<p>sly and the family stone
of ocurse that was junior high but still…:)</p>
<p>Clancy Brothers and Tommy Maken; Sandy Bull; Carolyn Hester; Mississippi John Hurt; Doc Watson; and Mike Seeger come to mind.</p>
<p>wow your generation had such awesome music :(</p>
<p>Sure did…everytime there is “remake,” H & I gloat how the original was so much better! Long live, Earth, Wind & Fire! ;)</p>
<p>I told my Don McLean story on the celebrities thread–that I was in the audience the first time he sang American Pie (first show for Laura Nyro). </p>
<p>I don’t remember much music from college–too broke for concerts, mostly listened to the radio, but the last two years of HS I saw a lot of musicians, because my father (who worked for a newspaper) got us free tickets sometimes. Simon and Garfunkel, the whole Taylor family, Carly Simon, Cat Stevens… Pink Floyd two nights running at the Electric Factory (<em>only</em> 2000 seats). The Beach Boys at the Villanova Field House. Jackson Browne at the Main Point (192 seats). Lou Reed at the Main Point. Janis Ian. Blind Faith. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. </p>
<p>What songs from HS do I still have memorized? Most of the Beatles stuff; all of the Beach Boys; Bill Haley… the Righteous Brothers. “Wake up little Susie” by the Everly Brothers. A lot of stuff from Chad and Jeremy. RESPECT by Aretha Franklin.</p>
<p>I woke up to Charles Laquidara at WBCN in Boston for years.</p>
<p>oh i hate remakes, its so embarrassing when my mom gloats about how her generation was more creative and talented musically, which unfortunately enough is true :(</p>
<p>No one for Jefferson Airplane yet? Or did I miss it? Somebody to Love and White Rabbit. Puts me right back in the dorm room every time I hear them. Dudedad?</p>
<p>patient - thank you. Grad school for me also (or post-grad school): Fleetwood Mac, Doobie Bros., Stevie Wonder… Those were the days.</p>
<p>I tried to read through everything, yet didn’t see some of my personal faves from the haze of college music: Frank Zappa (and yes, he was a genius, with many intricate musical works that were not vocally scatalogical), and the original Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin. I would go anywhere on the east coast to see either of the above live whenever possible. (Do you know how hard it is to sing along with complicated guitar riffs and cerebral bass lines?)</p>
<p>Probably the most rockin’ outdoor concert I saw in those years was the summer The Dead, The Band, and The Allman Brothers were touring together. </p>
<p>cur, I can just imagine you shouting “Free Man in Paris”: I love it! I felt unfettered and alive: there was nobody callin’ me up for favors, no one’s future to decide.</p>
<p>Boy, I can’t wait to feel like that again, can you? :)</p>
<p>Edit: DudeDiligence! You mentioned Mahavishnu Orchestra! I’m partial to Inner Mounting Flame, myself, but Birds of Fire is almost as good. Give me a good Billy Cobham solo any day, or some complicated Jan Hammer / Jerry Goodman duet…</p>
<p>Mootmom~</p>
<p>Thank you for your post. Thank you, thank you. I was truly beginning to wonder. I have nothing against the largely folk-rock orientation of most of the artists listed on this thread, but there was a LOT of great instrumental (or largely instrumental) rock in the 70’s, much of which attained great power and emotion through amazing composition, great playing ability, and LIMITED vocal (I know – I’m such a heretic). When I wanted to listen to MUSIC, I wanted music, not poetry (I used to infuriate a roommate who insisted that Dylan was the supposed poet of a generation – as an English major, I greatly preferred a Shakespeare sonnet, Auden, Lawrence, heck, even e.e. cummings); I wanted music that could surprise me; I wanted music that could hold up to a hundred listenings, where I could still find an undiscovered wrinkle – a unique modal change, some clever interplay between the bassist and the drummer – on listen number 101. Someone on this thread mentioned the term “excesses,” which always made me bristle. Sure, bad complex music can be called excessive. There is bad music in every genre (in my personal opinion, I’d lump Kansas, Styx, LATER-day Genesis in this category). But the elite stuff in this genre is almost transcendent. It’s no more excessive than Dostoevsky exploring complex psychological issues in his fiction, or Coltrane departing from the written melody of a jazz standard and investigating melodic and harmonic structure a little more thoroughly in his personal sax stratosphere. </p>
<p>Anyway, I really was beginning to wonder. What had happened to all my fellow (fella?) progressive, fusion, whatever your label of choice, rock fans? Was my mother right after all? Was this stuff really that bad for you?</p>
<p>In all seriousness, I enjoyed your post. Zappa’s “Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar” collection of improvised guitar solos has hit my CD player in the last couple of weeks; I did 30 minutes on the Nordic-Trak yesterday to Bill Bruford’s “Feels Good to Me” (Annette Peacock still leaves me breathless on many levels); and Jan Hammer’s “The First Seven Days” – vinyl baby – is on the turntable even as we speak.</p>
<p>I’ve never thought of “College Days” as a state of time, rather a state of mind. Listening to this stuff will likely get me evicted from the old-folks home, but until then, school is very much still in session for me.</p>
<p>SBMOM, great list, I think we are close to the same vintage. I’d add Pure Prairie League and Marshall Tucker band. The first thing I think of for college music is the girl who lived above me junior year: she blasted Heart’s “Crazy on You” over and over and over. It was excrutiating. I don’t think she ever played any other song. I still start twitching when I occasionally hear that song on the radio.</p>
<p>jmmom - you missed my post - Jefferson Airplane was da bomb!!</p>
<p>Also the Mamas and Papas…remember that album cover with them in the bath tub? some of my friends and I have a picture of us recreating that pic!</p>
<p>Thanks to mootmom and Dudediligence for thrilling,well written posts. DudeDil, did you ever venture to anything as bourgeouis and approachable as Jazz-like maybe DiMeola on Casino Suite? Good stuff. Or maybe even over to something like Phillip Glass?
and mootmom get the cd out and play “Freeman in Paris” and get to the lyric "and lately I wonder what I do it for, and if I had my way-I’d just walk thru those doors and wan-der down the Champs d’ elysses , going cafe to cabaret " . The way she intonates, resonates the word “wander” is one of my favorite snippets of music-ever. Those two syllables just curl my toes. The way she sings that word. It’s just criminal for one person to have that talent and me to have…well, none to be exact. LOL.</p>
<p>I’m of the Beatles, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary generation; but
my most vivid memory is of a guy who liked to hold Ring (no, not LOTR-- Wagner’s) sessions. I went to one early in my freshman year and was introduced to the smell of pot. The following day, I got an earful from the guy’s neighbor who turned out to be an Italian bel canto fan and had not cared for the musical sturm und drang. </p>
<p>As a teenager, I learned quite a few American pop tunes but with French lyrics. I still remember some of the French lyrics to the Everly Brothers’ All I Have to Do is Dream. Don McLean’s American Pie is the “anthem” of CTY, so it’s had a new life.</p>
<p>Hey - only <em>one</em> other reference to Simon & Garfunkel? I played their songs over & over & over, sang them in the shower as well - drove my family nuts then, still do now.</p>
<p>How about Mary Hopkins (‘Those Were the Days’)?
The Beatles (of course)
Fleetwood Mac</p>
<p>(there were others, but I’m too busy belting out ‘Last Night I had the Strangest Dream’ at my keyboard…:))</p>
<p>Roddy McCorley --Clancy Brothers and Tommey Maken
Ruby Tuesday–Rolling Stones
Unchained Melody–Al Hibbler (not the Righteous Brothers)
Think–Aretha Franklin
Drift Away–Dobie Gray (I want that played at my funeral)
You Turn Me On–Joni Mitchell
Werewolves of London–Warren Zevon (one of the best songs–ever)
Stay–Jackson Brown
I’m Going to Carolina in My Mind–James Taylor (Of course the whole family are Chapel Hill natives for several generations)
I Walk the Line–Johnny Cash
Hills of West Virginia–Phil Ochs
Tupelo Honey–Van Morrison
Last Thing on my Mind–Tom Paxton
Dock of the Bay–Otis Redding
Once in the Lifetime–Talking Heads–the following lines really get to me:</p>
<p>“And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
wife
And you may ask yourself-Well…How did I get here?”</p>
<p>Just my Imagination–the Temps
I’m Just a Typical American Boy–Phil Ochs
I’m Free–Rolling Stones
Circle Game–Joni Mitchell</p>
<p>I listen to this over and over again. I have two other mixes with lots of James Taylor songs, Prince, and songs from “I am Sam” including the absolutely astounding version of Let it Be by Nick Cave.</p>
<p>…and the Bee Gees! (‘New York Mining Disaster’, ‘Holiday’, …)</p>
<p>okay parents, time travel now: of your KIDS’ vintage songs, what would go on your CD/ipod?</p>
<p>For me:</p>
<p>Outkast Hey Ya
John Mayer Daughters
Some Usher
one of the Nelly songs, the C. Aguillera/Nelly performance from last year’s grammies…</p>
<p>You see, I have very little exposure to their music
…(actually, those ARE on my ipod)…
what do you like from your kids’ music?</p>
<p>‘Last Night I had the Strangest Dream.’ I heard Ed McCurdy sing that song at the Bitter End in the Village some time in the early 60s.</p>