I interviewed Tom Donahue for my high school newspaper when he was at KMPX. He invented FM Rock radio. Huge intimidating man. Scared me to death. 40 years later, his teenage granddaughter attended my church. I had a recording of his voice. She had never heard him speak. He sounded like Orson Welles through a Marshall amp.
@bglrj2 ай бұрын
Yes his voice. I met him once in person but listened to him all the time.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
He looked like a huge bearded Hell's Angel in a black business suit.
@bglrj2 ай бұрын
Haha like the comparison you made it's like Orson wells through a marshall amp!😂😂😂❤🇬🇧
@Aleman36523 күн бұрын
Great stories Mazzy. That Art Garfunkel story is so great. ♥️🤗 Thank for the kind words. Take care.
@MelindaMurphy2 ай бұрын
You always inspire me Melinda. We have taken different paths, but both inspirational ✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
At the age of ten my brother, 17, played at his bedtime 10 or 11 pm the bands and albums that awakened my interest, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Greatful Dead and Jefferson Airplane’s first albums. To this day The End evokes memories of this time.
@jimmccloskey42542 ай бұрын
"Strawberry Fields" ... even as an 8 year old kid, I was aware that the song was taking me to a different plane.
@softdorothy2 ай бұрын
Ditto The Limeliters' "Through Children's Eyes" and The Beatles "Strawberry Fields." Same wavelength Mazzy. Thanks for posting.
@muncher642 ай бұрын
I recall around 1964 a bunch of us Boy Scouts single file tromping through the woods at Great Falls State Park outside DC belting out, “She loves you, Yeah, Yeah, YEAH, she loves you…”
@sycamoreflynn2 ай бұрын
Allan Sherman and Vaughn Meader sold enough records in 1963 to ensure that thrift stores were well stocked for the next 60 years. Thanks for the shout-out.
@ClockRadio2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, Vaughn's career ended on November 22, 1963. Sherman lasted for several more years, although in decline.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Meet the Beatles was the start of me and all my friends learning instruments and starting bands, we were also 10 years old, what a time, great stories Mazzy, Cheers!
@coolmickey682 ай бұрын
Good storytelling as usual, Mazzy! When I listen to the Beatles albums, I try to imagine hearing it for the 1st time when the albums first came out as I was born a year after their appearance on Ed Sullivan. It must've been eye (and ear) opening at the time.
@bbfrid882 ай бұрын
Great stories, it moved me. Looking forward to the next stages of your life ..... great content man!
@JulienClerk2 ай бұрын
Absolutely great insights and so personal. thanks for sharing.
@hank84992 ай бұрын
How weird. I just returned from another quick road trip to visit our son in SF, and I remember distinctly being at a stop light at 18th and Geary and commenting to my wife on the Alexandria Theatre and what a great neighborhood focus it must have been in its heyday.
@ktpinnacle2 ай бұрын
digress away my friend..luv the stories..appreciate the memories.. hope you enjoyed the novel.. peace always.. rocky
@rocky-o2 ай бұрын
Thank you ✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Great stories, Mazzy! I especially enjoyed hearing the Art Garfunkel one. Hadn’t heard it before.
@lostmixtapes2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for introducing me to this Art Garfunkel album and personal story. Love you!
@venkeeide45112 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. I think its so interesting to learn about people's connection to music, and the albums that mean so much to them.
@nikk11382 ай бұрын
Loved Allan Sherman when I was a kid, my Mom got me that record for Christmas when I was 8 or 9. Thanks for bringing it up. The first record I ever bought was Sam Cooke Night Beat, I repurchased it on CD as well, Little Red Rooster is still one of my favorites. Glad I found your channel.
@marcob68802 ай бұрын
A beautiful video. A beautiful thread of life through music. Meddle was an important album in my life as was Wuthering Heights. A lot of great records. Your show and tells of vinyl are always exquisite. Love when you say.... a beautiful record. God bless you Sir. In the words of Neil Young... long may you Run, dear Sir.
@tinostabile32562 ай бұрын
You are always so kind. Thank you.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
You caught the Who at the Filmore in 69... I don't have the words.... It would be 20 years before I saw them and Moon had been dead 11 yrs at that point. I'm so jealous. I recently watched another video (Mike Noland?). He was also in SF and he was at the infamous Cow Palace show when Moon passed out! You know more about music than I do, but, I maintain that Tommy is the first rock opera since the phrase was invented as a way to describe what Tommy was to people. Both Tommy and Quadrophenia are life-changing albums.
@lib5562 ай бұрын
It’s doesn’t really matter if it was first or not ( it wasn’t really first ). But it was bigger and more important than even PF Sorrow.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Love hearing those stories. Well done.
@twofromthetrunk99322 ай бұрын
Great picks. I agree with the pepper overview. I was 11 when it came out and everyone was talking about including the big kids. Wanting to impress them and be cool I was the first to buy it with my allowance. I was so confused by it because the yeah yeah yeahs and I love you’s weren’t there. It truly wasn’t like anything else we’d ever heard. So strange at first, but it kept pulling me back to it especially with a library of about 12 records. I’d love to hear about “Mazzy - The punk years” more.
@Onteo12 ай бұрын
Thank you for the Art G story! I read his book last year and got a kick out of him talking about going through my hometown, and how beautiful it is.
@mrdaubney2 ай бұрын
Same as you, Bob Dylan was a big influence. Through an acquaintance, I bought the early Bob Dylan albums, and no one else paid attention until Like a Rolling Stone came out. Paul Butterfield was probably the biggest band that I went nuts over. KMPX, and KSAN opened up a whole new world for me.
@stevendreith43432 ай бұрын
Some top choices. I was around 10 or so when I borrowed the Dylan album from the local library. A couple of years later I borrowed Horses. Heavy music for young minds.
@AdrianNicholls2 ай бұрын
Beautiful stories, lovely life Mazzy, thank you for sharing with us!
@latheofheaven2 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
I loved Melinda's video and I love yours equally. Bob Dylan's Another Side was my introductory folk album about 60 years ago but it turned out to be so much more and led me down many new pathways that I could not have imagined. I look back and think this was the beginning. And I still sing To Ramona every time I get ready to take my blood pressure reading.
@paavoviuhko72502 ай бұрын
Great stuff. It's a strange thing that (in album sales at least) the best bands come from England (Stones, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Beatles) and the best individual artists from the US. But we could certainly argue the merits of a whole range of musicians, Kate Bush included. Had to laugh at your description of Wuthering Heights - had exactly the same impact on me as countless others. A unique talent.
@stevewturnbull2 ай бұрын
Great story about your meeting with Art Garfunkel...and I'm also a big fan of his first solo album "Angel Claire."
@revkarl2 ай бұрын
Mazzy..... you're a legend. Thank you for being you. Love your Channel 😊
@ajkyte2 ай бұрын
good list. Here are mine: 10. Tommy. The Who 09. Aorta. Aorta 08. Magical Mystery Tour 07. Bold As Love. Jimi Hendrix 06. Benefit. Jethro Tull 05. The Beatles (White album) 04. Sgt Pepper. Beatles 03. Disraeli Gears. Cream 02. In The Court of the Crimson King. King Crimson 01. Meet The Beatles. The Beatles
@eartraffic2 ай бұрын
Oh man, Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, that song hasn't entered my head for donkey's years. I must have been about 7 when it came out.
@stevewhiteside45252 ай бұрын
Mazzy, your story about Art Garfunkel reminds me of something I heard years ago. A friend told me that someone he knew, I don't know who they were, picked up a hitchhiker on a road near Winchester, here in England, and it was Art Garfunkel. I've since read that he would hitchhike all over the place, that it was like a hobby he had. This may have been in the 1980's or 90's...I'm not sure when. As for Live/Dead & Bless It's Pointed Little Head, I still have my original copies too, and they still play ok. Best wishes -m.
@mblackwoodm2 ай бұрын
Hi Mazzy, My dad bought me the Tommy record when it came out. Quite a deal because he didn't understand why I spent so much time and money on records. I was 14. Thanks.
@ralphbolton48652 ай бұрын
im just so glad Norm is here on YT. These videos are so damn important when it comes to having these stories "on record". The young people will benefit from these for years and years and years. so important.
@ThoseBackPages2 ай бұрын
Who is Norm 🤷🏻♂️
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Great Video Mazzy as always.Love the Greatful Dead albums!!
@MikesVinylExperience2 ай бұрын
That front cover of Time magazine of The Beatles was made by Gerald Scarfe, later to do illustrations for Pink Floyd The Wall.
@tgh20482 ай бұрын
Thanks Mazzy for all your videos...always
@robertwilson16922 ай бұрын
Thank you. Music and greats add joy to my life. It’s fun to share it all ✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Hey Mazzy - I bought My Son the Folk Singer for my parents for Christmas in ‘63 - figured they could use a laugh. I bought Meet the Beatles for my sister’s birthday in February, ‘64.
@TheGlawton2 ай бұрын
Wow I had never heard that story about Art Garfunkel. Pretty amazing experience. 🥰 Always enjoy hearing (and re-hearing) your stories 😊
@fidelios_frequency2 ай бұрын
Mazzy, I loved your story about meeting Art G. You mentioned McGovern and his run for the Presidency. I lived in Massachusetts at the time and that was my 1st opportunity to vote. I was also a big McGovern fan and as you stated, he only carried one state, Massachusetts. I had a bumper sticker on a bulletin board in my room that said. " Massachusetts, the One & Only." It was a cruel awakening to the world of politics.
@alanriley96212 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing your memories 🙏.. very interesting 🪬...
@johnfloydman77352 ай бұрын
What an incredible Art Garfunkle story - beautiful.
@davescryptodays14412 ай бұрын
I too was on a bike. It must have been winter because it was cold. I'd purchased Meet the Beatles and had it inside my coat taking it home with me. It got so badly warped it was unplayable. I guess if anything "changed my life" it would have been the Beatles.
@TRamone012 ай бұрын
So impressed with the Limeliters entry! Me too... My new step dad brought Limeliters records into my life, and it totally influenced everything I think about live performances. As an entertainer myself, I gotta say I learned my chops from Lou Gottileb and these live discs. 'Slightly Fabulous'.... my favorite and most influential. The chat interplay between Lou and audience is priceless lessons for any entertainer. This was an excellent post. I shared your journey for your first 6 records. Thank you.
@DavidCKendall2 ай бұрын
Yeah I had to dig deeper than just the normal key popular rock records ✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Happy to see Tommy on your list. I bought this album when it was released ( advise from friends older brother ). I was 14 yo.
@custom552 ай бұрын
When I watched Sea Of Tranquility and Melinda run with this idea.. I had to do it ! I bumped my regular weekly video to do this one ! It had to be personal..Nice response, Mazzy, enjoying the rest of yours.
@jtsrecordroom39632 ай бұрын
Angel Clare is such a beautiful record. I was a little pissed off the 2nd Avenue wasn't on it, but I bought it anyway. I am still very glad that I did. I was a freshman in college in 1971. My girl friend had written to tell me that she was with someone else. I went to a pizza place, most likely Pizza The Hut, and heard Layla on the jukebox. I went to the record store the next day to buy Layla and Other Love Songs. Oh yeah, I bought the single of 2nd Avenue since it wasn't on the album. This was all new to me, and it was great to see the records you picked, and hear your stories. I always liked Alan Sherman's take on Harry Belafonte's Mary Ann,
@dougcesario30982 ай бұрын
Great Art Garfunkel story and enjoyed your bio! Thanks, Mazzy!
@mondoenterprises67102 ай бұрын
thank you for sharing
@boba27832 ай бұрын
A good friend of mine turned me on to Patti Smith Group in mid 1970's. It was boss. I saw The Who perform Tommy also. But I saw the show at the Met in NYC in June of 1970 (a year prior to being drafted). A funny Dylan story is that when my wife and I were dating in late 1970's she lived in Brooklyn Heights and we frequented the eateries there. One place she liked was Capulets on Montague (killer fries). It was a funky spot on Montague St. and only last year did we find out that Bob Dylan hung out there too. You got some interesting music choices here.
@martyjewell5683Ай бұрын
Great show. It's nice to hear your personal recollections. From your comments, I surmise that we're about the same age. I grew up in the Bay Area region about 60 miles south of San Francisco. I tried to get up to The City as often as possible, riding with my friends who were a couple of years older. I managed to see many top bands before moving to Seattle at age 16, mostly in San Jose at the fairgrounds. I did manage to see Sons of Champlin at Golden Gate Park and saw the fantastic Steve Miller Band at Fillmore West. My first live rock show was Cream at the Oakland Colleseum. My mom took my friend and I to that show and picked us up when it was over, kind of like Almost Famous but I didn't get to meet any groupies or hang out with the band. One time my parents took our family to hear Simon and Garfunkel at the Berkely Community Theater. They sounded fantastic but the sound went out after about 2 minutes into the show and they had to send everyone home. They also took my sister and I to the KMPX studio on another outing. We peered through the window at Tom Donahue but had to stay outside. My parents were pretty cool in retrospect.
@randydoak66382 ай бұрын
Great video, loved the Art Garfunkel story
@miquefan2 ай бұрын
I vividly remember hearing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds on the radio through the kitchen window when I was playing outside at age 6. It sounded like something from another planet at the time. Even at that age I was very struck by it.
@anahatatutu2 ай бұрын
OMG! My son the folk Singer.... I used to listen to that non stop when I was Really young
@littlealchemistolympics28842 ай бұрын
Prior to my meeting her, my late wife was working in a UK record shop when a chap walked up to the counter with an album in his hand and asked: "Would you like me to autograph this?" Quite taken aback, she was at a loss for words. Then this stranger laid the album sleeve on the counter. The photo facing up was of the chap asking the question. It was Art Garfunkel and the album you showed.
@MrCherryJuice2 ай бұрын
Cool Did he hand her his roach 🤷🏻♂️🤠
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Great video. I was sitting in my friend's apartment after downing a freshly picked batch of psilocybin mushrooms. We put Echoes on. The music was visually spinning around the room and I was extremely concerned about those two creatures finding one another. Your experience was better though.
@hoot4442 ай бұрын
This is great topic and video. I’m going to give it a go I think. Well done!
@therevrockinrollin2 ай бұрын
Please do ✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
An eloquent recollection, Norman. I'm guessing, by your choices and influences, that you were born in the mid-fifties. I grew up in the Boston area and share your appreciation for every record you spoke of. I think all of us lost our virginity listening to one or another band from that era, and I enjoyed your personal story in that regard. Hey, this showed up in my daily YT feed, liked your content a lot so I subscribed. Cheers.
@rickkearn71002 ай бұрын
And for the obverse, not directly related, but maybe sort of, I recall buying the White Album at a Gibson’s store in a small Texas town, trudging home with it through the snow, then hiding it from my parents who were insanely convinced the Beatles signified the End of the World being neigh. See, I’d already learned my lesson when my Mom stabbed Dylan’s Greatest Hits from the Columbia record club about a dozen times with a knife, also gave my copy of Bless it’s Pointed Little Head to a younger sibling to use as a coloring book. Insane times for some of us.
@sycamoreflynn2 ай бұрын
Oh no! Not the Airplane album!
@jackwezesa10812 ай бұрын
One and the same.
@sycamoreflynn2 ай бұрын
Great recollection about Art G! I once ran into Justin Hayward while on jury duty (the Moodies had a civil case going on in a nearby courtroom) & chatted him up about favorite artists (he liked Annie Lennox at the time). I have a mono copy of Allan Sherman & Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops doing *Peter & the Commissar* at Tanglewood.
@patbarr13512 ай бұрын
I was into UK comedy albums late 1980s here they were still selling well back then. I don't think I can get the meddle story out of my head now still thanks for sharing those stories.
@Thevinylscavenger2 ай бұрын
Had some of my uncles forty five records and one of them was Hello Maddah. Hello Faddah. Here I am at camp Grenada..Great songs like Chain Gang. Sam Cooke. Endless Sleep. Jody Reynolds. One hundred pounds of clay. Ooh my soul. Tucamcari..Bop a- Lena..Keep a knocking. A lot of great memories. Wish I still had them..
@ChrissHill-im7kj2 ай бұрын
Hi Mazzy, great selection. I recently finally got hold of a copy of Another Side, great record.
@jamesgriffithsmusic2 ай бұрын
Tommy is a very nostalgic album for me yet I've never owned it on vinyl. it's just the memory of seeing it in record shops and in friends' parents' collections when I was growing up.
@jamesgriffithsmusic2 ай бұрын
It is so good. And a great sound record. Cheers James ✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Saludos y BENDICIONES desde Puerto Rico
@ELATRILMUSICAL17Ай бұрын
I cannot say any LP changed my life in any significant way but I will say music enhanced my life. I think that is what music is all about. It soothes the soul. It helped me to get through trying times, taking the edge off when I was being challenged in some way. I could always turn to music.
@goplad12 ай бұрын
Well said ✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Loved your video as well as Melinda's. My first recollection of music on vinyl was the soundtrack to South Pacific, Tea for Two Cha Chas and RCA Victor 50 Golden Years. My folks loved Billy Vaughn too. Greatest Hits. My first personal album was also Meet The Beatles. (I still have my dad's vinyl and his last turntable. Yamaha P751. Thanks for bringing back the memories with your early lps.😊 He also loved Sarah Vaughn and got me into jazz.....
@annefrazer66292 ай бұрын
Wow! I have good memories of The Limelighters LP. I also had a teacher that played it often!! Good Memories!! ...and still pretty easy to find in thrift shops, they must of sold millions.
@davidhoward33762 ай бұрын
We weren't a Jewish family, but definitely had that first Alan Sherman record in the house.
@stevefender23772 ай бұрын
Hi, I really enjoyed this video Mazzy. I am sure you maybe have this album by Allen Sherman. But a must have album is Allen Sherman with the Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler Recorded Live. It is fantastic and so very funny. Take care
@richardwhite23442 ай бұрын
In the UK the Beatles album was called With The Beatles and it was my very first LP. It was a Xmas present from my parents. I was 10 years old and it was that LP that really sparked my life long love of music. That LP really changed my life.
@JoyDivision88Ай бұрын
I don't remember which Allan Sherman LP contained Beautiful Teamsters (to the tune of Beautiful Dreamer), but I've never forgot the line "Beautiful Teamsters, please let me join. I can't drive a truck but I'm willing to loin."
@stephenheacock58552 ай бұрын
Allan Sherman! Funny story, back in the 90's a buddy handed me a casette (unmarked) and I played it in my car on the way home. This first tune started of with a Tijuana Brass, "Taste of Honey" riff and I almost ejected the casette. Luckily I didn't because it was Sherman's, "A waste of Money" also on the tape was "Harvey and Sheila". Up to that point I only knew his work through "Camp Granada".
@motorlibro2 ай бұрын
Thanx Mazzy. Records that changed my (!!) life.....as far as I remember 'rwas the first LP my brother gave me ("maybe that's something for you" he said), being 14-15 at the time in 1970, and this was a German Rock album by a band called "Rufus Zuphall" (from Aachen which is on the Dutch border), near where we lived. Their debut "Weiß der Teufel" (The Devil might know (?)), was something on the Jethro Tull line, with flute like so many other in the prog era. Second was "Wild Honey" by The Beach Boys and I stil prefer this to Pet Sounds. Third was: Grateful Dead '72 Europe....which is a real masterpiece, may not for the U.S. as they were touring there permanently, but for us here in EU...absolutely fantastic. The SWFIII (South-west radio) played the 3Lps on two sunday in their Pop-shop-special. And they played complete LPs in their Staurday LP-show like "YES Time and A Word". Also on Pop-sho-special the played "C.Santana & Buddy Mile Live!" which is also a breathtaking record. I didn't have the money to buy record until I started jobs during holiday seasons. Still today I remeber the first 6 i got: Allman Bros. Fillmore East, R.Gallagher Deuce, Jethro Tull Stand Up, Steamhammer MKII, Ten Years After Cricklewood Green, Yes Album. My collection has widened since, but these are the records that influennced my musical tast fundamentally. Good luck. Jo
@josefeschweiler36312 ай бұрын
Great stories! Thank Mazzy! Mr. Pete-------> aging hippie
@davidpetersen70912 ай бұрын
Love, consummated Echos in the canyons of our hearts. Youth, All is new. Hearts spinning at 33 1/3 rpm, Feelings unknown until now. We find ourselves, MEDDLING with each other This moment will Echo between us forever ! "And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can?" I.B. (With inspiration from Mazzy and the Floyd.)
@ivansbacon2 ай бұрын
deep in the heart of the brain is a lever, deep in the heart of the brain there is a switch....
@richierugs65442 ай бұрын
"Dark Side..." was the first album that I became aware of as a complete entity and not just a collection of individual songs. I discovered this album (my older brother's) around the time it was released. It was also the first no-skip album for me....an album I would ALWAYS listen to from start to finish. "Alive" from Kiss. Another album I discovered around the time of its release, my friend Shawn brought a copy in for "music day" in the 6th grade where we could gather in groups and play records on those small, all-in-one record players that every school kid from the '60s and '70s is familiar with. It was my first real introduction of hard rock, the genre that would ultimately be my favorite. "Boston". Their debut. This album crushed it in '76-'77. An amazing and (then) unique sound. This album has NEVER left my rotation in spite of my shifts in musical preferences in my teens, my 20s, my 30s....... "Led Zeppelin". Another debut album. I was familiar with LZ from the radio but I had never listened to one of their albums. I borrowed this album from a friend while a freshman in high school and it blew me away. I think I listened to it 3 times that evening and as soon as I had $8, I went out and bought my own copy. Because of this album I discovered my first (and still most important) guitar hero, and then there was that drummer.......
@b2tall2392 ай бұрын
Hey Mazzy, Thanks for sharing. We're cohorts so I'm not surprised that we'd have some overlap; the Beatles (of course), I waited for every album and over a libation could go through song by song. But what surprised me a bit was that you closed with Kate Bush. I too was introduced to her with The Kick Inside Album. Way ahead of her time and many female artist to follow owe her a nod. So why am I surprised? In all of these years I've had exactly one friend who "got" Kate. My sympathies to the rest.
@krdennis992 ай бұрын
Got into Kate at the right time ( her beginning) And followed her all the way.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
we first heart Strawberry on wmca while driving home from school--we had to pull over and just listen
@richierugs65442 ай бұрын
angel Clare by Art Garfunkel! My word I’ve not played that in years, loved it. My then girl friend always burst into tears over Barbara Allen… that record meant a lot to me then. Great stories, Love your tales. …. Oh, my ‘Meddle’ record was Isle Of View Jimmie Spheeris… ha ha !
@MrPopupjohn2 ай бұрын
Yes, Pink Floyd Meddle. After seeing Live at Pompeii with Altec Lancing voice of the theaters cranked almost full stop set up in the movie theater. Someone had to arrange that God bless them.
@Peoria195812 ай бұрын
Art G cool! I ran into Stevie Wonder at one of those small terminals in Chicago. Maybe half a dozen people there. Someone actually asked him for an autograph. And I had lunch with a member of Pat Travers Band near Frankfurt.
@jrc35472 ай бұрын
So true, about Sgt. Pepper..It seemed like months passed before you heard anything else, blaring from everybody's parents stereo consoles, and record players everywhere!..I remember when the Beatles came to the states, with the whole Ed Sullivan thing..Believe it, or not, my parents bought the album, "Something New"..Kinda like a coming to America promotional thing..Even my parents liked them!..That's when I knew they were different!..First thing I wanted to do was grow my hair longer, and pleaded with my mother to buy me Beatle boots, and I was 7!!..People today can't understand just how the earth shifted with their arrival here...Like so many it changed me forever..That, and what followed!..Amazing time for music, baby!
@cheezer572 ай бұрын
No records have changed my life, but many have made a huge impression and have stayed with me
@chrisguygeezer2 ай бұрын
What a wonderful trip Reminds me of Dylans or Lenny Kayes books Anyways Horses , Marquee Moon and Velvets changed my life I grew up small town Ireland Now live in NYC See Patti all the time Love her still
@jessem4702 ай бұрын
"and they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining...."
@robinfowler94772 ай бұрын
I would have kept Art's roach too. I have bowl from which Bob Dylan ate his cereal. Cap'n Crunch as I recall> LOL. I keep my guitar picks and slides in it.
@allenaviation57462 ай бұрын
We sang Yellow Submarine in kindergarten in 1966. But it was Hendrix that blew my mind in the 70's. Then in 2015 my mind was blown by Laura Nyro. These two showed what innovative, emotion, intensity, sensitivity, integrity and artistic expression in rock/ pop could be. Just below them, Tim Buckley. Wuthering Heights is influenced by Nyro's Captain for Dark Mornings (1969).
@lupcokotevski29072 ай бұрын
A guy in the vinyl community in 2017 sent me some hard rock and metal records and he used the Art Garfunkel record as a stiffener! The cover was defaced with drawings on Art's face! I was repulsed that someone can deface ANY record that way! I cleaned it, put it on, and I absolutely loved it!😊
@analoguecity34542 ай бұрын
I was just kidding earlier, I love your videos and channel.
@matbasterson5202 ай бұрын
😎✌🏼all good
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
You’re at your Zenith when talking all things BEATLES. I heard a record in grade school, Anne T Case Elementary, “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds, and sung by Pete Seeger and for me this was a really revolutionary critique of Suburbia!
@williamcardina892 ай бұрын
Yeah, that song written about all the houses in a row in Daly City. Right next to San Francisco.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Have you seen Perfect Days yet? It has a major Patti Smith Horses appearance, along with Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, etc
@markh.98222 ай бұрын
Man after my own heart. Just like me he has a jazz journey as well.
@positivelivingmusic5497Ай бұрын
here's one for you Massy... Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhas (dutch architect)... the glass atrium ceiling? I don't know for sure... But to my eye... inspired by the Who Tommy album cover. Check it out!
@car-or-ock6162 ай бұрын
Only people growing up through the time would understand the Sgt. Pepper AND SFF/PL significance. It changed EVERYTHING. Sometimes likened to in The Wizard of Oz when it goes from black and white to color. NICE share on Art G. And having The Kick Inside here - is perfect. My first hearing Wuthering Heights was on the Pat Benatar album. Thanks for sharing ^^^^
@allenf.59072 ай бұрын
Yes absolutely ✌🏼
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
Wuthering Heights was the first single i ever bought. Still love Kate Bush till this day
@whiteether86262 ай бұрын
Thanks Norman!
@kategallion632 ай бұрын
From 1972 onwards the records that had the greatest impact on me were After The Gold Rush, Ziggy Stardust, Highway 61, Electric Ladyland, Astral Weeks, Topographic Oceans, Quadrophenia, Layla, The Doors, Horses, Let's Get It On, and Caught Up by Millie Jackson. I also have to add Haydn's Cello Concerto in C by Rostropovich and Britten, and Kind Of Blue.
@lawrencejhutchinson2 ай бұрын
Except Topographic. Bloated mess 😵💫.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
@@mazzysmusic Mazzy, I was 15 when I saw the 2nd-ever live performance of Topographic Oceans, so it takes me back 50 years.
@lawrencejhutchinson2 ай бұрын
Visiting Seattle this week. Picked up about 7 LPs that I hope will change my life at Easy Street!
@sapporowill2 ай бұрын
You’d think Allan Sherman wouldn’t make much sense in the UK but I remember Hello Muddah Hello Faddah being played a lot on the radio when I was a kid. I heard it just the other day on an oldies radio station and it made me smile.
@baggyhi-fi86282 ай бұрын
Hi Baggy. You never know what translates across the sea. Kate Bush hardly made it here aside from Running Up that Hill.
@mazzysmusic2 ай бұрын
admire you and respect you Mazzy...as you often say... different things effect us in different ways. I know that you or anyone else really cares what I think, but IMO, Quadrophenia is a deeper and "lusher" album than Tommy. I feel like there are things on Tommy that are just trite. But, I still like it. When I was a teenager, early teens, the Tommy movie came out. Maybe, that is what ruined the album for me. There are things on Tommy that still attract me and get to me, but I think the themes of Quadrophenia reach into me more.
I interviewed Tom Donahue for my high school newspaper when he was at KMPX. He invented FM Rock radio. Huge intimidating man. Scared me to death. 40 years later, his teenage granddaughter attended my church. I had a recording of his voice. She had never heard him speak. He sounded like Orson Welles through a Marshall amp.
Yes his voice. I met him once in person but listened to him all the time.
He looked like a huge bearded Hell's Angel in a black business suit.
Haha like the comparison you made it's like Orson wells through a marshall amp!😂😂😂❤🇬🇧
Great stories Mazzy. That Art Garfunkel story is so great. ♥️🤗 Thank for the kind words. Take care.
You always inspire me Melinda. We have taken different paths, but both inspirational ✌🏼
At the age of ten my brother, 17, played at his bedtime 10 or 11 pm the bands and albums that awakened my interest, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Greatful Dead and Jefferson Airplane’s first albums. To this day The End evokes memories of this time.
"Strawberry Fields" ... even as an 8 year old kid, I was aware that the song was taking me to a different plane.
Ditto The Limeliters' "Through Children's Eyes" and The Beatles "Strawberry Fields." Same wavelength Mazzy. Thanks for posting.
I recall around 1964 a bunch of us Boy Scouts single file tromping through the woods at Great Falls State Park outside DC belting out, “She loves you, Yeah, Yeah, YEAH, she loves you…”
Allan Sherman and Vaughn Meader sold enough records in 1963 to ensure that thrift stores were well stocked for the next 60 years. Thanks for the shout-out.
Unfortunately, Vaughn's career ended on November 22, 1963. Sherman lasted for several more years, although in decline.
Meet the Beatles was the start of me and all my friends learning instruments and starting bands, we were also 10 years old, what a time, great stories Mazzy, Cheers!
Good storytelling as usual, Mazzy! When I listen to the Beatles albums, I try to imagine hearing it for the 1st time when the albums first came out as I was born a year after their appearance on Ed Sullivan. It must've been eye (and ear) opening at the time.
Great stories, it moved me. Looking forward to the next stages of your life ..... great content man!
Absolutely great insights and so personal. thanks for sharing.
How weird. I just returned from another quick road trip to visit our son in SF, and I remember distinctly being at a stop light at 18th and Geary and commenting to my wife on the Alexandria Theatre and what a great neighborhood focus it must have been in its heyday.
digress away my friend..luv the stories..appreciate the memories.. hope you enjoyed the novel.. peace always.. rocky
Thank you ✌🏼
Great stories, Mazzy! I especially enjoyed hearing the Art Garfunkel one. Hadn’t heard it before.
Thank you so much for introducing me to this Art Garfunkel album and personal story. Love you!
I really enjoyed this video. I think its so interesting to learn about people's connection to music, and the albums that mean so much to them.
Loved Allan Sherman when I was a kid, my Mom got me that record for Christmas when I was 8 or 9. Thanks for bringing it up. The first record I ever bought was Sam Cooke Night Beat, I repurchased it on CD as well, Little Red Rooster is still one of my favorites. Glad I found your channel.
A beautiful video. A beautiful thread of life through music. Meddle was an important album in my life as was Wuthering Heights. A lot of great records. Your show and tells of vinyl are always exquisite. Love when you say.... a beautiful record. God bless you Sir. In the words of Neil Young... long may you Run, dear Sir.
You are always so kind. Thank you.
You caught the Who at the Filmore in 69... I don't have the words.... It would be 20 years before I saw them and Moon had been dead 11 yrs at that point. I'm so jealous. I recently watched another video (Mike Noland?). He was also in SF and he was at the infamous Cow Palace show when Moon passed out! You know more about music than I do, but, I maintain that Tommy is the first rock opera since the phrase was invented as a way to describe what Tommy was to people. Both Tommy and Quadrophenia are life-changing albums.
It’s doesn’t really matter if it was first or not ( it wasn’t really first ). But it was bigger and more important than even PF Sorrow.
Love hearing those stories. Well done.
Great picks. I agree with the pepper overview. I was 11 when it came out and everyone was talking about including the big kids. Wanting to impress them and be cool I was the first to buy it with my allowance. I was so confused by it because the yeah yeah yeahs and I love you’s weren’t there. It truly wasn’t like anything else we’d ever heard. So strange at first, but it kept pulling me back to it especially with a library of about 12 records. I’d love to hear about “Mazzy - The punk years” more.
Thank you for the Art G story! I read his book last year and got a kick out of him talking about going through my hometown, and how beautiful it is.
Same as you, Bob Dylan was a big influence. Through an acquaintance, I bought the early Bob Dylan albums, and no one else paid attention until Like a Rolling Stone came out. Paul Butterfield was probably the biggest band that I went nuts over. KMPX, and KSAN opened up a whole new world for me.
Some top choices. I was around 10 or so when I borrowed the Dylan album from the local library. A couple of years later I borrowed Horses. Heavy music for young minds.
Beautiful stories, lovely life Mazzy, thank you for sharing with us!
Glad you enjoyed it✌🏼
I loved Melinda's video and I love yours equally. Bob Dylan's Another Side was my introductory folk album about 60 years ago but it turned out to be so much more and led me down many new pathways that I could not have imagined. I look back and think this was the beginning. And I still sing To Ramona every time I get ready to take my blood pressure reading.
Great stuff. It's a strange thing that (in album sales at least) the best bands come from England (Stones, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Beatles) and the best individual artists from the US. But we could certainly argue the merits of a whole range of musicians, Kate Bush included. Had to laugh at your description of Wuthering Heights - had exactly the same impact on me as countless others. A unique talent.
Great story about your meeting with Art Garfunkel...and I'm also a big fan of his first solo album "Angel Claire."
Mazzy..... you're a legend. Thank you for being you. Love your Channel 😊
good list. Here are mine: 10. Tommy. The Who 09. Aorta. Aorta 08. Magical Mystery Tour 07. Bold As Love. Jimi Hendrix 06. Benefit. Jethro Tull 05. The Beatles (White album) 04. Sgt Pepper. Beatles 03. Disraeli Gears. Cream 02. In The Court of the Crimson King. King Crimson 01. Meet The Beatles. The Beatles
Oh man, Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, that song hasn't entered my head for donkey's years. I must have been about 7 when it came out.
Mazzy, your story about Art Garfunkel reminds me of something I heard years ago. A friend told me that someone he knew, I don't know who they were, picked up a hitchhiker on a road near Winchester, here in England, and it was Art Garfunkel. I've since read that he would hitchhike all over the place, that it was like a hobby he had. This may have been in the 1980's or 90's...I'm not sure when. As for Live/Dead & Bless It's Pointed Little Head, I still have my original copies too, and they still play ok. Best wishes -m.
Hi Mazzy, My dad bought me the Tommy record when it came out. Quite a deal because he didn't understand why I spent so much time and money on records. I was 14. Thanks.
im just so glad Norm is here on YT. These videos are so damn important when it comes to having these stories "on record". The young people will benefit from these for years and years and years. so important.
Who is Norm 🤷🏻♂️
Great Video Mazzy as always.Love the Greatful Dead albums!!
That front cover of Time magazine of The Beatles was made by Gerald Scarfe, later to do illustrations for Pink Floyd The Wall.
Thanks Mazzy for all your videos...always
Thank you. Music and greats add joy to my life. It’s fun to share it all ✌🏼
Hey Mazzy - I bought My Son the Folk Singer for my parents for Christmas in ‘63 - figured they could use a laugh. I bought Meet the Beatles for my sister’s birthday in February, ‘64.
Wow I had never heard that story about Art Garfunkel. Pretty amazing experience. 🥰 Always enjoy hearing (and re-hearing) your stories 😊
Mazzy, I loved your story about meeting Art G. You mentioned McGovern and his run for the Presidency. I lived in Massachusetts at the time and that was my 1st opportunity to vote. I was also a big McGovern fan and as you stated, he only carried one state, Massachusetts. I had a bumper sticker on a bulletin board in my room that said. " Massachusetts, the One & Only." It was a cruel awakening to the world of politics.
Thanks for sharing your memories 🙏.. very interesting 🪬...
What an incredible Art Garfunkle story - beautiful.
I too was on a bike. It must have been winter because it was cold. I'd purchased Meet the Beatles and had it inside my coat taking it home with me. It got so badly warped it was unplayable. I guess if anything "changed my life" it would have been the Beatles.
So impressed with the Limeliters entry! Me too... My new step dad brought Limeliters records into my life, and it totally influenced everything I think about live performances. As an entertainer myself, I gotta say I learned my chops from Lou Gottileb and these live discs. 'Slightly Fabulous'.... my favorite and most influential. The chat interplay between Lou and audience is priceless lessons for any entertainer. This was an excellent post. I shared your journey for your first 6 records. Thank you.
Yeah I had to dig deeper than just the normal key popular rock records ✌🏼
Happy to see Tommy on your list. I bought this album when it was released ( advise from friends older brother ). I was 14 yo.
When I watched Sea Of Tranquility and Melinda run with this idea.. I had to do it ! I bumped my regular weekly video to do this one ! It had to be personal..Nice response, Mazzy, enjoying the rest of yours.
Angel Clare is such a beautiful record. I was a little pissed off the 2nd Avenue wasn't on it, but I bought it anyway. I am still very glad that I did. I was a freshman in college in 1971. My girl friend had written to tell me that she was with someone else. I went to a pizza place, most likely Pizza The Hut, and heard Layla on the jukebox. I went to the record store the next day to buy Layla and Other Love Songs. Oh yeah, I bought the single of 2nd Avenue since it wasn't on the album. This was all new to me, and it was great to see the records you picked, and hear your stories. I always liked Alan Sherman's take on Harry Belafonte's Mary Ann,
Great Art Garfunkel story and enjoyed your bio! Thanks, Mazzy!
thank you for sharing
A good friend of mine turned me on to Patti Smith Group in mid 1970's. It was boss. I saw The Who perform Tommy also. But I saw the show at the Met in NYC in June of 1970 (a year prior to being drafted). A funny Dylan story is that when my wife and I were dating in late 1970's she lived in Brooklyn Heights and we frequented the eateries there. One place she liked was Capulets on Montague (killer fries). It was a funky spot on Montague St. and only last year did we find out that Bob Dylan hung out there too. You got some interesting music choices here.
Great show. It's nice to hear your personal recollections. From your comments, I surmise that we're about the same age. I grew up in the Bay Area region about 60 miles south of San Francisco. I tried to get up to The City as often as possible, riding with my friends who were a couple of years older. I managed to see many top bands before moving to Seattle at age 16, mostly in San Jose at the fairgrounds. I did manage to see Sons of Champlin at Golden Gate Park and saw the fantastic Steve Miller Band at Fillmore West. My first live rock show was Cream at the Oakland Colleseum. My mom took my friend and I to that show and picked us up when it was over, kind of like Almost Famous but I didn't get to meet any groupies or hang out with the band. One time my parents took our family to hear Simon and Garfunkel at the Berkely Community Theater. They sounded fantastic but the sound went out after about 2 minutes into the show and they had to send everyone home. They also took my sister and I to the KMPX studio on another outing. We peered through the window at Tom Donahue but had to stay outside. My parents were pretty cool in retrospect.
Great video, loved the Art Garfunkel story
I vividly remember hearing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds on the radio through the kitchen window when I was playing outside at age 6. It sounded like something from another planet at the time. Even at that age I was very struck by it.
OMG! My son the folk Singer.... I used to listen to that non stop when I was Really young
Prior to my meeting her, my late wife was working in a UK record shop when a chap walked up to the counter with an album in his hand and asked: "Would you like me to autograph this?" Quite taken aback, she was at a loss for words. Then this stranger laid the album sleeve on the counter. The photo facing up was of the chap asking the question. It was Art Garfunkel and the album you showed.
Cool Did he hand her his roach 🤷🏻♂️🤠
Great video. I was sitting in my friend's apartment after downing a freshly picked batch of psilocybin mushrooms. We put Echoes on. The music was visually spinning around the room and I was extremely concerned about those two creatures finding one another. Your experience was better though.
This is great topic and video. I’m going to give it a go I think. Well done!
Please do ✌🏼
An eloquent recollection, Norman. I'm guessing, by your choices and influences, that you were born in the mid-fifties. I grew up in the Boston area and share your appreciation for every record you spoke of. I think all of us lost our virginity listening to one or another band from that era, and I enjoyed your personal story in that regard. Hey, this showed up in my daily YT feed, liked your content a lot so I subscribed. Cheers.
And for the obverse, not directly related, but maybe sort of, I recall buying the White Album at a Gibson’s store in a small Texas town, trudging home with it through the snow, then hiding it from my parents who were insanely convinced the Beatles signified the End of the World being neigh. See, I’d already learned my lesson when my Mom stabbed Dylan’s Greatest Hits from the Columbia record club about a dozen times with a knife, also gave my copy of Bless it’s Pointed Little Head to a younger sibling to use as a coloring book. Insane times for some of us.
Oh no! Not the Airplane album!
One and the same.
Great recollection about Art G! I once ran into Justin Hayward while on jury duty (the Moodies had a civil case going on in a nearby courtroom) & chatted him up about favorite artists (he liked Annie Lennox at the time). I have a mono copy of Allan Sherman & Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops doing *Peter & the Commissar* at Tanglewood.
I was into UK comedy albums late 1980s here they were still selling well back then. I don't think I can get the meddle story out of my head now still thanks for sharing those stories.
Had some of my uncles forty five records and one of them was Hello Maddah. Hello Faddah. Here I am at camp Grenada..Great songs like Chain Gang. Sam Cooke. Endless Sleep. Jody Reynolds. One hundred pounds of clay. Ooh my soul. Tucamcari..Bop a- Lena..Keep a knocking. A lot of great memories. Wish I still had them..
Hi Mazzy, great selection. I recently finally got hold of a copy of Another Side, great record.
Tommy is a very nostalgic album for me yet I've never owned it on vinyl. it's just the memory of seeing it in record shops and in friends' parents' collections when I was growing up.
It is so good. And a great sound record. Cheers James ✌🏼
Saludos y BENDICIONES desde Puerto Rico
I cannot say any LP changed my life in any significant way but I will say music enhanced my life. I think that is what music is all about. It soothes the soul. It helped me to get through trying times, taking the edge off when I was being challenged in some way. I could always turn to music.
Well said ✌🏼
Loved your video as well as Melinda's. My first recollection of music on vinyl was the soundtrack to South Pacific, Tea for Two Cha Chas and RCA Victor 50 Golden Years. My folks loved Billy Vaughn too. Greatest Hits. My first personal album was also Meet The Beatles. (I still have my dad's vinyl and his last turntable. Yamaha P751. Thanks for bringing back the memories with your early lps.😊 He also loved Sarah Vaughn and got me into jazz.....
Wow! I have good memories of The Limelighters LP. I also had a teacher that played it often!! Good Memories!! ...and still pretty easy to find in thrift shops, they must of sold millions.
We weren't a Jewish family, but definitely had that first Alan Sherman record in the house.
Hi, I really enjoyed this video Mazzy. I am sure you maybe have this album by Allen Sherman. But a must have album is Allen Sherman with the Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler Recorded Live. It is fantastic and so very funny. Take care
In the UK the Beatles album was called With The Beatles and it was my very first LP. It was a Xmas present from my parents. I was 10 years old and it was that LP that really sparked my life long love of music. That LP really changed my life.
I don't remember which Allan Sherman LP contained Beautiful Teamsters (to the tune of Beautiful Dreamer), but I've never forgot the line "Beautiful Teamsters, please let me join. I can't drive a truck but I'm willing to loin."
Allan Sherman! Funny story, back in the 90's a buddy handed me a casette (unmarked) and I played it in my car on the way home. This first tune started of with a Tijuana Brass, "Taste of Honey" riff and I almost ejected the casette. Luckily I didn't because it was Sherman's, "A waste of Money" also on the tape was "Harvey and Sheila". Up to that point I only knew his work through "Camp Granada".
Thanx Mazzy. Records that changed my (!!) life.....as far as I remember 'rwas the first LP my brother gave me ("maybe that's something for you" he said), being 14-15 at the time in 1970, and this was a German Rock album by a band called "Rufus Zuphall" (from Aachen which is on the Dutch border), near where we lived. Their debut "Weiß der Teufel" (The Devil might know (?)), was something on the Jethro Tull line, with flute like so many other in the prog era. Second was "Wild Honey" by The Beach Boys and I stil prefer this to Pet Sounds. Third was: Grateful Dead '72 Europe....which is a real masterpiece, may not for the U.S. as they were touring there permanently, but for us here in EU...absolutely fantastic. The SWFIII (South-west radio) played the 3Lps on two sunday in their Pop-shop-special. And they played complete LPs in their Staurday LP-show like "YES Time and A Word". Also on Pop-sho-special the played "C.Santana & Buddy Mile Live!" which is also a breathtaking record. I didn't have the money to buy record until I started jobs during holiday seasons. Still today I remeber the first 6 i got: Allman Bros. Fillmore East, R.Gallagher Deuce, Jethro Tull Stand Up, Steamhammer MKII, Ten Years After Cricklewood Green, Yes Album. My collection has widened since, but these are the records that influennced my musical tast fundamentally. Good luck. Jo
Great stories! Thank Mazzy! Mr. Pete-------> aging hippie
Love, consummated Echos in the canyons of our hearts. Youth, All is new. Hearts spinning at 33 1/3 rpm, Feelings unknown until now. We find ourselves, MEDDLING with each other This moment will Echo between us forever ! "And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can?" I.B. (With inspiration from Mazzy and the Floyd.)
deep in the heart of the brain is a lever, deep in the heart of the brain there is a switch....
"Dark Side..." was the first album that I became aware of as a complete entity and not just a collection of individual songs. I discovered this album (my older brother's) around the time it was released. It was also the first no-skip album for me....an album I would ALWAYS listen to from start to finish. "Alive" from Kiss. Another album I discovered around the time of its release, my friend Shawn brought a copy in for "music day" in the 6th grade where we could gather in groups and play records on those small, all-in-one record players that every school kid from the '60s and '70s is familiar with. It was my first real introduction of hard rock, the genre that would ultimately be my favorite. "Boston". Their debut. This album crushed it in '76-'77. An amazing and (then) unique sound. This album has NEVER left my rotation in spite of my shifts in musical preferences in my teens, my 20s, my 30s....... "Led Zeppelin". Another debut album. I was familiar with LZ from the radio but I had never listened to one of their albums. I borrowed this album from a friend while a freshman in high school and it blew me away. I think I listened to it 3 times that evening and as soon as I had $8, I went out and bought my own copy. Because of this album I discovered my first (and still most important) guitar hero, and then there was that drummer.......
Hey Mazzy, Thanks for sharing. We're cohorts so I'm not surprised that we'd have some overlap; the Beatles (of course), I waited for every album and over a libation could go through song by song. But what surprised me a bit was that you closed with Kate Bush. I too was introduced to her with The Kick Inside Album. Way ahead of her time and many female artist to follow owe her a nod. So why am I surprised? In all of these years I've had exactly one friend who "got" Kate. My sympathies to the rest.
Got into Kate at the right time ( her beginning) And followed her all the way.
we first heart Strawberry on wmca while driving home from school--we had to pull over and just listen
angel Clare by Art Garfunkel! My word I’ve not played that in years, loved it. My then girl friend always burst into tears over Barbara Allen… that record meant a lot to me then. Great stories, Love your tales. …. Oh, my ‘Meddle’ record was Isle Of View Jimmie Spheeris… ha ha !
Yes, Pink Floyd Meddle. After seeing Live at Pompeii with Altec Lancing voice of the theaters cranked almost full stop set up in the movie theater. Someone had to arrange that God bless them.
Art G cool! I ran into Stevie Wonder at one of those small terminals in Chicago. Maybe half a dozen people there. Someone actually asked him for an autograph. And I had lunch with a member of Pat Travers Band near Frankfurt.
So true, about Sgt. Pepper..It seemed like months passed before you heard anything else, blaring from everybody's parents stereo consoles, and record players everywhere!..I remember when the Beatles came to the states, with the whole Ed Sullivan thing..Believe it, or not, my parents bought the album, "Something New"..Kinda like a coming to America promotional thing..Even my parents liked them!..That's when I knew they were different!..First thing I wanted to do was grow my hair longer, and pleaded with my mother to buy me Beatle boots, and I was 7!!..People today can't understand just how the earth shifted with their arrival here...Like so many it changed me forever..That, and what followed!..Amazing time for music, baby!
No records have changed my life, but many have made a huge impression and have stayed with me
What a wonderful trip Reminds me of Dylans or Lenny Kayes books Anyways Horses , Marquee Moon and Velvets changed my life I grew up small town Ireland Now live in NYC See Patti all the time Love her still
"and they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining...."
I would have kept Art's roach too. I have bowl from which Bob Dylan ate his cereal. Cap'n Crunch as I recall> LOL. I keep my guitar picks and slides in it.
We sang Yellow Submarine in kindergarten in 1966. But it was Hendrix that blew my mind in the 70's. Then in 2015 my mind was blown by Laura Nyro. These two showed what innovative, emotion, intensity, sensitivity, integrity and artistic expression in rock/ pop could be. Just below them, Tim Buckley. Wuthering Heights is influenced by Nyro's Captain for Dark Mornings (1969).
A guy in the vinyl community in 2017 sent me some hard rock and metal records and he used the Art Garfunkel record as a stiffener! The cover was defaced with drawings on Art's face! I was repulsed that someone can deface ANY record that way! I cleaned it, put it on, and I absolutely loved it!😊
I was just kidding earlier, I love your videos and channel.
😎✌🏼all good
You’re at your Zenith when talking all things BEATLES. I heard a record in grade school, Anne T Case Elementary, “Little Boxes” by Malvina Reynolds, and sung by Pete Seeger and for me this was a really revolutionary critique of Suburbia!
Yeah, that song written about all the houses in a row in Daly City. Right next to San Francisco.
Have you seen Perfect Days yet? It has a major Patti Smith Horses appearance, along with Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, etc
Man after my own heart. Just like me he has a jazz journey as well.
here's one for you Massy... Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhas (dutch architect)... the glass atrium ceiling? I don't know for sure... But to my eye... inspired by the Who Tommy album cover. Check it out!
Only people growing up through the time would understand the Sgt. Pepper AND SFF/PL significance. It changed EVERYTHING. Sometimes likened to in The Wizard of Oz when it goes from black and white to color. NICE share on Art G. And having The Kick Inside here - is perfect. My first hearing Wuthering Heights was on the Pat Benatar album. Thanks for sharing ^^^^
Yes absolutely ✌🏼
Wuthering Heights was the first single i ever bought. Still love Kate Bush till this day
Thanks Norman!
From 1972 onwards the records that had the greatest impact on me were After The Gold Rush, Ziggy Stardust, Highway 61, Electric Ladyland, Astral Weeks, Topographic Oceans, Quadrophenia, Layla, The Doors, Horses, Let's Get It On, and Caught Up by Millie Jackson. I also have to add Haydn's Cello Concerto in C by Rostropovich and Britten, and Kind Of Blue.
Except Topographic. Bloated mess 😵💫.
@@mazzysmusic Mazzy, I was 15 when I saw the 2nd-ever live performance of Topographic Oceans, so it takes me back 50 years.
Visiting Seattle this week. Picked up about 7 LPs that I hope will change my life at Easy Street!
You’d think Allan Sherman wouldn’t make much sense in the UK but I remember Hello Muddah Hello Faddah being played a lot on the radio when I was a kid. I heard it just the other day on an oldies radio station and it made me smile.
Hi Baggy. You never know what translates across the sea. Kate Bush hardly made it here aside from Running Up that Hill.
admire you and respect you Mazzy...as you often say... different things effect us in different ways. I know that you or anyone else really cares what I think, but IMO, Quadrophenia is a deeper and "lusher" album than Tommy. I feel like there are things on Tommy that are just trite. But, I still like it. When I was a teenager, early teens, the Tommy movie came out. Maybe, that is what ruined the album for me. There are things on Tommy that still attract me and get to me, but I think the themes of Quadrophenia reach into me more.