What are you listening to right now?

hhh wrote:
Maybe the most famous improvement on the original (by Bob Dylan), The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (from Electric Ladyland (1968. Can you believe this was from 1968? Incredible).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY
I went to college in 1968 and this was on the jukebox in a nearby pub. Just blew me away.

I graduated high school in 1981 at age 16 (gifted program, skipped eighth grade, total failure for the last 20 years, as was the case with many "gifted" late boomers/early Gen Xers). I didn't realize we were that far apart in age. You might have been a legitimate hippie, I am a neo-hippie.

David Bowie with Stevie Ray Vaughn on lead guitar at the end - China Girl
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8Q512awa4

I'm sure I've posted this story before, and I've never fully fact checked it, but Bowie had the whole album pretty much recorded except for lead guitar, hired Stevie who he had heard somewhere, Stevie came in and laid down Albert King leads in basically one take, went on tour with Bowie, then left the tour and formed Double Trouble.

hhh · 2026-09-24 02:44:53

Hackett and Rothery - Red Dragon
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=cWlnKkyIVG8

johnraff · 2026-09-24 03:12:56

hhh wrote:

You might have been a legitimate hippie...

Whatever a "legitimate hippie" is.
In Amsterdam (~1974?), at a party a friend came up and said "I don't think you're a real hippie".
A) I never made any such claim to anyone, it was just an impression he'd got somehow.
B) What's a "real hippie" anyway?
He apologized later, but there was nothing to apologize for.

Anyway just to prove him right/wrong, the following spring I went overland to India, stayed ~6 months, then on to Japan in 1976, where I still am.

(BTW Japan has a very strict anti-drug policy.)

Colonel Panic · 2026-09-24 07:31:54

Jon Anderson - Once Upon A Dream (from the MOROW prog rock internet radio station).

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MarkW · 2026-09-24 08:22:11

hhh wrote:

johnraff wrote:
hhh wrote:
Maybe the most famous improvement on the original (by Bob Dylan), The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (from Electric Ladyland (1968. Can you believe this was from 1968? Incredible).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY
I went to college in 1968 and this was on the jukebox in a nearby pub. Just blew me away.
I graduated high school in 1981 at age 16 (gifted program, skipped eighth grade, total failure for the last 20 years, as was the case with many "gifted" late boomers/early Gen Xers). I didn't realize we were that far apart in age. You might have been a legitimate hippie, I am a neo-hippie.
David Bowie with Stevie Ray Vaughn on lead guitar at the end - China Girl
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8Q512awa4
I'm sure I've posted this story before, and I've never fully fact checked it, but Bowie had the whole album pretty much recorded except for lead guitar, hired Stevie who he had heard somewhere, Stevie came in and laid down Albert King leads in basically one take, went on tour with Bowie, then left the tour and formed Double Trouble.

Born in 65? Gen X

I don't know how school works over there. Over here if you're born past a certain date you defer for a year (start at 6 instead of 5). So, for all I know you were botn at the wrong end of 64. In which case: Boomer

MarkW · 2026-09-24 08:24:24

johnraff wrote:

hhh wrote:
You might have been a legitimate hippie...
Whatever a "legitimate hippie" is.
In Amsterdam (~1974?), at a party a friend came up and said "I don't think you're a real hippie".
A) I never made any such claim to anyone, it was just an impression he'd got somehow.
B) What's a "real hippie" anyway?
He apologized later, but there was nothing to apologize for.
Anyway just to prove him right/wrong, the following spring I went overland to India, stayed ~6 months, then on to Japan in 1976, where I still am.
(BTW Japan has a very strict anti-drug policy.)

Did I mention before that Hippies and Punks (the real ones from the 70s and early to mid 80s) both belong mostly to the Boomer generation?

johnraff · Yesterday 05:05:07

All the details anyone might want:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers

johnraff · Yesterday 05:48:15

I was reminded of Ethiopian music today, and don't remember seeing any posted up here. That must be remedied forthwith!

My introduction to Ethiopian music was many years ago when a friend gave me a copy of Mahmoud Ahmed's 1972 album Ere Mela Mela:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbITQT … DEnvpmHFYl

All the tracks are great, but get the fuzz guitar, keyboards and horns on Fetsum denq ledj nesh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHAKUXL … l&index=13

Then try the 007 movie saxophones on Sedetegnash negn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI19uNS … l&index=10

There's also a French series of CDs called Ethiopiques that's well worth checking out.

There was a whole music scene in Addis Ababa in the Haile Selassie days.
Ethiopian Jazz, Ethiopian Soul...

hhh · Today 00:37:49

@johnraff, I just meant "real" as in "in the actual time of", as opposed to a neo-hippie like me (my friends and I were tie-dying t-shirts in 1981, lol). Also why I said "might be", you also might have been fully establishment or anything in between.

@Mark, of course they were, who else are you if you're late teens/early twenties in 1968?

And not the late '70s and '80s, that was post-punk, new wave, hair bands, yuppies and tons and tons and more tons of cocaine.

The counter-culture movement was less than a decade, mid-sixties to early '70s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countercu … _the_1960s

CSNY - Almost Cut My Hair (1970)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as5lE64J1hQ

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