Robben Ford Discussion

[Bluelobster]

I am so tired with you guys wanking about speakers , you look like methedrin addicts, remember speed kills, calm down a little .
May be i am jealous , not only you guys own great gears , Oh Lord Gimme a fuchs or whatever cost 2500 , but it seem you spend a LOT of time on several forums , you're so great , i love and dig everybody playing , no kiddin' but tel me your secret you don't practice anymore ?????

So i wanna start a poll.

[BlueRunner]

Huh? I seem to have some very vague recollections about drugs during my college years. Can't remember if I used any. Or if someone else used 'em. Or whatever. All I know is that it was 35 years ago.

I recently read a great book, "Summer of Love," about the music scene in San Francisco in the late 1960's. That's the period during which the young Robben Ford was sneaking out of the house in Santa Rosa and going down to the Fillmore and Winterland in San Francisco to hear folks like Paul Butterfield and Mike Bloomfield. I was there, too, and remember the music as being awfully exciting. Recently, though, live recordings from that era seem sort of boring and self-indulgent. According to the book, all of us were stoned out of our gourds, both on the bandstand and in the crowd.

But as I said at the beginning, I really don't remember. Now ... where did I put down that martini ...
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[Aeolian]

The picture in my avatar was taken in '68 in a little coastal town 10 miles south of San Francisco. We played J-Teen dances and such. The older guys would sneak up to the city for the shows. Somehow I managed to survive that era straight. I would keep getting handed all sorts of things with the suggestion that "you'll play better". To which I usually replied that "you only THINK you sound better". (they didn't )
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[BlueRunner]

Aeolian: Pacifica? Montara? Half Moon Bay? You MUST have snuck up Highway 1 with the "older guys" to Playland at the Beach when the Family Dog was putting on their wonderfully disorganized, money-losing, but wildly fun shows there. I recall that Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods were regulars, back when the "big names" were all downtown at the Fillmore. I too recall lots of people handing me stuff and saying things like "you gotta' try this great stuff." Nowadays I can't imagine taking something from a complete stranger and putting it into my mouth. Seems like those days were thousands of years ago ... and on a different planet.
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[Bluelobster]

Great "souvenirs" . Thanks . You guys i wish you start novels from your youth. California Mecca of Rock'nroll, Home of Leo FENDER, Fullerton must be a pilgrimage place.LOL. Let's have a little thought for the Merry Pranksters and the Hog farm and many others..........
Naaaaa I don't want to see the bad sides of it , i've seen Altamont this summer, what a lame desert. Anyway i never liked the stones that much.

So i realize that i started a poll and forgot to vote ; But now i am looking
for it and there is nuthin'. Aw, chuckle , gasp , ..... yes.

[telefunk1]

Come on people - you need to vote! Exercise your constitutional rights, etc etc. We just had our primary down here and Texas and I am hankerin' to vote some more. Or as they say in Chicago, "vote early and often!"

Elizabeth - can I count on your support for the shoes and shirt ticket?

[elizabeth]

You can have my shirt and shoes anytime! (I want Robben's.) Voter turnout in Alameda County last week was 29%....pathetic!

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[telefunk1]

29 percent?! Amazing and actually quite high these days - we had less than 10 percent here, probably closer to 5 percent yesterday. I know this is way off topic, but here we Amuricans are waging war to promote democracy and we can't even get off our lazy butts to participate in our own!

[roadwarriorfortheblues]

In some states, you cannot vote in a democratic primary unless you are a declared democrat.

Blob, are you counting all the votes

[kirk95]

[Aeolian]

[BlueRunner]

I tried to vote on this poll ... but couldn't find the Rev. Al Sharpton on the ballot. So I guess I'll go with the shirts and shoes.

Aeolian: I REMEMBER Cold Blood! Tres funky, as I recall. A lot of my contemporaries favored the more psychadelic, but I went more for the groove. I'd go anywhere Linda Tillery & The Loading Zone were playing.
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[Aeolian]