Music: formative years (edited)

[Gamecock]

From the mid '50s through the early '60s I was a teenager. During that time there were 3 separate and distinctly different types or rock n roll. West coast (Beach boys, Jan and Dean, etc); East Coast( Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Frankie Valley, Bobby Rydell, etc); and Mo' Town (all the great doo-wap The Supremes, The Temptations, The Coasters, The Box tops, etc). And with few exceptions, I loved every note of all 3 categories. 'Cept for Bobby Goldsboro, Paul Anka etc)

We had a 4th type here: Carolina Beach Music. Great stuff!

100 Greatest Beach Music Songs

 

[loeman]

"Like a Rolling Stone"

With music there is so much to say about how it has impacted, enlightened and entertained me at various times and ages. However there is one influential (to me) song that stands out from all others, then and now.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNLBJ_Lq9E[/ame]

 

[DeathGrip]

I always thought this song was written about me sneaking off to the BBQ behind the bar on sunday mornings.

My parents were so afraid of those guys that hung out there but they loved me and I never felt unsafe.

I learned a lot of licks hanging out there.

The song,

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO7Vj3zHynE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO7Vj3zHynE[/ame]

 

[vytoland]

for me its DOO WOP...................

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwRonHurq8&list=PL1A452826AA0A5453&index=138[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I-06_Vmn-4&index=134&list=PL1A452826AA0A5453[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ampsbillH0w&list=PL1A452826AA0A5453&index=132[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQVHVbOLPwI&index=129&list=PL1A452826AA0A5453[/ame]

 

[loeman]

If anybody thought my dissertation was rather lengthy and long winded I spared you a lot of reading by just hitting the high spots.

For many years my life was music and some 'other stuff'.

I was going to write a bunch more in my post but you pretty much said about everything I was going to say, so I pared it down to one song, "Like a Rolling Stone".

Now for something that moves me today! I bet you're the kind of guy who would appreciate and enjoy Black Dub. Besides Trixie Whitley's vocals, I really like the drummer. They have a bunch of other stuff on YouTube that is quite good.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_0zrd2u3uk[/ame]

 

[DeathGrip]

I was going to write a bunch more in my post but you pretty much said about everything I was going to say, so I pared it down to one song, "Like a Rolling Stone".

Now for something that moves me today! I bet you're the kind of guy who would appreciate and enjoy Black Dub. Besides Trixie Whitley's vocals, I really like the drummer. They have a bunch of other stuff on YouTube that is quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_0zrd2u3uk

That's a song I can put some serious guitar to. Thanks, Loved it!

 

[rwsmith]

Ballads, epics, the storytellers.

Going with my daughter to a Gordon Lightfoot concert tonight. As far as I am concerned, he can open with "Edmund Fitzgerald", close with "Edmund Fitzgerald", and stick it in the middle a couple of times.

I quite agree - TWOTEF prompted me to study Great Lakes shipping, the wreck and the half dozen or more reasons for it sinking like it did.


Some modern 'epics':

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
The Who - Tommy
Rice and Weber - Jesus Christ Superstar
Johnny Horton - Sink the Bismark
Harry Chapin - Sniper
ELP - Karn Evil 9
Yes - Close to the Edge
Cat Stephens - The Cat's In the Cradle
Oorf - Carmina Burana
The Doors - The End
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Massacree and City of New Orleans

 

[soFlaNative]

Not so much the album as the cover.
Released when I was eight, had a profound effect ever since.

 

[ditrina]

Not so much the album as the cover.
Released when I was eight, had a profound effect ever since.

You were 8.. I was 18!! SAME EFFECT!!

 

[Muley Gil]

Lester and Earl doing "Foggy Mountain Breakdown". Now I'm into old time mountain clawhammer banjo.

 

[pawngal]

Music has always been a huge part of my life too, always listening to something. Every song & every artist mentioned here evokes some type of memory of times, places and people. Can't sing at all, don't play an instrument other than a little piano but that doesn't stop my love for music, most any genre from old country & bluegrass thru folk, country, classic rock, R&B, beach music, acid rock, and throw in some classical stuff too. XM radio and YouTube have made it so easy to relive the memories, the love, the laughter, the fears and the tears thru all the years.

 

[Evil Dog]

If you can remember the '60s you weren't there.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0[/ame]

 

[Gamecock]

Going with my daughter to a Gordon Lightfoot concert tonight. As far as I am concerned, he can open with "Edmund Fitzgerald", close with "Edmund Fitzgerald", and stick it in the middle a couple of times.

My favorite GL tune is "Early Morning Rain."

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWamoeeAIHs[/ame]