Tony Williams drum solo with Stan Getz Quartet with Stanley Clark,1972

More:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/12/the-20-greatest-concert-films-ranked

The Flying Burrito Brothers (with Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman) played at Altamont …



…as did CSN&Y

Neil Young

….but the Hell's Angel stage security guard on hog tranquilizers stole the show

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I loved this song. It was released the month before my 13th birthday and starting 8th grade. It was a huge hit in the Bay Area, constantly on the radio.
Steve Marriott went from boyish to looking pretty rough before he died in a house fire at age 44. He lived hard.

^Very nice bridge on Itchycoo Park.

This might be their best song, and definitely the most played on YT:


I think the Stones ripped that riff off 5 years later:

Good song. Never heard it before. I did recognize the female vocalist, P.P. Arnold. I have two of her songs on my playlists:





https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._P._Arnold

At the end of the clip Garcia and Lesh with Santana's drummer, Michael Shrieve, right before the Dead decided to bail on playing.

Susan was born in Pueblo, CO and grew up in Las Animas, CO, leaving there in 1966 to attend Colorado University in Boulder. However, she struggled to find meaningful direction in the academic world. After a little over two years, she joined the hippie movement in San Francisco where she met her first husband, Joel Dunsany, who was evading the draft at the time.

...Two years later, she upgraded to the newly released Casiotone MT-40 and began singing through a mic and delay pedal, wearing the now iconic winged helmet, as well as a couple of other electrified hats Joel designed for her. Returning to San Francisco in 1984, she became a hit on the street there, and was dubbed "The Space Lady" by the Berkeley Barb newspaper when she came in second in their Favorite Street Musician contest. The name stuck, and in 1990 she recorded many of her best songs for a cassette which Joel hand-produced at home for street sales. But around 1992, Susan returned to acoustic music (this time with a better accordion), due to the legal restriction and costs of playing electronically.

After a total of 20 years playing on the street, she retired in 2000, left Joel, and returned to her home state of Colorado to care for her aging parents. She lived with her late singer/songwriter husband and manager Eric Schneider, until his death in 2016 in La Junta, Colorado, US. In addition to recording new music and touring the world, Susan is also an advocate for vegan living and ethics, which she and Eric adopted in November 2014. She had been a vegetarian since the early 70s, before this move. Her musical career is now being managed by her grandson, Skyler Wright, who now lives with her in La Junta, CO.
Awards and recognition.

In 2014 she became even more well known when her first LP ended up on The Guardian's list of The 101 Strangest Records on Spotify.

"As I listened to Schubert, I realized I wasn't just listening, I was watching the music dancing around the room."



https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/01/the-space-lady-feature

I think her music would have been a perfect soundtrack pairing with the music of The Carpenters for this film:

~ from comments, "Damn, the fact Guy was dead and I was 69 before I ever found his music."

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I think her music would have been a perfect soundtrack pairing with the music of The Carpenters for this film:

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Yeah, it's got that same lo-fi vibe.

I shouldn't have mocked Karen Carpenter by posting that avant garde film video.

The Carpenters were not my kind of music, but like you, I love and appreciate music in many forms and there is no denying that Karen Carpenter sang like an angel:



BTW, the writer and director of Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story featuring Barbie in her first starring role, is currently working on a remake of The Great Escape and he is in contract negotiations with his lead actor: Ken McQueen

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One of my faves from Back To Oakland is Below Us All the City Lights. Reminds me of parking with my first GF up by the Mormon Temple - what a spectacular view, at least when we came up for air.

I listened to TOP all through Cal but didn't see them live until 2009 at the Gold Country Fair in Auburn, then a couple of years ago at the Mountain Winery. The tickets cost a lot more at the winery, but the show was just as good at the fair. Such great musicians - real pros! TOP fell off my radar for a lot of years until my oldest son played trumpet in high school band and their finale at a jazz concert was You're Still A Young Man - those opening notes on the brass intro brought it all back.

Lenny Pickett, TOP's tenor sax player in the 1970s, was in my 7th-grade history class at Garfield (now MLK) Jr High in Berkeley.

As I recall you are a contemporary of mine. You should have seen them at Harmon in '72. They had their best singer then, Rick Stevens. He later went down for dusting 3 dudes in a drug deal in 1976. He was paroled in 2012 and died in 2017.

*This song plays in Kevin Kline's brain on a 24/7 loop.

Blues revival in Mississippi Delta brings "Kingfish" to music scene | 60 Minutes - CBS News


https://www.cbsnews.com/video/kingfish-mississippi-delta-blues-60-minutes-video-2023-10-29/

The Stones with Mick Taylor in their prime:

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Wish the movie had been better. Wasn't a lot of story to it.