[holmes]

What do u know about this band. I like soem of their stuff. Brings back alot of memories as a kid. My parents had them on 8 track. I want info On good bands. The pink house (the band) is down the street from where I grew up.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Seems to me they had a song, Cottonmouth and the first time I heard it I was in high school doing things I probably shouldn't have like smoking grass and just so happened to have a case of cottonmouth myself. Sounded mighty fine to me. Mighty fine. So what did you think of Blonde On Blonde? Heard it yet?

[PenultimateManStanding]

Good bands from the 60s? Well lemme see. . . you know all the big names already, right? Stones, Beatles, Dylan, The Who, Led Zepellin, Eric Burton & Animals, but you want some lesser known talents from that era I take it. Jeff Buckley's father Tim Buckley was good - trippy folk stuff, and some very mellow music. Emerson Lake & Palmer were good. King Crimson, Frank Zappa (weird stuff), It's A Beautiful Day; oh, I recommended Dr. John's Night Tripper LP to Albente and he liked it. I always liked The Moody Blues but they're very white-bread what-the-heck I was a white suburb kid, right? Then there were the mainstream hard-rock guys like the Yardbirds, Cream, etc. Don't ask me about the 70s though, cuz I don't know much about those years beyond the BeeGees. The Soul music and R&B of that era was excellent.

[PenultimateManStanding]

BTW, holmes, I think The Sixties in hindsight actually got rolling around 1964, reached its Peak in 1967, and then a drug-induced depletion set in and it was over around 1972, the same year I got out of high school. A year after that, I had quit smoking grass, joined the Community College swimming team, got on the Dean's List and completely rehabilitated myself! Speaking of rehabilitating oneself, you should hear Arlo Guthrie singing the original version of Alice's Restaraunt. Classic stuff.

[holmes]

I do not care for the drug tripped out stuff. It bothers me. I like Dylan and the reggaa afro brazilian pop. Jazz. I havent had the time yet to sit down and listen to my two new CDS. Dylan and Brazilian putanaya(I think I spelled that wrong). LOL. So seals and crofts were tripped out stoners. Interesting my parents werent trippers. They smoked a little grass and drank beer. Well they only had one of there 8 tracks.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'I') do not care for the drug tripped out stuff. It bothers me.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Seriously though, holmes, The Sixties was about drug use. There were actually lots of mainstream Top 40 type hits that were druggie songs. Ever see The Big Leibowski? There was that Kenny Rogers and the First Edition song, Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In, that was druggie, Itchycoo Park, etc. The all-time number 1 hit of the era was the Beatle's Hey Jude which was about kicking a heroin habit. The Byrds, Eight Miles High, and on and on. Dylan was a huge drug user. He's the one who got the Beatles smoking grass. He probably ate more amphetamines than anyone. I'm suprised he's still alive, actually. Your boys in The Band, Robbie Robertson et. al., druggies. Stones, druggies. Hell, I bet even Sonny and Cher were toking up.