Woman is a cause of all evil by Branko Marečić Roth

Woman is a cause of all evil is dedicated to all female citizens of our planet.

Could be seen as quite provocative name, but isn’t is just a hint to our history in the dark time of primer positions of clerics and his along players, that is not unusual in past years getting on signification in our society, the so called Middle Age.

If you remember the parody of those brilliant English comedians from The Monty Python's Flying Circus when Arthur the King of all British people came in the village where a red-haired woman, sign for a witch, was prosecuted in a characteristically way….

Fact was to that time that you could be burned and before tortured for days only cause you didn’t be simpatico to one of the spy’s or other sympathizers of ruling society.

Not only female and male persons where prosecuted for future thoughts or just free spirit existence, what is today different, not much only topic of prosecuting causes.

Nowadays is something quite weird in the air, the society is getting poorer, richer more then ever, the gap is not to be closed, got to huge.

As we know in such situations people are returning to hope and bit abstract thoughts like religion, like every good businessman is such return welcome for the representative of the church and with bit of modern PR-work there you have quite fertile ground and not to forget to eliminate the concurrent flow.

And that is happening today on global ground, sometimes in front line sometime in background but is a constant process.

How it will end, not good for some one and perfect for the other one.

If you would like to read some interesting backgrounds books here are some of them:

Peter Godman’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum or several books of Johannes von Buttlar, political like CIA from two time Pulitzer winner Tim Weiner or Majestic 12 from Stanton T. Friedman.

Ah yes not to forget some days ago I had a discussion with one friend of me about God, it was going on for quite short time, ended after my question if God created everything, who created then God…. Or is God an Orphan?

So I hope you will like my choice of songs in this mix and some details to new artist.

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore.

The band took its name from Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, the title of which was a reference to a William Blake quotation: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."

The Doors' active career ended in 1973, after Morrison's death in 1971, their popularity has persisted.

In 1965 Morrison sad: "I was taking notes at a fantastic rock-n-roll concert going on in my head" and, with Manzarek's encouragement, sang "Moonlight Drive".

They were the first American band to accumulate eight consecutive gold LPs.

In 1993, The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The song L.A. Woman is from the L.A. Woman album from the year 1971.

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed as the New Yardbirds in 1968, the band consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham.

They are widely considered to be one of the most successful, innovative and influential rock groups in the history of music.

Led Zeppelin disbanded following Bonham's sudden death in 1980.

Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music artists, various sources estimate the group's sales at more than 200 or 300 million albums worldwide.

Baby I’m gonna leave you is from their debut album I from the year 1969.

Al Kooper is born as Alan Peter Kuperschmidt on February 5, 1944, he is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears.

He broth together guitarists Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills to record the Super Session album.

He continues to perform live to this day.

Michael Bernard "Mike" Bloomfield, July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981 was an American musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess.

Respected for his fluid guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends even before he achieved his own fame, was one of the primary influences on the mid-to-late 1960s revival of classic Chicago and other styles of blues music.

In 2003 he was ranked at number 22 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Stephen Arthur Stills is born on January 3, 1945, he is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young).

He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time.

Stills was ranked Nr. 28 in Rolling Stone Magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Stills became the first person to be inducted twice on the same night into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with CSN and the Buffalo Springfield.

The song Season of the Witch you can find on 1968 Super Session Album.

Cream were a 1960s British rock supergroup consisting of bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker.

Cream made a significant impact on the popular music of the time.

They provided a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed and influenced the emergence of British bands.

Cream were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

They were included in both Rolling Stone and VH1's lists of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". They were also ranked number 16 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".

The song Sunshine of my life you can find on their album Disraeli Gears from 1967.

The Allman Brothers Band is an American rock/blues band once based in Macon, Georgia.

The band was formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, organ, songwriting), who were supported by Dickey Betts (lead guitar, vocals, songwriting), Berry Oakley (bass guitar), Butch Trucks (drums), and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums).

In 1971 George Kimball of Rolling Stone magazine hailed them as "the best damn rock and roll band this country has produced in the past five years."

A few months later, group leader Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident.

The group survived that and the death of bassist Oakley in another motorcycle accident a year later; with replacement members Chuck Leavell and Lamar Williams, the Allman Brothers Band achieved its peak commercial success in 1973 with the album Brothers and Sisters and the hit single "Ramblin' Man".

The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

Rolling Stone ranked them 52nd on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004.

Black hearted woman you can find on the self titled album The Allman Brothers Band from the year 1969.

Eric Patrick Clapton, born on 30 March 1945 is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter.

Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream.

Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time after Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Keith Richards.

In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.

The core is from 1977 album Slowhand.

To The Guess Who some details you can find on mix BabyFace, the song American Woman is from same titled album from 1970.

The Grand Funk Railroad is as well to be found on Baby Face, the song Hooked on love is from Closer to home album from 1970. 


Creedence Clearwater Revival CCR was as topic on Your life time is a fairytale and the song Suzie Q you can find on self titled album from 1968.

Quick Silver Messenger Service you can find on the mix Jam Session & Your life time is a fairytale, the song Babe I’m gonna leave you is from Sons of Mercury.

Joe Cocker is on What about it? mix to find, the song Woman to Woman is from 1973 album Something to say.

Deep Purple was already on mix Jam Session & One Different Side, the song Lalena is from Deep Purple album from the year 1969 a following line-up:

Rod Evans - lead vocals

Ritchie Blackmore - guitar

Nick Simper - bass, backing vocals

Jon Lord - organ, backing vocals

Ian Paice - drums

Woman is a cause of all evil:

01. L.A. Woman -The Doors
02. American woman - The Guess Who
03. Hooked on love - Grand Funk Railroad 
04. Suzie Q - CCR
05. Babe I'm gonna leave you - Led Zeppelin
06. Season of the witch - Bloomfield, Kooper & Stills
07. Sunshine of my life - Cream
08. Black hearted woman - The Allman Brothers Band
09. Babe I'm gonna leave you - Quick Silver Messenger Service
10. The core - Eric Clapton
11. Woman to woman - Joe Cocker
12. Lalena - Deep Purple 

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I hope you liked my choice.

Peace

Monterey International Pop Music Festival

Beside Woodstock and Festival Express is Monterey International Pop Music Festival, in full name, one of those three that gave direction for coming generations as primus, because was held in 1967 and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967.

Monterey Pop Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18.

Monterey was the first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival with a climax performance at midnight on Sunday, the artists performed for free with all revenue donated to charity.

The promoters saw the Monterey Pop festival as a way to validate rock music as an art form in the way jazz and folk were regarded, well known Monterey Jazz and Monterey Folk Festivals.

Many aspects of The Monterey International Pop Festival were firsts: although the audience was predominantly white, Monterey's bill crossed musical boundaries, mixing folk, blues, jazz, soul, R&B, rock, psychedelia, pop and classical genres, boasting a line-up that put established stars like The Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel and The Byrds alongside groundbreaking new acts from the UK, the USA, South Africa and India and the introduction to a large white audience of Otis Redding.

The festival launched the careers of many who played there, making some of them into stars virtually overnight, including Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Canned Heat, Otis Redding, Steve Miller and Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and hosted some of legendary performances of musicians like Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

The festival was the subject of an acclaimeddocumentary movie entitled Monterey Pop by noted documentary filmmaker D.A.Pennebaker.

Performers:

Friday, June 16:

The Association

The Paupers

Lou Rawls

Beverly

Johnny Rivers

Eric Burdon and The Animals

Simon and Garfunkel

Saturday, June 17:

Canned Heat

Big Brother and the Holding Company

Country Joe and the Fish

Al Kooper

The Butterfield Blues Band

The Electric Flag

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Steve Miller Band

Moby Grape

Hugh Masekela

The Byrds

Laura Nyro

Jefferson Airplane

Booker T. & the M.G.s

Otis Redding

Sunday, June 18:

Ravi Shankar

The Blues Project

Big Brother and the Holding Company

The Group With No Name

Buffalo Springfield (played with David Crosby)

The Who

The Grateful Dead

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Scott McKenzie

The Mamas & the Papas

I hope that I could remind you to one of greatest happenings in rock history or to give you a hint to something new for you….

Peace

Baby face by Branko Marečić Roth

Today during my big toilette business I red something about new progress for safe production of electricity.

Solution, really serious solution should be atomic electricity factories in deep blue see, called “Flexblue”.

Just in that moment felt piece of shit from my ass into the toilet.

The idea came from a French firm DCNS, with Areva nuclear corporation, and in three years their will be capable to built a prototype and after it is not much to series production of “Flexblue”.

Imagine something go wrong in the deep blue see!

Now I really believe we will stop then when we blow this planet away, and then we will stop for only one reason, cause their will be no more human beings to do bullshit any more, other wise nothing can stop us.

Hurray!!!! J

So for that are the last sentences in the song from The Guess Who so important and other reasons as well.

To Grand Funk Railroad is one detail, I found once in a shop a presentation of their tour in ’71 for hearing, it is not the live album from ‘70 as double one, it is a take of their tour in ‘71 and called “Live: The 1971 Tour”, I never heard better rock live performance as is this one.

Paranoid was chosen as display of our daily surveillance life.

In week or two I will made a post to that album.

So let us take a short look to some new artists that are in following mix.

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City. First active from 1964 to 1973, their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, the band is often cited by many critics as one of the most important and influential groups of the 1960s.

Andy Warhol managed the Velvet Underground and it was the house band at his studio, the Factory, and his Exploding Plastic Inevitable events.

Their 1967 debut album, titled The Velvet Underground & Nico was named the 13th Greatest Album of All Time, and the "most prophetic rock album ever made" by Rolling Stone in 2003.

The Gift you can find on 1967 album White Light/White Heat.

Grand Funk Railroad is an American rock band, formed in 1969, that was highly popular during the 1970s.

Grand Funk Railroad toured constantly to packed arenas worldwide.

In 1970, they sold more albums than any other American band and became a major concert attraction.

By 1971, Grand Funk broke The Beatles' Shea Stadium attendance record by selling out in just 72 hours.

In 2005 Grand Funk Railroad was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame.

The song Paranoid you can find on red album from 1970 Grand Funk Railroad.

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a folk rock supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young.

The trio's first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash, was released in May 1969 and was an immediate hit.

Atlantic label head Ahmet Ertegün suggested Canadian singer/songwriter Neil Young as fourth member and Greg Reeves on bass, to give the group missed part and formation to be able to tour.

With Young on board, the restructured group went on tour in the late summer of 1969 through the following January.

Their first gig was on Aug. 17, 1969 at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago with Joni Mitchell as their opening act. They mentioned they were going to some place called Woodstock the next day, but they had no idea where that was.

In April 1970, Greg Reeves began behaving erratically and was fired by Stills. Reeves were replaced by Calvin "Fuzzy" Samuels.

CSNY's music unerringly reflected the tastes and viewpoints of the counterculture as the calendar rolled over from the sixties to the seventies. By 1970, with protest against both the establishment and the Vietnam War gearing up, the group made no secret of their political leanings, Crosby in particular.

The song Almost cut my hair you can find on 1970 album Déjà Vu.

The Jeff Beck Group was an English rock band formed in London in January 1967 by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck. Their innovative approach to heavy sounding blues and R&B was a major influence on popular music.

The first Jeff Beck Group formed in London in early 1967 and included guitarist Jeff Beck, vocalist Rod Stewart, rhythm guitarist Ronnie Wood, with bass players and drummers changing regularly.

In 1968 their went to a short tour to U.S. with first stop at Fillmore East  where they played second on the bill to The Grateful Dead.

They apparently took the town by storm.

The fans were in a state of pandemonium the likes of which hadn't been witnessed since The Beatles hit town.

The song Sweet little angel you can find on the 1969 album Beck-Ola.

The Guess Who is a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

As the group's lineup changed, so did their sound. Cummings and guitarist Randy Bachman were now the band's main composers, and they moved away from Merseybeat-inspired rock to a sound that mixed rock, blues, and jazz.

By the beginning of the 1970s, The Guess Who had moved toward an edgier hard-rock sound with the album American Woman.

In the spring of 1970, Bachman was sidelined by a gall bladder attack and Bachman left the group after playing one final show with them at the Fillmore East in New York City on May 16, 1970.

In November 1977 CBC approached the band about doing a reunion.

Cause of solo carriers there was no interest in reunion, Jim Kale asked to get the permission to use one-time the name Guess Who in 1977 from Bachman and Cummings, they both gave him their blessing for the one-time use, but soon after, Kale found out that the name "The Guess Who" had never been registered.

He promptly drove back to Winnipeg to register it, and maintains control of the band name to this day.

Three more days you can find on the album from 1970 Share the land.

For more details and appearing of following artist just click on their names, Jimi Hendrix, Santana & The Blind Faith.

Baby face:

01. Burnin' desire - Jimi Hendrix

02. Soul sacrifice - Santana

03. The gift - The Velvet Underground

04. Hope You're Feeling Better - Santana

05. Paranoid - The Grand Funk Railroad

06. Do what you like - The Blind Faith

07. Almost cut my hair - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

08. Sweet little angel - The Jeff Beck Group

09. Three more days - The Guess Who

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Santana - Lotus 1973

This is one of my favorite live albums, when you read the artist who was playing on that tour way back in 1973 in Japan I am shore you will understand it from that point of view with out listening this virtous at work.

I hope you will enjoy as well in this choice of unique jazz fusion. 

In 1973, Santana, having obtained legal rights to the band's name, Santana, formed a new version of the band, Santana, with Armando Peraza and Chepito Areas on percussion, Doug Rauch on bass, Michael Shrieve on drums, and Tom Coster and Richard Kermode on keyboards.

Santana was later able to recruit jazz vocalist Leon Thomas for a tour of Japan, which was recorded for the live, sprawling, high-energy fusion album Lotus.

CBS records would not allow its release unless the material was condensed. Santana did not agree to those terms, and the album was available in the U.S. only as an expensive, imported, three-records.

Armando Peraza is born ca. May 30, 1924 in Havana, Cuba a Latin jazz percussionist.

Born in Lawton Batista, he was orphaned by age 7 and lived on the streets, making a living selling vegetables.

A natural musician, a chance encounter at a baseball game led to his first professional gig with famous local bandleader Alberto Ruiz. He then made his reputation as drummer and dancer playing with the cream of Havana's small bands or "conjuntos", the most famous being Ruiz's Conjunto Kubavana.

He left Cuba for Mexico in 1948 to tend to his sick friend, conga drummer Mongo Santamaría. They subsequently arrived in New York City in 1949, where after sitting in with Machito's big band, Peraza was personally requested by the great Charlie Parker to participate on a record date with Parker, Buddy Rich and many others.

José Chepito Areas, born July 25, 1946 in León, Nicaragua is a Nicaraguan percussionist. 

He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 as a percussionist for Santana, which he was from 1969-1980. Performing as well on Woodstock Festival.

Douglas Haywood Rauch (14 September 1950 – 23 April 1979) was an American bassist most famous for his work with Carlos Santana during his jazz fusion period in the early 1970s.

Doug Rauch died of a heroin overdose in San Francisco, at the age of 28.

Michael Shrieve, born July 6, 1949, in San Francisco is an American drummer, percussionist, and later, an electronic music composer. He is best known as the drummer in Carlos Santana's eponymous band, playing on their first eight albums from 1969 through 1974. 

His performance at the 1969 Woodstock festival, when he was just 20 years old, made him one of the youngest musicians to perform at the festival. Shrieve's drum solo during an extended version of "Soul Sacrifice" in the Woodstock film has been described as "electrifying".

Tom Coster, born August 21, 1941 is an American keyboardist and composer. Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the U.S. Air Force Band.

Some of Coster's best known compositions include "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)", "Flor D'Luna (Moonflower)" and "Dance, Sister, Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)" performed by Santana.

Richard Kermode born October 5, 1946 - January 16, 1996, was one of the most respected musicians in the 1960’s, want to be a jazz player.

When Richard in 1969 went to take that immense talent to California as premier jazz keyboardist, he had no way of knowing he would end up on multi platinum and gold albums as keyboardist with both Janis Joplin, with whom he recorded “Kozmic Blues”, and with Carlos Santana.

He was touring with the likes of Joplin, Santana, and Malo. He recorded with those stars as well as Patti LaBelle.

He even experienced Woodstock first hand as keyboardist for Janis Joplin. He passed away in January of 1996 at the age of 49.

Amos Leon Thomas Jr (October 4, 1937 - May 8, 1999) was an American avant garde jazz singer from East St. Louis, Illinois.

Thomas studied music at Tennessee State University. In the 1960s he was a vocalist for Count Basie and others.

Thomas is best known for his work with Pharoah Sanders, particularly the 1969 song "The Creator Has a Master Plan" from Sanders' Karma album.

Guitarist Carlos Santana is one of rock’s true virtuosos and guiding lights. Since 1966, he has led the group that bears his surname, selling over 30 million albums and performing before 13 million people. 

Though numerous musicians have passed through Santana’s ranks, the continuing presence of Carlos Santana at the helm has insured high standards. From the earliest days, when Santana first overlaid Afro-Latin rhythms upon a base of driving blues-rock, they have been musical sorcerers.

Underlying it all is Santana’s belief that music should “create a bridge so people can have more trust and hope in humanity.”

"The '60s were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa, they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves."

- Carlos Santana

What about it? by Branko Marečić Roth

What about it? is one quite awaraged mix, rock hour with some nice and easy blues and folk slide songs, just to spend an hour with music.

There are two artists that I would like to say something about them, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones, this two parts are for me simply PR success, none of them, David Bowie and lead singer Mick Jagger can sing, complete disaster as singers.

Jagger is shacking most of time his tush and openening his huge mouth with juggling effect, Bowie sing as 1.st class mutating schoolboy, monosyllabic, but their where pushed and high stylized by a machinery and that is success in such world that we allowed it to become.

But I am really glad to got ZZ Top on this mix, the oldest band in original line out since their formation, with one of the best guitar player in my eyes in top 5 beside Hendrix, SRV, Santana & Satriani, Billy Gibbons.

There is beside them one of unknown groups from Greece, Aphrodite’s Child that made only few albums back in 70’s and my favorite Rock group of newer days The Black Crowes, that is such a pity that those guys didn’t lived in the 60’s and 70’s, their where for sure huge stars of that time, is the only band that really could be named in one row with the oldschool rock & roll band’s of first hour, their album The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion is just a pure bliss.

Lou Reed my favorite song writer is with his legendary song Take a walk on the wild side as well present, Joe Cocker the best white voice beside Van Morrison, whom I saw last year in concert still got the voice this Woodstock legend.

And Janis Joplin one from the Club 27, people who died in 27^th year of their life, like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, as well Jean-Michel Basquiet the painter, what a lostes when your read this creative names….

But still shining unforgotten spirits.

And there is an sad sad moment to be reminded of Levon Helm who passed away few days ago from The Band.

So let us take a short look to the artists and bands from this mix.

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, born 20 May 1944, is an English rock and blues singer, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known, for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing.

In 1960, along with three friends, Cocker formed his first group, the Cavaliers.

In 1966, after a year-long hiatus from music, Cocker teamed up with Chris Stainton, whom he had met several years before, to form the Grease Band.

The Grease Band came to the attention of Denny Cordell, the producer of Procol Harum, the Moody Blues and Georgie Fame.

During his US tour, Cocker played at several large festivals, including the Newport Rock Festival and the Denver Pop Festival.

In August, Denny Cordell heard about the planned concert in Woodstock, New York and convinced organizer Artie Kornfeld to book Cocker and the Grease Band for the Woodstock Festival.

The group had to be flown into the festival by helicopter due to the large crowds.

They performed several songs, including "Delta Lady", "Something's Comin' On", "Let's Go Get Stoned", "I Shall Be Released", and "With a Little Help from My Friends".

Cocker would later say that the experience was "like an eclipse... it was a very special day."

Black-eyed blues you can find on 1972 album “Joe Cocker” not to be seen as his second album “Joe Cocker!”.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix is born as Johnny Allen Hendrix in November the 27.-th in 1942, died in September the 18.-th in 1970, was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter.

Jimi is the greatest electric guitarist in music history and one of the most influential musicians of his era.

Hendrix was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James, rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery.

In 1966, Hendrix stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice".

Jimi Hendrix was part Cherokee, his paternal great-great grandmother being a full-blooded Cherokee from Georgia.

Hendrix has being inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated in 1994.

In 2006, his debut US album, Are You Experienced, was inducted into the United States National Recording Registry.

In 2003 Rolling Stone named Hendrix the top guitarist on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all-time.

Janis Lyn Joplin, born January 19, 1943 and died October 4, 1970 was an American singer and songwriter.

As a youth Joplin was ridiculed by her fellow students due to her unconventional appearance and personal beliefs.

She later sang about her experience at school through her song "Ego Rock." Early in her life, Joplin cultivated a rebellious and unconventional lifestyle, becoming a beatnik poet.

She began her singing career as a folk and blues singer in San Francisco, playing clubs and bars with her guitar and auto-harp.

Janis Joplin only charted five singles in her life but her hits and other popular songs from throughout her short four year career.

Joplin was well known for her performing abilities and her fans referred to her stage presence as electric. At the height of her career, she was known as "The Queen of Rock and Roll" as well as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul" and became known as Pearl amongst her friends.

As good as you've been to… you can find on her album Cozmic Blues from the year 1969.

Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack Jr., is better known by the stage name Dr. John, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.

Dr. John is active as a session musician since the late 1950s.

Rebennack's career as a guitarist came to an end when his left ring finger was injured by a gunshot while he was defending singer/keyboardist Ronnie Barron.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Rebennack gained fame as a solo artist after adopting the persona of "Dr. John, The Night Tripper". Dr. John's act combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues with psychedelic rock and elaborate stage shows that bordered on voodoo religious ceremonies, including elaborate costumes and headdress.

In January 2008, Mac Rebennack, Dr. John, was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

Black widow spider you can find on his album Babylon from the year 1968.

Bloomfield & Hammond & Dr.John in 1973 an album called Triumvirate was made by them.

Michael Bernard "Mike" Bloomfield, July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981 was an American musician, guitarist, and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois, who became one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess.

Respected for his fluid guitar playing, Bloomfield knew and played with many of Chicago's blues legends even before he achieved his own fame, was one of the primary influences on the mid-to-late 1960s revival of classic Chicago and other styles of blues music.

In 2003 he was ranked at number 22 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

John Paul Hammond, born November 13, 1942 is an American blues singer and guitarist.

The son of record producer John H. Hammond, he is sometimes referred to as "John Hammond, Jr.".

He befriended and recorded with many electric blues musicians in New York, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, The Hawks (later known as The Band), Dr. John and Duane Allman.

He is the only person who ever had both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in his band at the same time, if only for five days in the 1960s when Hammond played The Gaslight Cafe in New York City.

To his regret, they never recorded together. It has been suggested by at least one author that Hammond deserves some credit for helping boost The Band to wider recognition. He recorded with several of the members of The Band in 1965, and recommended them to Bob Dylan, with whom they undertook a famed and tumultuous world tour.

ZZ Top is an American rock band from Houston, Texas. Formed in 1969, the group consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar and vocals), Dusty Hill (bass and vocals), and Frank Beard (drums and percussion).

Maintaining the same members for over forty years, ZZ Top has released 14 studio albums and are among the most popular rock group.

The break extended to two years 76-78, during which Gibbons and Hill grew chest-length beards:

“        Bill [Ham] called a band meeting, and when the three members arrived, they noticed something had changed during their time apart. They had always had some form of facial hair, with Frank usually sporting a mustache, while Billy and Dusty had scruffy little beards no more than an inch or two long. Things were quite different now. "I walk into the room, and I'm lookin' at a guy I think I know," Billy laughs. "My beard has grown to doormat proportions. And I realize that Dusty had done the same thing." Ironically, Frank Beard was the only clean-shaven member, having hacked off his mustache and goatee so he would look presentable for the meeting.

La grange you can find on their album Tres Hombres from 1973.

David Bowie is born as David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947, an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger.

Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart.

He is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth and eclecticism of his work.

Bowie studied art, music, and design, including layout and typesetting.

The man who sold the world you can find on his album from 1970.

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962.

First popular in Europe, The Rolling Stones quickly became successful in North America during the British Invasion of the mid 1960s.

Members:

Mick Jagger

Keith Richards

Charlie Watts

Ronnie Wood

Past members:

Brian Jones

Ian Stewart

Tony Chapman

Dick Taylor

Bill Wyman

Mick Taylor

On 12 July 1962 the band played their first gig at the Marquee Club billed as "The Rollin' Stones".

The line-up was Jagger, Richards and Jones, along with Stewart on piano, Taylor on bass and Chapman on drums.

Bassist Bill Wyman joined in December 1962 and drummer Charlie Watts the following January 1963 to form the band's long-standing rhythm section.

The Rolling Stones are notable in modern popular music for assimilating various musical genres into their own collective sound. Throughout the band's career, their musical contributions have been marked by a continual reference and reliance on musical styles including blues, rhythm and blues, country, folk, reggae, dance, and world music, exemplified by Jones' collaboration with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, as well as traditional English styles that use stringed instrumentation like harps.

The song Time waits for no one you can find on their album It’s only Rock ‘n’ Roll from the year 1974.

The Band: Rick Danko on bass, violin and vocals; Levon Helm on drums, mandolin and vocals; Garth Hudson on keyboards and saxophone; Richard Manuel on keyboards, percussion and vocals; and guitarist-songwriter Robbie Robertson.

The group started out in the late 1950s as a rock and roll band led by Ronnie Hawkins, the group backed Bob Dylan in the 1960s.

The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group, all five members were notable musicians in their own right.

They were briefly known as the Levon Helm Sextet with sax player Jerry Penfound being the sixth member.

Bob Dylan recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for his U.S. tour in 1965 and world tour in 1966.

Because they were always "the band" to various frontmen, Helm said the name "The Band" worked well when the group came into its own.

The Band broke up in 1976, officially ending their touring career with an elaborate live ballroom performance featuring numerous musical celebrities. This performance was immortalized in Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary The Last Waltz.

Mystery Train you can find on Moondog Matinee from 1973.

Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in Luton, Bedfordshire, in December 1967.

Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969, after he replaced Mick Abrahams.

One of the world's best-selling music artists, the band have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide in a career that has spanned more than forty years.

Members:

Ian Anderson

Martin Barre

Doane Perry

David Goodier

John O'Hara

The song The song for Jeffrey you can find on This was from the year 1968 their debut album, Fat man is from the album Stand Up from the year 1969.

Aphrodite's Child was a Greek progressive rock band formed in 1967, by Vangelis Papathanassiou (keyboards), Demis Roussos (bass guitar and vocals), Loukas Sideras (drums and vocals), and Anargyros "Silver" Koulouris (guitar).

Back in ’72, Aphrodite’s Child was a band on the verge of break-up.

Having had a very successful pop career and selling over 20 million records by that point, the direction in which Vangelis was trying to take their music did not sit well with Demis Roussos who, as we know, eventually decided to represent the unbelievably sappy ’70s pop song scene.

Vangelis squeezed this album out of Demis Roussos and the others in the band whether they liked it or not and how glad I am he did!…

The four horsemen is from the 1972 album 666.

The Black Crowes are an American rock band formed in 1989.

The band has opened for various rock acts such as Heart, Robert Plant, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Dave Matthews Band, the Grateful Dead, Aerosmith and ZZ Top, and performed live with Jimmy Page and Oasis, among others.

They were also labeled by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World" and the readers of Rolling Stone voted them 'Best New American Band' in 1990.

The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion from 1992 include the song Thorn in my praide.

Van Morrison, born as George Ivan Morrison at 31.-th of August 1945, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.

He raised to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorded the garage band classic "Gloria".

Morrison established as a major artist, and throughout the 1970s he built on his reputation with a series of critically acclaimed albums and live performances.

Morrison has received considerable acclaim, including six Grammy Awards, being inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and appearing on several "Greatest Artists" lists.

You don't pull no punches, but you don't push the river is from Veedon Fleece from the year 1974.

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, born on March 2, 1942 is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer.

He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his solo career, which has spanned several decades.

As the Velvet Underground's principal songwriter, Reed wrote about subjects of personal experience that rarely had been examined so openly in rock and roll, including sexuality and drug culture.

Reed's work as a solo artist frustrated critics wishing for a return of the Velvet Underground.

I recommend personally to understand this opinion the following album

Metal Machine Music from the year 1975.

"No one is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive."

                                      Lou Reed

Walk on the wild side is from Transformer from the year 1972.

What about it ? :

01. Black-eyed blues - Joe Cocker

02. Wait until tomorrow - Jimi Hendrix

03. As good as you've been to… - Janis Joplin

04. Black widow spider - Dr. John

05. Baby let me kiss you - Bloomfield & Hammond & Dr.John

06. La grange - ZZ Top

07. The man who sold the world - David Bowie

08. Time waits for no one - The Rolling Stones

09. Mystery train - The Band

10. The song for Jeffrey - Jethro Tull

11. Fat man - Jethro Tull

12. The four horsemen - Aphrodites Child

13. Thorn in my praide - The Black Crowes

14. You don't pull no punches, but you don't push the river - Van

Morrison

15. Walk on the wild side - Lou Reed

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