Early Versus Late Animals
Bill: Yes and don't forget the impact on our parents as well. "Those guys with the long hair won't be remembered like Benny Goodman!"
Life, as with music, often requires one to let go of the melody and listen to the rhythm
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That's really a good point Peter. The cool thing about the British Invasion is it was coming to us from another country. When you think about it, it could have happened with American bands but it was Ed spotting the Beatles in England and then brining them to the US to be viewed coast-to-coast by untold millions. Then the flood of groups from England that followed. Interesting how it got started but regardless, it was fun and still is isn't it?
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Yeah the British invasion was something we shall never see again I believe anyway, it changed my life.
But it did happen to the whole world with American bands: rock n roll: Elvis, jazz: Louis Armstrong and blues: Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters etc. and all the rest all originated here and migrated all over the world, they just changed it and gave us back what we made and sometimes ignored. American blues and jazz artists and even some rock n roll artists make better livings abroad than they do here, and are better appreciated, we ignore our own. The Beatles adored early rock n roll, country and blues and got at least the beginnings of their ideas from it.
But it did happen to the whole world with American bands: rock n roll: Elvis, jazz: Louis Armstrong and blues: Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters etc. and all the rest all originated here and migrated all over the world, they just changed it and gave us back what we made and sometimes ignored. American blues and jazz artists and even some rock n roll artists make better livings abroad than they do here, and are better appreciated, we ignore our own. The Beatles adored early rock n roll, country and blues and got at least the beginnings of their ideas from it.
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From MOJO Special Limited Edition-PSYCHEDELIC....
Eric Burdon, February 2005
"The first time I did LSD was at a James Brown concert in Paris, when I'd flown over for a weekend with Georgie Fame and Brian Jones.
It was an incredible experience. I can still remember all my acid trips like they were yesterday-the good ones and bad ones. This one started when I got into a taxi. Things started to change.... the taxi driver had a collection of 45 records and this small record player that worked in the car-that was unheard of. He was asking me what I wanted to hear, I threw something obscure, Joe Tex, at him, and he played it. Then the inside of the taxi started moving, like something out of Harry Potter.
Next thing, I walked into a room where a James Brown press conference was supposed to be, but the room was empty. I found this door in the floor, walked through it down a spiral staircase, deep underground, and below it was packed with press people. James Brown was sitting on a throne with a crown on his head. The whole press corps moved aside, like the parting of the Red Sea, and, like Moses, I walked down the aisle. There was James-all in gold and ermine-I got down on my knee and kissed his ring..........
And he say's, "Get this motherf@#*er out of here." Amaizingly, some of this was filmed, some was photographed, so some of this happened. I'm still trying to figure out what was real, what was surreal."
Eric Burdon, February 2005
"The first time I did LSD was at a James Brown concert in Paris, when I'd flown over for a weekend with Georgie Fame and Brian Jones.
It was an incredible experience. I can still remember all my acid trips like they were yesterday-the good ones and bad ones. This one started when I got into a taxi. Things started to change.... the taxi driver had a collection of 45 records and this small record player that worked in the car-that was unheard of. He was asking me what I wanted to hear, I threw something obscure, Joe Tex, at him, and he played it. Then the inside of the taxi started moving, like something out of Harry Potter.
Next thing, I walked into a room where a James Brown press conference was supposed to be, but the room was empty. I found this door in the floor, walked through it down a spiral staircase, deep underground, and below it was packed with press people. James Brown was sitting on a throne with a crown on his head. The whole press corps moved aside, like the parting of the Red Sea, and, like Moses, I walked down the aisle. There was James-all in gold and ermine-I got down on my knee and kissed his ring..........
And he say's, "Get this motherf@#*er out of here." Amaizingly, some of this was filmed, some was photographed, so some of this happened. I'm still trying to figure out what was real, what was surreal."
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You lucky devil Ron! I would have loved to see him. How are you doing on finding someone to work on your old '55 Bassman? I would have thought you would have been happy with Opie because he has tons of experience with stuff like that. We'd all love to see you at the jam again sometime. Two weeks ago, one of the founders of Sunn amps was there which was really cool!
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Hey Ron, glad to hear that its working ok. The crackling was probably some worn out and dried up caps, or bad plate load resistors on the preamp tubes. Play it at least once a week and it is better for it than letting it sit. If those caps have never been replaced, then I hope they don't fail on you. The electrolytic caps don't last forever, and often only last 10 years or so. When they go they take transformers with them! You may open the amp and look at the big electrolytic caps and make sure there is no bubbling on the positive end of the cap. If they are bubbling, they are on their way to failure. If you aren't comfortable doing that yourself inside the amp, I'd do it no charge. Just let me know! Wouldn't want anything to happen to a prize like that!
I'd love to see you at the jam whenever you can make it.
I'd love to see you at the jam whenever you can make it.