The Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow. Released February 1, 1967, just one month after The Doors album. The Summer of Love began in the Winter. “How Do You Feel” sounds as though it could have been a Mamas & Papas song.
Category: Music
Born to Ride
I’m thinking that 16-year-old Bruce Springsteen really liked this song.
Prue True Love
OMG… look at what Pattie is auctioning, with no mention of Prue.
I sent the link and those pictures to Prue. She’s going to be so pissed, and if she isn’t, she should be. I haven’t heard from Prue in a few months, which is my fault really, and I hope she’s doing all right.
That photo is actually the second in a series. It comes after this one.
Freakin’ Freak-Out
Yesterday I mentioned a very impressive episode of Star Wars: Andor I’d watched. The outstanding series is produced in England, so I wasn’t surprised when I heard the expression “fit for work” in the episode.
Today I walked along what had been, until recently, one of my running routes, listening to an installment of Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-Out. One of the songs Drew played is called “Fit for Work”.
The UK band DeadLetter reminds me of the Clash’s long-ago social activism. After getting home I paid £5 ($6.60), £4 more than required, to download a copy of “Fit for Work”.
https://deadletter-band.bandcamp.com/track/fit-for-work
I also recently mentioned Drew Carey’s day job, hosting The Price is Right. The price was wrong for the game show’s theme music.
It Was 60 Years Ago Today
The Smell of Grass…
… Just Makes You Pass into a Dream.
The granddaddy of Progressive Rock is the Moody Blues’ Days of Future Passed, from the year of the Mellotron, 1967. I featured a copy of the album here a couple of months into the pandemic lockdown, as a sort of palliative.
That version was the remix made ten years after the album’s release, because by then the stereo master tapes had deteriorated. This transfer, made with top-notch gear, is from an original ’67 UK pressing.