A few good times in my life
Another journey through various decades of music.
1985: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
1971: Joni Mitchell
1976: Steve Miller Band
1962: The Crystals
1976: Nick Lowe
1977: Steely Dan
1978: The Police
1981: The Go-Go's
1965: Donovan
1975: Bad Company
1966: The Monkees
1963: The Ronettes
1981: Devo
1998: The Rolling Stones (the remix version)
There are no words necessary for this songs. Just jump back in time.
1968: Steppenwolf
1973: Billy Presaton
1978: Dire Straits
1981: The Tubes
1983: Big Country
1970: Mungo Jerry
1970: Joni Mitchell
1969: Thunderclap Newman
1968: Donovan
1979: Robert Palmer
1992: The Cure
1966: The Bobby Fuller Four was a short time existing rock and roll band. Their legacy is that they first brought Sonny Curtis song to the charts.
1970: CSN&Y released Joni Mitchel's Woodstock a swan song to an era
1965: For me, Donovan always seemed to be poor man's Dylan, but this song is beautiful.
1985: Dream Academy, a small one hit wonder appeared with a with a melancholy tribute to their youth.
1966: The Byrds got success with a cover by Bob Dylan.
1974: Steve Wonder released on of his best records.
1983: David Bowie's album Let's Dance when me and a couple of friends made a short trip to France.
1986: Robert Palmer - just because of the video.
1889: Heart made probably the best song about a one night stand.
Since the late 60's Steve Hillage was a well known guitarist and member of the Canterbury psychedelic rock scene. 45 years ago he moved to New York to record his second solo L. Together with Todd Rundgren he made a classic cosmic rock album. Unusually for him he recorded a couple of cover versions. Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man is one of these examples how to turn a simple folk song into a spaced out guitar sound.
Steve Hillage - Hurdy Gurdy Man
The recent days I found another gem of live music filmed for German TV-station. Back in 1968 the Berlin Jazz Days was a forum for jazz purists featuring arty musicians like Pharoah Sander and Gary Burton. To show their open mind they there also Muddy Waters played a gig with Otis Spann and Brian Auger together with Julie Driscoll and Trinity. This was one of the first gigs they played after they left Steampacket, a blues band they might be know as the first band Rod Stewart the lead vocals. Trinity had many jazzy influences and worked maybe as one of the first ones on an organ sound and tried to implement his musical collaborations from Jimi Hendrix to John McLaughlin. They had big success with a cover version of Dylan/Danko's This Wheel On Fire. This footage shows another cover version and their interpretation of Donovan's Season Of The Witch is maybe the most ad-lip one beside Vanilla Fudge's scary version.
