Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 4, 2022 19:00:02 GMT
Wild in the Streets (1968)
THAT'S OLD!!!!
Shape of Things to Come is the first and only album released by Max Frost and the Troopers. It was produced in 1968 by Mike Curb, Ed Beram, and Harley Hatcher (engineer) and directed by Rick Stephens for Sidewalk Productions and released on Tower Records.
The back cover of the album contains the following quotation:
"All things that have gone before are but the bleak, cold grayness of the early dawn... listen! Beyond the far edge of the world, the first yellow rays of sunlight are flooding toward us like the tide. Youth everywhere is ready to awake. Man stands poised to spring up from the Earth and thrust himself out, out, laughing, to stake a bright new homeland amid the stars!"
AKA The 13th Power.
Oh oh oh - lookie what I also found on the matter - interesting: The Shape Of Things To Come acetate DEMO Alternate Version MAX FROST & THE TROOPERS Recently Surfaced Acetate From what seems to be a Rare Demo Version of "The Shape Of Things To Come" By MAX FROST & THE TROOPERS
AE Collins comments: I wonder if the vocals are by Barry Mann, the co-songwriter?
Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 4, 2022 19:41:08 GMT
I truly think you are going to have to limit my daily postings on this thread.
So many many tunages to spin and whilst I was off hunting & gathering them with my red cloak & wicker basket, what to my wandering ears just appeared!??
OMG! WTF indeed. And here I thought the crazy Route 66 cover they just played on PBS was a bonkersfest with tap dancers and golf carts flying down the road.
Prepare to ingest the brown acid AND purple Kool-Aid my friends. I can't even believe this isn't a deep fake. To think I may have watched THIS with my GRANDMOTHER as a young innocent babe in the wood? Makes briannh2ok's Miracle Whip situation seem like child's play.
Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 4, 2022 21:51:49 GMT
You're incorrigable Lucky Dan. Or is that encourageable? Alright well if you insist. Just 10 or 20 more plays for today and then I surely must be off with my glass slippers.
To carry on in the spirit of Spirt please allow me to present a clip from Model Shop (1969). A shame there isn't more of a complete song but hey beggars can't be choosers at this late hour.
What is strange, however, is that the only credited music in Model Shop comes from Spirit, a California band not featured in the documentary. They produced a soundtrack album, and the members of the band appear in the film when George visits their house/studio.
Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 4, 2022 22:15:55 GMT
No need to thank me. A video replete with flying golf carts and enough cool vintage cars to choke a horse. Surprised they didn't get pulled over by that boat of a police car. So wrong it is just so right. Buckle up your seatbelts children it is going to be a REALLY bumpy ride.
Well sure - being corridged doesn't carry the same stigma as it used to in the oldie timies. I had a corridging uncle once but he is much better now. There are many tinctures out there and support groups.
One last psych spin as I pack up my patchouli, inncense & peppermints.
What's Good For the Goose (1969) U.K. film. Spectacular swinging '60s, mod discotheque scenes featuring the group, The Pretty Things on stage performing "Blow Your Mind," "Alexandra," "Never Be Me," and "Eagle's Sun."
And the shots of the audience are priceless. Someone in the YouTube comments identifies Karen Black as the woman rather unsuccessfully navigating the orange. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
Ha! Good one briannh2ok. This is where I wish I had a better memory. I could swear on an Easy Rider DVD extra or in the Shake the Cage documentary Karen is quite clear about her drug opposition position. I mean it is still possible to be Down In Monterey chomping on a Sunkist but I doubt it. Sure was fun giving it a rewind or two.
You played a prostitute in the groundbreaking film EASY RIDER... Besides having a bad acid trip, what else do you feel your character was going through during the New Orleans cemetery sequence?
Oh well, actually I… Well I was improvising. I didn’t do drugs. I don’t do drugs at all. I’m against them. Any form. Medical drugs I think are almost worse than street drugs.
Not unlike The Trip's Bruce Dern I suppose - "I've never had a drink of alcohol. I've never had a cigarette. I've never had a cup of coffee. I've never had a marijuana cigarette. I've never had cocaine." CTV News
Her own show on David Attenborough’s fledgling BBC Two came next and a string of extraordinary names made guest appearances, from Dusty Springfield and Peter Cook to the Four Tops, the keyboard player Billy Preston, the Kinks and Spike Milligan. Singer Tim Buckley also made a rare screen appearance. Sadly few tapes of the shows survive.
I believe I read colour tapes were so expensive that this is the reason for much of the show's archive being lost. They were overwritten to save money.
Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 5, 2022 18:50:58 GMT
November 2022 marks the 45th anniversary of the Bing Crosby & David Bowie’s duet “Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy” which premiered to a global audience in Bing’s 1977 Christmas special, “Bing Crosby’s Merrie Olde Christmas”.
Nicholas Barton Law comments: I saw this when it aired and remember how astonishing it was at the time for us younger people. At that time we really felt the generation gap and there was nothing so strange as to see these two together, especially since Bowie was known for pushing the envelope with his music and wild outlandish personas, while Bing was firmly from the mid-century big band era and fit comfortably singing that generation's old standards in his cardigan. Both Bing and Bowie were consummate professionals however, and great singers in their own style, and so the result was beautiful. This performance brought the generations a little closer that Christmas Season.
It was astonishing indeed. Understatement of the century. A bit of a rabbit hole journey at the time for me. And I certainly I won't post some of David Bowie's comments.
I enjoy the live recording of "Midnight Rambler" from Ya Yas so much, I overlook the studio version. I heard it in the car today and it really is well done. Keith plays all the guitar parts while Brian, not long for the world in the Spring of '69, gets a credit for playing the congas.
My local PBS is in pledge mode and repeated one of those "My Music" specials with acts from the 1960's, one of which was The Orlons, one of those-three-women-and-a-guy groups. (The Exciters were another.) They were a favorite in my youth and it really tickled me to see them as old fogies like me, but boy did they tear through a great version of Wah Watusi. I felt simultaneously old and happy to be alive. They were best known for that and South Street, but this redo of a Gary U.S. Bonds song was always my fave:
Released 25 November 1977 Recorded Begun 1976, completed October 1977 at Konk Studios, Hornsey, London
The ever-mercurial songwriter even found his fun stymied when he tried to perform the song live on the Kinks' late 1977 tour dates. "When the record came out we were on tour with a very successful band at the time supporting them,” Ray Davies once told the California radio station KSWD. “I went on dressed as Santa at the end of the show to do 'Father Christmas.' And the other band found it hard to follow us.
"The following night, with the same band, I went to run on but there was a bunch of heavies preventing me from running on stage," he added. "And I was protesting. But the people said, 'The Kinks didn’t do an encore but Santa Claus was there and they were stopping him from going on stage.'" (Davies didn't specify the tour mate, but according to The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night, the band did a North American tour during the 1977 holiday season that included headlining college shows and several larger-venue shows opening for Hall & Oates.) ultimateclassicrock.com/kinks-father-christmas/