60's Music Quiz

[Neil955i]

 
Aced it with 10 out of 10.  About all I can recall 100% though!
 

[jak51]

Got 'em all.  Just happened to be a teenager during the 60's.  That was fun!  Thanks Neil. 

[Stig / Major Tom]

I didn't get a chance to answer the last one - was still laughing at Walter Brennan.
When I came back to the states after 4 years in Paris - I spent a summer floating in Lake Norris, (Tenn.)  wearing a ski belt - next to my grandfather's house boat.
He kept a little AM radio playing all summer on the porch nearby. To this day, decades later,  I can tell if the song playing is from that summer!

It had been years since I'd heard only American music.....although we did have Dylan's short (45RPM) version of "Like A Rolling Stone" in the juke box in American snack-bar just off the Champ's in Paris. My little French 'music appreciation' teacher introduced us to a Dylan album one day. Most nearly puked, I loved it!

Stig

[Iahawk]

10 for 10...although I took an educated guess at 2 of them..Delilah and Bits and Pieces. I was born in the mid 60s but have always been a 60's and 70's music fan.

[Stig / Major Tom]

10 for 10...although I took an educated guess at 2 of them..Delilah and Bits and Pieces. I was born in the mid 60s but have always been a 60's and 70's music fan.

Born in the mid 60's - good gosh man you missed everything!
I wasn't going to list the things you missed ....but > 50% was the music (Donovan in the Hollywood bowl,  Baez at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, (Grace Slick !!) & the Airplane w/ Grateful Dead in the pan-handle at G.G. Park, Ravi Shankar & Judy Collins at Tangelwood, P.P. & Mary L'Olympia/Paris, etc., etc.)  and the other 80% of everything which comes to mind has to do with what the young ladies were wearing - or not for a time!

Funny how the war and the riots and the protests fade away....sometimes.
I tend to remember kindness more than the mean people.
Barry McGuire ripped a good anthem of protest , while Scott McKenzie sang about something else. Still love to listen to both 50+ yrs later.

Peace




 

[Iahawk]

Born in the mid 60's - good gosh man you missed everything!

yep...don't rub it in! Believe me..as a college kid in the mid to late 80's I really wished I was living in the late 60's. In fact, my entire music collection was all 60's and 70's music..nothing at all from the 80's.  All the music you referenced..wow...have you ever heard late 80's pop music crap? Awful...

[Kansas kymco]

yep...don't rub it in! Believe me..as a college kid in the mid to late 80's I really wished I was living in the late 60's. In fact, my entire music collection was all 60's and 70's music..nothing at all from the 80's.  All the music you referenced..wow...have you ever heard late 80's pop music crap? Awful...

The sixties  was a very controversial time period.  The music reflected that.

I listened to a variety of music growing  up mostly hard rock with art rock thrown in.   I ran across my cassette case I use to take in my El Camino SS in the Seventies. 

[Iahawk]

   I ran across my cassette case I use to take in my El Camino SS in the Seventies.

now that is great!!

[Kansas kymco]

now that is great!!

Yes/No for nostalgia yes but I haven't had  a cassette player in years, make that decades.  Sent you a picture of the tape cases Iahawk.

[Iahawk]

from Kansas Kymco:

[Stig / Major Tom]

Yes/No for nostalgia yes but I haven't had  a cassette player in years, make that decades.  Sent you a picture of the tape cases Iahawk.

Kansas,
You made most of your tapes?
What is art rock?

Read today that the fellow who invented the cassette just died.
I used to 'talk' to my wife with a cassette, while in Vietnam. She bought the machine, buddy had one he'd let several of us use - we just had to scrounge him some batteries for it. Actually - only did the tape thing a couple of times. Too hard to deal with being there vs hearing from back in the world. I never did the ham/patch calls back to the states either. Most guys looked gut shot after walking away from their turn on that phone.

Stig

[Kansas kymco]

Yes Stig I  made my tapes on my home stereo (high quality for the time) from my album collection for use in my car.  Maxell made some very high quality blank tapes.  Cassette tapes took the place of 8-track tapes in cars for higher sound quality before the CD made the cassette tape obsolete.  If your old enough the first media player in a moving vehicle was a record player followed by a 4-track tape that gave way to the 8-track. The 8-track was invented by Bill Lear of the Learjet Fame.

*Art rock was a name given a name as an Eclectic bunch of rock that emerged in the late 60s and flourished in the early to mid 70s. The term is sometimes used synonymously with progressive rock but the latter is best used to describe intellectual album  orientated Rock such as Genesis King Crimson Pink Floyd and Yes and I would add Jethro Tull and a few others to the category.   * reference from online

So I should of said progressive rock instead of art rock but a lot of people use both interchangeably.

[Kansas kymco]

yep...don't rub it in! Believe me..as a college kid in the mid to late 80's I really wished I was living in the late 60's. In fact, my entire music collection was all 60's and 70's music..nothing at all from the 80's.  All the music you referenced..wow...have you ever heard late 80's pop music crap? Awful...

I'm sorry but the 60's was the best of times/worst of times. Lot of very bad things went on during that time period,  Kent state,  race riots and the biggie Vietnam.  Yes television brought us up close and personal to the horror of war during supper time.   It also prevented the public from actually seeing film footage from the front line in future wars. I turned the legal age for the draft the same year the draft ended.

[Stig / Major Tom]

"Blessed".
Today, I feel blessed to have been a teen-ager in the 60's.
Hitch-hiking with a back pack and folk guitar from Mass. to San Diego at 18.
Walking the pacific coast highway from Mexico to 'Frisco - meeting people and taking jobs along the way.
Spending the summer of love living in Haight/Ashbury (the famous "Week-End Hippies" and lines of cars who'd flood the neighborhood every week end)
I smoked Camels, drank chocolate milk, hated wine, pot and acid. Loved the gentle people. Barefoot, Levis cords, glass beads, mustache.

Always in the back of my mind were: memories of practicing getting under our school desks in Florida; news of the SDS, Black Panthers, SLA; so many peace demonstrators as violent as any thug & motivated by fear for their own skins; sincere others;
...........and knowing that as soon as the mail catches up to me there likely will be a draft notice in there.

I really was leading a blessed life (as my daughter points out) - Spent the Summer of Love in California and then persuaded the Massachusetts draft board to let me go to Vietnam as a medic. "Unarmed' but All of us goofy medics thought we were bullet proof. We had the 'savior complex' - which is spooky because we had not near enough training for the undertaking

The music was a huge part of my experience. Two stand out: laying on the hood of a car with friends, somewhere on the beach, in heavy fog waiting for sunrise and hearing Whiter Shade of Pale on the radio for the 1st time. And sitting in a kitchen in Haight listening to the midnight premier of the whole of Sgt. Pepper's.

Wouldn't change any of it.
I was once persuaded to give a Veteran's Day class-room talk about my Vietnam experience by my daughter & her American History teacher. The one point I tried to share with the teenage boys in the class was to imagine moving, every week in your senior year, closer to the day you will be made available to the government.....and a very unpopular, unsupported, war. Look around the room. Some of you won't be coming home. "Now, carry on and be a kid." 

Stig

[Neil955i]

Born in the mid 60's - good gosh man you missed everything!
I wasn't going to list the things you missed ....but > 50% was the music (Donovan in the Hollywood bowl,  Baez at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, (Grace Slick !!) & the Airplane w/ Grateful Dead in the pan-handle at G.G. Park, Ravi Shankar & Judy Collins at Tangelwood, P.P. & Mary L'Olympia/Paris, etc., etc.)  and the other 80% of everything which comes to mind has to do with what the young ladies were wearing - or not for a time!

Funny how the war and the riots and the protests fade away....sometimes.
I tend to remember kindness more than the mean people.
Barry McGuire ripped a good anthem of protest , while Scott McKenzie sang about something else. Still love to listen to both 50+ yrs later.

Peace

Y'old hippie Tom