Old bands you have just discovered

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I like White Rabbit. But I probably wasn't born when it was hogging air time. Just fond memories of friends and stuff singing it at karaoke. And other kind of tasteful placement of it in a movie or two. But then again we sang puff the magic dragon in primary school. Before the war on drugs made such things politically incorrect. Although still a primary theme of a lot of movies. Red pill or Blue one? Pulp fiction, Blow, ... Not that I do that stuff, but legalize it already and settle up the national debt in under a decade with the tax revenue from it, instead of adding to the debt fighting it. Maybe not all of it. It's not all good. But like abortion, if they are going to do it anyway, give them a relatively safe avenue for it. There's a song in there somewhere I think...

Whatever did happen to Peter, Paul, and Mary? And so many others from my early years. I know, a lot of them have moved on per say. But some of them are still out there performing. With or without hoveround.
 
Shadow_7 said:
Whatever did happen to Peter, Paul, and Mary? And so many others from my early years. I know, a lot of them have moved on per say. But some of them are still out there performing. With or without hoveround.
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Mary actually died fairly recently ...... I think within the last year.
They were still performing some ...........
 
thunderstation said:
Also wishbone Ashe's "Argent" is on my top ten of all time
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Do you mean "Argus" ? Either way, it's a sizzling album. Although the Ash were renowned for their twin lead guitars back then, in a way Martin Turner's bass playing was unfairly discounted. But he was one of the few bassists that got away with playing, well, lead bass at times. I also loved Wishbone Ash's vocals. Very English, no attempt to sound American.
 
Mose Allison. Very hip lyrics and interpretations, and has this weird style that almost sounds like banjo-style picking but on electric piano.

John Hartford. Find his album "Steam Powered Aereoplane". The first bluegrass "concept album". Biting social commentary combined with hot licks from JH, Norman Blake, Tut Taylor, and Vassar Clements. Hartford may have single-handedly shamed the owners of the Ryman Auditorium into saving it from demolition with his tune "They're Gonna Tear Down The Grand Ole Opry".
 
Also, check out Flo and Eddie on Sugarmegs. Those guys satirized old radio dramas and pop fads and skewered a lot of different bands and commercial hucksters in their stage act. Zappa's "Just Another Band From LA" prominently features Flo and Eddie on "Billy The Mountain" and "Dog Breath". "Billy" has sendups of George Putnam, conservative tv host from LA; and "Eddie Are You Kidding" goes after late-night commercials of Zachary All, a huge discount clothier from LA as well. Honorable mentions for HoJo-- "wanna get some coffee Ethal?". And if you listen to Zappa's stuff from the early 70's on Sugarmegs they rip on college kids, groupies, drugs, hippies, the Viet Nam war, and conservatives in general. Zappa had a super tight band and they essentially are backing a live radio drama/comedy complete with sound effects and ad libs that vary according to where they were playing that night.
 
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