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Haribol, here goes, as mentioned on another thread.

 

A-cid Symphony

alla bob dylans bootleg albums with songs like

a. who killed davey moore.

Missa Lubba

Sandy denny and fairport convention

Illinois Speed press beacon from mars

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by It's a Beautiful Day

Revolution - Jefferson Airplane

Blind Faith - Blind Faith

Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

Jimi Hendrix - Any Album!!

 

Oh and since I have Blind Faith and Traffic on my list I should probably include Cream.

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Traffic, way cool, but how bout Spirit, the 12 dsreams of Dr sardonicus. (BTW I ate good prasadam at LA temple with mark andes and jay ferguson in those days, we was all guests of the temple.)

 

And blind faith, such potency for a one-album wonder.

 

Now for you canadians, what about the collectors "lydia purple" or "what is love". The collectors would be a collectors item, the what is love album was sublime, Ottawa's answer to the doors.

 

Keep em coming, haribol.

 

quiz, what yardbirds song has jimmy, eric and jeff in a three guitar extravaganza.

 

(I think there were about three of em)

 

Hare Krsna, ys, mahaksadasa

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quiz, what yardbirds song has jimmy, eric and jeff in a three guitar extravaganza.

 

 

I had heard that this was due to some typos or something on albums.

 

I need to add John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to my list, please!!

 

I saw Howling Wolf in a tiny pub in Milwaukee about 100 years ago - He was great!!

 

Geez, I forgot all about Spirit!!

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Yes, I remember liking them quite a lot. When I listen now, it's okay, but not as impressive as 34 years ago.

 

In 1970, during one of my "vacations" from the temple, I saw a video on TV of Airplane singing "Revolution." There were several scenes of devotees on sankirtana (what's now called harinama). The devotees ended up being the focus of the visual part of the video. Very cool!

 

Blind Faith was great, but I'm not sure I liked them better than Cream.

 

I first met the devotees at a Hendrix concert at the Waikiki Shell, May 31, 1969. My life changed that night--I was never the same. This was the first rock concert I had ever attended.

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We used to play cuts from All Things Must Pass on our radio show in Honolulu in the early '70s.

 

This also reminds me of gospel singer Marion Williams' album, Standing Here Wondering Which Way to Go. One of the cuts is a mean gospel version of the Hare Krishna mantra accompanied by piano. The radio show after ours, a Black-power/gospel show, would often start with that as a transition. These were cool people. In August of 1970, I gave one of the girls who did the show a rose that had been on Srila Prabhupada's plate a couple of days before. She smelled it, then asked me if it would be okay for her to eat it. I grinned about that for days, wondering at her faith in Srila Prabhupada.

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In August of 1970, I gave one of the girls who did the show a rose that had been on Srila Prabhupada's plate a couple of days before. She smelled it, then asked me if it would be okay for her to eat it. I grinned about that for days, wondering at her faith in Srila Prabhupada.

 

 

This gave me one of those ear to ear smiles.

 

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Haribol, well, the british invasion hit me here, with all my comments about the yardbirds, traffic, et al. But these groups are still available, I can even access Harrison's wonderbar album, and pete townsends solo, Who came first, can also be had. But not a-cid symphony, not the collectors, no fairport convention, no illinois speed press. These are "long lost" goldies.

 

Another group, the shaggy dog arthur lee of LOVE (not alvin lee of ten years after). Both of these lees need mention here, LOVE was a great group, many great songs. Ten years after was also a great group, not by the trash that got promoted with woodstock, which alvin lee even agreed that im goin home was trash for the masses. TYA had a song, "id love to change the world" that is profound in todays climate.

 

Now with the yardbirds, shapes of things was unreal in the guitar department, as was happenings ten years time ago, and Im a man.

 

I especially must mention the groups I saw, not howlin wolf, not jl hooker, but bo diddley, I saw him. Dave van ronk was a folkie of great ballads, and I even saw phil ochs and MC5, and kicked out the jams with those artists (which explains my radical bent on things political). I saw hoyt axton many times, and I saw jimi once where he was horrible, but eric burdon and the animals followed him with just about the best show ever, a 30 minute bagpipe version of sky pilot bropught the horrors of vietnam right into the orange county wilderness.

 

Today, I jump, and mention honorably groups that have no honor, the clash sandinistha album, and johnny lydons public image ltd generic album, and the sex pistols as well.

 

And the reggae crowd that worships the supreme person, ras michael and the berekley crowd, pablo moses, rankin screw and ginger, della grant, and the twinkle brothers. Saw the whole crowd regularly at Island reggaefest of duncan bc, the most wonderful annual event for four or five years in the early 90's. Mutabaruka and sistah breeze, poets extraordinaire.

 

I be ramblin in nostalgia. Maybe we can purify a bit by runnin some memories of great kirtanas, like the big battles in front of subhadras cart at SF, with sudama, visnu jnana, bahudaka, and even guru krpa had a way of movin the throngs.

 

I especially like a jam I was fortunate to take part in, with brahmananda, jivananda, phenop, balakhilya in haiku. I still got that tape, and the music continued even while all the devotees were looking around, awestruck.

 

Sukadeva had a great kirtana, but when I took part, it was not nice because I was threatened that day, I couldnt bow down to a dude who I saw two nights previous with a coke-ho at a disco lounge in encino. (What was I doin there? Valid question. Ill take the pete townsend approach, research. What he was doing there is the issue, and I didnt bow on sunday, had a great kirtana led by sukadeva, and left, never to return to this day.

 

Kirtana leaders? Siddhas the best, all who have been there agree.

 

Haribol, ys, mahaksadasa

 

Fear not, the hard groups and bluesers arent overpowering here, and ill pit the 15 year old gene pitney with any of them for raw talent.

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mahak: Siddhas the best, all who have been there agree.

 

And that's saying a lot. You may remember this mahak--Garuda remembered this one. One night at Haiku, Siddha had akirtan going under the stars. It went on and on, and after a little while, some devotees seemed to get fidgety. Right then, he cranked it up a couple of notches, and every time anyone seemed to lag, Siddha would turn it up. After an hour and a half or so, everyone was locked in, and the kirtan just took right off. After a while longer, Siddha stopped the kirtan and said, "When you don't want a kirtan to stop, then it's okay to stop."

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Haribol, stoney, i think i remember. another time, it was pouring down rain, and the lecture was prthu and arci. Phenop would usually start, and build, and then siddha would come into the room and the whole thing would explode.

 

The boy scout camp retreat was another event worth mentioning, electric kirtanas, and another one quite a few years earlier (you may have been tryin to get to SA at the time) at a park at the end of the road in Kauai.

 

Im sure garuda still adds his expertise to the congas, but no one played a cow bell like phenop. Hare krsna, ys, mahak

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mahak: no one played a cow bell like phenop.

 

Amen to that! Garuda now plays rhythm guitar, and Andy Smith, a young guy who was last year's Republican candidate for State House from Hilo and who is now Gov. Lingle's liaison to the Big Island, is our star conga player. Young, mild-mannered Republican functionary by day, wild, conga-pounding kirtan guy by night. If only they knew.

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