NSR: one of your fav tunes from your fav decade

[Stig / Major Tom]

List one today.
Later you can add another, one per post!

My favorite decade was the 1960's.
My favorite year in that decade was ...

1967.... ~heard this one coming out of a few bunkers in rear areas in SVN. Boys had big Teac reel-to-reels & speakers to match.



Your favorite decade and a song from it?

Stig

[Neil955i]

Like you, the 60's was my seminal decade and one of the more esoteric numbers from then that I loved was Tyrannosaurus Rex (later to become T Rex when they did a Dylan and went electric!  I first heard them on the John Peel Radio show and was so impressed I bought their debut LP - with the longest title I'd ever heard - "My people were fair and had sky in their hair, but now they're content to wear stars on their brows"

Anyway, here's Marc Bolan and Micky Finn in their heyday:

[Iahawk]

I was born in '66...my key formative decade was the 80's (middle school through college)...always loved 60's tunes (huge Beatles fan)...really like the 70's vibe (even coming to terms with the Bee Gees, actually kind of enjoy their stuff now)...like a lot of early 80's...then late 80's was terrible, turned into early 90's grunge (ok) and then mid 90's alternative (which I have really come to like)...really lost my taste for current popular music after that time..

So favorite decade? toss up between 60's and 70's....favorite song? If a gun were held to my head I'd have a hard time coming up with one. Probably a song by the Beatles.

[randyo]

1968

[Neil955i]

Good choice Randy!

[randyo]

Grace Slick 1967

[Stig / Major Tom]

Grace Slick 1967

The early summer of 1967 I caught a ride on the PCH into San Francisco. Lucked into a 2nd fl. apt on Haight st, as the "head cook" for a fellow and his girlfriend.
I wasn't down in Monterey where they performed at the festival - (no wheels !) but during the months I lived in Haight/Ashbury they put on a couple free concerts in San Francisco's Golden Gate park's "pan-handle", quite near H/A

 I only saw one - but as these free concerts were frequent and by lots of groups, later to become famous, I was too 'busy' with whatever a 19 yr old would be doing to walk over and watch another performance!
I saw Grace one time on the street - easy to spot as she was flowing down the sidewalk inside a group!.  To my mind, the prettiest girl singer of that era!
Somebody to Love and White Rabbit - were the anthems of 1967~!!

Stig

[Stig / Major Tom]

Cannot really discuss the 1960's without this guy.

I was introduced to Dylan in @1965 when my music appreciation teacher (in Paris,  France) brought in Dylan's album and played a bit of it for the class. Before this, for weeks,  we had been learning to conduct Dvorak's 5th symphony in E minor. (I'm not kidding!)

I was hooked.....no, not on Dvorak...

I remember when this showed up in the juke box at the teen center in Paris.
I took a lot of flack for putting my dimes in there! not the least of which for how long it played! (still fully expect get flack in his name - forever!)

LIKE A ROLLING STONE


someone dared put out a song longer than 3 mins!

Stig

[Neil955i]

And good to see the accompanying photo of Bob in a Triumph T shirt!

[randyo]

someone dared put out a song longer than 3 mins!

Stig

many of my favorite songs of the 60's were only full length on the album
2012 performance, they still have it
 and they had a shorter 45 version

[Neil955i]

Randy you’ve just taken me straight back to the late 60s when I listen to this song, so often it’s imprinted on my synapses. Iron Butterfly were a one hit wonder over here, but what a hit it was!  That live version is not imo up to the original album version, but still good to hear. Thanks.

[Stig / Major Tom]

And good to see the accompanying photo of Bob in a Triumph T shirt!

Broke his neck riding that Triumph🙃

Stig

[randyo]

lot of radio stations wouldn't play this one