Category Archives: music

Bowie and Cher 1975

May 24, 2024 – 4:24 am

David Bowie’s career saw ups and downs. The worst period was in the early 70s. The English glam rocker succumbed to heroin. His best friend was Iggy. Money went faster than it came and his financial commitments required his appearing on the CHER SHOW in 1975. Their duet covered YOUNG AMERICANS and several pop classics. […]

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David Bowie versus Sha Na Na

May 24, 2024 – 1:34 am

My friend Keith and I share mutual musical tastes and this week he posted a Youtube video of David Bowie singing with Cher. Keith had actually seen the Ziggy Stardust tour. I missed it for a stupid reason. My girlfriend at the time was 26. Linda was a junior exec in my father’s office. I […]

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Memphis Underground – Herbie Mann – Hull, Mass. – 1970

May 9, 2024 – 6:00 pm

Memphis Underground In the winter of 1970 my friend Chet and I went down by car from the South Shore to a coastal neck of land guarding Boston Harbor from Atlantic storms. An Irish Riviera in the summer Hull was a ghost town in January. Our dealer Rich had a pound of Lebanese hash. We […]

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SOMEONE TO LOVE The Great Society

April 18, 2024 – 10:54 am

In 1965 Grace Slick and her husband formed the Great Society in San Francisco. They released ‘SOMEONE TO LOVE’ as a live single on Autumn Records with Sly Stone as the producer. Sadly Grace left the band to join the Jefferson Airplane, which scored a huge hit with their version of SOMEONE TO LOVE. To […]

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After Bathing At Baxter’s – The Jefferson Airplane

April 18, 2024 – 10:22 am

The Milton town library added another angle to my education. The head librarian recognized my thirst for knowledge and allowed my taking out adult books at the age of ten. I read Nicholas Kakanzakis’ THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHIRST, Balzac’s A HARLOT HIGH AND LOW, Prescott’s CONQUEST OF MEXICO, OM BURKE’s TRAVEL AMONGST THE DERVISHES. […]

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