Just Like American Pie

My friend Bob Suberi turned me on to this: A video examining the meaning behind Don McLean’s “American Pie.” In its several YouTube versions, this video has been viewed more than 300,000 times. Here’s the latest version, with an afterward by its creator, Jim O’Neill of Lone Star Sound & Pictures. [Flash http://www.dreamsville.net/photos/musicdied.flv w=360 h=240&f={image=http://www.dreamsville.net/photos/amerpie1.jpg}] [...]

It was 40 years ago today …

… Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. It’s hard to believe that the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” turned 40 this June. Undeniably one of the greatest — if not greatest– albums of all time, the music on this 12-inch LP altered the path of rock music and impacted popular culture in [...]

Harry the Hipster Gibson

Here’s someone you won’t remember from the 1960s: Harry the Hipster Gibson, a wild man piano player/jive singer who could easily have been the inspiration for such rock heroes as Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard and a whole generation of wild, rockabilly performers. I first came across him in a PBS pledge special “Soundies: [...]

Pop Goes Monterey

It’s been 40 years since the Monterey International Pop Festival shook the fledgling rock world and helped establish the counterculture and the Summer of Love. In June of 1967, the spirit of “Music, Love and Flowers” brought more than 200,000 people to Monterey, California to participate in the world’s first rock festival. Performers from San [...]

Summer of Love

Hey, ex-hippies! It’s time to take a trip down memory lane and celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Summer of Love. Yes, 40 years ago we put on our cowboy boots and vests, put a flower in our hair, and trekked to San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury district to celebrate sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ [...]

Riding “White Bicycles”

A dd this to your Sixties book list: “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s,” by Joe Boyd, an American who moved to London in the Sixties and who was a leader in the English music revolution that brought forth Pink Floyd, Soft Machine and The Incredible String Band. Boyd was born in Boston in [...]

Music of the Sixties

Here’s some of my picks for some of the best albums representing the Sixties: Start adding yours in the comment; some of the best submissions will be added into these main blog pages. Jefferson Airplane: Takes Off Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow Quicksilver Messenger Service Country Joe and the Fish: Electric Music for the Mind and [...]

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