Tom Sawyer like tales for the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation
Don H. who attended Washington University in St. Louis saw this flyer at school. He showed Mark S. and me and we figured we better attend in case all the drugs and drinking didn’t destroy our mind the music we listened to might. We liked Beethoven and we liked the Sex Pistols could that fact…
How often have I heard that TSMR is an inferior copy of the Beatles SGT Peppers? So many many times. As a child this was my first Rolling Stones album because even shortly after it came out I purchased it as a cut out at Barnett’s Market, a local mom and pop grocery store in…
AAs I’ve mentioned in other posts, the late ’60s into the ’70s was one long cultural shift. You went from American rock bands to the British Invasion, and then the ’70s just kept mutating—long-haired rock, underground rock, prog, proto-punk, glam, arena rock—all in rapid succession. I started listening on a transistor radio. KXOK, baby. I…