Everybody loves somebody sometime..

Great radio show today dedicated to Dean Martin..

They just played this old song which my mother use to sing us..

Another good memory I gather ..

is the time of the season ....

I guess I'll never be able to listen to Time of the Season without remembering Homer Simpson becoming a hippie wearing his filthy old poncho in Springfield and getting everybody high with the hallucinogen crops plantation..

that's a milestone of 20th century culture's clash

Her neon mouth with the blinking soft smile ..

Psychedelia at its prime.

1967 ...

San Francisco...

How great if one could go back there for a few weeks...

If I could I would seriously consider staying..

And I would form a band called... the XXIst Century Travelers..



Plastic Fantastic Lover

Her neon mouth with the blinking soft smile
Is nothing but an electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's part of a colorful time

Super-sealed lady, chrome-color clothes
You wear 'cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover

Your rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothin' but a used machine
Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I ever have seen

Cosmetic baby plugged into me
And never ever find another
And I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic lover

The electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program waste

Data control and IBM
Science is mankind's brother
But all I see is drainin' me
On my plastic fantastic lover

In dreams you're mine all of the time ...

"He was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal... His voice could jar a corpse, always leave you muttering to yourself something like, 'Man, I don't believe it'"

Bob Dylan

When I read this line in Dylan's Chronicles I underlined it with my pencil...

I remembered Roy's voice ..

I could drive my car over a cliff while this song is playing in the radio...

Roy said this song came to him while sleeping, he dreamed that the radio was announcing a new Elvis song .. then he woke up and wrote it..

The images in the video are from David Lynch's movie Blue Velvet, which I hadn't seen yet..

The producer was Dino de Laurentiis who passed away last week..

Little homage here to all of them..



In Dreams

A candy-colored clown they call the Sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
"Go to sleep, everything is all right"

I close my eyes, then I drift away
Into the magic night, I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you

In dreams I walk with you
In dreams I talk to you
In dreams you're mine all of the time
We're together in dreams, in dreams

But just before the dawn
I awake and find you gone
I can't help it, I can't help it, if I cry
I remember that you said goodbye

It's too bad that all these things
Can only happen in my dreams
Only in dreams
In beautiful dreams

Linger on, your pale blue eyes...

sometimes I feel so happy
sometimes I feel so sad,
sometimes I feel so happy
but mostly you just make me mad..

Warhol Factory was in the 60's something that hasn't been surpassed artistically

Edie Sedgwick is the girl in the pic..

Aslo Warhol himself, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale ..

Edie attracted Andy Warhol because of her strange sense of fashion, style and "whatever" attitude...

Anyway here the Velvet Underground..

It doesn't really matter what chords I play ...

What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song ..

I still remember when my mother bought us the film Yellow Submarine..

I was around 10 years old..

That exposure to such artistic film, with all that psychedelic meanings, the colors and the naivety...

I think that made me understand the world in a particular way..

Where only art is worth enough any effort..





Only a Northern Song

If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not, we just wrote them like that

When you're listening late at night
You mayo thing the band are not quite right
But they are, they just play it like that

It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song

It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern song

If you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of key
You're correct, there's nobody there
And I told you there's no one there

When you're feeling kind of lonesome in your mind....

Read on Layla's blog about the inductees for this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony...

Was surprised about Donovan... who lately had been quite forgotten from the media..

I reckon his contribution to popular music, from folk to psychedelia has been great..

So unfair he's remembered for his particular relation with Dylan.. the criticism over the style similarities,... while they were only strumming a guitar and singing on top..

Or so it seemed. Thousands of Dylan fans voiced their anger at me at his shows. Dylan mentioned me in his song "Talking World War Three" and his audience jeered my name. Backstage, Dylan told reporters: "I didn't mean to put the guy down in my songs. I just did it for a joke." In their turn my fans were just as vocal in championing me. It had obviously got out of hand.

Excerpt from 'The Hurdy Gurdy Man' by Donovan Leitch
the independent

train kept a rollin' all night long !

In case you need a definition of what a rock band should be.

This picture talks so much...

Jimmy Page is capturing the attention in it.. even he was just the bass player in the band..

Everybody's pretending to make a picture of him.. without knowing he would become the most legendary guitar hero, composer and producer icon in a few years..

Everybody but one.. Jeff Beck is the only looking at the camera.. with a non so pleasant face..

The love/hate relation between the two guitarists .. is very well known ...

Since their competitive actions in the late 60's both with the Jeff Beck Group and Led Zeppelin...

The controversy over Beck's Bolero composition and the strange coincidence of both covering You Shook Me at the same time...

Some people say my love cannot be true ...

Some people say Heavy Metal was born when:

1- a riff first drove a song.. that would be You really Got me by The Kinks.

2 - Big drum rolls were recorded ... Then should be Keith Moon in I Can See for Miles.

3 - Distorted melodic guitar lines .. Then The Beatles with Helter Skelter.

4 - Lyrics related with Evil nature.. then The Rolling Stones did it with Sympathy for the Devil.

5 - Long and complex guitar solos .. Then that would be Jimi Hendrix with Voodoo Child.

6 - heavy guitar sound and high pitched vocals... then it must be Led Zeppelin I.

7 - Violent attitude... Then The Stooges with I Wanna Be Your Dog.

8 - Heavy Metal on the lyrics.. SteppenWolf with Born To Be Wild.

9 - Heavy in the record title - Iron Butterfly with Heavy.

10- All together ... then it happened when Ozzy met Tommy Iommy who met Geezer Butler who met Bill Ward..

They’re locking them up today ...

Forever Changes... who hasn't heard about this legendary album ?

There are so many good songs in it ..

I particularly love the Red Telephone...

The best example of psychedelia,

and the prediction it carried...

They’re locking them up today
They’re throwing away the key
I wonder who it’ll be tomorrow, you or me?
We’re all normal and we want our freedom
Freedom...
freedom...
freedom...
freedom

Arthur Lee would end up for some time with his bones in the jail and through several bad mental times...

That's the thing with records that exceed the creators expectations...

I know what it means but ...

When the Who were trying to find their way through auditions for recording labels back in 64..

One of the A&R told them they were a great band but needed to write their own songs..

“You just really got to do it. ..so way we walked on… Everybody looked round .. and who’s gonna write ? …And me being an art student.. being able to say long words.. like uh.. perspicacity.. which I heard on the Spike Milligan album.. uhh … was elected to do the job.. and about eight, ten weeks later.. the song I had written “I can’t explain” was number 8 in the chart… it all seem so automatic and easy for me”

PETE TOWNSHEND interview 1974

When the train left the station ...

It had two lights on behind
Yeah, when the train left the station
It had two lights on behind
Whoa, the blue light was my baby
And the red light was my mind

We were talking with my band mates about Robert Johnson.. and all the legend that throws shadow over his name..

I think I first heard about him on the crossroads story about selling his soul..

Once when I first had Let It Bleed on my stereo I got hooked on Love In Vain... And was highly surprised that wasn't a Stones original... Then I realized what a great writer Robert Johnson was ..

no one remembers your name...

This is the song that started all ...

where the weather suits my clothes...

there are songs which are magic..

And the guitar intro to Everybody's Talkin' shows this is one of them .. an instant classic..

I can play this songs for hours.. and never get tired of it..

The movie Midnight Cowboy where is featured is not only a sordid, raw and sad story.. but also a real good one..

Jon Voight is a hopeless male hustler lost in NY , while Dustin Hoffman as the antagonist role is a small-time cheater ... they finally accept they are bound to be together ...

The film, which was X-rated at the time of release, won three Academy Awards ..

Being Best Picture and Best Director among them..

Something that possibly will never happen again ...

I find it hard to believe you don't know...

The beauty that you are..

I feel inclined to blow my mind ...

What ever happened to the Small Faces ?

There they were... along with Pink Floyd to take the crown off from the Beatles..

They even made a masterpiece with Ogden's Nut Gone Flake..

And then ?

I don't know.. but it's all too beautiful

he shoot Coca Cola...

He say
"I know you You know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free !

that explains it all..

Will I wait a lonely lifetime...

If you want me to, I will ...

There is no favorite song on "the White Album" for me..

The whole album is amazing ...

But yesterday I was goofing with the guitar, while on my own thinking about a girl.. and played "I Will" like 20 times..

I remembered when I first had a look to it.. It was the first CD my mother bought me.. and when I listened to "I Will" I just though it was a perfect song..

It's often underrated, because there are some others which have transcended more like "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".. but all 30 songs on the record are great.

Who knows how long I've loved you
You know I love you still
Will I wait a lonely lifetime
If you want me to, I will.

For if I ever saw you
I didn't catch your name
But it never really mattered
I will always feel the same.

Love you forever and forever
Love you with all my heart
Love you whenever we're together
Love you when we're apart.

And when at last I find you
Your song will fill the air
Sing it loud so I can hear you
Make it easy to be near you
For the things you do endear you to me
Oh, you know, I will
I will.

...Will the wind ever remember ?

The names it has blown in the past?

I read the news today, oh boy ...

About a lucky man who made the grade...