Clash Album released April 8, 1977

The first album by The Clash was released in 1977 in the UK on this day.  One hundred thousand were imported into the US and sold out.  Eventually a US version was released.

David Bowie--Memory of a Free Festival

so ragged and naive....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-VQv65jiH8&list=RDE-VQv65jiH8&t=13

Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer...

Released February 9, 1970, Morrison Hotel is, in my opinion, the best album The Doors ever made. No matter what, it is certainly an incredible piece of rock and roll music...."the future's uncertain and the end is always near...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gwy3P6ub2s

October 21, 1977--Keith Moon's Last Show.....

This clip is not from Keith's last show, but it shows The Who at the peak of their power....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgubG-MOPT4

Welcome to Hollywood--Leon Russell Live 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bwMqliLXZQ

Enjoy!!

Letting it Bleed: Joel Selvin Takes on Altamont

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/09/letting-it-bleed-2/

Bonnie Raitt and Friends Record her first Album

In August 1971, Bonnie Raitt, Freebo and a bunch of other musicians, including Junior Wells, gathered at an empty summer camp on Enchanted Island, about 30 miles west of Minneapolis on Lake Minnetonka. They pulled out their four-track deck and recorded one of the ultimate albums of Raitt's career and of the 1970s.  Titled simply Bonnie Raitt, The music ran from straight out blues to the Buffalo Springfield song "Bluebird."  Along with her 1972 release titled Give It Up, Raitt brought a new authenticity to rock music...and helped bring in an era of rock that included many women who didn't play the pop songstress game...I attended more than a dozen of her shows over the decade.  She often was accompanied by older blues artists like Sippie Wallace, Roosevelt Sykes, and Mississippi Fred McDowell.  Intensely political, her in between song banter featured sarcastic remarks about political figures and the war in Vietnam.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGTyNA0nI90&list=PLuy3A6rgaEgn2cjuJbrGruB8ys6_wQYIU

Elvis and Panama Red

Remember the death of Elvis.....

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/17/panama-red-and-elvis/

Elvis is Everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7NWXJ8iPQw