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I'm sure we all could go on quite some time about the array of music styles (and spoken content) as referenced in this bootleg record called "Time Sandwich". All I can say is this title remind...

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I'm not certain how Eric Hoffer's "True Believer" ended up as a must read when I was devouring books recommended to me as a young reader.  Frank did thumb through my copy at the house, casually,...

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more on the 1960s mexican music scene (from east LA to Pomona) "The El Monte American Legion Stadium was home to legendary “oldies but goodies” DJ Art Laboe-sponsored concerts but had been ...

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Across the radio waves at night received even in Claremont... Earl Bostic!

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The more romantic Sunday afternoons at the Rainbow (for the slow dances).... the Jaguars!

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The BLENDELLS! Playing in Spanish: Toma a tu Chica (Get Your Baby) with a photo of the band.  c. 1964?

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Yes, the surf records went during the time of the quick record sale in 1967 to help stave off eminent foreclosure of that Winslow Arizona trinket shop (with house attached).  Some of them I had ...

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Arthur (Lee) liked surf music and came to my house in Claremont a few times to spin records and talk about all things surf and life.  There was even a visit that ran into slightly after sundown....

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Compiling the best online articles about music so there will be more of both in the future. In periods of drought, the reader will be innundated by my own blogs on the matters.

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I just have one more thing to say.  Did you ever notice a plethora of "Susies" in your school and neighborhood and a number of "hit songs" using "Susie" as the fill in name for a girl?  Did you...

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Seems like I'm repeating myself as far as Frank Zappa is concerned.  And I don't want to reveal someone else's hardwon research by gossiping ahead of time as some people are known and have been ...

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Aside from sitting with a glass of my grandmother's white zinfindel in front of him on the genuine Italian marble table, as he leaned back into the dark brown Danish modern couch, his ankle on h...

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In the early 60s in a town with esteemed faculty in prestigious institutions, there were also an abundance of artists (both freespirited and the more commercial variety) and lofty, private, and v...

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Following performance at the Richie Valens Memorial Concert held in Long Beach, Dec 31, 1961 , in the beginning of the new year 1962, an up and coming group called the Beach Boys played the Rainb...

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An artifact from when I worked as a long distance telephone operator, back when you heard the coins drop into the box (a higher sound for a dime, a quarter sounded "deeper" than a nickle), clips ...

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I strongly suspect the "hypnotist" cited as having an influence on "Freak Out!" is likely Dr. Benjamin Simon (of Boston) from this famous UFO case of the time (The Hills were Unitarians , which m...

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Sometime between February and June, 1974, in the vicinity of Berkeley, CA, an actor friend of mine said someone gave him tickets to see "Flo and Eddie" somewhere in San Francisco.  He invited me...

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I can't find where I posted some of this before on some music writing blog.  Anyway. On a family outing one evening, carrying Frank with us, we went to a startling new Japanese department s...

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Just so you can get the citations straight when discussing an album title ("Absolutely Free") and Zappa recognizing Camus as an influence on the "Freak Out!" list, here is the original quote from...

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In Claremont, when I knew the folkies, the girl who wore moccasins and fired raku (she loaned me that Bob Dylan record, remember?) knew all the words to this song (though I'll bet she was singing...

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Oh, thank goodness.  I finally and officially got out of High School (I had already spent a semester at that poop college in the desert.)  I returned to town June 1964 for the important "cer...

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Everyone read books in Claremont or so it seemed, as the locale was such a literate place. In 1961-1962, Mimi's new boyfriend Richard Farina recommended I read a thing by Orwell as he'd liked i...

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Yes, Frank listened to this as well.  Noses held some fascination for him.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCuiN2JnjpE&noredirect=1 One time, I learned from my science readings (as my sis...

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We'd listen to KPFK now and again.  I was very surprised to learn such a station even existed!  You couldn’t help but think about advertising sometimes, it was everywhere.  Ads were in ne...

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