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When I was a young boy I wanted to be Dion with the Belmonts( from Belmont Ave)

singing on American Bandstand.

I saw the Stones in Newark, NJ in 1964. You couldn't hear anything with the girls screaming, but we were in the 5th row so we were up close.

Brian Jones was standing in the "leader of the group" spot much like John did with the Beatles.

I saw them one other time with Jones and many more with Mick...

Too many remember Elvis as a fat guy in a white jump suit forgetting the words to Love Me Tender.

WABC Music Radio DJ's referred to Elvis as the King.

Elvis cane back on the Singer Special on regular tv, I think it was 1968 and he was back, in black leather and singing his old tunes.

His records...

This was my first 45 and I still have it.

In the 60's the DJ's at 77 WABC in NYC would just introduce Elvis as"The KIng" whenever they played his records.

Alll the boys had Elvis duck tails and tight pegged pants.

Elvis was a big part of my youth in the late 50's and 60's.

I learned how to play the guitar listening to you.

Thanks Elvis, ...

God Bless Dick Clark and Ed Sullivan.

They brought Rock & Roll into our living rooms.

You're not forgotten Bon. Love watching you on UTube

Led Zep admitted to taking form the delta catalog and adding their name as the song credit.

I saw Zep in a concert in 1969, very good show.

Too bad John died.

They've tried with other drummers through the years but it's not the same.

See if you can find the UTube video where John is playing with ...

I'm an old guitar player and I love finding all of these wonderful players on UTube.

It's like getting a private lesson and it's right at your finger tips.

Thank you Keni.

Dan

I was in college in the 60's and we had great music, but no money.

We started working in the 70's and had money to burn and these dicos were open all night long and we danced till the sun came up.

My friend Sal could dance like Travolta and people would make a circle around him and cheer him on.

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I use to go over my friends house in NJ and watch the Islanders on UHF TV in the 70's.

By the time the Olympic games of 1980 were on the Miricle team was getting alot of attention.

Shopping Malls and bars started playing the games on radio and TV's and when USA beat the Russians, winning the go...

These guys started out as a blues cover band and Page had been in the "New Yardbirds."

I saw them in Charleston WV in 1969 and moved my way right up to the front of the stage.

God were they good.

What can you say?

There is no other.

Read " Hammer of the Gods."

I was attending Marshall University in WVA that day and 3 of the 4 students killed were going to or coming form class.

The next day I saw a sign at Marshall which said," Marshall University is 90 miles and 4 dead students away from Kent State'.

My best friend had a1968 Red 383 4 speed. Very fast

Animal House taught a whole generation what college is really suppose to be like.

@LEIMALOCCA Could it be Marlon Brando in the back seat of the car in On the Waterfront?

These guys were part of the Stax records family, I still have the wornout 45. and 33rpm Otis "Dock Of The Bay."

Otis was just breaking through when his plane went down with members of the Bar Kays.

"Dock of the Bay" went to #1. and years later Cropper and Dunn backed up the Blues Brothers.

Check ...

I'm 62 and trained in the late 70's to the mid 80's obtaining a 2nd degree black belt in a style simular to Krav Maga.

I'm 5'8 170 lbs and used it twice, both times in bars when there was no other way to neutralize the threat.

Both times I thought I killed the aggressor who was much bigger than m...

I went to Marshall University in 1968 and we had Sam and Dave booked for our Homecoming Concert, but only Sam showed up!

How are you going to sing 2 part harmony with only one guy!

We all walked out of the Keith Albee Theatre, it was really poor, I believe we didn't pay them..

Keith only has 5 strings on his Tele.

Keith sat for a while with Gram Parsons and learned the technique.

If you tune the top E to a G you will not hurt your guitar.

I use to tune to E flat also, like SRV to use grande bends.

Try open tunings. Look up Richie Havens on u tube, I saw him play in 68....

I use to learn all the Stones songs by lifting the needle up from the record or slowing down the 45 to 33/13.

Thanks have changed, but it was exiting back in the 60's when you called your buddy on the phone and said," Hey, I figured it out, listen."

Don't forget Mick, Jagger Richards get the song writing royalty!!!

I remember when Howard Stern called Mick Taylor on his tour bus and Stern had to call back to a phone booth at a rest stop in PA.

Taylor was with the Stones 5 years and was the virtuoso of the group.

He played beautifully.

His girlfriend Rose told him to tell Jagger he wanted a full share instead...

Saw them several times at movie theaters in 64 and 65.

We were right up close standing on the wooden arms of the seats and Mick Jagger had all of these suggestive moves and "Play with Fire," he said "Screwing with your Mother" instead of "living with your Mother."

Brian played Harp, Dulcimer, Ke...

I was at college in the 60's when he was reported to have died, there was always another JIm Morrison sighting somewhere around the globe.

The truth didn't come out for a while, but Jimi, Janis and Jim all died within a year of each other along with lesser names who drugged and drank to excess.

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I had Hoppy gun and holster set too, got it for Christmas in the mid 50's and was playing outside on the frozen pond behind my house and dropped one of the revolvers and broke the plastic handle grip.

My Dad was livid and I remember my Mother saying it was an accident.

Ruinied the entire day and ...

I liked The Lone Ranger and Tonto and Hopalong Cassidy.

I think his horse's name was Topper.

The 50's and early 60's were full of TV Westerns.

And if you remember Wild Bill Hickock and Jingles.

My friend has the DVD with Andy's Gang, Andy Devine, where the audiance sang, 'You got a gang, I got a ...

Complete BS?

Unlike you, I have other things that occupy my life,

Could have been 68, who cares

I traveled alot in the 60's and 70's as a young man and I always looked for Johnny on the TV at 11pm or 11:30pm.

I knew I had a friend with me who could make me laugh and feel at home.

Johnny, Ed and Doc and all of those guests will always be with me and Johnny's annual show with all those highli...

Arsenio's show was short lived,

One night someone yelled something form the audiance and Hall said," We don't avoid issues here man", "This aint no Johnny, this aint no Johnny Carson."

Joan Rivers showed up on her show without Carson's permission and lasted 3 days and to this day has never enjoye...

Abbott and Costello had a half hour tv show and we watched it everyday in the late 60's at college.

Mike the cop, Hillary, Stinky, Mr Bochagallo and others I long ago have forgotten made me laugh till my sides hurt.

I still watch Who's on First every couple of months along with their other clas...

I remember Otis's plane went down in Dec 1967, Dock of the Bay went to #1 on AM radio.

I went to college down south and Otis, Sam And Dave, Wilson Pickett, James Brown and lesser artist's ruled the air waves and the cover bands of this era played these tunes at fraternity parties all over the sou...

My first record was the RCA 45 Jailhouse Rock and I stil lhave it.

Don't think of Elvis as some fat guy in a white jump suit forgetting the words to " Love Me Tender."

He was the one who started it all and the rest followed.

Every boy wanted to be Elvis and we all combed our hair in the duck tail...

I had a band in college in the late 60's and CCR was real popular with these dance tunes. We had a girl on keys and she sang all John's tunes because none of the guys could reach the high notes.

"Fortunate Son" and "Grapevine" got everybody up on the dance floor.