zaterdag 4 juni 2022

The Beach Boys - The Lost show (1964)

The Beach Boys was een Amerikaanse band die in 1961 werd opgericht door de broers Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson en Carl Wilson, hun neef Mike Love en schoolvriend Al Jardine.

Na 35 jaar doken deze opnames op en tonen The Beach boys op hun best.
Het is een registratie van een concert waar ook The Beatles en Lesly Gore in optraden



Fun Fun Fun
Long Tall Texan
Little Deuce Coupe


Surfer Girl
Surfin' USA
Shut Down


In My Room
Papa Oom-Mow-Mow
Hawaii

Review Paperbackwriter.Refusing to backdown to the tidal wave of Beatlemania, the Beach Boys pumped out 22 minutes of pure joy in this lost treasure from 1964. Sure, the concert is short, but brief gigs were all the rage in the early 60's. The Boys whip out classics such as "Little Duece Coupe", "Hawaii" and "Surfin' USA" with the frenetic energy of a garage band auditioning for their first gig. The adolescent girls shriek hysterically as drummer Denny Wilson shakes his long hair while pounding out a fearsome beat. Mike Love clucks around the stage like a reject from a Gidget movie. But, oh what fun! Then of course there's Brian, just nine months before his "retirement" from the road, caressing the crowd with his beautiful falsetto on "Surfer Girl". In fact, the rare appearance of Brian -- looking happy and healthy -- makes this video worthwhile. The Beach Boys, like the Beatles, would progress by leaps and bounds the following two years. Albums such as "Today" and "Pet Sounds" would prove to be landmark achievements, but never again would they seem so innocent and so wrecklessly full of energy.

Het allerlaatste Beach Boys-album zou Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1 uit 1996 worden, waarop oude successen werden gezongen door beroemde countryzangers en de Beach Boys alleen de achtergrondvocalen verzorgden. Carl Wilsons overlijden aan kanker in 1998 betekende het definitieve einde voor de groep. Mike Love (met de in 1979 terugggekeerde Bruce Johnston) en Al Jardine touren tegenwoordig elk met een eigen band waarmee ze vooral oude successen ten gehore blijven brengen. Brian Wilson werkt sinds 1988 solo. Gesteund door zijn begeleidingsband, met daarin onder andere de leden van de Wondermints, werd Smile alsnog afgemaakt. Tijdens een succesvolle Europese tournee in 2004 werd Smile integraal live opgevoerd. Eind dat jaar verscheen het album ook op cd.


 

woensdag 1 juni 2022

Grateful Dead - The Golden Road (early footage ,1967)

                                                      live at Wickersworld

Whicker's World was a British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker.

Originally a segment on the BBC's Tonight programme in 1958, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s.[1] The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1968 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.

                    The Golden Road

 This is the first song on the Grateful Dead's first studio album, and along with "Cream Puff War," the only original.

Appearing in March 1967, "The Golden Road" was the perfect song to usher in the Summer of Love, when Hippies, Flower Children, counterculture folks, whatever-your-preferred-nomenclature flooded San Francisco's Haight Ashbury district. 

                                                Jerry Carcia (gitaar en zang)

                                                 Bill Kreutzmann (drums)

                                                Phil Lesh         (basgitaar en zang)

                                                Bob Weir (gitaar en zang)

                                        

                                             Ron"Pigpen"McKernan (toetsen, zang, harmonica en percussie)

One of the group's earliest major performances in 1967 was the Mantra-Rock Dance—a musical event held on January 29, 1967, at the Avalon Ballroom by the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple. The Grateful Dead performed at the event along with the Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, poet Allen Ginsberg, bands Moby Grape and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, donating proceeds to the Krishna temple.[37][38] The band's first LP, The Grateful Dead, was released on Warner Brothers in 1967.

Classically trained trumpeter Phil Lesh performed on bass guitar. Bob Weir, the youngest original member of the group, played rhythm guitar. Ron "Pigpen" McKernan played keyboards, percussion, and harmonica until shortly before his death in 1973 at the age of 27. Garcia, Weir, and McKernan shared the lead vocal duties more or less equally; Lesh only sang a few leads, but his tenor was a key part of the band's three-part vocal harmonies. Bill Kreutzmann played drums, and in September 1967 was joined by a second drummer, New York City native Mickey Hart, who also played a wide variety of other percussion instruments.

                                                                


maandag 30 mei 2022

Dan Hicks (feat.David Sanborn) - I Scare Myself (Sunday Night)

 Daniel Ivan Hicks was an American singer-songwriter known for an idiosyncratic style that combined elements of cowboy folk, jazz, country, swing, bluegrass, pop, and gypsy music. He led ″Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks″. He is perhaps best known for the songs "I Scare Myself" and "Canned Music".

                                                               I Scare Myself

                                                               David Sanburn -Dan Hicks

                          "Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music,
                            is a late-night television show which aired for two seasons
                            between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic
                            musical artists. It was hosted by Jools Holland and
                            David Sanborn, and featured Marcus Miller as musical director."