I was sitting on the living room floor of my Grandmother's (Nana Min) living room in Belleville, New Jersey with every member of my family after a big Sunday dinner. We watched the show on a round-screen B&W Dumont television similar to this one:
I was ten years old. No one in the room felt
the earth quake that day. Juss' sayin'...
Senior in High School.
ReplyDeleteThings did change after that night....
ReplyDelete8th grade.....13 going on 14 a month later....liked a lot of the Beatle's stuff, but was more into the early stones, the Byrds, and the Yardbirds....the influence of drugs on the popular music scene was not yet apparent to a mostly straight American public....even Mr. Tambourine man slipped past....as did Puff the Magic Dragon....by the end of the 60's everybody was gettin' high and free love was the theme of every guy lookin to get laid...you know, love the one you're with and all that....by '69, the Beatles were a footnote.....as an aside, free love made it tough on the hookers..../s....I remember the first Lou Reed song I heard...H-E-R-O-I-N....I also remember the first time I got high while Pink Floyd's Ummagumma played on the turntable....ol Ed Sullivan introduced a lot of new music to the country.....first time I heard "Satisfaction" was on the Ed show...
ReplyDeleteI was in my mother's belly. I liked four months being "done". As I got older, I listened to a lot of the Beatles early stuff. I still like that early rock'n'roll sound along with Rockabilly, music produced by Sam Phillips of Sun Records, etc. Some of their later stuff was weird to me and I never cared for it. Elvis Presley and the Beatles along with several other musical artist of those days from about 1955- the British Invasion definitely chanted the cultural landscape and the viewpoints of the youth of the world.
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