cursed hipi music

against my better judgment, i retain a fondness for the jefferson airplane alb after bathing at baxter's, which opened and closed with the two songs below. sure, it's scary in retrospect how mansonesque founder and rapidly-displaced leader marty balin appears, and their post-'69 fuzzheaded hipi politics weren't quite as well worked out as even the mc5's were, but as demented hipi brawds go, i'll still take grace over janis anytime, and jack casady on bass -- the sole (in my opinion) interesting instrumentalist to emerge from the whole '65-'68 san fr'isco development -- occasionally struck some sparks with the lead gtrist and drummer. so there.





in a similar vein, i retain a fondness for the blues project, noo yawk's "jewish beatles," most of whose members (exception: keyb/vocalist al kooper, who'd been in the royal teens of "short shorts" fame and played with dylan) were the spawn of lefty intelligentsia. goldtop-playing gtrist danny kalb's cousin bob taught at my high school. other gtrist/gordon lightfoot singalike steve katz (on bass in the second clip so andy kulberg could play flute) went on to play in blood sweat & tears with kooper and produce lou reed. poor guy. both of these songs are from projections, _their_ good rekkid. i thought the beastie boys showed marvelous self awareness when they sampled "flute thing" on ill communication's "flute loop."





finally, to cleanse the palate, here's some '60s greaser-garage spuzz from the count five (dweebs from san jose who broke up to go to college) and the music machine (greatest under-two-minute song of all time from single-black-glove wearing angelenos; bassist went on to produce the money-making fleetwood mac lineup).