The great musical creative explosion
By then, most of the rest of the
British Invasion groups had topped
out. I'm sure many were still around,
but they were losing ground.
I don't have all the precise dates, but
I'm sure that the charts from those
dates would prove my basic thesis --
The Beatles and a few other British
Invasion artists kept moving forward
artistically.
Many did not, and fell by the wayside.
The Rolling Stones kept up with great
rock and roll that became more
sophisticated without being artistic.
The Kinks grew but became less well-known,
hitting their high point with "Lola" --
which Greg Shaw thought the greatest
pop song ever recorded.
Nowadays it seems much less cutting edge
than it did back then, with its boy
leaves home, boy falls for boy dressed
as girl theme. Now that's ho hum.
And the well-known ambiguity of the
final lines:
"And I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola"
is obviously not ambiguity at all -- but
a deliberate DOUBLE meaning.
Of course, Lola is a man AND Lola is
glad the singer is a man too!
The Hollies fell and Graham Nash remained.
The Animals fell and Eric Burdon remained.
Herman and the Hermits fell.
The Yardbirds fell and Jimmy Page, Jeff
Beck and Eric Clapton remained.
Petula Clark -- gone.
Chad and Jeremy -- gone.
The Zombies -- gone.
The Dave Clark 5 -- gone.
Freddie and the Dreamers -- gone.
And American groups which were close to
the spirit of The British Invasion --
Paul Revere and the Raiders -- gone.
The Monkees -- gone.
With The Beatles growing artistically AND
remaining incredibly popular, the way was
opened up not only for the continued
growth of the most talented members of
the British Invasion, the extraordinary
pool of musical talent waiting in the
wings in AMERICA.
First, Bob Dylan.
Then the psychedelic era.
The Jefferson Airplane.
The Grateful Dead.
The Mothers of Invention.
Moby Grape.
The Byrds.
The Mamas and Papas.
The Lovin Spoonful.
Country Joe and the Fish.
Quicksilver Messenger Service.
The Blues Magoos.
The Doors.
Canned Heat.
The Steve Miller Band.
Traffic.
Chicago Transit Authority.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Jimi Hendrix.
The Moody Blues.
Santana.
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The continuing advance of The
Beach Boys with PET SOUNDS.
Even the Ultimate Spinach.
And from Great Britain:
The Who and Pink Floyd.
(Recently my manager, who's about late
20s or early 30s, was playing a tape
which included Jimi Hendrix playing
"Purple Haze" and I joked with him
about playing music about LSD.
He said, "That's not about drugs."
I said, "What the hell else can it
be about? Purple Haze was a famous
kind of acid -- along with Orange
Sunshine, it was one of the first
homemade types of acid created by
hippie entrepreneurs after they
could no longer get it direct from
the Swiss company, Sandoz Laboratories,
when it was made into a controlled
substance in 1965. I'm pretty sure
it was made by Stanley Owsley."
Basically, everybody who played at
The Monterey Pop Festival or
Woodstock -- or could have.
Gay Lesbian Travel
British Invasion groups had topped
out. I'm sure many were still around,
but they were losing ground.
I don't have all the precise dates, but
I'm sure that the charts from those
dates would prove my basic thesis --
The Beatles and a few other British
Invasion artists kept moving forward
artistically.
Many did not, and fell by the wayside.
The Rolling Stones kept up with great
rock and roll that became more
sophisticated without being artistic.
The Kinks grew but became less well-known,
hitting their high point with "Lola" --
which Greg Shaw thought the greatest
pop song ever recorded.
Nowadays it seems much less cutting edge
than it did back then, with its boy
leaves home, boy falls for boy dressed
as girl theme. Now that's ho hum.
And the well-known ambiguity of the
final lines:
"And I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola"
is obviously not ambiguity at all -- but
a deliberate DOUBLE meaning.
Of course, Lola is a man AND Lola is
glad the singer is a man too!
The Hollies fell and Graham Nash remained.
The Animals fell and Eric Burdon remained.
Herman and the Hermits fell.
The Yardbirds fell and Jimmy Page, Jeff
Beck and Eric Clapton remained.
Petula Clark -- gone.
Chad and Jeremy -- gone.
The Zombies -- gone.
The Dave Clark 5 -- gone.
Freddie and the Dreamers -- gone.
And American groups which were close to
the spirit of The British Invasion --
Paul Revere and the Raiders -- gone.
The Monkees -- gone.
With The Beatles growing artistically AND
remaining incredibly popular, the way was
opened up not only for the continued
growth of the most talented members of
the British Invasion, the extraordinary
pool of musical talent waiting in the
wings in AMERICA.
First, Bob Dylan.
Then the psychedelic era.
The Jefferson Airplane.
The Grateful Dead.
The Mothers of Invention.
Moby Grape.
The Byrds.
The Mamas and Papas.
The Lovin Spoonful.
Country Joe and the Fish.
Quicksilver Messenger Service.
The Blues Magoos.
The Doors.
Canned Heat.
The Steve Miller Band.
Traffic.
Chicago Transit Authority.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Jimi Hendrix.
The Moody Blues.
Santana.
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
The continuing advance of The
Beach Boys with PET SOUNDS.
Even the Ultimate Spinach.
And from Great Britain:
The Who and Pink Floyd.
(Recently my manager, who's about late
20s or early 30s, was playing a tape
which included Jimi Hendrix playing
"Purple Haze" and I joked with him
about playing music about LSD.
He said, "That's not about drugs."
I said, "What the hell else can it
be about? Purple Haze was a famous
kind of acid -- along with Orange
Sunshine, it was one of the first
homemade types of acid created by
hippie entrepreneurs after they
could no longer get it direct from
the Swiss company, Sandoz Laboratories,
when it was made into a controlled
substance in 1965. I'm pretty sure
it was made by Stanley Owsley."
Basically, everybody who played at
The Monterey Pop Festival or
Woodstock -- or could have.
Gay Lesbian Travel
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