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steve_bank said:
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Live at the Fillmore East is a classic Zappa album. Those are the actual Turtles (So Happy Together") appearing with Zappa, in drag, if whoever told me about it wasn't lying. Must have been an incredible show to have seen live.
 
I saw Quicksilver more times than I can count in 67-69 In the old Fillmore, the Avalon Ballroom, Winterland and in ‘the park’. In fact I saw almost all and met most of the above back in the day.
Did you dig up any Moby Grape, Sopwith Camel, Sparrow? Blue Cheer? 13th Floor Elevator?… there’s a long list of forgotten ones. Then there were Doors, Big Brother, Dead, Airplane, Santana Blues Band … even Zappa (my favorite) among the ones that ‘made it’ onto National Radio…
They were regulars in The City - typically 3 bands, playing 2 sets each, 3x/wk in 2-3 rooms around SF. $3.75 cover… It was insane.
 
I was born in NYC but grew up mostly in Stamford Ct. We took the train into the city to go to the Fillmore East and hang ot in the villiage..
 
My favourite 'Stones album is "Sticky Fingers", and my favourite track on it is "Can't You Hear Me Knocking". Mick Taylor's solo just, er, it just fucking rocks. The saxophone contribution by Bobby Keys ain't half bad either.

Having bought the album when it was released on vinyl in 1971, then on cassette tape and finally on CD, I still listen to it now. Transports of delight...



When the band came out with Goats Head Soup two years later, it lost me totally and permanently. As far as I am concerned its members were no longer playing music - they were shaking the money tree, at times parodying themselves in the process.
 
People learned slide guitar from his records.



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THANK YOU Steve, for bringing up the true origins of American popular music. Folk, Country, Blues, Rock and Roll, even Punk, Metal and headbanger crap all owe a debt to the people above. FWIW I thought Bobby Blue was a pretentious punk, Chuck Berry was a scumbag and BB King was a one-lick wonder at the time. But Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf ... back to Leadbelly - those were the OG.
 
Saw Janis in a small club in New York just before the first album was released and she became famous.

 
Elixir said:
THANK YOU Steve, for bringing up the true origins of American popular music. Folk, Country, Blues, Rock and Roll, even Punk, Metal and headbanger crap all owe a debt to the people above. FWIW I thought Bobby Blue was a pretentious punk, Chuck Berry was a scumbag and BB King was a one-lick wonder at the time. But Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf ... back to Leadbelly - those were the OG.
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Amen brother.
My entry into this music was through the keyboard players. That’s Otis Spann, Muddy Waters’ cousin, playing piano on “Rock Me.” He was killed on the streets of Chicago, but for a long time his own albums, and his album backing up Buddy Guy (“A Man and the Blues”) had me convinced there was a god, and he played piano.

 
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