Keepers:
Inside-Looking Out
Outcast (European Version)
Don’t Bring Me Down
See See Rider
Maudie
Sweet Little Sixteen
Gin House Blues
Boom Boom
Archive for the ‘1966’ Category
Animals-Animalisms
Monday, July 26th, 2010
John Fahey-Great San Bernardino Birthday Party
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Byrds-Fifth Dimension
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Keepers:
5D (Fifth Dimension)
Wild Mountain Thyme
Mr. Spaceman
I See You
What’s Happening?!?!
I Come And Stand At Every Door
Eight Miles High
John Riley
Why (single version)
The Who-A Quick One
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Yep… I got the release without the normal version of Happy Jack, which is OK because I have it in other places. In its stead we have a reasonable performance of Barbara Ann. Maybe.
Once I was old enough to understand bands and songwriting I liked to make tapes of songs by the “other” writers: John Entwistle, George Harrison, Dave Davies, Dennis Wilson… the Entwistle tape was pretty wild and I listened to it a lot. As time went on these other guys seemed to not get as carried away as the main writers in their groups, so in Entwistle’s case you can pretty much draw a straight line from “Boris the Spider” to “The Quiet One” and get something cohesive. Not quite as easy to draw a line from “I Can’t Explain” to “You Better You Bet”, and nowhere near as fun.
Keepers:
Run Run Run
Boris The Spider
Don’t Look Away
Whisky Man
So Sad About Us
A Quick One, While He’s Away
Sonics, Wailers & Galaxies-Merry Christmas
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Christmas Pantheon:
none
Other Keepers:
Christmas Spirit??
Don’t Believe in Christmas
Christmas Eve
Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
Monday, October 12th, 2009
The Monkees
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Keepers:
Papa Gene’s Blues
Take A Giant Step
Last Train To Clarksville
Sweet Young Thing
If you’re looking at this in the first place, you’re probably one of those people who know that The Monkees were not quite what they seemed to be. The four of them were joined at the hip by some sort of corporate commercial happenstance, but how different is that from bands at that time that came together because the musicians were friends, or lovers, or cousins… especially in California. If you had even one member that could sing, play, or write (or all three) you were in good shape, because there were enough great session musicians floating around to make sure that the finished product was listenable, and tons of artists and their record companies were quick to take advantage of the situation.
So let’s see – The Monkees had one really good writer, three good singers, and a couple of good players. Add to this the fact that Michael Nesmith actually had some sort of vision and was able to act as producer when necessary, and I think you would have to consider The Monkees as legitimate a band as… well, I won’t name names.
