labworm
US Veteran
You guys remember the 60's?
You weren't doing it right!
Just ask labworm, when he's ten feet tall.
I pulled into Nazareth,
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Just ask labworm, when he's ten feet tall.
Just ask labworm, when he's ten feet tall.
"And if you go chasing rabbits,
and you know you're bound to fall,
Well tell 'em a hookah, a smoking caterpiller,
Has given you the call,
Call Alice, when she was just small".
steveno
Member
"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane. the album was "Surrealistic Pillow"
Hack
Member
I'm okay with the 60's up until 1969. The 70's that's a different story. There's six weeks of my life one summer that I just can't recall where I was living, or what I was doing....
Fishslayer
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
You guys remember the 60's?
You weren't doing it right!
I remember the 60's (most of it, anyway)
It's the 70s that are a little fuzzy around the edges....
Walter Rego
Member
The first time I heard the song The Weight when I was about 12 or so, it creeped me out. I have disliked The Band immensely ever since, with the exception of the work they did with Dylan.
george minze
Member
Thanks for posting, Especially today as I am now 75 today...Great memories, again thanks for posting...Levon Helm and the Band,,,,Made me smile......Lynn Groom( great keybordist) from Texas had played with Levon later in his career, and any band with soul covered at least one of the Bands songs...Damn I am getting old...."The Last Waltz" Great album great memories.......Still smiling!!!
Dominus_Lex
Member
My wife's name is Levon, guess that says it all.
hangnoose
Member
SONGS IN MY HEAD
Y'ALL "LET YOUR FREAK FLAGS FLY", "GO ASK ALICE" & " DON'T BOGART". Have a nice day.
Y'ALL "LET YOUR FREAK FLAGS FLY", "GO ASK ALICE" & " DON'T BOGART". Have a nice day.
hangnoose
Member
STRONG DISLIKE?
REGO, You have my sympathies for not being able to enjoy an awful lot of very good music. I could understand any band not being your cup of tea, but "STRONG DISLIKE"? If you dislike the BAND, what could you possibly like, Rap, Heavy Metal, The Captain & Tenile, Ozzie? If the weight creaped you out, Pink Floyd must have made you hide under your bed. J.K. to each his own.
REGO, You have my sympathies for not being able to enjoy an awful lot of very good music. I could understand any band not being your cup of tea, but "STRONG DISLIKE"? If you dislike the BAND, what could you possibly like, Rap, Heavy Metal, The Captain & Tenile, Ozzie? If the weight creaped you out, Pink Floyd must have made you hide under your bed. J.K. to each his own.
Wyatt Burp
Member
I break out my "The Last Waltz" about once a year and watch it. I remember when that concert happened and I didn't go across the bay to see it because it was pretty expensive, $25 I think(!!!!!!!!!!). I think about four songs found on Best Of The Band makes Robbie Robertson, or whichever of them wrote them, some of the the best songwriters ever. Too bad that one guy hung himself and Danko died. Garth Hudson was in the newss last year or so and was losing his house or something.
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10mmauto
Member
Levon Helm certainly had the right stuff...
"There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, 750 miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier...
The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffey when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. 22 complete orbits around the world. He was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief, shining moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."
(Warner Brothers)
"There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, 750 miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier...
The Mercury program was over. Four years later, astronaut Gus Grissom was killed, along with astronauts White and Chaffey when fire swept through their Apollo capsule. But on that glorious day in May 1963, Gordo Cooper went higher, farther, and faster than any other American. 22 complete orbits around the world. He was the last American ever to go into space alone. And for a brief, shining moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."
(Warner Brothers)
george minze
Member
How could anybody not like the "Band"
hangnoose
Member
WILD TIMES
Being alive during those decades kinda dates us "golden oldies", but IMO the 70's made the 60's look like the 50's. then the 80's with crack, aids, gangs & related violence it all went downhill from there. Back in the day Hippies, (JIMMY BUFFET & ARLO "FLYING INTO LOS ANGELES" smuggled a few bales of weed in on their sailboats, now it's cargo containers full, submarines, tunnels and heavily armed cartels more than willing to kill police, judges & whole families. working in hospitals prior to the crack explosion, (no not that kind) we rarely saw gunshots, then app 83-85 there would be multiple gsw's (drive by's, whatev) often in the same day. I'll take a hippie over a gangsta anyday.
Being alive during those decades kinda dates us "golden oldies", but IMO the 70's made the 60's look like the 50's. then the 80's with crack, aids, gangs & related violence it all went downhill from there. Back in the day Hippies, (JIMMY BUFFET & ARLO "FLYING INTO LOS ANGELES" smuggled a few bales of weed in on their sailboats, now it's cargo containers full, submarines, tunnels and heavily armed cartels more than willing to kill police, judges & whole families. working in hospitals prior to the crack explosion, (no not that kind) we rarely saw gunshots, then app 83-85 there would be multiple gsw's (drive by's, whatev) often in the same day. I'll take a hippie over a gangsta anyday.
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Wyatt Burp
Member
I was born in '57 and in the late 60s we would all go to my uncle's cabin at Russian River north of S.F. Man, was it exciting for a ten year old like me! The town of Guerneville was always packed with S.F. hippies and the place was vibrant and colorful. But I liked being a teenager in the 70's after my big brother cut a trail for me taking all the arrows so that I could get away with anything later as my parents became more lenient.
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
Happy birthday, George! Some of us 75-year-olds have pretty damn good musical taste (though I'll be 76 in a month and a half). For your birthday, treat yourself to Helm's "Dirt Farmer" album, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's "Raising Sand". That duo doesn't sound as if it would work, but it does, extremely well.
Just listened to "Don't Do It" Don't You Do It Don't You Break My Heart. My biggest mistake was lovin' you too much. Love the Band.
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