I'm going crazy trying to remember who recorded, wrote etc. the psychedelic song "Time" You know, the one that slows down and speeds up, with the cow bell....I was unable to make a google search work. Alex? Bill? anyone?
"young hearts can go their way..."
I enjoy ‘em both, but I’m a little bit embarrassed by either. They were the repetition as farce, with Hendrix as the real triumph and tragedy. Through him, racial debts were reconfigured. The alienated white kids saw the music they loved transformed by their own attentions. Whatever we look at is changed by our gaze. Hendrix was like a brief vision at the peak of the trip; he was only possible in response to the white audience, but his blackness was the signature of “authenticity” which made him, even more than the Beatles or the Dead, the epochal figure of Psychedelia. It’s no wonder that the era consumed him. Sly Stone and PFunk were the great black apostles of this music. It’s testament to the import of Psychedelia as a cultural moment that in the early 80’s, after the contraction of the Punk/New Wave period, when it became necessary to recomplicate pop music the frissionary possibilities of the psychedelic era provided a model for artists as seemingly disparate as Prince and the Butthole Surfers.
The first rock concert I ever attended was in 1971.
It was the Alice Cooper "Killer" tour.
Opening for Alice were the Chambers Bros and Blue Oyster Cult.
I'd say that about 70% of the Chambers Bros set consisted of "Time".
They really banged that cow bell for all it was worth.
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- steve 2-09-2002 5:26 am
"young hearts can go their way..."
- dave 2-09-2002 5:42 am [add a comment]
dave fix that link / the chambers bros "time has come today".
- bill 2-09-2002 4:39 pm [add a comment]
Thanks all, I kept thinking "Statler Brothers? ....Naah.."
- steve 2-09-2002 5:26 pm [add a comment]
Ramones also did a cover of "Time Has Come Today" I think 82-83-ish...
- Brian Turner 2-11-2002 6:21 am [add a comment]
So does Dead Moon.
- steve 2-11-2002 4:19 pm [add a comment]
They were blacks imitating white hippies who grew up imitating blacks. They were more righteous than their negabros ever were.
- alex 2-10-2002 2:44 am [add a comment]
White American kids immitating white British kids immitating black American blues men.
- steve 2-10-2002 6:57 am [add a comment]
Posted that before looking at your link.
Ouch.
- steve 2-10-2002 6:59 am [add a comment]
why cant we enjoy both great acts ? I love the richeous bros. this is where one of their big hits came from. and for that matter I love the statler bros too. countin' flowers ? hicks pretending to be hippies ?
- bill 2-10-2002 4:35 pm [add a comment]
I enjoy ‘em both, but I’m a little bit embarrassed by either. They were the repetition as farce, with Hendrix as the real triumph and tragedy. Through him, racial debts were reconfigured. The alienated white kids saw the music they loved transformed by their own attentions. Whatever we look at is changed by our gaze. Hendrix was like a brief vision at the peak of the trip; he was only possible in response to the white audience, but his blackness was the signature of “authenticity” which made him, even more than the Beatles or the Dead, the epochal figure of Psychedelia. It’s no wonder that the era consumed him. Sly Stone and PFunk were the great black apostles of this music. It’s testament to the import of Psychedelia as a cultural moment that in the early 80’s, after the contraction of the Punk/New Wave period, when it became necessary to recomplicate pop music the frissionary possibilities of the psychedelic era provided a model for artists as seemingly disparate as Prince and the Butthole Surfers.
- alex 2-10-2002 5:41 pm [add a comment]
- anonymous (guest) 2-11-2002 11:14 pm [add a comment]
The first rock concert I ever attended was in 1971.
It was the Alice Cooper "Killer" tour.
Opening for Alice were the Chambers Bros and Blue Oyster Cult.
I'd say that about 70% of the Chambers Bros set consisted of "Time".
They really banged that cow bell for all it was worth.
- chuckney (guest) 2-11-2002 11:20 pm [add a comment]