Surfing this morning and realized what an impact the Honda Motorbikes
and Fender Guitars had on teens in the 60's. Both played a big part in
my life. The motor bikes brought independence and the guitars were way
cooler than school band instruments.

My vintage motorcycles
http://www.pbase.com/deadelvis/mybikes
60's Combos and the Louie Louie Generation
http://www.pbase.com/deadelvis/classicrock

What would other decades claim? My oldest son was born in 1970 and is
obsessed with Star Wars.
http://www.pbase.com/deadelvis/starwars

I remember getting the Fender and Gibson catalogs when I was a kid and
dreaming. In the late 60's you could get a Tele or a hard tailed Strat for
around $200. It seemed unattainable for a kid with a paper route. My buddies
and I would take the bus downtown and go to Sho Bud, Hank Snow, and some
other little store on Church Street that sold Hagstrom guitars. Back in
those days even Sears, Western Auto, Service Merchandise, Woolworth's, and
Woolco had electric guitars. We would go to 100 Oaks when it first opened
and my brother and I would hang out in Woolco and check out the guitars.
Waylon Jennings and the Waylors played in Woolco not long after they opened.
Even though we didn't care for country music we were in awe because they had
Fender guitars and Fender amps. I remember getting...

I didn't realize until I researched it how brief a window that teen
rock combos were popular. I just happened to be there when they peaked.
Music stores were all over town as well as teen clubs. I quit playing
in 1970 when places to perform disappeared. Sunday afternoons playing
the Centennial Park bandshell didn't pay anything. Also, my son tried
to start a rock band in the 80's and the cops wound break up any
practice or party in Hendersonville because of "noise complaints".

The sixties were cool.
Chip's Nashville Websites
http://nashlinks.com

I happened across a interesting website about Childhood Memories from
the sixties.
http://www.vaiden.net/childhood_memories1.html

Boston Blackie wrote:

I cannot allow to pass any discussion of organs and players w/o
interjecting the Keyboard player of _JoeKingCoroscoand the Crowns_~!
She was a *beautiful* woman, very loving~! Ample body and a mind that...

My favorite Hammond B3 Song
You keep me Hanging On by the Vanilla Fudge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71cGLyOKhSc

I saw them in Panama City Florida in August 1968
Tickets were $2.75
The Hammond volume pedal broke after 2 songs and we got screwed out of
a full set.

The Fudge has reunited and has a new album of Zeppelin covers coming
out inext month.
http://www.vanillafudge.com/

MrWonderful wrote:

I remember that we would be hanging out in the neighborhood and would hear
the sound of drums and bass way off in the distance somewhere. We would walk
through neighborhood after neighborhood and finally find some combo
practicing in a garage. It was amazing how many garage bands were around
back in those days. I still play to this day. I work a day job but have been
in a bunch of bands throughout my adult life. Played a lot of cover tunes
and a lot of blues and originals too. I've got a spare bedroom studio set up
and I record using a program called Sonar into the computer. More technology
available in my spare bedroom than the Beatles had at Abbey Road. There are
probably millions of home studios with the same capabilities. Of course none
of them has cranked out a Sgt Peppers or...

Do you remember Pleasant Valley Sunday by the Monkees?

The local rock group down the street
Is trying hard to learn their song
Seranade the weekend squire, who just came out to mow his lawn

Another pleasant valley sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Rows of houses that are all the same
And no one seems to care

The sixties were cool.
Chip's Nashville Websites
http://nashlinks.com

"Chip37075" comcast.net> wrote in message
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They were, indeed. The "sixties" lasted in Austin, though, until probably
about 1990. ;^)

As it were, there was a band living on practically every street in town.