“This band has the power to rip my spine out.” mrjohn1964 comment 12 years ago
I agree with mrjohn1964 on the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Consider this a musical VRR pause while I edit a garden session. I ran a session this morning that will probably send X amount of subscribers running for the cliff……again. I had a little bit of covid in my throat that was F-ing up the session. I have to edit it out.
The title to the session came to me near the end of the session, Manipulating The Matrix. Can we do it? Is it already being done by other beings? Maybe our Gov. How powerful are humans? This is the VRR going way out on the edge again. I might post it later today or tomorrow if I feel I explained it well enough. Attempting to explain the strange isn’t the easiest thing to do. I scramble to find words.
Enjoy Paul Butterfield while I work on it. Try and keep your spine.
Isn’t that a fucking unbelievable comment from Heaven Burgo. “So nice to see her young and happy.” Love it.
Nice music clip & love the classic 1967 Monterey Festival documentary as TV/PBS shows it alot now. Had to check out mom, who btw is wearing a thin, red "ribbon" & NOT a red bandanna. Geez, kids...
Whata great moniker - Heaven Burgo - & wonder if s/he is one of the Hippie kids w/counter-culture names from way back or just today's chosen funky online disguise for privacy?? haha Hard to know.
> MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL--40 YEARS AGO DOCUMENTARY - K & B ARCHIVES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnV34yEby - 2,354,399 views Posted Aug 21, 2020
Related to this era/time period, part of my yout-ful days, is this totally killer series by Dave McGowan. ICY'allMI > Inside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation: Part I - by Dave McGowan (May 8, 2008)
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/inside-the-lc-the-strange-but-mostly-true-story-of-laurel-canyon-and-the-birth-of-the-hippie-generation-part-i/
McGowan writes: "Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago – a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose, uhmm, ‘democracy’ on a sovereign nation."
"It is the first week of August, 1964, and U.S. warships under the command of U.S. Navy Admiral George Stephen Morrison have allegedly come under attack while patrolling Vietnam’s Tonkin Gulf. This event, subsequently dubbed the ‘Tonkin Gulf Incident,’ will result in the immediate passing by the U.S. Congress of the obviously pre-drafted Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which will, in turn, quickly lead to America’s deep immersion into the bloody Vietnam quagmire. Before it is over, well over fifty thousand American bodies – along with literally millions of Southeast Asian bodies – will litter the battlefields of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia."
"For the record, the Tonkin Gulf Incident appears to differ somewhat from other alleged provocations that have driven this country to war. This was not, as we have seen so many times before, a ‘false flag’ operation (which is to say, an operation that involves Uncle Sam attacking himself and then pointing an accusatory finger at someone else). It was also not, as we have also seen on more than one occasion, an attack that was quite deliberately provoked. No, what the Tonkin Gulf incident actually was, as it turns out, is an ‘attack’ that never took place at all. The entire incident, as has been all but officially acknowledged, was spun from whole cloth. (It is quite possible, however, that the intent was to provoke a defensive response, which could then be cast as an unprovoked attack on U.S ships. The ships in question were on an intelligence mission and were operating in a decidedly provocative manner. It is quite possible that when Vietnamese forces failed to respond as anticipated, Uncle Sam decided to just pretend as though they had.)"
"Nevertheless, by early February 1965, the U.S. will – without a declaration of war and with no valid reason to wage one – begin indiscriminately bombing North Vietnam. By March of that same year, the infamous “Operation Rolling Thunder” will have commenced. Over the course of the next three-and-a-half years, millions of tons of bombs, missiles, rockets, incendiary devices and chemical warfare agents will be dumped on the people of Vietnam in what can only be described as one of the worst crimes against humanity ever perpetrated on this planet."
"Also in March of 1965, the first uniformed U.S. soldier will officially set foot on Vietnamese soil (although Special Forces units masquerading as ‘advisers’ and ‘trainers’ had been there for at least four years, and likely much longer). By April 1965, fully 25,000 uniformed American kids, most still teenagers barely out of high school, will be slogging through the rice paddies of Vietnam. By the end of the year, U.S. troop strength will have surged to 200,000."
"Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new ‘scene’ is just beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon – a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, yet vaguely ominous slice of LA nestled in the hills that separate the Los Angeles basin from the San Fernando Valley – musicians, singers and songwriters suddenly begin to gather as though summoned there by some unseen Pied Piper. Within months, the ‘hippie/flower child’ movement will be given birth there, along with the new style of music that will provide the soundtrack for the tumultuous second half of the 1960s."
"An uncanny number of rock music superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon beginning in the mid-1960s and carrying through the decade of the 1970s. The first to drop an album will be The Byrds, whose biggest star will prove to be David Crosby. The band’s debut effort, “Mr. Tambourine Man,” will be released on the Summer Solstice of 1965. It will quickly be followed by releases from the John Phillips-led Mamas and the Papas (“If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears,” January 1966), Love with Arthur Lee (“Love,” May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (“Freak Out,” June 1966), Buffalo Springfield, featuring Stephen Stills and Neil Young (“Buffalo Springfield,” October 1966), and The Doors (“The Doors,” January 1967)."
...don't stop reading now... Yep, certainly "uncanny"... sorta like it might have been planned/arranged?
Do any others remember how quickly the teen/culture/clothes/music changed from 1963 to 1970??
From straight, old-timey suits & permed/teased up bubble-heads to long hair on everyone, mini-skirts & low-cut bell bottoms. It was a high-speed cultural transformation is a very short, forced time-span.
Love it...all of it...manipulating the Matrix, the young and happy pretty lady with the red bandana, an upcoming spooky session (can't wait!) and a "little bit of Covid in my throat" (sung to the tune of "A Little Bit of Monica" -ever hear that song?)
Manipulating the Matrix- extremely apropos this morning... I was listening to an interesting discussion last night, wherein someone I trust, put forth the possibility that the 2008-2009 housing crash was actually set up ON PURPOSE so that all the real property that still had outstanding debt, would be bought out by a foreign entity. THUS- a majority of Americans would own NOTHING and all be DISPLACED. If I had heard this even a few years ago I would not have believed it. BUT: due to all the MANIPULATIONS of US by our own "government" that have been exposed so far- I cannot out right dismiss this possibility. That is really disconcerting.