The Lemon Fool

"Teenage Head," Flamin' Groovies (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14MkbmML4YY

Punk before there was punk.

CommissarJones wrote:"Teenage Head," Flamin' Groovies (1971)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14MkbmML4YY
Punk before there was punk.

Captain Beefheart before the Captain came into being?

Mantra - Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, Trent Reznor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2kGNdE0b5Q

More subtle, than the frankly amazing line-up might suggest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZafH1qXKxMg
Desert Sessions (Josh Homme & PJ Harvey) - I Wanna Make It Wit Chu

[yeah, getting down into some deep blue-sey grooves]

"Me and the Boys," Bonnie Raitt (live), 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ltlXNreNc

The song was written by Terry Adams of NRBQ and has a strong association with that band, but Bonnie Raitt (usually good value IMV) sang it on her 1982 album Green Light and here turns in a spirited live version.

Raitt also included another NRBQ song on the album, "Green Lights," written by Adams and bandmate Joey Spampinato. And since you asked, here's a live version of that one from 1985, with a nice bit of slide guitar work by the lady herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZsfiNA2jI

"Along Comes Mary," the Association (live), 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZsQSFzIsb8

A great clip of the Association opening the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. I like the Devo-esque introduction of the band by bassist Brian Cole, but can't help having doubts as to whether referring to Larry Ramos as "Made in Japan" would pass muster now. (Ramos was born in Hawaii and was of Filipino descent, for the record.)

CommissarJones wrote:"Along Comes Mary," the Association (live), 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZsQSFzIsb8

A great clip of the Association opening the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. I like the Devo-esque introduction of the band by bassist Brian Cole, but can't help having doubts as to whether referring to Larry Ramos as "Made in Japan" would pass muster now. (Ramos was born in Hawaii and was of Filipino descent, for the record.)

That was weird/unexpected, and I thought I'd seen the footage of Monterey right through. That was like the Beatles morph to><Devo or summink

DiamondEcho wrote:

CommissarJones wrote:"Along Comes Mary," the Association (live), 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZsQSFzIsb8

A great clip of the Association opening the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. I like the Devo-esque introduction of the band by bassist Brian Cole, but can't help having doubts as to whether referring to Larry Ramos as "Made in Japan" would pass muster now. (Ramos was born in Hawaii and was of Filipino descent, for the record.)

That was weird/unexpected, and I thought I'd seen the footage of Monterey right through. That was like the Beatles morph to><Devo or summink

Brilliant, hadn't seen that before.

And for any spuds out there, this band are absolutely brilliant: https://wearenotdevo.wordpress.com/ and I really can't recommend them highly enough. Gates of Steel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtX3sGeBrSA

And from the band themselves, my current favourite Devo video on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaK9nkSX3W8 the energy with which they perform, as recent as 2013, on this recording is fantastic.

BrummieDave wrote:And for any spuds out there, this band are absolutely brilliant: https://wearenotdevo.wordpress.com/ and I really can't recommend them highly enough. Gates of Steel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtX3sGeBrSA

That's pretty weird. I recall a name some of my mates had for each other back in the 70's - 'spuds'. No idea where it came from or why. But some were Devo fans (I knew them but wasn't a fan, in the 'ardent teenage fan' of those times), I wonder if that was the reason.... hmmmm

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain [HQ] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn33-q4Ao

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

That's weird^, I was playing this for my wife earlier (1/2hr ago) as something 'my wife ought to hear [poor her, lol], just to understand my musical journey', and then you post it. amazing eh?
I was then going to follow it with this.... George Clinton still dominating but the mood of the time, what was it '76 or '77?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOZwwRH6XU
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic (1978)

Conveniently, clicking on that link finds this classic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9w1mCevu3sU

Zimmerman watched by Donovan etc.

Re: Zimmerman [aka Bob Dylan], I never got it, even in his hey-day he shouldn't have been allowed to get near vocals, yet that's what he's celebrated for. That and his mainstream and yet common anti politics. Seems to have been famous for being famous and 'being there'.

Wheeling out this old anecdoate yet again
Sitting next to two young American girls in a branch of Vapiana (resto) in Berlin. c2008/Overheard.
A: 'So how was the concert?'
B: 'Er well, he can't really sing well, his voice is broken up, he sings flat. [Entirely underwhelmed, but trying not to write off their spend].
...
Me: [thinking > No ****. But when was he any different?]

He’s certainly not just celebrated for his vocals (or lack of them).

His poetry comes into it and his story telling. There’s so much more to his music than mere anecdotes (from 2008?) and it’s not that I’m much into his politics. It was fun back then, at least when I was introduced to his music in 1969 or thereabouts, at about the same time as I was “finding” Leonard Cohen. Who also couldn’t sing but I couldn’t care less.

Leon Russell - Stranger in a Strange Land - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQbk2C4ZmsE

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

I'm not religious but it was a significant part of my childhood and I still enjoy particularly Welsh hymn singing. I've just chanced upon this and enjoyed it so much I've bought the LP to rip at the princely sum of £.1.49 - the sleeve is torn apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgC16vdkBA
A Nation Sings - Gymanfa Ganu 1963

Perhaps someone else might appreciate it.

"Easy to Love," Sonny Stitt Quartet (1957)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwEeOkq5aws

A nicely relaxed take on a Cole Porter song by saxophonist Sonny Stitt, usually more associated with bebop/hard bop.

"Um Um Um Um Um Um," Major Lance (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g02WmLzozs8
"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)," Betty Everett (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4KN6TFhy2I
"The Clapping Song," Shirley Ellis (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWuSPPLtkEQ
"The Who Who Song," Jackie Wilson (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlMdT6URgCg

Some songs wilh silly titles. Still great tunes, though.

"Move Over Darling," Doris Day (1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxAjIqKbeDg

RIP Doris Day, a lovely lady with a voice to match. According to her New York Times obit, Day turned down the role of Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, which would have been an interesting piece of casting against type.

Most people have heard White Rabbit, one of the iconic songs from the '60s, recorded by Jefferson Airplane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWxMj6IQbJc

Here's the original version. It was written by Grace Slick when she was in The Great Society, before she moved to the Airplane. This version is live at the Matrix, with Slick playing the oboe. A very different, middle-eastern sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LPDCdtjkx0

Oh, those were the days!

--kiloran