Talkin About My Generation!

Last week I posted a number of collectibles and started to think about how I could do something a bit different regarding the Beatles. I have decided to take the American LP’s, all 19 of them until 1970,and break them up into 5 parts with recollections of the years involved. I have also included links [...]

Hi everyone! I have been receiving requests for a segment  exclusively on the Beatles. My feeling was with the plethora  Beatle sites, what could I do that might be different, interesting, and entertaining? While I in the immortal words of the Kingfish “mull over the situation,”  here is something you may enjoy. A walk through [...]

How many nights were you at the Fillmore East? I cannot thank Bill Graham enough for all of the great music he brought to NYC. The music was what was important and the bills at the Filmore were put together to not only showcase headliners but to give new and exciting bands a chance to [...]

One of the best things about growing up in New York City in the 60′s was the abundance of great clubs to hear live music. Another interesting fact was that all of the clubs served alcohol and none of them proofed us underage patrons! I was fortunate to live 2 blocks from, in my opinion, [...]

Hi everyone! I hope the New Year is going well for all of you! I wanted to start the NY bands page with some of my favorites this week. Next week we will get a little more in depth with some of friends of mine who played in bands in the 60′s and who have [...]

Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, USA, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is commonly called The Haight. The district generally encompasses the neighborhood surrounding Haight Street, bounded by Stanyan Street and Golden Gate Park on the west, Oak Street and the Golden Gate Park Panhandle on the north, Baker Street and Buena Vista Park to [...]

Hello and Happy New Year! Last week, we left off at just about the time the Beatles invaded America in 1964. By the end of the year and the begnning of 1965 there was a lot going on in LA. The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile and a half stretch of Sunset Boulevard that [...]

I was truly an Anglo-file back in the 60′s. When the Beatles hit our shores, there was no other sound I wanted to hear. However, there was a lot of great music coming out of the good ole USA! The lyrics and music of the time were bound together with the Cold War, the Vietnam War [...]

The sixties were defined by television. Most of us spent inordinate amounts of time watching the boob tube. Advertisers knew this, hired psychologists to poll our behaviors and created an advertising frenzy! It dawned on me that TV commercials played a big part of our lives. We were the boomers! The most consuming group ever! From toys [...]

My mom was a buyer for Macy’s Department stores and  sometimes I would meet her for lunch, they actually had a pretty good restaurant, and she would give me her Macy’s charge and I would go into the record department and pick out a few LP’s. Well, one of those days when I got the [...]