It saddens me to note that McCartney’s voice is now completely shot, and has been for a few years. I’m glad I got to hear him perform before it happened.
I have no idea what TV program they were on, but something tells me that this was a fairly transgressive appearance at the time. And I have no clue what was going on with the bass player, sitting facing the rest of the group, away from the camera, and the only one with whom we saw the host shake hands. The audience apparently liked it, though.
Right in the beginning you see a plaque that says “Hollywood Palace.”
That’s the name of the program.
…
I don’t understand, either about the bass player.
I do know that Stephen Stills and Neil Young were always fighting about the direction the band was taking… and here you see Stills in a suit, albeit with a cowboy hat, and Young in full-on hippie leathers.
I don’t recognise this week’s host… anybody? He seems a bit clueless.
Maybe I’m incorrect, but I don’t recall anyone else calling them “THE Buffalo Springfield.”
…
Not sure what you mean about it being transgressive… interesting.
I mean, if it was transgressive of the band to appear on such an un-hip show, well, there wasn’t much choice, cos there were very few hip shows.
…
Or was the program breaching norms, to host such counter-cultural performances?
They also had the Rolling Stones and a lot of other groups, and while I didn’t see much TV then, I remember that most of the changing hosts seemed not to get it.
The appeal of the groups and their messages seemed to fly right over their heads.
Later some of them rushed to catch up, maybe by growing their hair or singing a rock song, or what they thought was a rock song.
I would say the transgression might have been any of these: a) opening with a well-known anti-war anthem at a time when the war was highly controversial; b) I think I detected an altered lyric or two in the back half of that medley, where Neil Young was singing lead, perhaps sneaking in something they had been told was not allowed; c) perhaps the bass player was under a contract to someone, somewhere, that forbade his “appearance” on screen. To get around that potential contract violation, he is never shown in a recognizable way.
Interesting. I guess I don’t know the lyrics that perfectly, so I couldn’t tell if there was alteration.
It was 1967. I’d already been at lots of antiwar rallies and protests, so I kind of expected that stuff, but I know a lot of people didn’t, like my father.
….
I was thinking the same thing about the bass player, but it would be strange for one member to have a different contract.
It occurred to me that maybe someone else was sitting in for him and they were hiding the fast that he was absent.
Another good one by Pete Beard.
What struck me was the price of “The New Yorker” did not rise from 15¢ from its first issue in February 1925 through to, presumably, I didn’t see any December issues, the end of 1939 (and possibly beyond / I didn’t dig).
The August 1, 1936 cover is a reminder that Hitler’s atrocities had not yet been forcibly drawn to the world’s attention with the appearance of the flag of the German Reich (THE NAZI [the swastika flag] FLAG), ALTHOUGH THEY WERE KNOWN AND ACTED UPON BY SOME.. And, leave us not forget, that “The New Yorker’s” William Steig gave us SHREK (which, by the article translates as “fear” or “terror”)
I just looked it up:
The least expensive beer in its “Beach Club” is $9.00 a can (size not listed, but among them is Bud Light).
If the charges in the attachment are calculated separately, the final charge will be $11.70; if they’re cascaded in the order listed (no bar would be that dishonest….) the cost rises to $11.88.
Today I had two, draft, 16 oz. Rickard’s Reds; total cost, including 15% tip $13.28.
We Canadians usually think of liquor in the U.S. as being a lot less expensive.
Edited in a bit later:
Call that $10.00 U.S..
Edited in even later:
Since this is Tuesday, I guess that should be “yesterday.”
Last edited 1 year ago by Alexikakos
Liverlips McCracken
Guest
1 year ago
There is vice in Cleveland?!? I am stunned. This is an unwelcome and shocking development. A one-time industrial powerhouse in the heart of the country? This is where the nation was built, the bedrock of our people. Just ask Ohio governor Mike DeWine. Oh, woe is us, that we have sunk so low.
There’s a cross border crime syndicate based in Chatham, Ontario which smuggles kibble-spiked butter tarts across Lake Erie; it’s linked to corrupt dentists in Cleveland who make a fortune crowning broken teeth.
Before that show, I didn’t even know there was any vice in Cleveland…
well, except for maybe Cleo Clifford dynamiting a few squirrels, or a couple of Grandmas making their mahjong games more interesting by betting a handful of quarters.
Cleveland was Grandmas… and 5pm casserole dinners, and 6:30pm movie dates, home by 9:30 or Daddy wants to know why.
…
Illicit kibble manufacture, sales to minor pups… trafficking out-dated flea collars… lady dogs forced into harnesses and sold on the street….
Who woulda thunk it?
Stylish dog clothing and hip music?
in CLEVELAND???
I would have said you were crazy.
Just shows you whatI knew.
…
I didn’t watch the show all the time, mostly cos I was working late, and not seeing a lot of TV…
I remember more about what I would call the side effects of it than the actual program.
Suddenly, all the most fashionable bassets, and later, imitation chic copydog humans, were wearing white jackets, even in California…
something we had previously associated around here with sleazy Florida types.
But even now, a white belt and white shoes is still called a “full Cleveland.” Um… I think that’s related.
…
And sunglasses, too. Whoever had seen so many bassets in dark sunglasses?
Or wearing t-shirts under their suit jackets, instead of white shirts and ties… in colors like lavender and turquoise.
Here in the Northern CA land of bearded men in Pendleton shirts, and socks with Teva hiking sandals… (Be quiet! Who asked you?) ….
we suddenly saw bare feet in boat shoes. Yikes!
I hadn’t seen a loafer in decades, but suddenly guys were wearing Sperry Topsiders everywhere.. even on the dance floor. Withoutsocks!
…
The music, too, was everywhere… a different sound from either the punkish rock n’ roll I listened to, or the 80’s hair bands in the clubs.
The cool sound of urban Saturday nights…
where hip bassets with two-day stubble picked up their dates in fancy sports cars.
Sigh… it all felt a bit out of my league, and still does.
It would have been my late last remaining aunt’s 100th birthday today.
She passed away three years ago – on her actual birthday and before all the restrictions of Covid. The funeral was huge…
Oh – and beer cans are an enormous waste of energy, even if recycled. Better use reusable bottles for any beverage.
The mechanized agriculture is quite different from what I saw in Darfur, where every step of planting, weeding, harvesting and cleaning nuts from leaves is done by hand. If dry conditions occurred before harvest, the nuts would not come out of the ground with the stems, and had to be painstakingly separated from the earth with the farmer’s fingers.
Looks like a whole flock of church ladies.
Yes! Peering about with a barely audible, but obviously disapproving cluck.
This is for both you and Liverlips.
Funny!
Quite the pack train.
I think we’re gonna be stuck at this crossing for a while.
Excellent! Flawless.
I can’t see the seam in it anyplace. Great job! 🙂
Yeah, I checked too.
Wondered what software the person was using that would let her/him separate out the background and foreground, so only the llamas ever shifted.
There’s not even a breeze ruffling a leaf as they pass, much less a glitch in the scenery.
‼️ BEEP BEEP‼️
Come-on, come-on! 🐌
Hurry up❗️
I’ve gotta plane to catch‼️
(featuring John Lennon midway through)
It saddens me to note that McCartney’s voice is now completely shot, and has been for a few years. I’m glad I got to hear him perform before it happened.
I have no idea what TV program they were on, but something tells me that this was a fairly transgressive appearance at the time. And I have no clue what was going on with the bass player, sitting facing the rest of the group, away from the camera, and the only one with whom we saw the host shake hands. The audience apparently liked it, though.
Right in the beginning you see a plaque that says “Hollywood Palace.”
That’s the name of the program.
…
I don’t understand, either about the bass player.
I do know that Stephen Stills and Neil Young were always fighting about the direction the band was taking… and here you see Stills in a suit, albeit with a cowboy hat, and Young in full-on hippie leathers.
I don’t recognise this week’s host… anybody? He seems a bit clueless.
Maybe I’m incorrect, but I don’t recall anyone else calling them “THE Buffalo Springfield.”
…
Not sure what you mean about it being transgressive… interesting.
I mean, if it was transgressive of the band to appear on such an un-hip show, well, there wasn’t much choice, cos there were very few hip shows.
…
Or was the program breaching norms, to host such counter-cultural performances?
They also had the Rolling Stones and a lot of other groups, and while I didn’t see much TV then, I remember that most of the changing hosts seemed not to get it.
The appeal of the groups and their messages seemed to fly right over their heads.
Later some of them rushed to catch up, maybe by growing their hair or singing a rock song, or what they thought was a rock song.
A quick search says Tony Martin was co-hosting the show that night (Thursday, April 27, 1967) with his wife, Cyd Charisse.
I would say the transgression might have been any of these: a) opening with a well-known anti-war anthem at a time when the war was highly controversial; b) I think I detected an altered lyric or two in the back half of that medley, where Neil Young was singing lead, perhaps sneaking in something they had been told was not allowed; c) perhaps the bass player was under a contract to someone, somewhere, that forbade his “appearance” on screen. To get around that potential contract violation, he is never shown in a recognizable way.
Interesting. I guess I don’t know the lyrics that perfectly, so I couldn’t tell if there was alteration.
It was 1967. I’d already been at lots of antiwar rallies and protests, so I kind of expected that stuff, but I know a lot of people didn’t, like my father.
….
I was thinking the same thing about the bass player, but it would be strange for one member to have a different contract.
It occurred to me that maybe someone else was sitting in for him and they were hiding the fast that he was absent.
Another good one by Pete Beard.
What struck me was the price of “The New Yorker” did not rise from 15¢ from its first issue in February 1925 through to, presumably, I didn’t see any December issues, the end of 1939 (and possibly beyond / I didn’t dig).
The August 1, 1936 cover is a reminder that Hitler’s atrocities had not yet been forcibly drawn to the world’s attention with the appearance of the flag of the German Reich (THE NAZI [the swastika flag] FLAG), ALTHOUGH THEY WERE KNOWN AND ACTED UPON BY SOME.. And, leave us not forget, that “The New Yorker’s” William Steig gave us SHREK (which, by the article translates as “fear” or “terror”)
Not much of anything that I know about rose in price during that period.
First, prices didn’t rise every year the way they do now.
Inflation occurred after WWI, but leveled off, at already peak prices, in the 1920’s, till the crash of 1929 plunged many people into poverty.
A lot of things fell in price during the depression, which wasn’t over in the U.S. by 1939.
Great poster, Stel! And I remember researching the Clevelander and it does exist.
I just looked it up:
The least expensive beer in its “Beach Club” is $9.00 a can (size not listed, but among them is Bud Light).
If the charges in the attachment are calculated separately, the final charge will be $11.70; if they’re cascaded in the order listed (no bar would be that dishonest….) the cost rises to $11.88.
Today I had two, draft, 16 oz. Rickard’s Reds; total cost, including 15% tip $13.28.
We Canadians usually think of liquor in the U.S. as being a lot less expensive.
Edited in a bit later:
Call that $10.00 U.S..
Edited in even later:
Since this is Tuesday, I guess that should be “yesterday.”
There is vice in Cleveland?!? I am stunned. This is an unwelcome and shocking development. A one-time industrial powerhouse in the heart of the country? This is where the nation was built, the bedrock of our people. Just ask Ohio governor Mike DeWine. Oh, woe is us, that we have sunk so low.
There’s a cross border crime syndicate based in Chatham, Ontario which smuggles kibble-spiked butter tarts across Lake Erie; it’s linked to corrupt dentists in Cleveland who make a fortune crowning broken teeth.
I know, Liverlips … just imagine! Cleveland Vice.
Before that show, I didn’t even know there was any vice in Cleveland…
well, except for maybe Cleo Clifford dynamiting a few squirrels, or a couple of Grandmas making their mahjong games more interesting by betting a handful of quarters.
Cleveland was Grandmas… and 5pm casserole dinners, and 6:30pm movie dates, home by 9:30 or Daddy wants to know why.
…
Illicit kibble manufacture, sales to minor pups… trafficking out-dated flea collars… lady dogs forced into harnesses and sold on the street….
Who woulda thunk it?
Stylish dog clothing and hip music?
in CLEVELAND???
I would have said you were crazy.
Just shows you what I knew.
…
I didn’t watch the show all the time, mostly cos I was working late, and not seeing a lot of TV…
I remember more about what I would call the side effects of it than the actual program.
Suddenly, all the most fashionable bassets, and later, imitation chic copydog humans, were wearing white jackets, even in California…
something we had previously associated around here with sleazy Florida types.
But even now, a white belt and white shoes is still called a “full Cleveland.” Um… I think that’s related.
…
And sunglasses, too. Whoever had seen so many bassets in dark sunglasses?
Or wearing t-shirts under their suit jackets, instead of white shirts and ties… in colors like lavender and turquoise.
Here in the Northern CA land of bearded men in Pendleton shirts, and socks with Teva hiking sandals… (Be quiet! Who asked you?) ….
we suddenly saw bare feet in boat shoes. Yikes!
I hadn’t seen a loafer in decades, but suddenly guys were wearing Sperry Topsiders everywhere.. even on the dance floor. Without socks!
…
The music, too, was everywhere… a different sound from either the punkish rock n’ roll I listened to, or the 80’s hair bands in the clubs.
The cool sound of urban Saturday nights…
where hip bassets with two-day stubble picked up their dates in fancy sports cars.
Sigh… it all felt a bit out of my league, and still does.
.
It would have been my late last remaining aunt’s 100th birthday today.
She passed away three years ago – on her actual birthday and before all the restrictions of Covid. The funeral was huge…
Oh – and beer cans are an enormous waste of energy, even if recycled. Better use reusable bottles for any beverage.
peanut butter
The mechanized agriculture is quite different from what I saw in Darfur, where every step of planting, weeding, harvesting and cleaning nuts from leaves is done by hand. If dry conditions occurred before harvest, the nuts would not come out of the ground with the stems, and had to be painstakingly separated from the earth with the farmer’s fingers.
as usual, excellent poster, Stel. loved the names!
Love looking at the Cleveland Vice poster so much better than the Miami Vice poster.
The bassets are much easier to look at. And, yes, love the names!
agreed…