There is South and there is CHARLIE  DANIELS...

CHARLIE  DANIELS   -  UNEASY  RIDER  ( HONEY IN THE ROCK )  1973.


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PHIL  LYNOTT    -   YELLOW  PEARL  A  COLLECTION   2010.



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JEFFERSON  AIRPLANE - WHITE  RABBIT  THE ULTIMATE  COLLECTION 3CD  2015.


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JEFFERSON AIRPLANE 
Η αρχή της ιστορίας ειναι καπως περίεργη. 

Ο νεαρός Martyn Jerel Buchwald ή αλλιώς Martyn Balin , σχεδιαστής και ζωγράφος ,μέλος του συγκροτήματος φόλκ Town Criers, βλέπει στο σόου του Ed Sullivan τους Beatles,ετος 1964 λίγο πριν την γέννηση της σκηνής της Δυτικής Ακτής και του αφθονου lsd, πετάγεται απο το καθισμά του και φωνάζει , απο τωρα θα παίζω μόνο rock & roll !! 
Φεύγει άμεσα για Σαν Φραντζίσκο ,φιάχνει ενα γκρουπ και παίζει για τα kαθημερινά τους εξοδα στο Drinking Club. 
Εκει γνωρίζει τον Paul Kantner φίλο του D.Crosby και του D.Freiberg frontman των μετέπειτα (QSMS).
Ο Kantner εχει μόνιμη παρέα ενα ψηλό μανιακό κιθαρίστα που εχει παίξειμερικές φορές με την Janis Joplin, το όνομα αυτού Jorma Kaukonen.Η συνέχεια ειναι γνωστή,αυτός φωνάζει τον φίλο του Jack Cassady και με drummer τον Skip Spence!! ναι τον μεγάλο αυτο κιθαρίστα,και την Signe Tone Anderson στα φωνητικά γεννιούνται οι πρώτοι Airplane.
Μετα τον πρώτο δίσκο ο Skip φεύγει να φιάξει τούς Moby Grape και την θέση του παίρνει ο πολυ καλός τζαζίστας Spencer Dryden ,στο μεταξύ η Anderson περιμένει παιδί και φεύγει. 
Ειναι η ωρα της Grace Slic... 
Κυρίες και Κύριοι ,οι JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - TAKES OFF -
Δέστε τις ζώνες σας. 

The beginning of the story is a little weird. 

Young man Martyn Jerel Buchwald -aka- Martyn Balin a designer and a painter ,member of the folk group "Town Criers" as he is watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show on 1964 -a short while before the West Coast music scene explosion - he jumps off his chair saying, from now on i will only play rock & roll. He leaves for San Franscisco, he forms a band and plays every night for his living at the Drinking Club.
There, he meets Paul Kantner, a friend of D.Crosby and D.Freiberg the later frontman of Quick Silver Messenger Service.
Kantner is accompanied by a very tall guitar-maniac who had played a few times with Janis Joplin, his name, Jorma Kaukonen. 
The rest of the history is known, he calls his friend Jack Cassady and with Skip Spence on drums!! Yes, this magnificent guitarist , and Signe Tone Anderson on vocals the first line up of Jefferson Airplane is born.
After their first recording, Skip leaves to form Moby Grape and his place is taken by the very good jazz-man Spencer Dryden, meanwhile Anderson is pregnant and leaves the group. 
It's Grace Slick's time !! 
Ladies and Gentlemen fasten your seat belts,JEFFERSON AIRPLANE   TAKES OFF!!

A personal story from the archives of Too Old..  

THE  KINKS   -   GIVE  THE  PEOPLE  WHAT  THEY  WANT  1981 - rem. 2010.



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I really got into it in '67 when I saw Frank Zappa, The Doors, Steppenwolf and Hendrix. It was a bunch of hippies playing for other hippies. And that's what I wanted to do.
AND..
Some day, we'll be playing a club, such as Ziggy's, and at night when we go on it will be less than half-filled. I'll go up to the promoter and say, `Son, congratulations, you just retired the great George Thorogood.' I want to make sure it ends before it comes to that. - George Thorogood

MOUNTAIN  TWIN PEAKS

MOUNTAIN   -  1973  TWIN PEAKS.

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MOUNTAIN FLOWERS OF EVIL

MOUNTAIN  -  FLOWERS  OF EVIL  1971.



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MOUNTAIN NUNTUCKET SLEIGHRIDE

MOUNTAIN  -  1970  NUNTUCKET  SLEIGHRIDE.



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MOUNTAIN    CLIMBING

MOUNTAIN   -  1970   CLIMBING.

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HAWKWIND  -  1975  WARRIOR  ON  THE  EDGE  OF TIME -rem 2001.


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HAWKWIND  -  1974  HALL  OF  THE  MOUNTAIN  GRILL -rem.1996.


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HAWKWIND   -   S -T   1970 -  rem. 1996.

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Formed in 1969, Hawkwind are a prolific and pioneering space-rock group from the UK. Within weeks of their formation, the band had made a name for themselves on the free festival circuit and would perform live without fee wherever they were able. By the time of their 1971 album 'X In Search Of Space', Hawkwind were infamous for their science fiction themed music and theatrical concerts, the latter renowned as exhibitions of pulsing electronics, dazzling light shows, LSD consumption and (from 1971-75) a nude dancer in the form of Stacia Blake. 
Despite a near-constant revolving door of members, Founder member Dave Brock has been the sole mainstay and the core of the band since its inception and has steered the band from its psychedelic rock roots into flirtations with heavy metal, new wave, ambient and techno. Notable contributors have included "accidental" bassist Lemmy (who would go on to greater fame with Motörhead), Cream (2)'s Ginger Baker