Sunday’s Soundtrack for Surfing: For my Fiftieth Year on this Rock….From 1970: Eric Burdon and War…

Really, basically, unlike any other band at the time. If not ever. Not least for their mix of musical styles and inter-racial membership. Funk. R&B. Soul. Blues. Plain ‘Ole Rock & Roll.

With that incredible rhythm section of B. B. Dickerson on bass, Harold Brown on drums (a singularly under-rated Great Drummer of Rock and Roll) and “Papa Dee” Allen on percussion (most notably here, on Congas–Holy Crapoli! What a player! He’s got some seriously broken blood vessels in his hands, I guarantee!). Plus Lee Oskar’s signature harmonica work (though not exactly in the fore-front of these performances….).

This is a recording from the great German TV show, Beat Club–So much great stuff from them on YT–Do not hesitate to check out their amazing line-up of vintage Rock & Roll performances from the greatest era of the late Sixties and Early Seventies–

https://www.youtube.com/c/beatclub/playlists

You WILL be seeing more from them here in the near future….

Seriously–quite possibly some of the Coolest Shit on the Internet. DO Check It Out….

But in the mean time….

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Oh, yeah. And don’t forget to try not to move….. Ha!

And if you’re really diggin’ this Eric Burdon version of War, do also check out this killer album:

Which of course includes the studio version of the songs in this Live Beat Club preformance, so…..

Sunday’s Soundtrack for Surfing: For my Fiftieth Year on this Rock….From 1970: A band, a windy city, the incomparable sound….

….of Chicago.

They were truly unique. Terry Kath’s killer licks, the combined rhythm section of Peter Cetera’s driving bass and Daniel Seraphine’s frenetic beats, Robert Lamm’s funkalicious keyboard work, Kath’s and Cetera’s and Lamm’s signature vocals and Those Horns…..

Man……the shit was really goin’ down the year I was born….

And what a live show. I pretty sure I was boogie-in’ in the womb.

Highlight for me is Colour My World / Make Me Smile going into I’m a Man, (at 1:06:53) especially Kath’s blistering solo guitar work….and the horns….and the drums….and…and…and….Maaaaaaaaan…..

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Sunday’s Soundtrack for Surfing: For my Fiftieth Year on this Rock….From 1970: The Masters of Psychedelic Rock….

(OK, so I was born late in 1970….and I’m just now getting around to this….so it might seem like the math is off…..but it is still my 50th year on this planet so…..)

Without a doubt my one, all-time favorite band (if I had to pick….which I wouldn’t want to….so please don’t make me…..).

Pink Floyd, from a rare double album titled “More Blues”. From a tour they did after producing a soundtrack to the movie “More”, in 1969.

Recorded live at Montreux and Paris Theatre, London in 1970

My favorite era of Pink Floyd’s music.

Don’t get me wrong, I love their later stuff too. After all, my very first CD purchase (as in…when CD’s were still new as well as when I was still new to buying music) was, after all, a limited release of Dark Side of The Moon (arguably one of the greatest albums of all time) pressed on 24 karat gold (I still have it). And I love Animals, Wish You Were Here, The Wall…..

But their early, post-Syd Barret stuff is my favorite. And this is an awesome example of them at their creative peak. Just before Live at Pompeii. Just before Dark Side of the Moon.

Quintessential Psychedelia.

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Go on about your day.

With or without chemicals…

(With music like this, who needs chemicals?)