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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    In my opinion, Abbey Road is a tad over-rated. Being the Beatles swan song, I guess I can understand the sentimental value ascribed to it.

    But to me, the songs on balance are not as good as previous efforts.

    I think White Album, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper are all consistently superior to Abbey Road.

    I also think by 1969 the Beatles were being musically eclipsed and outperformed by other prominent 60s Bands - The Stones Beggars Banquette and Let It Bleed are better than anything Beatles released in 68-69, and Fogarty and Creedance Clearwater Revival had firmly established themselves as the premier song writers of authentically original tunes of the late 60s, and the Doors were also peaking. The Who's 1969 Tommy rock opera is also better by a country mile than Abbey Road.
    Actually I think Revolver was their best album. It captured the Beatles distinct sound at its peak sans the pretensions of some of their later albums.

    Also, Led Zeppelin 1 came out in 69. That was the most influential album of that year in that in the UK Led Zeppelin and in the US Alice Cooper drove a stake through the heart of the Hippie generation and changed Rock forever.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Actually I think Revolver was their best album. It captured the Beatles distinct sound at its peak sans the pretensions of some of their later albums.

    Also, Led Zeppelin 1 came out in 69. That was the most influential album of that year in that in the UK Led Zeppelin and in the US Alice Cooper drove a stake through the heart of the Hippie generation and changed Rock forever.
    The San Francisco sound was not totally down and out in 1969.

    Dead's American Beauty was released in 1970, arguably their best album ever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Actually I think Revolver was their best album. It captured the Beatles distinct sound at its peak sans the pretensions of some of their later albums.

    Also, Led Zeppelin 1 came out in 69. That was the most influential album of that year in that in the UK Led Zeppelin and in the US Alice Cooper drove a stake through the heart of the Hippie generation and changed Rock forever.
    I'd disagree, Alice Cooper wasn't anything until the mid seventies and only then when he attained fame for singles getting radio play, strictly a commercial entity

    And, to which I'm sure you will disagree, there never was a "hippie" generation, "hippie" was a media term that quickly came to identify any younger person who didn't look like a young Jake Webb

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Got to love their "security," but with whatever how many people showed up the fact they didn't have any violence says something about it, wonder what would have happened if they had the usual security with a highly visible presence
    it wasn't the security -there were "1/2 million strong" - it was the times and the vibes.

    Altamont was a few months after- the times were still there but hiring the Hell's Angels made it bad

    Woodstock had a feeling- a groove- never to be recaptured

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    I'd disagree, Alice Cooper wasn't anything until the mid seventies and only then when he attained fame for singles getting radio play, strictly a commercial entity

    And, to which I'm sure you will disagree, there never was a "hippie" generation, "hippie" was a media term that quickly came to identify any younger person who didn't look like a young Jake Webb
    the real word was "freaks" -
    that's what we called ourselves after somebody said they looked like a bunch of freaks

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    August 16th 1968,
    Working at Abbey Road studios, The Beatles recorded 14 takes of the new George Harrison song
    'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', taking the song from its early acoustic version into an electric version.


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