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(36,147 posts)R.I.P Cory Wells
blue neen
(12,308 posts)What was her name?
Mendocino
(7,431 posts)She was in Cheech and Chongs Up in Smoke, famously snorting Ajax powder.
Initech
(99,915 posts)IcyPeas
(21,747 posts)blue neen
(12,308 posts)Love it---and the message was so ahead of it's time!
Prisoner_Number_Six
(15,676 posts)R.I.P.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)In 1970, 1971 and 1972. By the 1972 concert they were ALL fucked up on drugs and the performance was awful. The band had to keep filling in. It was sad. In 1970 they were magnificent.
blue neen
(12,308 posts)Their great organist, Jimmy Greenspoon just died last March.
Lots of drug-fueled bands in those days, and now too I guess, huh?
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)There were few bands/artists that I didn't see. Off the top of my head, Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Moody Blues, the Kinks (at the Hollywood Palladium -- let that one sink in a second), Aerosmith, and a whole lot more that I can't remember right now. I did miss some BIG ones though, including Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
I saw Michael Franks several times, Linda Ronstadt (her backup band eventually became the Eagles) and one night at the Golden Bear Paul Butterfield was playing and he introduced a kick-ass slide guitar player and blues singer by the name of Bonnie Raitt. I played a pretty mean gitfiddle at the time and my jaw dropped watching her. I've been a HUGE fan ever since.
blue neen
(12,308 posts)Think of the plethora of innovative, totally rocking bands there were during the late 60's, early 70's; just one group after another creating badass songs, and gentle songs, songs about society, songs about war. Love songs, dance songs. Songs about other cultures, songs using instruments we'd never heard of.
Paul Butterfield. Yowza! It's such a shame about Linda Ronstadt having Parkinson's Disease and never being able to sing again. Parkinson's is such a cruel disease to begin with, but to silence Linda's voice is just beyond cruel.
I don't know if that particular explosion of music we enjoyed so much can ever happen again. I guess the stars were aligned just right.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)when it would rain, we would laugh it off."
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RIP Cory--you are missed, you gave us so much with your music!
blue neen
(12,308 posts)It was so popular at the time, that "Pieces of April" was the theme of our Junior Prom so many years ago.