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WHEN CONCERT POSTERS WERE AN ART FORM

By the 1970's, many rock posters began to abandon the LSD-inspired San Francisco look.  Some of the poster artists began to use more realism and stylized imagery in the posters…

TRACK LIST

01.  Only You Know & I Know 

02.  Can’t Stop Worrying, Can’t Stop Loving 

03.  Waitin On You 

04.  Shouldn’t Have Took Me Than You Gave 

05.  World In Changes 

06.…

The 1970’s – Beginning of Commercial Rock

'When Bill Graham closed the Fillmore in 1971, artist David Singer was charged with creating its final poster. The piece was toned down as opposed to being something extravagant, which didn’t…

 

Lester Bangs

In a June 1975 article in Creem magazine, Lester Bangs, while writing about how the impact of the breakup of the Beatles, captured some of the angst that existed in rock & roll…

Back in the early 1970's, while attending college in Dayton, Ohio, I used to go to this great record store called The Forest which was just off-campus. Many a happy hour was spent thumbing thru the album racks…

“In 1978, rock music resembled a combat zone more than a community. The divisions had been visible for most of the decade, with the fraying of any notion that the factions of rock fans could peacefully coexist, but in…

Track List 

01.  Here We Go 

02.  Midnight Visitor 

03.  One and One 

04.  Giant Bohemoth 

05.  Mother Says 

06.  Birdcall Morning 

07.  Home 

08.  I'll Tell The World 

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Today's Platter, the self-titled debut record by Crazy Horse, is one of those great pieces of vinyl that fell through the cracks of public consciousness when it was first released in 1971. 

Track List:  

1. Gone Dead …