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Jimmy Before He was Jimi

July 26, 2017 – 4:17 am

Jimi Hendrix Shotgun Live 1965 Night Train Backing Buddy & Stacey. Oldest Known Film Footage of Jimi Hendrix Playing Guitar On Nashville’s Channel 5 To see this VDO please go to the following URL http://www.zappinternet.com/video/tavTfoFhuR/El-primer-video-de-Jimi-Hendrix/

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Monterey Pop Festival 1967

June 18, 2017 – 10:52 pm

Fifty years ago the Monterey Pop Festival was held south of San Francisco. “Three days of understanding. Even the cops grooved with us,” sang Eric Burdon of the Animals later. Many regarded the gathering of 60,000 counter-culture music fans to be the opening act of the famed Summer of Love. Check out the line-up. Friday […]

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YELLOW BIRD – WINSTON GROOVY

May 14, 2017 – 4:05 pm

According to wikipedia Choucoune is a 19th-century Haitian song composed by Michel Mauléart Monton with lyrics from a poem by Oswald Durand. It was rewritten with English lyrics in the 20th century as Yellow Bird. One of Oswald Durand’s most famous works, the 1883 Choucoune is a lyrical poem that praises the beauty of a […]

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Johnny Rotten Lives

March 20, 2017 – 2:50 am

In the winter of 1977 GOD SAVE THE QUEEN hit the jukebox of CBGB’s. Punk had gone international. The song was #1 on the UK charts without getting airplay and the Sex Pistols further immortalized the hit by playing the nihilistic anthem on a Thames River cruise. The band never performed in New York, but the words to ANARCHY […]

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SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN / Chuck Berry

March 19, 2017 – 7:31 pm

Back in December 1959 Chuck Berry invited a Apache girl from Yuma, Arizona to work at his club in St. Louis. Police arrested the rocker on charges of violating the Mann Act i.e. transporting a minors over state lines. The girl was charged with prostitution and testified that she and Berry had had sex numerous […]

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