Hippiefest

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:48 am

I saw Hippiefest last night at Wolf Trap. [ http://www.livedaily.com/news/12282.html ]

The show included:
Joey Molland (Badfinger)
Mitch Ryder
Felix Cavaliere
Zombies
Turtles
Leslie West

Wasn't too bad. Each act only played three or four hits and left the stage for the next act.

I thought Felix was the best. He didn't just play "cover versions" of his songs. He's still got it. A little bit of New York blue eyed soul.

lyle_from_minneapolis · Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:59 am

Joey buys pizzas from me. His "little brother" Doug tells some great tales, like watching the All Things Must Pass recording sessions.

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:08 pm

Cool.

There is also a pizza place contributor from another forum that delivers to Peter Frampton (in Ohio).

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 3:45 pm

I'm glad to see that Felix is still out there.

http://www.felixcavalieresrascals.com/

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:12 am

That's either a very defiant posture, or there's about to be some extremely heavy throat clearing...

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:32 am

Mark some of those acts didn't have 3/4 hits!

rob_mac · Post by **rob_mac** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:40 am

I saw the Zombies here in Leeds, UK a couple of months ago. They were fantastic!! They did all the Zombies tracks, plus a few Argent tracks and some of Colin Blunstones solo stuff. Rod Argent is a superb keyboard player. It was a magic evening.

from Rob

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:26 am

Always wondered why Blunstone felt the need or got coerced into releasing She's Not There as Neil MacArthur in 1969.

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:10 am

RE: "Some of those acts didn't have 3/4 hits!"

I don’ think that’s a fair or accurate statement, Roy.

Here is a quick rundown off the top of my head. Each artist seems to have at least three hits (which pretty much matched the Wolf Trap setlist).

Badfinger
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Here It Is Come and Get It
Day After Day
No Matter What

Mitch Ryder
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Jenny Take a Ride
CC Rider
Devil With A Blue Dress / Good Golly Miss Molly

Rascals
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I’ve Been Lonely Too Long
Groovin’
People Got To Be Free
Good Lovin’

Zombies
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She’s Not There
Tell Her No
Time of the Season
(They also did “Hold Your Head Up")

Turtles
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It Ain’t Me Babe
Elenore
She’d Rather Be with Me
Happy Together

Mountain
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As a late 60s “FM radio” band, Mountain did not have “hits” per se.

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:36 am

Mark

I should have qualified my statement as I was basing it on British charts, you are of course correct in context of American charts and I should have checked American charts as clearly a American festival.

Based on UK top 40

Zombies only had 1 hit in UK, Mitch Ryder had 1, Young Rascal 2. Badfinger and Turtles did manage 3.

You are however totally correct to correct me!!

lyle_from_minneapolis · Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:12 am

Wow, that surprises me about the Zombies. I assumed they were probably even bigger in the UK, but no. They were truly innovative. It's hard to find songs that bear much similarity to "Time of the Season" or even "She's Not There." The only thing "dated" about these excellent songs is the production style (which I greatly enjoy).

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:58 am

Mark, Tell Her No made number 42 but that was it.

Colin Blunstone had 3 top 40 hits in his own right in the 70's plus 3 which made top 75 so are classed as Hits in Official reference book.

Also in late 60's he had a number 34 under the name Neil MacArthur which was She's Not There again.

Hold Your Head Up which Mark mentions was credited to Argent, only Rod Argent from Zombies was in the Band, they had 3 hits in UK all made top 40.

Two original members of Argent were originally in The Roulettes who backed Adam Faith for a while.

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:11 am

"Two original members of Argent were originally in The Roulettes who backed Adam Faith for a while"

That's an amazing piece of info Roy. Argent was a very good band and so were the Roulettes.

royclough · Post by **royclough** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:31 am

The two were Bob Henrit and Russ Ballard, Brian, Jim Rodford was on Bass who later joined The Kinks

Roulettes released 5/6 singles in their own right and an Album, which at one time was highly sought after among collectors, here is probably their best single.

Here

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:37 pm

That's great Roy, I love that song. Thanks very much.

You must have quite a collection to just pull a rabbit out of the hat like that.