Watching PBS on the West Coast...

[pinboy3niner]

From 2002, Barry McGuire performing 'Eve of Destruction.' Now Roger McGuinn coming on with "Tambourne Man" then 'Turn! Turn! Turn!'

Flashback time!

Great music on their 'This Land Is Your Land' show. PBS moderators talking about the music and "the circle of life."

Wow!

[Hekate]

1. We tuned in when they were doing The Mamas and the Papas. I loved their harmony...

...and Cass Elliot's voice soaring above them all. Gods how I wish she had lived to share that great talent for several more decades.

[pinboy3niner]

2. I saw them perform after Cass was gone

Losing her hurt so many of us. When I saw them Spanky from Spanky & Our Gang filled in for Cass and, since Michelle couldn't be there, McKenzie Phillips took her part. Along with John and Denny, of course.

After losing Cass, losing Denny and his sweet voice later also hit me hard. Our oldies music heros are dropping, one by one. All the more reason to cherish those we have left.

[longship]

3. Spanky and Our Gang!

[narnian60]

9. Awwww.

Memories.

[Hekate]

4. I know, I know

[progressoid]

5. Coincidentally, I just watched "The Wrecking Crew"

They talk about "Tamborne Man". Check it out if you can.

Popular music of the 1960s was dominated by young bands like the Beach Boys, the Mamas & the Papas, Jan and Dean, and the Monkees. Listening to rock and roll on jukeboxes and car radios created devoted fans of these groups, whose music communicated the optimism and sorrow of a generation contending with strong countercultural forces.

Record companies happily supplied the public with new songs and musical groups, all packaged with artistic photographs and biographical profiles. Left out of the story was an important historical fact: the bands, in many cases, did not play the instruments heard on their records. Instead, the task of recording the perfect tempo, pitch, and timbre fell to a small group of accomplished session musicians.

The Wrecking Crew documents the work of studio players who recorded the tracks for such hits as "California Dreamin'", "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", "Be My Baby", "The Beat Goes On", and "Good Vibrations".[2] Interviews with producers, engineers, and session musicians reveal the warmth and humor that allowed their collective talents to turn a simple chord chart into an international phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)

[pinboy3niner]

6. There were many great session musicians who never got their due

Until years later, when their stories were told.

I saw some of those bands live, though it was sometimes only later, after their heyday. I've postd aout it before, sometimes in detail, but sometimes it just seems like name-dropping.

Many of us here who are "of an age" have seen the old, great bands. That is to say we're old, like the musicians we venerate who now seem to be dropping, one by one. But we oldsters are proud of having lived through a great musical era. Maybe 'proud' isn't the right word. We count ourselves lucky to have lived at that time.

Not all music lasts. But though we may be fading, our music lives on. Oh, what a lovely time we had.

With our music and politics and world affairs, we truly lived the Chinese curse.

We had it all. Some of us even went to war or marched against it (or both). We faced stark choices, so young. Choices we've had to live with the rest of our lives.

Some of us tell our stories in classrooms. Lest our time be forgotten.

I raise a glass to my brothers and sisters here who know...

[progressoid]

10. Great musicians indeed.

I've often felt like I was born about a decade late. I'm just on the tail end of the Boomers. As a kid, I ate up the music, but by the time I came of age, the world had moved on.

[Brother Buzz]

11. I loved Roger McGuinn's endorsement of the Wrecking Crew in the film

Roger told how he was 'allowed' to sit in with the Wrecking Crew for recording "Mr. Tambourine Man" because he had done a little session work in New York. He said The Wrecking Crew laid down the sound track for "Mr. Tambourine Man" AND "I Knew I’d Want You" in three hours, then explained how the Byrds’ subsequent sessions for "Turn Turn Turn" took an astounding 77 takes.


Then McGuinn, with a soft spoken voice and a smile, quipped, "But they both became number one hits".

[TexasProgresive]

7. Your local PBS station is probably doing

A fund raiser. Both ours are with different specials. I'd loved to get the one you got.

[pinboy3niner]

8. Don't worry, you'll get it

Original live programming is costly, so PBS often airs these specials. And yes they are always fundraisers.