Today’s Music to keep me SANE in Isolation – Early Pink Floyd

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Today I’ve been playing early Pink Floyd – psychedelic warriors from the London sixties underground.

Back in the day I would go to places like Middle Earth, UFO and the Roundhouse. Pink Floyd were the exciting house band with their light show and extended, mesmerising sounds. Nobody had heard anything like it. We used to dance!!

I was lucky enough to see them with Syd and then when Dave took over. They were exciting. Free concerts in Hyde Park, Parliament Fields and gigs at Fishmongers Arms and Eel Pie Island. Great times and great memories.

Back in those days they either played for free or for a ridiculous amount like 12p. I remember seeing them and Blossom Toes on Eel Pie Island for a staggering 18p.

I was slow to adapt. When they later became a stadium band I stopped going. Having seen them in small clubs for next to nothing I could not see why anyone would pay a fortune (pounds) to go and see tiny specks in the distance and a cruddy sound system. I missed out. I hadn’t appreciated the change in technology and different nature of the spectacle. We live and learn.

Anyway, today I play those early albums loud and true!

Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd

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I’ve always loved Pink Floyd right back from their days as an underground psychedelic band at UFO. They were the band that epitomised those heady days of the 60s to me – a time full of idealism and experimentation. I used to see them in pubs and free concerts. My life seemed to revolve around UFO, Middle Earth, the Toby Jug, Eel Pie Island, Klooks Kleek and Les Cousins. That’s where we all met up.

This track harks back to the glory days of 1967-70 when we really thought we had the establishment on the run and were creating a new world without the greed and selfishness. Such naïve boldness. Such camaraderie and high hopes.

This track fills me with nostalgia and reminds me of the good friends that are no longer with us. We shared some good times and many laughs. Tony and Danny I wish you were here.

“Wish You Were Here”

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

Radio Show – Sixties Psychedelia – The MP3 of the show

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Well – fame at last!!! Our Psychedelic Radio show has just been taken up and broadcast three times!!!
Hollywood beckons!!!
Unfortunately you probably have to be in intensive care to hear it!! Our show went out in Hull and East Riding hospitals.
I thought I’d put it out again for all of you who are not in intensive care in Hull and Yorkshire!
We had great fun putting it together.

If you want to hear the radio show you have to click on the ‘View Original show’ button!

Poetry – Keep on Rockin’ – A piece of doggerel for the Sixties rock scene.

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Keep on Rockin’

For me there were a number of eras of rock excellence. The thirties acoustic blues, the fifties rock n roll or Chicago blues, the early sixties Greenwich Village folk, British beat and r&b, then the late sixties underground and the seventies punk. But if I have to pick an era it has to be the late sixties. That was when music exploded and anything was possible. It was when the world was flooded with a wave of optimism and possibility, an age of experimentation and fusion. That was an age that suited my personality. It was a revolution that threw out old values and sought to create some better ones.  It certainly allowed me to explore, think and expand my mind.

Back then I was out three nights a week rockin’ to Jimi, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Roy Harper Traffic, Tomorrow, Free, Edgar Broughton, Nice, Chicken Shack, Tomorrow and Floyd. Dylan was never far from my turn table and I got to see all those brilliant West Coast bands – Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Grateful Dead, Doors, Love, Country Joe and the Fish, Buffalo Springfield, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, Byrds and Mothers of Invention. I’d been knocked out by Phil Ochs, Paul Butterfield, the Who, Small Faces, Pretty Things and Janis with Big Brother. Then there was Cohen, Bert and John, Donovan, Jackson C Frank and John Mayall. The Fugs and Velvets brought an East Coast realism. Joni, CSN&Y brought harmony and Neil brought energy.

So much was going on. You did not have time to catch your breath.

It went on and on. I thought it would never end.

We were having a Bonzo. John Peel was our Guru.

Anyway – I wrote a bit of doggerel that you might like to pick over and tease out some of the names. There are a few more obscure.

I was playing. But it is also a bit of a homage.

 

Keep on Rockin’

 

Country Joe was grateful as the airplane flew

From Buffalo with invention when that feeling grew.

Love flew like the byrds while velvets walked the streets

It was canned tomorrow for a bunch of cosmic freaks.

 

Doors flew open as magic filled the land.

We’d been devoid of Floyd but now we understand.

The cream of the traffic was a family of mac.

As Dylan had foretold there was no looking back.

 

We were all sunshine supermen across the universe,

Floating on a cosmic stream that skipped from verse to verse,

And I’ve been harping on with big brother in a fug

Where every stone is lifted a beetle runs amok.

 

Well I’ve been zapped with quicksilver, convention and who?

And experienced  with Jimi, the look on a small face with you.

But a field can make it happen as we all make for free,

As we peeled back with more reason, so that we all could see.

 

I, like a cross bee, shall stay young with Joni

And plant the ochs of a different tree, based on Guthrie, and sanity.

For music’s been my inspiration as my consciousness flows

Along that golden stirring, as that syncopation grows.

 

Opher 7.12.2015

Radio Show Psychedelic Sixties – Just got back from the recording studio!

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I’ve just returned from recording our second radio show. Mike is a great friend of mine. He used to be the Roadie with Free, Bad Company and Robin Trower. We’ve been messing about doing some Radio shows on Rock Music. We’ve got seventy roughly planned out. Our first show was Merseybeat and this second one is Sixties Psychedelia.

We’ve been doing these as 1 hour Radio Shows. So far nobody wants to put them out but we’re enjoying making them.

What do you think we should do next?

Rock ‘n’ Roll?

Electric Blues of the 1950s?

West Coast Acid Rock?

Punk?

I’ll get this converted to an MP3 and put it out on the blog as soon as I can. I’m going to listen to it now!

Pink Floyd – Shine on you Crazy Diamond – a song for Syd Barrett.

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Syd was the driving force behind Psychedelia. His fantastic lyrics and musical concepts created a new genre. There was nothing like it. Many people tried to copy but they lacked Syd’s imagination and touch. He was an incredibly imaginative person.

Syd is the highest profile Acid casualty. I don’t know if it was the acid or an inherent mental illness. Perhaps the acid precipitated what was already lurking? Perhaps the genius was tied up with the mental illness? Who knows.

All I know is that when I met Syd he was gone. His eyes were those black holes. His speech was slow and labouring. Too much acid had certainly done him no good. Or was it too much dope?

I’ve seen the same thing with two of my friends. One committed suicide at the age of twenty one and the other has recurrent problems following a bad acid experience at Glastonbury.

This song was written as a tribute to Syd’s genius. Pink Floyd are a formidable band; one of the best. They were different without Syd but still brilliant. Syd gave them the kick-start and impetus. He’s gone but not forgotten. He never did shine again. What a great shame.

Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond lyrics

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.

Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger,
You legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,
You piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and I’ll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we’ll bask in the shadow of yesterday’s triumph,
And sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!

Pink Floyd – Money – lyrics

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The inequality is the root of most of the problems in the world. There are trillionaires buying Lear jets, mansions and yachts while one third of the world starve. The jobless starving are desperate to migrate to somewhere where they can get a job and make a life. The desperate turn to superstition and fundamental religion. The hatred breeds racism, misogyny and war.

It is crazy.

Yet most people get on the merry-go-round in search of happiness through wealth. They would cut their grandma’s throat to get their hands on a stash.

There is a better way. Money does not buy happiness – fulfilment does and that comes from achieving something that was hard. You don’t get fulfilment by winning the lottery; you get by climbing a mountain or writing a book. It comes from your family and love.

Money – who gives a shit? Someone needs to sort it out a lot more fairly!!

“Money”

Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you’re O.K.
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stashThe inequality
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team

Money, get back
I’m all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it’s a hit
Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit
I’m in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet

Money, it’s a crime
Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it’s no surprise that they’re giving none away

Pink Floyd – Time – Lyrics about life and how quickly it passes

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When you are young it can be bewildering. The world is full of confusing possibilities. What are you going to do with your life? Your head is full of impossible dreams.

I’ve talked to many young people about what they want to do with their life. Very few have a good idea. They drift through thinking that it will all work out somehow.

I can’t believe the number that have told me that their strategy is to win the lottery. They have a far better chance of being hit by a fast car.

Then one day you look around and all those possibilities have narrowed down. You can no longer do all those things. You left it too late.

A human life is really very short. When we are young the days are interminable. We spend a quarter of our lives growing up to be an adult and another quarter in old age. The older you get the faster time flies. Years flash by.

Time is the enemy.

Time

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The Dark Side of The Moon

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I’d something more to say.

Rock Genres – Psychedelia.

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Psychedelia was the name given to the British music produced in the mid to late sixties influenced by the psychotropic substances such as LSD – Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.

The similar type of music produced on the West Coast of America was called Acid Rock. The two styles fed off each other and were an important element of the sixties counter-culture that is stereotyped as ‘Hippie’.

LSD was legal in the mid-sixties (It was only made illegal in Britain in 1966, in 1966 in California but not until 1968 federally). The interaction of the Rock industry and Youth Culture between the UK and US meant that the two scenes were well integrated.

The drugs of choice of the Rock Bands included marijuana and LSD. At the time these drugs were widely regarded in the Youth Culture of the day as being mind expanding. The generation gap reflected this. The ‘old’ generation with their alcohol and tobacco were seen as unhip while the ‘young’ generation with their dope and Acid were seen as cool.

The Rock musicians in the mid-sixties were indulging in a lot of hallucinogens. The results can be heard in the music of the day. In 1966 a definite Psychedelic tinge was discernible. On the Revolver album the Beatles were producing numbers like ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’. This was a sign of what was to come. Other established bands, such as the Yardbirds (with the immaculate Jeff Beck on guitar), were producing numbers like ‘Over Under Sideways Down’, The Pretty Things were producing the Rock Opera ‘SF Sorrow’ with tracks like £SD. Eric Burdon split the Animals up to create the New Animals. The Who were releasing tracks like ‘I Can See For Miles’ and the Move ‘I Can Hear the Grass Grow’.

The earliest Psychedelic sound was actually an album by Alan Watts called ‘This is It’ and early converts were Donovan with ‘Sunshine Superman’ and Roy Harper released the psychedelic ‘China Girl’ on his first album.

1967 was the year when Psychedelia went interstellar. Pink Floyd led the way with their ground-breaking ‘Piper at the Gates of Dawn’. Syd Barrett was the mastermind of the spacey Sci-fi ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ and the fantasy imagery that was to become part and parcel of Psychedelia. Hendrix was blasting us with ‘Axis Bolder than Love’ with numbers like ‘Spanish Castle Magic’. The Beatles came out with ‘Sgt Peppers’ and the Stones did ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’. There were a plethora of other bands including Arthur Brown, Family, Traffic, Tomorrow, Spooky Tooth, Edgar Broughton, Soft Machine, Procol Harum, Incredible String Band, Moody Blues and Action. Blues Bands like Cream got in on the scene with their Disreali Gears album and Pete Green’s Fleetwood Mac released ‘Green Manalishi’.

The clubs were full of light shows and happenings.

The charts were full of psuedo-psychedelic Pop such as the Lemon Pipers, Status Quo, the Flower-pot Men and Scott McKenzie.

Out in the streets it was different. There was a social revolution. The British and American counterculture were burgeoning and Acid Rock with Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Country Joe & the Fish, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Buffalo Springfield, Doors, Byrds and Quicksilver Messenger Service were setting the pace.

All the clubs were full of Psychedelic sounds and US Acid Rock and there were a plethora of smaller bands like Blossom Toes, Andwella’s Dream, Syn, Idle Race, Misunderstood and Dantalion’s Chariot.

The fashions also reflected this Psychedelia. Paisley and fluorescent colours were in. It was all colourful and voluminous – very trippy.

The repercussions are still audible today!

 

Links to videos of the best Rock Music ever recorded! I think you’ll find a lot you haven’t heard of but are brilliant!

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Links to videos of the greatest Rock Songs ever recorded. I think

PLAY THEM LOUD!!!!

Real music for the discerning! These are some of my favourites for all sorts of reasons!

Captain Beefheart – Hothead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASDCoI2bk14

Bob Dylan – Newport – Maggie’s Farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yU8wk67gY

Bob Dylan – It’s Alright Ma I’m Only Bleedin’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYajHZ4QUVM

Beatles – Come Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axb2sHpGwHQ&list=RDaxb2sHpGwHQ

John Lennon – God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jknynk5vny8

Roy Harper – I Hate the Whiteman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPFfgdxp9o

Nick Harper – Simple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MVPbJI6z7s

Captain Beefheart – Big Eyed Beans From Venus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNb1w7pVcA

Phil Ochs – Cops of the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTbI7FCLl0

Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rnxQBizoU

Beatles – Across the Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKtk3bK5yTk

Nick Harper – The Verse Time Forgot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH6TqeeM5ZY

Roy Harper – The Lord’s prayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKFe6Hcc1Y4

Eels – Novocaine for the Soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2yy141q8HQ

North Mississippi Allstars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXyIKfB9_M0

Nick Harper – The Verse Time Forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E0deQPcw1Q

Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues (talk over)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY4HtQ-XJQE

Country Joe and the Fish – An untitled protest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV7mDnI16h8

Doors – Unknown Soldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oW9GLgsa8s

James Varda – May this Moment ever Glow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odPFezdyHA

Downliners Sect – One Ugly Child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4wr2A6H94

Bob Marley – redemption song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrY9eHkXTa4

Michael Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8sj5gxW2xg

Linton Kwesi Johnson – Sonny’s Lettah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uvY5qU7ayg

John Cooper Clarke – Twat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-aVtKEhpO0

Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcauCclfytI

Clash – Rock the Kasbah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

Elvis Costello – Tramp the Dirt Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4-zDem1Sk

Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKsN5cj9ehs

Tom Robinson Band – Better decide which Side are You’re On?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJqsrEF4gw4

Woody Guthrie – This Land is Your Land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

Billy Bragg – Between the Wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjUA3RU4B8E

Buffy St Marie – My Country Tis of Thy People You’re Dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKKX-H3NMNI

Bert Jansch – Do You Hear Me Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IIvWsmJEm0

Bruce Springsteen – Independence Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnAJlJHXn_M

Bruce Springsteen – Chimes of Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ncGIqIuNUk

Donovan – Universal Soldier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6NRc37T_8

Love – alone again or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcXFy8QTC4

Love – you set the scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdELzBV9pyo

Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJh9OLlXenM

Fleetwood Mac – Green Manalishi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvKaLW5bu8

Elmore James – Shake your moneymaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn77rGEV6XM

Son House – Death Letter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCNbacVt5w

Muddy Waters – I’m Ready

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1XBFpARIA

Howlin’ Wolf – Backdoor Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGuCgDikMB4

ZZ Top – Gimme all your Luvin’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae829mFAGGE

RL Burnside – Snakedrive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTmC7BhYa8k

Junior Kimbrough – Done got old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSWTkI_aVSo

Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw

Steppenwolf – The Pusher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y

Captain Beefheart – Electricity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8eRDkiwGMM

Roy Harper – McGoohan’s Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MDrciF2-kU

Roy Harper – One of Those Days in England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjlm1WrYD5Q

Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q

Free with Koss – The Hunter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsRoKLsAMQs

Cream – Politician

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqgk2XAg4k

AC/DC – Whole Lotta Rosie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMvE0yFnR0I

Led Zeppelin – Living loving maid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5uB9kMFh80

Tommy Tucker – Hi-Heeled Sneaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmbSC9c2ys

Elvis Presley – Baby Let’s Play House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92iwC-xI3mE

Buddy Holly – You’re so Square

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCRR5IGlfVg

Little Richard – Long Tall Sally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxNSvFMkag

Slim Harpo – I’m a King Bee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWLvm11MAaM

Bo Diddley – Who do you love?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAGoqMZRLB4

Pete Seeger – Which side on you on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEnTxlBuGo

Woody Guthrie – Tom Joad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWGAGPy_kw

Jefferson Airplane – Somebody to love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jj3wZVc7nw

Jerry Lee Lewis – Whole Lotta Shakin’ going on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWReDqMopt8

Traffic – Dear Mr Fantasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWReDqMopt8

John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDJeM5R4PM

Dead Kennedys – Kill the poor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWrJAaUU1r8

Chuck Berry – Nadine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myPzYiTLvK0

Steppenwolf – The Pusher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y

Dillinger – Cocaine all around my brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xVp1mauGnU

Ry Cooder – Vigilante Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4KmbUCwkyE

JJ Cale – Cocaine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwRvafqi_-U

White Stripes – Seven Nation Army

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY

Eddie Cochran – C’Mon Everybody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncbdW9bI27o

Dale Hawkins – Suzie Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb9vcqam_tQ

Bob Dylan – Positively Fourth Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsovdtBgz3Q

Captain Beefheart – Abba Zabba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTo7OgXkbe8&list=RDJTo7OgXkbe8

Family – Weaver of Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKD8tAElTpQ

Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJb7cBfrxbo

Beatles – Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78

Doors – 5 to one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dI0rwRGdVs

Pink Floyd – Shine on you Crazy Diamond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXircX3VdM

Everly Brothers – When will I be Loved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI0ll5SexV0

Johnny Kidd & Pirates – Shaking all over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n327ncoU_ZU

Sex Pistols – God Save the Queen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtUH2YSFlVU

Billy Bragg – Which Side are You On?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALCm5Peie_8

Otis Redding – Hard to Handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWItBTevUdg

James Brown – Papas Got a Brand New Bag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJgkuyJ8NLo

Howlin’ Wolf – Spoonful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFjHo7Cdrw

Sonny Boy Williamson – Bring it all back home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHpqQaf0EK8

Little Walter – My Babe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRp_avXtMM

Albert King – Born under a bad sign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q9zl9N2Vss

Malvina Reynolds – Little Boxes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs

Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxwUOIlqhGA

Phil Ochs – I Ain’t Marching Anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv1KEF8Uw2k

Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Chile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9irsg1vBmq0

Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4is-Iyo6YA

Velvet Underground – Heroin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skxi4NTqFlw

Lou Reed – Perfect Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y

Wayne County – Fuck Off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34zX-JsOrI

Patti Smith – Piss Factory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6aUbrZYjYE

PJ Harvey – Sheena Na Gig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3H-cG-sk4

Jimmy Reed – Shame Shame Shame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_W54K8SLc

Jimmy Reed – Aint That loving You Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV_nZaOcbXo

Aretha Franklin – Respect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0

Arthur Brown – Fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8

Small Faces – ItchyCoo Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ViwvgtvbA

Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r24_T-HOcyg

Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F8QM3tjkTE

Tomorrow – My White Bicycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JhZqWCqKs8

Pink Floyd – Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kcet4aPpQ

Tim Rose – Come Away Melinda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKWqEXoD–8

Robert Johnson – Come on in my kitchen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4up4VP8zjyc

Kokomo Arnold – The Twelves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tgoLVEb0B4

Captain Beefheart – Moonlight on Vermont

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZFG1yAxjdQ

Roy Harper – Hallucinating Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atP8gyrD434

Nick Harper – Kilty Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGcgrmRTuVE

Joni Mitchel – Big Yellow Taxi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20

Bo Carter – Banana in your fruit basket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsje14A-cds

Cream – Strange Brew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hftgytmgQgE

Chuck Berry – too Much Monkey Business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b2w_nJLuvw

Rolling Stones – Jumping Jack Flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIx9YWF02uU

Yardbirds – Over Under Sideways Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DdAs0PddQ

Neil Young – Cortez the Killer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-b76yiqO1E

Neil Young – Like a Hurricane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-WMbP1RcC4

Crosby Still Nash And Young – Ohio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRE9vMBBe10

Jake Bugg – Lightnin’ Bolt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY0oPg1h8fQ

Bob Dylan – Forever Young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFAu9cY5y4

Jefferson Airplane – Crown of Creation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrb0G0tw08

Clash – Should I stay Or Should I go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0iuoj-KNU

Clash – London Calling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c

Jefferson Airplane – If You Feel Like China Breaking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIb3jc1POFY

Leon Rosselson – Palaces of gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpWluQXKTZk

Billy Bragg – World Turned Upside Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQwA_kFxoE

Beatles – Piggies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnlijUAuna0

George Harrison – My Sweet Lord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNGnIKUdMI

Little Richard – Rip it Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_F3PaYgl0

Jimmy Reed – Big Boss Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd-o_kLONVI

Roy Harper – Short & Sweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiEEfSgzYyk

Byrds – Artificial Energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLGsh611Qk4

Byrds – Wasn’t Born to Follow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hEfcawx6Fc

Nick Cave – Stagger Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbe5RERDh4k

Tommy Tucker – Long Tall Shorty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdh67rw1txU

Kinks – I’m Not Like Everybody Else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmb7TU0OrOI

Kinks – Well Respected Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcSm0ShU8Y8

Beatles – I Saw her Standing There

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq8u0tnyDGI

Nick Harper – Acoustic Smithereens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u9Q0VVA5Bk

Gene Vincent – Be Bop A Lula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4_5593-skQ

Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK4DeMYtumc

Billy Lee Riley – Flying Saucer Rock n Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4GesINziU

Buddy Holly – Peggy Sue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCCHVYV1BA

Everly Brothers – Love Hurts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFE2SnliiV0

Elvis Presley – Good Rockin’ Tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FeWJHUB8aU

Sex Pistols – Anarchy in the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbmWs6Jf5dc

Iggy Pop – The Passenger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhN__oEHaw

Nice – America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_X9YqWu4pU

Bob Dylan – Ballad of Hollis Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiafR2q82Lw

Bob Dylan – All I Really Want to do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOr7baolaoc

Byrds – Eight Miles High

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J74ttSR8lEg

Fleetwood Mac – Man of the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWOtL-PZiE

Fairport Convention – Meet on the Ledge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avX5VlU7MXM

Fairport Convention – Matty Groves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it7BP5PckI

Dr Feelgood – Roxanne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRP0gdS95A

Elvis Costello – Pump it up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI9eN-AY1s

Elvis Costello – Let him dangle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2hA_Xjr33E

Ian Dury – You’ll See Glimpses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTvvERaHog8

Ian Dury – Sex And Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkdgJ_-Gg3Q

Stiff Little Fingers – Johnny Was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLo7z50Tt2g

Billy Bragg – All You Fascists Bound to lose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOzBHsjyCks

Dr John – Walk on Gilded Splinters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWvdO3l4_P8

Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster

James Varda – From the Bellevue Hotel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7sPC9WXbQ

James Varda – May This Moment Ever Glow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9odPFezdyHA

Stranglers – Get a Grip on Yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nnBE8dC3ck

Ian Dury – Reasons to be cheerful pt3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcjh1a9Yoao

Led Zepellin – Whole Lotta Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mln0RciE2o0

Bob Marley – War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXxEilzNJcE

Bob Marley – Redemption Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wjYFm7m6Xo

Roy Harper – The Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMqFTUhverg&list=RDeMqFTUhverg

Neil Young – Heart of Gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fXaC07X5M8

John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37QUUwp9xIs

Bob Dylan – Pawn in their Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvz23ET5ARM

Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO_sDtI2bYk

Jimi Hendrix – Hey Joe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpkDdLZGg30

John Lennon – Working Class Hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsmQhbd1KWE

John Lennon – Imagine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU

Bob Dylan – Emmett Till

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVKTx9YlKls

Howlin’ Wolf – Wang Dang Doodle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEjUfu9-W-w

Love – 7 and 7 is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStzQW6XVkM

Love – Alone Again or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNcXFy8QTC4

RL Burnside – Going Down South

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9NG7-lgRlQ

Elmore James – The Sky is Crying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKEdlSTHjtU

Elmore James – It Hurts me too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBA2REoRD98

Howlin’ Wolf – Smokestack Lightnin’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ri7TcukAJ8

Edgar Broughton Band – Death of an Electric Citizen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FInpOri8vlY

Donovan – Sunshine Superman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRGA3CPp6hI

Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting for the man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmZimH00oo

Undertones – Teenage Kicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis

Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03yPUlBE5OU

Jimi Hendrix – One Rainy Wish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1d1QOodvCQ

Stone Roses – I wanna be adored

Stranglers – Peaches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuT5KUA7iaY

Doors – Strange Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NSz-9qqgKE

Bert Jansch – Needle of Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA7npXJLQOU

Neil Young – Cinamon Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdtUDaBfRA

Frank Zappa – Cosmik Debris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtx4ZJ1cwI0

Buffalo Springfield – For What it’s Worth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY

Gang of Four – To Hell with Poverty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRjjVFC-oG4

Joni Mitchell – Little Green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvhdKywbcJ0

Them – Gloria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkaMVLHxzWE

Frank Zappa – What’s the Ugliest Part of your Body?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okiGs4_vdyA

Paul Simon – Kathy’s Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9KNS7cHIHs

Frank Zappa – Help I’m a Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukbu9dmmzJg

Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MSwBM_CbyY

Beatles – Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78

Roy Harper – Me and My Woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC5gebGthAs

Roy Harper – McGoohan’s Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MDrciF2-kU

Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6M77oHD110

Bob Dylan – Masters of War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOyWO2K9Crw

Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW8rFho6In8

Leonard Cohen – Bird on the Wire

Doors – Love me two times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjs6ZepIc14

Gang of Four – I Love a Man in a Uniform

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00tjF2ROlwE

Gang of Four – History of the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4IU2UPkqMU

Frank Zappa – Who are the Brain Police?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuABc9ZNtrA

Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS6V0waUtaQ