Woodstock

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 16, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:

> Don't confuse rock'n'roll with rock.  Beatles started out by making  
> R&R a
> little smarter with some off/jazzy notes thrown in, and one might  
> say that
> as they developed, they created, for better or for worse, rock  
> without the
> roll.
>
> If you heard the Beatles when they first washed up on the American  
> East
> coast (DC, Ed Sullivan, and Shea Stadium), you almost definitely  
> remember
> how much gd fun "our boys" were

I recall hearing "Ain't She Sweet" on one of L.A.'s "top 40" stations  
in the fall of 1963 when I was living in some welfare housing out in  
East L.A. I was on the living room carpet in Altadena when the Beatles  
first appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. I had a ten-transistor  
"Viscount" pocket radio plugged into my ear for all of 1964 & 1965,  
then graduated to a full-sized tube radio just in time for "Eight  
Miles High." I can even remember the first time the Byrds rendition of  
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" aired on KRLA just in time for the  
Watts Riots.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.