What kind of music you hear while you trade?

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Nearly done lol.

I was still a wide eyed teenager towards the end of the 60’s.

Young musicians were extending their instrumental prowess and experimenting with personal styles.

Rock N Roll, in its simpler original form, was over.

The Isle of Wight festivals in 68 & 69 happened in the UK. Woodstock in 69 happened in the States.

Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix would live until 1970. Brian Jones had died a year earlier.

There was no personal computer, no social media, no internet, no smartphone.

Just the radio. Vinyl records. And live concerts.


Van Morrison had broken up the Them mid 60’s following success with the popular G-L-O-R-I-A

Van had a solo album released first - Blowin Your Mind – a compilation of songs released without his consent and starting his ongoing feuds with record companies I guess. The album featured his classic pop song Brown Eyed Girl, pretty much known everywhere and played still.

Van's 2nd solo album, Astral Weeks, was a revelation in regards to the arrangements and was a movement right away from anything mainstream at the time.

Interestingly, the album featured bassist Richard Davis on an upright acoustic double throughout.

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The Band, after backing Bob Dylan during his electric changeover (and after leaving Ronnie & The Hawks 'rock-a-billy' behind), put out their debut album Music From Big Pink in '68 with (again) a movement from the early mainstream rock'n'roll direction. I had left home & started working in the bank at age 17 and remember getting up a ½ hour early each morning to play the vinyl before going to work. So it has some fond memories though clearly dated these days also.

The boys were great musicians and Garth was classically trained telling a story once as I remember that to keep his parents out of the loop he said he was being paid "teaching music" to the other band members. Anecdotal, just what I remember.

One more song to go later, then the '60's is over lol (I won't revisit Bob Dylan here but his early stuff - especially the bootleg tapes - was amazing for the times).

2006.

1983.

1971.

Air Guitar and Air Clarinet all in one


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said most people, classical music can reassure and focus.

all music i like. because I have never specialized in certain types of music.

While music in the 60’s started naturally as a derivative of the early & simple rock ’n’ roll, it quickly moved into mainstream pop & blues. African American blues guitar music was also heavily influencing many young guitarists in the UK.

(Grandpa lol) John Mayall formed his iconic band The Bluesbreakers in ’65 and had some 100+ musos filter through his group before they went on to their own careers.

Such names as legendary guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Peter Green & Mick Taylor were among the many to “do their time” with John Mayall’s band.

The British were killing it in that period with advancements & innovation in pop music.

AND as well, of course, the Blues.

The era was dubbed universally as The British Invasion.

Then, over in the States in the late 60’s, out of Texas, came one of two albino brothers, Johnny Winter.

Johnny’s second album, the self titled Johnny Winter (1969) quickly became one of my favourites.


On it, Be Careful With A Fool, was an amazing track recording for the time. Johnny’s 2 minute lead break (from 2:21min) I played over and over (and over lol).

As an aside, in the late 60’s & while still a teenager I got tickets to a concert in my hometown Melbourne. I landed a prime seat, 3 rows in, front right, for the Roy Orbison, Yardbirds & Walker Brothers tour (as I remember it).

Little Keithie Relf was out front singing for the Yardbirds and I ended up, no kidding, having Jimmy Page (pre led Zeppelin) right in front of me playing for their whole gig. An amazing night for me as a kid I can tell you. Had to drop that in lol.


Now while I personally prefer the album version of Be Careful With A Fool, for its purity (and my own history and recollections of life at the time), I also include Johnny’s set in Denmark in 1970, as the cameraman gives us an occasional look at Johnny actually playing lol.




PS and thanks RealJumper (and others) – I love your song offerings also.