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Mickey Richaud

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Listenin' to the long version on Yahoo Music right now.

Forgot how savage that drum solo was! :banana: :banana:
 
But the bananas are a bit off-tempo...
 
One of the very first songs I learned to play on my guitar way back when it was new!!
 
And now it's Santana's "Soul Sacrifice"!

More drums!
 
Mickey Richaud said:
And now it's Santana's "Soul Sacrifice"!

More drums!
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'Nanners are closer to the beat, too...
 
Have it on my iPod.

I saw Iron Butterfly do <span style="font-style: italic">In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida</span> at the Spectrum in Philly, in late '68.

Sly & Family Stone and the Grateful Dead were also there (and CCR was supposed to be, but they cancelled).

I was a freshman at Trenton State College (now "TCNJ") at the time.
I rememeber I was going out with girl (who's Dad was a minister!).
She had a neat Mustang that I drove to the concert.

I can't rememeber her name but I rememeber the Mustang was a '66, it was dark green and had the optional 225 HP engine.
So much for my priorities. :jester:
 
I had a '66 Ivy green Mustang at that time. 289 3 speed. Funny how some of the girl's names I have forgotten, but I won't forget the Mustang. I want another one some day!
 
In 68 (right before I left for the Marines) I was driving a 1961 BUGEYE!!!!
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Listenin' to the long version on Yahoo Music right now.

Forgot how savage that drum solo was! :banana: :banana:
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I saw Iron Butterfly perform at the Illinois State Fair in 1968 or 69.

The drum solo was about 25 minutes long.

For a mis-match of an opening act, they had Tommy James and the Shondells.

Fast-forward to this week..forty years later..and I watched some of the members of Iron Butterfly perform this very song....on a PBS television program. Who woulda thunk?!
 
'69... First year of college, a new-to-me three year old MGB, future ex-wife as a S.O. We passed on the Woodstock trip so we could have the money to get to the Watkins Glen F-1. Had the FIRST Iron Butterfly "album"... Still have the LP.

:jester:
 
Oooh! All these flash-backs!!!! All I can say is I WAS back then...in '69, my vehicle was a '56 Pontiac hearse painted flat, hot-rod primer black with gold Old English Gothic lettering, "The Grave Undertaking"! :devilgrin: If I dug into the old album boxes, I'm sure there's an old and possibly even still playable copy of Iron Butterfly!
 
:lol:

...youngin'... :smile:
 
I was only 7 in 69 and my parents would not let me go....




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DrEntropy said:
:lol:

...youngin'... :smile:
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yup, 1970? tenn state, third row, "yes", rick wakeman drops out da cielin playin keyboard inna mushroom, stayed for one tune had ta leave, migraine head ach fa three days, ah these kids dont know what theyve missed.
 
Geez, & I'm sitting here remembering The Lettermen & Kingston Trio concerts!
 
tony barnhill said:
...sitting here remembering The Lettermen & Kingston Trio concerts!
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Re the Kingston Trio - I only learned recently that the SF "Hungry I" stood for "Hungry Id". Always thought it was "Hungry Intellectual".

Bought my first house in '68 - paid $22900! I was driving a '64 Corvair Coupe with turbo then.
 
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