As I sit here munching on a grilled cheese sandwich and listening to Jan Joplin's "Cheap Thrills" CD cranked up to just under ear damaging levels, I was wondering on a couple things---.

How many of you from the sixties and seventies still have to slip to listen to the best music of the century.   When I was 20, I had to listen in seclusion when the folks weren't home to crank it up to proper levels but still be under sound pressures that wouldn't call down the wrath of the neighbors. Or, listen to the eight-tracks in my car stereo. 

Now I still have to do it in seclusion because my teenage kids turn up their noses and and say "what in the crap is that?"  If I turn it up they complain. 

Some things never change, I guess.

Am I alone?

Yeah,......a woman I see periodically(she's 21) calls it "Fogey Music),.........I actually saw Joplin twice, Hendrix twice, Santana's 1st tour, was at the original Woodstock., saw Zepplin's 1st American tour (they opened for The Who).  Remember Iron Butterfly's "Heavey" album ? The "Iron Butterfly Theme" would drive my neighbors nutz.

Nope. Your not alone. I wish we would of had Serius radio back then. I dont think any of my knobs have anything but 10 on them. hehehe
I luv headphones in the house. They have 10 on them too. LOL

Jim

Damn the hearing loss "turn it up"

One of the many reasons I remain childless...my children it turns out, are all the young musicians whose parents don't understand/can't relate to them and they come to my house to find out about the '60's...just lucky I guess.. ...

Stuff the nieghbours! You don't like my music....move house.
I saw Led Zep's very last concert before John Bonham passed away 1979. I saw Deep Purple in 1974. Status Quo in 1978.

Nowadays, I drive around town playing Buck Cherry's 'Crazy Bitch' at full blast.

Wow...that brings back some memories...
Unfortunately, where i live now, the only old rockers around are on the front porch.     :m_wink:

I have a Bentwood Rocker [local 60's band] long playing record...LOL...as well as the real thing myself.. ...

My mom and dad were pretty good at letting me play any music I wanted as long as they couldn't hear it too, which meant that I never got to play it very loud. Only when I got my first car did everyone around me listen to the stones-deep purple-moody blues-emerson, lake and palmer when I drove by. incidently....my dad was strict about the length of my hair as a teenager....I never got to grow it long like all my friends. Only when I joined the Navy was I able to have my hair long enough to actually need a comb. That was back in the early 70's, when Zumwald was the head admiral and he relaxed the strict standards to encourage more people to join. I even had a mustache too during my navy days.

First off - great idea for an OT thread!

I was born in 1960, with two older brothers, one of whom worked in Harrods' record department in London, and who helped himself liberally to their wares....I grew up bathed in the sounds of Hendrix, Deep Purple (they played "Smoke on the Water" at my brother's funeral...), Grand Funk, Savoy Brown, Santana, Frank Zappa, UFO, Wishbone Ash, Black Sabbath, Groundhogs, Free, Yes, Pink Floyd......the first concert I ever heard was Uriah Heep in Germany, 1970...the first concert I ever saw was Yes at QPR stadium in 1974.......let's face it, nothing nowadays comes even remotely close to all of this. 

As Ted Nugent once said (Newcastle City Hall, 1978) "If it's too loud, you're too old".  Couldn't have put it better myself.

In my book, Old is only a term seperated by Century markers. I tear up my ear drums with anything that floats my boat at the moment........Now that doesn't mean I'm not a born in 1960, purebred Rock-N-Roller, Hendrix-Redhouse to Joplin-Summertime, and everything up to present day that has Soul touching, kick ass, and/or intellectual genius. Stevie Ray to Yes-Relayer......Linkin Park to Pearl Jam.

Favorite place to listen............Driving way too fast on a deserted nightime road.

8 Tracks....jeez!!!! I forgot how many of them i wipped out the damned car window when they became unravelled...LOL

Sacrat was at the original Woodstock!!!!!  Everyone give him a bow.

Bryster, Deep Purple one of my favorites but never saw them. You are lucky, dude.

Saw Joplin once; the Doors; Black Sabbath; Gracie Slick with Jefferson Airplane and again later with Jefferson Starship: Earth, Wind and Fire; Iron Butterfly: Steppenwolf; Savoy Brown, and some later 80's groups.

@Sacrat, I was fresh out of the Navy when I saw Iron Butterfly.  I had learned Morse code. Did you know at the end of the "Iron Butterfly Theme" when it sounds like a plane crashing the Morse code spells "I LOVE YOU"?

No,......I didn't,  now I'll have to go back and give it a listen. Yeah,.......I was 16 at Woodstock,......and the main thing I remember was, NAKED CHICKS !!!

Iron Butterfly....I knew someone who thought  'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' was 'In The Garden Of Eden'.  It has one of the best drum solos I've ever heard, second only to Led Zep's 'Moby Dick'.

Old rocker here as well.  The first concert I saw was The James Gang opening for Santana.  I have also seen the Edgar Winter Group, REO Speedwagon before they sold out and became a chick group, Stephen Stills, T-Rex, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC, Spooky Tooth, there are more, but the mists of time have obscured them from my memory.  Iron Butterfly used to play at a biker bar all the time on Cleveland Ave in Columbus Ohio, but I cannot remember the name.

Hey Rod,- Yes - Relayer, that was one of the first albums I bought. I was actually listening to it the other night (the turntable still works!)

When I saw Yes it was the "Relayer" tour; still got my ticket and programme!

Bastards! I missed seeing YES.

Well bands I have seen would include Country Joe and the Fish in 1969 in Van. B.C. the Jefferson Airplane in '67  in Winnipeg, and every Floyd tour up to the Animals one...it never came west far enuff fer me to reach, the Doors also in '69 which included the very short Jim Morrison turning up at the Smiling Buddah after the show to jam great blus on harp and vocals with Danny Tripper and the DynaTones for hours...a great '60's Van. blues band...that was the best night of em all really.. ...

Seen me a few bands in concert as well.Lets see... putting thinking cap on... Led Zepplin,Black Sabbath(with Ozzie)ACDC(with Bon Scott)Aerosmith just to name a few.

"Iron Butterfly....I knew someone who thought  'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida' was 'In The Garden Of Eden'."
It was

I'm an aging metalhead and lover of '80s music.

I was raised on screaming guitars and driving percussion.

Metal...still...rules!

Oh and a seminal thrash band  MC5 in Toronto in '67....they were wild...

kick out the jams hehehe

Mother fuggers is how that politely ended...lol.. ...

In addition to YES, I like Steve Howe's solo acoustic stuff.

Well, hey ho for the '57s...;) My parents hated rock and roll, so I didn't get started until the 70s. First concert I could have seen [but didn'] was The Monkess ,with special guest Jimi Hendrix (now that I would have liked to see...;) Didn't see a tour until the Grand Funk American Band tour (never seen so many speakers on stage).

After that, the habit just got worse; Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Led Zepplin (special mention in Hammer of the Gods - we chased the bus to the airport after the concert...well, somebody did..;) the Year of Ted Nugent (most of the above had him as the 'permanent backup band'...;), Yes, EL&P, Jethro Tull, Bad Company, Psychadelic Furs, B52s, Duran Duran, Depeche Mo...ooops...;) Forgot to stop listening to College Radio...;)

Well it sez ''In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida'  on the LP sleeve.

not what it was originaly supposed to be .

Today's trivia:

Actually both of you are right..according to Wikkipedia..

**A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally  "In The Garden Of Eden" but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle got intoxicated and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title. However, the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation state that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and couldn't clearly distinguish what Doug Ingle answered when Ron asked him for the title of the song (which was originally "In-The-Garden-Of-Eden").  An alternate explanation, as given in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album, is that Ingle was drunk when he first told Bushy the title, and Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck.
**
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida_(song)

Cool!
But my only problem with this is that it sounds like the title is a girl's name......
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey,
don't you know that I love you?
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby,
don't you know that I'll always be true?......."

Bryster, just how many lyrics from that era made sense?  Lemonade skies and what-not.   I think I heard the second explanation of how the name came about in a radio interview of a band member.  Yes, it was In the Garden of Eden but drunken slurred.

Jeeze...they must have been really drunk.....    :m_tongue:

Bin 'dere...'dun dat....LOL.. ...

Whatever, the drum solo still kicks ass!

The best drum solo ever is IMO, TOAD on Wheels of Fire. Ginger Baker rules !!

Y' got that right sackrat...at least for R&R solos...have t go some way to ever match Gene Krupa or Sandy Nelson on any of their solos tho.. ...

Nah!  Neil Peart gets my vote!

Here's where I really date myself.

I was born in 1950 in Los Angeles. Got to hear Joplin, Hendrix and the Doors (among others), at a joint called 'Pandora's Box' on the Sunset strip. This was around 1964 and just a few years before Joplin and the others became famous.

Some of you might remember the infamous 'riot on the Sunset Strip', now a footnote in rock history, caused by forced closing (and demolishing) of 'The Box'. Heard a lot of other groups play there before THE MAN trashed the place :(

I still run into Lee Freeman of "Strawberry Alarmclock" and Bobby Sherman and I have lunch now and again, (I trained Bobby as an EMT-P  - Emergency Medical Technician/Paramedic). Bob's now a record producer and has the coolest scale model of Disneyland Main Street in his backyard. Has a train running through the whole thing. (Bobby has a BIG backyard).

Met and heard a lot of rockers growing up here in LA. 'Course living in LA I see lot's of people you see on TV or in the movies. See a lot of well known people at supermarket. It's kind of embarassing to be standing behind someone in the checkout line and at the same time see their face plastered on the cover of  The National Enquirer.

Odd, never thought much about until this thread.

Ah,,, the good old days...just remembered where I saw Country Joe and the Fish...'The Retinal Circus' on Davie Street In Van. B.C  in 1969...same year I saw the Quicksilver Messenger Service at the PNE also in Van. and I swear I was floating for the whole concert, tho it may well have been what I ate before the concert...LOL