Links by George: April 2009

Favorite Records./Musicians (1-50)

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
Beatles: Sgt. Peppers
Beatles: White Album
Led Zeppelin: 1
Rolling Stones: Let it Bleed
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
Led Zeppelin: 2
Beatles: Revolver
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced
Grateful Dead: Live '72
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Beatles: Abbey Road
Big Brother/Janis: Cheap Thrills
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
Jeff Beck/Rod Steward: Faith
Jimi Hendrix: Axis Bold As Love
Grateful Dead: Anthem to the Sun
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
Traffic: first one
Doors: first one
Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties
Ten Years After: Cricklewood Green
Spirit: The Family That Plays Together
Cream: Wheels of Fire
Stepenwolf: first one
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxters
Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
Traffic: Dear Mr. Fantasy
Greatful Dead: Aoxoxo..
Animals: Love Is
Pink Floyd: Ungamunga
Miles Davis: In a Silent Way
Tim Buckley: Blue Melody
Tim Leary/Jimi Hendrix: You Can Be Anyone
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow
Doors: Soft Parade
Joe Cocker: first one
Ravi Shankar: Monterey
Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
Doors: Strange Days
Jimi Hendrix: Cry of Love
Weather Report: I Sing the Body Electric
Doors: Waiting for the Sun
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things
Grateful Dead: first
Zappa: Hot Rats
Traffic: Low Spark of High Heel Boys
Jethro Tull: Aqualung

Favorite Records/Musicians (50-100)

Tim Buckley: Greetings From LA
Allman Brothers: Live At the Filmore
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire
John Mclaughlin: Love, Devotion and Surrender
Santana: first
Pink Floyd: BBC
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Sessions/Another Bitches Brew
Grateful Dead: (live from the 80's)
Crosby Stills Nash and Young: deja vu
Bob Dylan: Subterenean Homesick Blues
Tim Buckley: Happy Sad
Weather Report: second
Santana/McLauglin: Love, Devotion and Surrender
Bob Dylan: Hwy 61 Revisited
Derek and the Dominoes: Layla
David Crosby: If I Could Remember My Name
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge
Led Zeppelin: III
Pink Floyd: Shine on You Crazy Diamond
Miles Davis: Live-Evil
Grateful Dead: live 90's
Beatles: Rubber Soul
Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain
Jimi Hendrix: Cry of Love
Moody Blues: In Search of the Lost Chord
Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
John Mclauglin: My Goal's Beyond
Santana: Welcome
Country Joe: Electric Music
Pink Floyd: Pompei
Moody Blues: Tomorrow
Who: Tommy
Stevie Wonder: Talking Book
Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning
Frank Zappa: Us and Them
Quicksilver: first one
Spirit: Fresh Garbage
Mothers of Invention: Only in it for the Money
Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishman
Bob Dylan: Another Side Of
Cream: Fresh
Yes: first
Who: Live at Leeds
Rolling Stones: High Tides
Tim Buckley: Safronia
King Crimson: Court of Crimson King

Favorite Records/Musicians(100-150)

Paul Butterfield-East West
Jean Luc Ponty: Enigmatic Voyage
Miles Davis: Seven Steps
Shawn Philips: Faces
Byrds: Notorious Bird Brothers
Steppenwolf: Monster
Raphael; Music to Disapear In 2
Buffalo Springfield: Retrospect
Neil Young: first
Beatles: Let it Be
Pink Floyd: Meddle
Neil Young: Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
Allman Brothers: Eat a Peach
Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
Gong
Miles Davis: Big Fun
Neil Young: Zuma
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Doors: Morrison Hotel
Soft Machine-first
Grand Funk Railroad: Closer to Home
Jefferson Starship: Blows Against the Empire
John Luc Ponty: Tales of...
Blind Faith
Neil Young: Harvest
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers
Eric Burdon and War
Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons
Jefferson Airplane: Bless Its Pointed Little Head
Cream: Goodbye
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Who: Who's Next
Quicksilver: first
Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young: 4 Way Street
Tim Buckley: Happy/Sad
Lauro Nyro: Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
Spirit: Ice
Shawn Phillips: Colaboration
Rolling Stones: Only Rock and Roll
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame
Pink Floyd: Animals
Traffic: Last Exit
Stevie Wonder: Talking Book
Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds
Jean Luc Ponty: Cosmic Messenger
Steve Stills: first
Bob Marley: Exodus
Pink Floyd: Saucer Full of Secrets
Traffic: Shoot Out at the Fantasy Farm
It's A Beautiful Day: first
Pete Townsend: Who Came First
Mothers of Invention: Freak Out
Doors: LA Woman

Favorite Books/Authors

Favorite movies

MUSIC VIDEOS for JUNE

The Byrds perform "Eight Miles High," September 23, 1970

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/the-byrds/video/eight-miles-high_2146595923.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20120611video

Country Joe McDonald: I'm On the Road Again. Winterland (San Francisco, CA) Oct 27, 1973

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/country-joe-mcdonald/video/im-on-the-road-again_-237301751.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20120613video

Grateful Dead, 4/24/78 - HD/HQ-Werewolves of London ☮

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SmOgVIc9t8&feature=share&mid=51922

Grateful Dead - 10-25-89 Miami Arena - Miami, Florida Set I Pt.3/3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlURLsFXb40

Grateful Dead - Orpheum Theater SF CA 7-12-76 Soundcheck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GALKTTeQd8

Jefferson Airplane (Live Fillmore Auditorium 1966)-It's No Secret -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWxaW7WxUL4&feature=share&mid=51

Jefferson Airplane-Somebody To Love/White Rabbit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cfTMdjkYM&feature=share&mid=5176590

Jefferson Airplane with David Crosby-Somebody To Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LosNpeN3ETE&feature=share&mid=5127016

Jerry Garcia's Greatest Video Moments (LoloYodel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpgH31c8t3g

Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir (acoustic)-Masterpiece - 12-17-1987 - Warfield Thea., SF. (1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6wKT4_n2g

John Cipollina with the Dead...the finale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ5JX4FYoU&feature=related

John Cipoliina & Bob Weir w/ MERL SAUNDERS & FRIENDS - Haight 85-That Pleases Me -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awHQLZKAU_Q&feature=share&mid=51

John Hartford - Gentle on my mind 1977

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_87xfuaHDE&feature=related

Joni Mitchell - Furry Sings The Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwC_EzY5Uvk&feature=youtu.be&mid=5102

Julie Driscoll - Break It Up (1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Ee1FCJ1vg

Julie Driscoll - Road to Cairo (Live 1969)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFowyLwVdYw

Julie Driscoll - Season Of The Witch (1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpizS9h-1Xk

KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It) [HQ with lyrics]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3svW8PM_jc&feature=related

Led Zeppelin-In the Light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWSCAm6qVHU

Led Zeppelin-Ramble On -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HemKGDavw&feature=share&mid=51

Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me - Beat Club 3/27/69

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMeglC-hcM&feature=share&mid=50

Lee Michaels - Stormy Monday at the Fillmore East from 3-20-1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX7lwOQ84jk&mid=5102

Long John Baldry Band, featuring Kathi McDonald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwcKFWbuIuQ&feature=player_detailpage&mid=5125

Marianne Faithfull - As Tears Go By (1965)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhPPJ5dolxU&mid=50

Marianne Faithfull - Crazy Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pisIqsHwbTY&feature=related

Marianne Faithfull This Time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgO0hpxN9Ns&feature=related

MARIANNE FAITHFULL-WORKING CLASS HERO -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlnl3CGG56M&feature=related

Miles Davis - Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA 08-18-70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS9XHkrhv-o&feature=related

Quicksilver Messenger Service:Fresh Air Winterland (San Francisco, CA) Dec 28, 1975

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/quicksilver-messenger-service/video/fresh-air_2146595475.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20120614video

Music favorites 151-250

Favorite music 251-400

MY WOODSTOCK REFLECTIONS

In Joni Mitchel’s lyrical homage to Woodstock, her words "and we’ve got to get ourselves back in the garden" do not mean falling into a static dead letter pile of unvital statistics, but an actual and eternal metaphor for freedom and true humanism. An awakened human whose mandala is enriched and nourished by the textures of art, music, spirit, love and passion. "Drugs, Sex, and Rock and Roll" were and are the anthem that needs not be distorted by the historic revisionists that want to eliminate the message of the 60's. For us that have stayed sober to its meaning, we know that the flag we wave stands for the same traditional values that have represented the finest aspects of all higher cultures throughout thousands of years of time including Indian, Pagan, Greek, and the many, many Goddess and other earth friendly indigenous tribes and individuals.
Woodstock is our tribe and the Aquarian Festival our own Mecca. A pilgrimage that continues with how we chose to act, react, think, and feel.
At the time of the concert I was 17 and living in North Carolina. Along with 3 other friends we drove up just in time to be stuck in the mammoth traffic jam surrounding the site, but excited with the energy to walk the several miles to Max Yasgar’s farm among the other growing numbers of brothers and sisters heading for our magnificent family reunion. The first realization of different realities ahead was the crowd telepathy which prevailed on such a grand level. People were showing huge empathy with each other as well as in sharing whatever they could for accommodation. As we crossed the line designating the concert to be free, a fresh breath of responsibility shed off the veil of commodity exchange based relationships and in return there manifested true love and respect for each other and the community that we were a part of.
As to my adventures at the concert, what experiences I do recall are similar to many other testimonies. Totally impressed by the bass player to Mountain, learning how to spell the "F" word by Country Joe, sleeping through most of the Dead set (even though many of the younger fans now would welcome stoning me alive for it), but waking up to see the Who drill their way through Tommy, Sly Stone’s family exuberance, and Grace Slick make us all feel at home with her greeting of "Good Morning People." I shared the heroic experience of most in being able to stay awake for the 3 days of magic to witness the amazing finale of Jimi playing as the crowds slowly headed onward.
A couple of months ago I went up to Wavy Gravy at a rock poster exhibition in San Francisco where I thanked him for turning my life around in so many ways. During an especially tortuous moment at the festival when the storms had ravaged our energies and the whispers of Nixon’s helicopters dropping poisoned candy bars as tainted "care packages", the Hog Farm Commune was serving free food at its makeshift kitchen area. It was the first time I experienced granola and a health food attitude that opened up a better way of living for me. Other excursions into the forest behind the concert area were even more examples of political, spiritual, and artistic groups setting up information booths, educational outreaches, workshops, etc.
Another part of the full experience of Woodstock not covered too well in the movie was the way the Yasgar family took advantage of the plight of the masses caught in the storm. Max’s speech about how great the crowd of young people was, is quite inspirational and sincere. But as soon as the area was washed out by the rains, his wife was setting up a water hose to fill up people’s containers with tap water at 50 cents a bottle. Good old Yankee ingenuity.
At one point I felt illuminated to share the idea that we could pass around a huge box and if everyone there donated whatever money they could spare, we could have enough millions of dollars to buy the adjacent land and create our own "Woodstock Nation". I dropped the idea after a few tokes and the reaction of enough people that I approached who told me that it was a silly notion since "the whole world would soon be like Woodstock". Who in their right minds indeed would not want to live a life of peace, love, and happiness?
So that brings me full circle in asking myself what did happen. Why did CSNY mean so much when they said "almost cut my hair" and "teach your children well?" Not wanting to violate the rights we learned to free ____expression, I do not wish to condemn or judge anyone else in my opinion. Perhaps my perceptions are painted by my own life strokes and do not fit into the script of other paths in life. What I do know though is that I felt a commitment and sacred trust with the many that had gathered at Woodstock to never compromise the values that we were sharing that day. For me it has been a wonderful journey of being as true to the lifestyle then as today. Okay so my beard is now white and I can’t see the song titles on the cds too clearly, but I sure am glad to be listening still to Jimi Hendrix, Ritchie Havens and the rest of the troubadours of truth. And what is even more delightful is sharing the music with my children as well. Just like a work of art in a museum, a masterpiece remains timeless and is appreciated forever. Those days and the music the Muses inspired were not just shallow entertainment of the moment to fade among the fads of time, but to be respected and enjoyed as true blessings from above.
Just as with the "Woodstock" movie that we have seen several times, what a joy last night to watch the "Song Remains The Same" with our daughters and to be air guitaring and head shaking as vigorously as ever. Unfortunenly a dark cloud came across too many of the people that at that time were at Woodstock or were influenced by it. Concern for others and the planet became a passing fad. Fear of not being able to pay credit card bills for useless junk rather than live out of the system, home school the children, still sit on the back fence of the farm playing music and singing with friends. Fear of this and fear of that have turned too many of our generation into today’s sheeple. I feel that if one still has a breath left, they can look in the mirror then close your eyes and remember what it felt to be alive at Woodstock. Take a stand. Don’t be a hippy-crite but a "born again hippie" my friend. It’s your one and only life so do it right for your sakes and for your children’s. Sit down and tell them the truth about those times. Tell them about how mushrooms can lead to inspiration as well as delicious pasta sauce. How good it feels to give and share rather than drop bombs and steal. Tell them what they can gain by hearing those interesting musical clues in the good songs we know so well. Tell them why it’s fine to let your hair drop freely down your back, wear old clothes and live close to nature and not be trapped by the 9-5 rat race. Oral tradition is an important need to be passed down through the generations. All you need to know was and is right there in Woodstock. I would cherish the opportunity to relive every moment of those days and feel it to be as true to who I am then as to who I am now.
Awhile back I had the honor to meet Swami Satchidananda, the Indian holy man who demonstrated to the crowd on stage between a set change how to do yogic breathing. I jokingly told him that I had thought him to be a rock musician at the concert. Whereupon this saintly old man picked up a couple of rocks from the ground and kept banging them together while hopping around and singing "it’s true I was and am a rock musician still". And indeed the Spirit does live on.
Peace, Love, and Justice
George Douvris