bah! throw out that janis and airplane! janis shouldnt even be mentioned in between hendrix and doors... oh but what do ya know, those three were listed first... Anyways, check out these bands if you want rockin' "old" music: The Velvet Underground The Beatles The Rolling Stones Love The Beach Boys Iggy Pop (and The Stooges) MC5 Syd Barrett (and Pink Floyd while he was with them) 13th Floor Elevators The Who Santana Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band Paul & The Wings Neil Young Moby Grape (and Skip Spence's solo album "Oar") The Kinks Roxy Music Brian Eno check them out... :H
Screw that dude...janis joplin and jefferson airplane rocked, equally an influential as the others you mentioned...Starship on the other hand sucked...."We Built this City", good lord what a horrible song!
You have no idea what youre talking about if you say Janis Joplin and Airplane were influential. The Grateful Dead were influenced by Airplane, they were basically mentored by them in the beginning Starship didnt suck in the beginning, they had one decent album. Then it was miserable and downhill after that.
*throws hands in the air* OH MI GAWD BECKY did you know that people weren't always raised around hippies? UGH come on just because she didn't know that Garcia died dosen't mean shes any less of a hippy, shes just in training. I didn't know who he was until I bought a tie because I had some spiffyed up thing to go to. I listen to The Clash, Anti Flag, Cruxshadows, APC, Skinny Puppy does that really matter? I mean I was raised around AC/DC, Sknyrd, Eagles, Pink Floyd and the like my whole life and I just here recently heard of Phish and such bands. Is the music you listen to really that important? If it is that important then the hippie culture is nothing more the a media hype for jam bands.
What did Morrison do that was amazing. He talked about his dick and rambled on about nothing. Oh he's such a great poet. NOT the Lizaed King what an f'ing joke. The Door's were the biggest joke in the psychedelic scene in the 60's. But to each their own and music is opinion (yours is wrong j/k) For some real american poetry try Robert Hunter. Govt Mule is music for your ASS. If you don't get the mule fine, more room for me on the rail.
Does the music you listen to make you some greater being then the rest of us? If so please tell me what it is so I also to may become god like. Just like the god like punks with GG Allin and the god like goths with the Bahuahas and the god like hippies with Greatful Dead and Moe. I can also be like the god like american teen with Good Charroleet and other such crappy bands.
and i aplogize if i took you answer the wrong way. Just realized how bad my reply sounded. heh sorry.
Ok now that hopefully everyone has harshed out on someone here, if someone withg Cobain in the handle wants to learn about "hippie" music (now that's wide open) here are some mid-school suggestions from a kid of the 70s: Dead eras: Europe 72 (Friend of mine was born on that tour) Terrapin Station and ensuing tours. Lots of free Dead out there, search for trade AND Grateful Dead. I don't download much, I'm an old trader who lost it all, but eTree.com and I think nugs.net are good. If you go for the country-esque stuff: Flying Burrito Brothers New Riders of the Purple Sage and Dave NELSON Band today old Telluride tapes more psychedelic, heavy studio and distortion stuff is kinda out of my league, but Can Some Yes some Pink Floyd Focus -for grins and giggles Hendrix's Band of Gypsies Zeppelin, esp Houses of the Holy, and four/ZoSo/Led Zeppelin (whatever the actual name was) for the 70 easy mellow sound Bread Joni Mitchell Sweet Honey in the Rock Protest Dylan, excepting the jesus years Arlo (who is very much alive, check out daughter Sarah, too) Phil Ochs Billy Bragg Some Elvis Costello Jackson Browne (overlaps with mellow, above) some Springsteen C'mon, we are loving folk who can help a sister out... what do you see as a "textbook" of the sound?
I sent her an offer for an open B&P I'll send her some David Nelson Band from a couple months ago. Good music is alive and doing well
Newsflash...listen to some grateful dead lyrics one day....that shit was about sex, drugs and rock and roll...life....and they were fantastic! Don't doubt the influence of the doors! Ahhh does anyone else think they were born in the wrong decade! I was!
now THIS is what community is about! Please don't send her "Kick In The Head." that song deserves a LONG quiet retirement.
The Grateful Deads Lyrics are about so much more than sex drugs and rock & roll (altough they do rock) They wrote songs about Love not Sex and heart wrenching ballads. I'll give ya drinkin referances but it's because it's Americana. Robert Hunter is on par with Dylan as far as song writing goes Black Peter Workingman's Dead (Garcia/Hunter) All of my friends come to see me last night I was layin' in my bed and dyin' Annie Bonneau, from Saint Angel, Say the weather down here, so fine Just then the wind came squalling through the dark But who can the weather command Just want to have a little peace to die And a friend or two I love at hand Fever roll up to a hundred and five Roll on up, gonna roll back down One more day, I find myself alive Tomorrow, maybe go beneath the ground See here how everything lead up to this day And it's just like any other day that's ever been Sun goin' up and then, the sun, it goin' down Shine through my window and my friends they come around Come around, come around The people might know, but the people don't care That a man can be as poor as me Take a look at poor Peter, he's lyin' in pain Now, let's go run and see Run and see. Days Between (Garcia/Hunter) There were days and there were days and there were days between Summer flies and August dies the world grows dark and mean Comes the shimmer of the moon on black infested trees the singing man is at his song the holy on their knees The reckless are out wrecking The timid plead their pleas No one knows much more of this than anyone can see anyone can see There were days and there were days and there were days besides when phantom ships with phantom sails set to sea on phantom tides Comes the lightning of the sun on bright unfocused eyes the blue of yet another day a springtime wet with sighs a hopeful candle lingers in the land of lullabies where headless horsemen vanish with wild and lonely cries lonely cries There were days and there were days and there were days I know when all we ever wanted was to learn and love and grow Once we grew into our shoes we told them where to go Walked halfway around the world on promise of the glow Stood upon a mountain top Walked barefoot in the snow Gave the best we had to give How much we'll never know we'll never know There were days and there were days and there were days between polished like a golden bowl The finest ever seen Hearts of Summer held in trust still tender, young and green left on shelves collecting dust not knowing what they mean Valentines of flesh and blood as soft as velveteen hoping love would not forsake the days that lie between lie between Rubin & Cherise Cats Under The Stars (Garcia/Hunter) Cherise was brushing her long hair gently down It was the afternoon of carnival as she brushes it gently down Rubin was strumming his painted mandolin It was inlaid with a pretty face in jade Played in the carnival parade Cherise was dressing as Pirouette in white When a fatal vision gripped her tight Cherise beware tonight Rubin, Rubin tell me truly true I feel afraid and I don't know why I do, Is there another girl for you? If you could see in my heart you would know it's true There's none Cherise, except for you, Except for you I'd swear to it on my very soul, If I lie, may I fall down cold When Rubin played on his painted mandolin The breeze would pause to listen in before going its way again Masquerade began when nightfall finally woke Like waves against the bandstand, dancers broke to the painted mandolin Looking out on the crowd who was standing there Sweet Ruby Claire at Rubin stared, at Rubin stared She was dressed as Pirouette in red And her hair hung gently down The crowd pressed round, Ruby stood as though alone Rubin's song took on a different tone and he played it just for her The song that he played was the carnival parade Each note cut a thread of Cherise's fate it cut through like a blade Rubin was playing his painted mandolin When Ruby froze and turned to stone for the strings played all alone The voice of Cherise from the face of the mandolin Singing Rubin, Rubin tell me true for I have no one but you If you could see in my heart you would know it true There's none Cherise, except for you, except for you I'd swear to it on my very soul, If I lie, may I fall down cold The truth of love an unsung song must tell The course of love must follow blind without a look behind Rubin walked the streets of New Orleans till dawn Cherise so lightly in his arms and her hair hung gently down
No I agree...I was just making the point that the doors did so much more then have Jim wave his penis around. I totally agree GD is so much more.
I work with a girl that had no idea that Jerry Garcia was dead.... let alone know who he was.... she also didnt know Marley was dead either.... kids these days... dont know squat
I met a girl last week who said she "hated" Bob Marley...it boggles the mind...hell I know folks who hate jambands and even Grateful Dead but still at least "like" Bob Marley....he appeals to so many musical tastes...how can you hate Bob? Good lord it's been a week and I'm still trying to figure that one out.
whoa, i can't believe someone dislikes Marley then again my sister doesn't think he's anything special what a world