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HEAD (1968) VINYL FOUND!!! i only had to travel over 1000 miles from my home and go through 15 feet of snow but it was all worth it!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and guitar hero Stephen Stills. Besides his estimable solo career and his role in the landmark groups Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and Manassas, he is a tactical genius. He set a bar for great guitar tonality in recording (listen to the shimmer in “Bluebird”) and he championed slide, alternate tunings, and blues-rock methods that impressed Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Stephen’s eclectic upbringing pointed him to diverse music genres, particularly Caribbean/South American styles, evinced on “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”—he played most of the instruments (bass, drums, etc.) in a tightly harmonized pastiche of folk-pop Latin grooves.
Sidebar: In 1965 Stephen was roomates with fellow folkie and musical dynamo Peter Tork. Stephen told Peter about the casting call for “The Monkees” TV Show and Peter landed the gig. Contrary to urban legend that Stephen auditioned for the show, in reality he auditioned as a songwriter for a publishing deal with Colgems (he, along with Buffalo Springfield members Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, and Neil Young, later played on Monkees’s recordings).
In 1989 I was backed by my band The Rover Boys, opening for Stephen Stills at The Fillmore. We did our set, then rushed our gear offstage to make way for the headliner, who appeared moments before showtime and gave us a quick approval. I stood backstage next to Stills’s well-appointed guitar rack, gushing with thoughts on this guy whose music has reached me since I was 10 years old, with that indelible performance of “For What It’s Worth” on the Smothers Brothers TV Show. Years later I heard The Staple Singers do that song, which inspired me to add it to my solo set. Here’s my take https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/for-what-its-worth-live-9-02 Meanwhile, God bless and HB to Stephen Stills!
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1967.
The Don Kirshner Lawsuit.
The Monkees (1966)
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The Monkees
Daily Listening, Day #794 - March 4th, 2022
Album: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. (Colgems, 1967)
Artist: The Monkees
Genre: Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop
Track Listing:
“Salesman”
“She Hangs Out”
“The Door Into Summer”
“Love Is Only Sleeping”
“Cuddly Toy”
“Words”
“Hard To Believe”
“What Am I Doing Hangin’ ’Round?”
“Peter Percival Patterson’s Pet Pig Porky - Pleasant Valley Sunday”
“Daily Nightly”
“Don’t Call On Me”
“Star Collector”
Favorite Song: “Words”
Songwriter Tommy Boyce and dancer-actress June Fairchild in the mid-1960s
The Monkees first LP was 1966! This is an original mono version on Colgems. Just fun at this stage but they got a bit more serious later and actually were allowed to play and write. Some Boyce and Hart classics!