Hello music lovers! 🎵🎧🎵
Since Halloween, or as we call it here All Hallows' Eve, has just passed, I listen more to what I would call mystical, mysterious, or psychedelic tunes. Maybe I should have something from horror movies, but I prefer mystery to horror. :)
I was reminded of this a couple of days ago when I was doing a collage for the LMAC contest, where I was looking for skulls to animate from available sources.
Immediately the Grateful Dead came up with their skulls and I started listening to them. One of my all-time favorite bands. I also like that time (1965-1970) a lot musically because it represented a completely different state of things than we have today.
So, for #threetunetuesday, started by @ablaze, I listened to something I'd listened to a long time ago and again confirmed to myself that I still like this music, mainly because it's timeless and still has a freshness, both musically and creatively.
Music4life!
Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain
You can read all about Grateful Dead, they have a very well-documented history. I had a couple of records too, the first "Terrapin Station" from 1977. It was only later that I started listening to the older ones and I was more and more impressed. This song, "Box Of Rain", is from their sixth album "American Beauty" from 1970, with Phill Lesh singing, bass, and Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir playing guitars.
I should also mention that the Grateful Dead are also known for the fact that their fans recorded almost all their concerts and later when the band broke up (after the death of Jerry Garcia), they opened up a huge musical legacy to the public and it is freely available on Archive.org. Over two thousand recorded performances. Fascinating, and you can download it all if you want.
Jefferson Airplane - Won't You Try/Sunday Afternoon
While the Grateful Dead was more a mix of country, blues, and psychedelic rock, the Jefferson Airplane were more mystical. I got to know this band when I bought the double album, compilation "Flight Log 1966-1976".
The song "Won't You Try/Sunday Afternoon" is from their third album "After Bathing at Baxter's" from 1967, the video is from Woodstock 1969 and I think it captures well the mystical and psychedelic atmosphere of the time. Grace Slick sings, replacing original member Signe Anderson.
After they broke up sometime around 1976, the band became Jefferson Starship which I didn't really follow, but with a huge commercial success, and on the other side Hot Tuna with guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady, great guitar blues-rock, and I still follow that band now.
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Another band from that time. Iron Butterfly was formed in San Diego in 1966 and only later came to San Francisco. This song was their biggest hit and commercial success, while the previous two bands were just getting established.
The song is 17 minutes long, and surprisingly it topped the charts in 1968 in the US and also in somewhere in Europe. For me, they are still more of a mystical and psychedelic band, although it's also true what many musicians and music critics later said, that they had a very big influence on the development of hard rock and heavy metal music. They still perform occasionally today, with a modified line-up, as three of the founding members are dead.
Thank you for your attention and I hope you enjoy listening to it.
But if you're curious about new music, you can listen to #newtunes.
I hope you had a great Halloween! 💀☠️🎃
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