jbh Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Saw them in person in a little bar at Ocean Drive Beach in SC summer of l971. It was AWESOME!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Many, many years ago, on one of the rock concert shows, someone (I can't remember the details) did a brief The Guess Who / The Who bit ala Abbott and Costello. Interestingly both bands were formed/named around the same time (1965) and when The Guess Who had a hit with "Shakin' All Over" some people thought it was The Who from England. And Burton Cummings joined The Guess Who after "Shakin All Over" was recorded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Never have I been in a place with such incredible bars as O.D. Beach. We used to go there when I was stationed at Fort Jackson, while I was on active duty during my National Guard stint---also in 1971! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 So there, Miss W.! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbh Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Maybe we were there the same night! We'll never know, but wasn't it great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 I never saw any live performances. I just remember the huge beachside clubs with thousands of UNC, NC State, Duke, and Wake Forest students roaming from club to club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 Jeff Buckley is kind of what they call an "acquired taste", so I promise I won't throw a hissy fit if nobody likes this. But he was an inspired song-writer, and had an astonishing voice. His music is often strange and intense, but memorable. Listening to one of his songs is like vicariously experiencing someone else's dream for three minutes. He was folk singer Tim Buckley's son. Here is one of his most "intense" songs, So Real : Edited by: misswonderly on Apr 2, 2011 4:07 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 that is "American Woman" Guess Who? "I don't want your ghetto scenes "I don't want your war machines-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 When I went to Montreal in 1996/7? with my passport--la douane was overwhelmed--they thought I was strange--Americans never had passports. Edited by: cujas on Apr 2, 2011 4:38 PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 The original "American Woman" song by The Guess Who was a huge hit in 1970. The song was created in the summer/fall of 1969 from a live on stage jam started by guitarist Randy Bachman. The other guys joined in, and Burton Cummings the singer eventually wrote the lyrics when they recorded it. When he did the lyrics it was meant as the observations of a group of young Canadians doing a long tour around the U.S., They had just scored a series of big hits in 1969. For those of us who can remember, the late 60's were very troubling times in America, and after traveling about the country, these young Canadian guys were eager to get back across the border and home. As Burton says, the lyrics could have been "Canadian woman its good to see you again and be back home" but he turned it into "American Woman stay away from me". Many Americans weren't happy with the way things were here at "our" home and adopted the song as a "protest anthem". "American Woman" hit #1 on the charts the week of the Kent State shootings in May 1970. 30 years later, Lenny Kravitz covered the song and had another huge hit with his "American Woman". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Weren't there demonsrations (anti-war, etc.) or other dissent in Canada in the late '60s? I know that aside from the U.S., many cities in Europe (e.g., Paris) also had demonstrations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 It's now 24 hours and nobody has commented on Jeff Buckley, so it's hard to tell whether a hissy fit is warranted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casablancalover Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Where's my "Thumbs up" button??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Very funny, but what about my "Canadian demonstrations" question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I don't know, I was a kid then, I didn't pay any attention to political dissent. I do remember some talk of draft dodgers from the United States fleeing to Canada. I think one of my teachers was a draft dodger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 You are interested in film history. You are interested in music history. You are not interested in Canadian history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Ya got me there, finance, baby. Maybe it's a case of the closer you are to something, the less you see it. (That sounds very wise, doesn't it, but I'm not sure what it means.) Oh very well, I do vaguely recall demonstrations of some kind, I think at Queen's Park. There were a lot of Canadians - and not just young ones - who were against the American involvement in Vietnam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Somebody mentioned the camel walk a few days back, so here are the Ikettes to tell us all about it. I was looking for Tina, but I guess she wasn't on the scene yet..unless she's one of those Ikettes? If so, I didn't recognize her. Maybe Uncle Bob would be up to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7WEbwOXN2c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Jeff Buckley is the cat's meow or pajamas or something. This is the first second generation didn't have time for. I remember his old man, but I never really got into him either. Nothing against the music, it's not bad, but so little time. John Lennon had the Live Peace concert in Toronto in '69. The Camel Walk would be perfect for Bob and Ben, each taking a hump, and it isn't as strenuous as the JB cape thang. Those knees aren't getting any younger. The Camel Walk led directly to the Mashed Potato. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 The Clash with their rubby-dubby version of Junco Partner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 That somebody was me, and I've been embarrassed for years by my inability to do the camel walk, so this should help. Thanks a thousand times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujas Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 He's adorable-- This pix reminds me of how my Yorkie, Abbey Road, would act when I played The Bee Gees' "Jive Talking"--The only thing that would calm him down would be Frank Sinatra. Beats me what was wrong with that dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misswonderly3 Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 I like your dog's name. Although I don't know why he'd object to Jive Talking. However, we don't have to worry about that today..we've got Leonard Cohen musing on The Sisters of Mercy. If you don't like *McCabe and Mrs. Miller*, just listen to the song, which is beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Bogle Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Yikes. Now they even show this Garbage on PBS. Happy Home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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