Musically Like-Minded

Hey, if you want to know who wrote the Alka Selzer commercial ( you know “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz . . . oh what a relief it is!) or what Ringo is doing these days I’ve some great sites for you. Not that I don’t want you to come back but a little variety never hurt anyone, right?

The Rock Relic

Beatle Invasion

52 Bands

Lloyd Thaxton

These are the ones I found so far. I find stuff that takes me back to the days of my 4-Track tape player and that’s a long way back.

You know, I go on YouTube and I see concerts that I saw years ago – bu only once or twice. Because network TV shut off at midnight in those days and they never showed reruns of bands. This site is great for cataloging some of these great events.
However, YouTube doesn’t tell the backstory . . .and the back-back story. This is why The Rock Relic and the other sites are so great. There is a treasure chest of what was going on at the time that wasn’t so mainstream.

For example, not everyone went to a demonstration on the Vietnam War or had hair down to their shoulders in the ’60′s. That’s NBC sound bites played over and over and the view of people just remembering the really long haired at Woodstock. (If you watch Easy Rider Dennis Hopper was the only one with really long hair and it came down to his shoulders)

Actually, life was more like The Wonder Years only without the happy glow all the time. In 1970, to be really rebellious in my Dad’s house, I grew a Fu Manchu moustache just like Joe Namath. In fact I started drinking Johnny Walker Red scotch because of Namath in the commercials. “I like my women blonde . . . and my Johnny Walker Red.” So, for those under 40, if you check around on these sites you read great stories and back stories that will fill in the blanks and put more color into the ’60′s newsreels.