposable", The Fugs, VU "White Light White Heat", Ultimate Spinach, Arthur Brown, Love, Captain Beefheart and so many more, until we got caught. My father punished me to the extent that by today's standards CPS could have gotten involved. Anyways...I look forward to these videos. They get me thinking of all these memories. Being the same age as you but in a separate world, and the same world simultaneously. Interesting!
I am late for this time travel adventure but the good thing about time travel is you can time travel any time and always be on time, Now where did I park my DeLorean, Que Back to the Future theam, No wrong music that is The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News that will have to do lets go back to 1968 a year of Revolution Turmoil and some bands lost recording. Why should I care about 1968 lets find out. Two Beatles song, A Sci fi movie and some more great music. I love the recording of your band doing *“If I was a Carpenter”* realy cool. Who know Mazzy had any tallent LOL. The singer is very good. *“Fire”* - was a No1 hit in the UK. *“Track Records”* was started by the Who's management team of Kit lambert and Chris Stamp because they wanted to work with Jimi Hendrix but he had a manager and needed a record deal so *“Track”* was started to sighn *Hendrix.* There was a Dcoumentary made about that called *“Lambert & Stamp”* - th-cam.com/video/2fxv9fvhmFI/w-d-xo.html *“Odessey and Oracle”* A classic album but very short runing time. The album sleeve contains a short text by Argent quoting William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The misspelling of "odyssey" in the title was the result of a mistake by the designer of the LP cover, Terry Quirk (a friend of White's) The band tried to cover this up at the time of release by claiming the misspelling was intentional. *Timy Tim* lol lol lol sorry I laughed and I thought you had good taste in music. *“The Small Faces”* now we ae talking I have all their album. The had more than one album in the UK. “There where but Four small Faces” is a Aerican comp made up of some singles and tracks from there third album *“Small Faces Small Faces Small Faces”* somme timmes known as *“Small Faces”* - The same title as there First album. I have been to *Steve Marriott's* house in Arkesden in Essex the home he sadly burned to death in a fire. My Father was a builder and his building company rebuilt hos home. True story. *“Itchycoo Park”* is about Manner park in London. Itchycoo is how you feel when you get stung by a nettle! The song is alos a slam of edcation “We can miss out school wont that be cool”. I love J*imi Hendrix* too. Again to many albums to type about here. *Your videos are geting to long now Grrr!* Get be back to 2020 oh wait the virus think I will stay for a while in 1968. It is very later here in England Monday going into tuesday midnight. I made it to the end, enjyed the video even tho it was so very long. Thank you for making this Mazzy. Good night.
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When Woodstock took place the following year, my father had a side job working as a screener at the New Jersey Horse Racing Commission. Dad had passes to every event held at the local race tracks in New Jersey, Two weeks before Woodstock took place my Dad asked me if I wanted to go to a Rock Festival at Atlantic City Race Track, I was thrilled! We had passes to all three days, and even though my Dad was in his 40's he was a pretty hip man, and he loved Soul and Jazz music. He knew that I loved Rock music, as well as the Jazz and Soul he introduced me to by buying the records of many of the Stax and Motown artists, and the Jazz artists on Impulse and Columbia. Many of the bands who played at Woodstock appeared at the Atlantic City Pop Festival. It was the first East coast appearance of Santana and they were outstanding. My Dad absolutely loved Janis Joplin's music, Canned Heat, Paul Butterfield Blues Band,Booker T and The MG's, Mississippi Fred McDowell B.B. King, all of those acts and more were at that show. When my older cousins asked if I wanted to go with them to Woodstock my Dad gave the okay, so at 12 years old I was an attendee of Woodstock.
Those times were so different than today, and the transitional times we were living through helped many of us later Boomers to either bond with our parents or grow more separate from them.
I disagreed with my Dad's view of politics, but he understood my love of music. He also let me know that if I was going to be drafted when I reached the age of 18 he would help me go to Canada, or help me move to the U.K. to live with our relatives in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Massy, I love that you post these cool videos, it brings back memories for me. My memories from Woodstock are vivid and they stand out to me, as that festival helped form my thought pattern for life. I have been accepting and I have loved diversity ever since being exposed to so much "stimulation" at a very young age. In many ways I am still that muddy hippy kid from 1969.
In the spring of 1968 I was on my father's shoulders and a chance to shake the hand of RFK for a fleeting second. I was about 7 years old. It is a dreamlike memory. This was in The Bronx, NY. He was standing on a flatbed of a truck. That much I do remember.
Yes sir. 1968 was insane. Harvey Mandel was the Canned Heat guitarist you were thinking of. He did an a,bum called Cristo Redentor with a killer version of Wade In The Water. But I digress. I was a freshman at Las Lomas High in Walnut Creek, having just moved back to the Bay from southern New Jersey. First thing I heard at lunch at school was Blue Cheer. Blew my mind. A great year and a great video.
I’m fairly new to your channel and binge watching your episodes.
This one: fucking fantastic. My high school years were ‘67-‘69 and although in Kansas, I was obsessed with the SanFrancisco sound. This has been such a joyful walk back through a tumultuous year.
You’re awesome mazzi! Thank you for all you do!
1968! I was 13/14. My favorite year for music. Two albums each by : Blue Cheer The Kinks Traffic Spirt Fever Tree Canned Heat Steppenwolf & Iron Butterfly.
"The whole world is watching" a true classic album.
Hi Mazzy, I turned 13 in April of 68, buying records with paper route money weekly. Donovan, Hollies, Beatles and the Stones, Shondells were some of my favorites. Viet Nam in our living rooms every night ( via TV ) freaked me out. Geez Mazzy, we bought and listened to the same albums! I played Itchycoo Park a zillion times back then. You said it, " What a fuckin' year! " Thank you for doing this series.
Good musical. These are good therapy for me. Rediscovering old memories ✌🏽.
1968 ! . . .. turned 16. . . got driver’s license . . . instant freedom driving to concerts, the beach etc throughout southern New England . . .10th grade high school in Connecticut. . . rapidly changing fashion (Nehru jacket anyone?) . . . fabulous music . . activism . . social change. . . what a stimulating and energetic time to grow up. thanks for the memories, Mazzy. Peace ✌️
I must be within a year of your age, Massy, I had parallel musical experiences with many of these albums. I visited SF throughout the 60s but I lived in the suburbs of Los Gatos and South San Jose, at the inland foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Battle-of-the-Bands at the local school, or occasionally bands like Chocolate Watchband might play at the Oak Meadow Park bandstand on a Sunday afternoon. My neighborhood seemed to have at least a couple of garage bands practicing on every block on weekends, the closest one to my house was a hangout as much as a practice space, and had a jukebox packed with the latest singles where I first heard CTA and S&G, et al. Anyone who bought a new album frequently meant also inviting a friend over to hear it and I can still remember who I was with the first time I heard many, many albums circa 1964-1969: “What? Your big brother has the new Beatles album! It’s a double album? Seriously?!”
Lived in Menlo Park for a few years 60-65. Know the peninsula and South Bay well. And the Santa Cruz mountains . ✌🏽
As the U.K. prepares to enter another national lockdown it’s a pleasure to have these videos to enjoy and lighten up the days. Thanks to your recommendations I bought the Joachim Cooder Record and it’s a gem. I hope you will give us the benefit of your best of 2020 in the coming weeks. As ever stay safe.
My high school did modular scheduling. I met my best friend ,still to this day, in one of those free block study halls.
1968 is 13 years for i was born , but what a great year filled with great albums. A great portion of my collection is filled with albums out of that year. Best album of that year by my opinion is The Village Green Preservation Society by the Kinks. Thanks again for a great video Mazzy!
brilliant as always...and what a year...brought back alot of memories...you and a have had so many similar experiences, two different coasts and a few years apart...but new york and san franscico were the times for a time like '68...great stuff man...peace always...rocky
Great memories, Mazzy. I was 10 in '68. Our high school did modular scheduling, too. Claremont High in SoCal. I loved it, some kids did not do well with it. My Dad's parents lived in Berkley, visiting opened my eyes to hippies. Two of my all time favorite songs...Fire and Classical Gas. Great stuff!
Hey Mazzy, being bourn in '68, it was wonderful how you depicted what you experienced and lived. Truly enjoyed your video! Oddly touching and personal. So cool. Thank you for offering a small break from these current times of anger, fear, and confusion.
Paul saying we can "make it better" and John telling us "it's gonna be alright" are words I needed to hear in '68.
I wasn't alive in 1968 so I have no experience living through that time, but instead I'll list some favorites from that year:
- The Doors: Waiting For the Sun
Not as good as their first two but still full of great material.
- Jethro Tull: This Was
Ian Anderson always dismisses the Mick Abrahams-era probably because he got bored of the blues quickly but I always find it a trip to hear the band play the blues with Anderson's trademark flute playing.
- David Axelrod: Song of Innocence
I became aware of him through the Electric Prunes' Mass in F Minor. I really dig this album with the use of orchestration, harpsichord, organ and rock instruments.
- Family: Music in a Doll's House
One of my favorite UK psych albums with the demented voice of Roger Chapman. This, and their next album (Family Entertainment) features Ric Grech, pre-Blind Faith.
- The Mothers of Invention: We're Only In It for the Money
Zappa poking fun of Sgt. Pepper, and of the hippies (he also poked fun of the squares). I always got a kick off "Flower Punk" given it was "Hey Joe" with changed lyrics.
- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
More than just "Fire", the rest of the album is great!
- The Byrds: Notorious Byrd Brothers
I love how the band goes all over the place. The only country I noticed is "Wasn't Born to Follow" and maybe a couple others, but I agree, very much a psych album. Love the use of Moog synthesizer on "Natural Harmony". Too bad much of the band imploded during the recording of the album.
- Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation
- Soft Machine: The Soft Machine
This one is their only one to feature Kevin Ayers.
- Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver Messenger Service
- Procol Harum: Shine on Brightly
"In Held Twas in I" was a huge influence on prog rock bands exploring multi-movement suites.
- Vanilla Fudge: Renaissance
I do actually enjoy the Beat Goes On, an album few defend, it's literally all over the place. But I really love their follow-up, released the same year where the band gets heavy again, but this time all but two songs are originals. Only Sandy Hurvitz's "The Spell That Comes After" and of course Donovan's "Season of the Witch" were covers. To my ears it sounds like Cream with Hammond organ on this particular album.
- Cream: Wheels of Fire
Say what you like of the live album (it's either brilliant or simply self-indulgent), the studio material shows the band able to follow Disraeli Gears successfully. More experimental than anything they did before ("Pressed Rat and Warthog" would have been totally out of the question on any of their previous albums).
- H.P. Lovecraft: II
Chicago band's second album and a great one! They do covers of "High Flying Bird" (that Judy Henske made famous) and Brewer & Shipley's "Keeper of the Keys" and great originals like "Spin, Spin, Spin", "Moebius Trip", "Blue Jack of Diamonds" and "At the Mountain of Madness".
Absolutely amazing video - Very powerful! Northern New Jersey loves you :)
I wish I had such coherent memories. Thanks, Chris
Wow What a vid. Great content, and history lesson. We ALL thank you!
I love these installments. Cheers!
i love the memories of a vinyl junkie - just wonderful, mazzy!
Loved hearing 'If I Were A Carpenter!' Such a great tune. I love Classical Gas myself and it was great to see the Mothers of Invention. That record was one of the ones I scored when I got back into vinyl early on.
I love your channel.high standard entertainment.
We are Both music obsessed fans with my taste cover a lot of ground compared with yours.i can tell you always want to add some edgy art elements whenever it is appropriate.i like that i'm always keen on your next posting.Thank you Mazzy.
JUST LIKE YOU... I bought 'Electric Mud' because of the Cover.
.... Although many at the time put the album down, there are 10s of thousands of Musicians who found that album and decided to start their music careers because of it.
Greetings from Chicago.
Recently stumbled on your channel and subscribed. What a great video this is. I recently moved back to Chicago after 13 years in NorCal. I’m back in the Midwest to care for my elderly parents. I lived in the Central Valley, but as a professional drummer and drum instructor, my gigs were all in the Bay Area, San Francisco, and Marin county. I miss those areas often. I was born in ‘67 and have always been fascinated with the music and political culture of the late sixties and early seventies. I got to play some iconic SF venues, the filmore, Slims, the great American music hall.
Amazing history in those venues. You can feel the ghosts of the bands that played those iconic stages.
Any info to share on that beautiful Gretsch drum kit? I own two and would love to know it’s history.
Thanks for the amazing channel. Grateful to have found it🎶✌️🥁👍
Mazzy I am really liking these Vinyl Junkie videos!
Wow, what a procession of wonderful records. What a year that was, there won't be a similar showing in 52 years time! Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come (with Victor Peraino and also Victor Peraino's Kingdom Come) are worth checking out too. Thanks for the reminders!
sorry. . .my third memory posting :). I can’t believe the similarities between your high school experiences in california and mine in Connecticut at that time. . .. we too had our share of teachers who were young hippies recently out of college. . . many Fridays in english classes were sitting on the floor (on blankets), burning insense and analyzing rock lyrics etc. My math teacher would begin the algebra class playing a selection from a new album he discovered. Those were the days my friend. . we thought they’d never end. Peace Mazzy!
Late to this one but I watched it all and loved every minute. I was -1 in '68 but just about all of the records you showed I either own or know pretty well. Yeah, 2 Virgins and Beefheart are duds, but everything else is great. I love these videos.
Jeffy loves you.
Loving these reviews. Thank you for including the Small Faces (who I have always loved). Slightly surprised there is no mention of The Who in any of these series. Perhaps you weren't a fan?
Big Who fan. First saw them in 69 at the Fillmore West. I’ll show their albums when the year fits. Not sure if I covered one of those years yet. Don’t think I’d miss them. ✌🏽
@@mazzysmusic excellent. They weren't in the 64, 66, 67 reviews. So much great music. Their impact on Woodstock was immense. They also did a fantastic Isle of Wight concert in 69 too. So much great music from that era. I was born in 65, but often go back to that era, although my real musical awakening was in the 1977-81 epoch which was also phenomenal.
@@BaldyFella my favorite Who album is Sell Out so they should be in my 67 video and then Tommy in 69. Haven’t made a 69 one yet or 71 when Next came out.
While the places we grew up up were completely different (I, in small town midwest) I think our love of the music and culture at the time are very similar. Like you, Music was and is a large part of my life. In the late 60’s (pre FM rock) we would listen to CKLW radio, out of Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit. I think it was called Big Boss radio at the time. They would play all the current hits, along with much Motown and Canadian artists. Being the rebel I was (not really) I would sneak into the post office lobby at night and occasionally pilfer some of the FBI ten most wanted posters. I had quite a few of SDS and Weathermen fugitives. Ha! I always wondered if they wondered where those posters went!
The first “real” album I bought (after I got my first real stereo) was the B,S, and T album. I still have it and after hundreds of playing that is still one of my best sounding records! And memories of a friend bringing the White Album to my house and playing it on my brother’s Sony system. Of course, I was a Beatles nut, too. Have a good one, Mazzy.
I lope TOUCH is indicated in this video!
I wished I had attended a high school like what you attended. I was born in 1972 and entered high school in the fall of 1986. There were no hippies in my school, the kids either looked like something out of a hair metal video (like Mötley Crüe, Poison or Cinderella) or were jocks and preppies. I was constantly picked on by the jocks and preppies. The school was ran the very traditional way with seven periods and classes were always the same every day. Neither the students nor teachers and staff were particularly tolerant in my school. The teachers and staff were so stuck in the 1950s, some of them old enough to been teaching in the '50s. Not to mention the school was so obsessed with their football and wrestling teams that it was very much a coverup for how lousy the school was.
I graduated the year you were born 🕺
1968! So much going on. In my life my mother had died in '66 and by '68 my father had found a new partner and they got married in the spring. I gained a stepbrother and stepsister. Both older than me. Bob was a biker, in gangs and had a monster hog. He had dropped out of school, had a crazy woman and a baby. He spent time in jail off and on. Gloria, now Genet was going to UC Irvine and totally different from her brother. She was into folk and I loved listening to her Dylan, Joni, Judy, Tim B and H and all the others. Bob into the bluesy rock and that scene. Meanwhile my friends and I were stealing records and consequently I grabbed everything. The Deviants "Disposable", The Fugs, VU "White Light White Heat", Ultimate Spinach, Arthur Brown, Love, Captain Beefheart and so many more, until we got caught. My father punished me to the extent that by today's standards CPS could have gotten involved.
Anyways...I look forward to these videos. They get me thinking of all these memories. Being the same age as you but in a separate world, and the same world simultaneously. Interesting!
Separate worlds but some of the same soundtracks playing. ✌🏽
" Open the Pod Bay Door Please!"
fire by arthur brown was radical, aggressive and was perceived as drug induced and linked with the occult - one of the great singles of 1968
the 4th band at that time with jazz influenced horns was “If” from the UK. . “what can a friend say” and others . . . memory lane!!!
Called the Small Faces because none of the members were over 5’5” tall! 😮😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊😊
If I were a carpenter ,,,,,, not too bad. The Electric Flag "Long Time Comin". Love that record.
I am late for this time travel adventure but the good thing about time travel is you can time travel any time and always be on time, Now where did I park my DeLorean, Que Back to the Future theam, No wrong music that is The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News that will have to do lets go back to 1968 a year of Revolution Turmoil and some bands lost recording. Why should I care about 1968 lets find out.
Two Beatles song, A Sci fi movie and some more great music. I love the recording of your band doing *“If I was a Carpenter”* realy cool. Who know Mazzy had any tallent LOL. The singer is very good. *“Fire”* - was a No1 hit in the UK. *“Track Records”* was started by the Who's management team of Kit lambert and Chris Stamp because they wanted to work with Jimi Hendrix but he had a manager and needed a record deal so *“Track”* was started to sighn *Hendrix.* There was a Dcoumentary made about that called *“Lambert & Stamp”* - th-cam.com/video/2fxv9fvhmFI/w-d-xo.html
*“Odessey and Oracle”* A classic album but very short runing time. The album sleeve contains a short text by Argent quoting William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The misspelling of "odyssey" in the title was the result of a mistake by the designer of the LP cover, Terry Quirk (a friend of White's) The band tried to cover this up at the time of release by claiming the misspelling was intentional.
*Timy Tim* lol lol lol sorry I laughed and I thought you had good taste in music.
*“The Small Faces”* now we ae talking I have all their album. The had more than one album in the UK. “There where but Four small Faces” is a Aerican comp made up of some singles and tracks from there third album *“Small Faces Small Faces Small Faces”* somme timmes known as *“Small Faces”* - The same title as there First album. I have been to *Steve Marriott's* house in Arkesden in Essex the home he sadly burned to death in a fire. My Father was a builder and his building company rebuilt hos home. True story.
*“Itchycoo Park”* is about Manner park in London. Itchycoo is how you feel when you get stung by a nettle! The song is alos a slam of edcation “We can miss out school wont that be cool”.
I love J*imi Hendrix* too. Again to many albums to type about here. *Your videos are geting to long now Grrr!*
Get be back to 2020 oh wait the virus think I will stay for a while in 1968.
It is very later here in England Monday going into tuesday midnight. I made it to the end, enjyed the video even tho it was so very long. Thank you for making this Mazzy. Good night.
WonderWall (Music) I thouht that was an Oasis song.
Gary Coleman from “Different Strokes” was a session musician? 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳 😂😂 😂😂😂
Open the Pod Bay Door Hal "
Hahaha. I tell my students to listen to that fudge album. It’s oitstanding
Blind Owl! He died in 1970.
Open that muddy album and look at his thumbs, makes me laugh every time i see it