Best band of the sixties secondo DeBaser.

❝ Is it possible to listen to “My Generation” without screaming and shaking?!

❝ Less than forty minutes, but an actual punch in the stomach, a pure distillation of that thing that someone called Rock and which instead I like to call Rock.

❝ LOVE REIGNS ON ME.

❝ Impossible not to affirm that what comes out is an absolute masterpiece.

❝ Year 1968, “Wheels Of Fire” by the British Cream. The pinnacle of their short but very dense career.

❝ Cream’s performances are intense and captivating, with extremely long solos and improvisations at the end, at high volume and energy.

❝ These are undoubtedly the most incredible 2 minutes and 24 seconds in the history of rock, it’s all so, so Hendrix for god's sake.

❝ Magic. Hendrix was magic, above all else.

❝ “If God exists, he is a hippie and plays the electric guitar”

❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"

❝ "Best Band, Ever"

❝ Let's begin by clearing up any doubts: this is a classic among classics.

❝ The Creedence Clearwater Revival are a band, in the true sense of the word: the undisputed leader is John C. Fogerty.

❝ The latest studio effort from the American band, an intentionally driven musical suicide at the height of their fame.

❝ The news that hasn’t yet reached the Olympus where I hope never to enter is that the Beatles knew how to play, and how.

❝ In short, the general impression here is that you are not just watching a documentary about the Beatles: you are actually reliving those years with them.

❝ Who would have ever thought that the Legend, perhaps the greatest in the History of Music, would have begun with a very simple, very banal, very inexpensive: ONE, TWO, THREE, FAH!

❝ "Squeeze" is the apocryphal album of the Velvet Underground.

❝ This album is stunning, chiaroscuro and sadistic like few others.

❝ This double live album, recorded between Dallas and San Francisco, is a confession.

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This is the first album that absolutely puts the electric guitar at the center of attention, a forerunner of works of the caliber of Are You Experienced and Texas Flood, to name a few, and a precursor of genres and trends that would prevail for over a decade.

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Much, much honor and respect for them, history of rock.

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The Yardbirds were incredible.

❝ The Animals revived the old black tradition and gave it a sound slap to free it from austerity and academic formalities (namely, the ills that have plagued the genre, sometimes relegating it to cocktail music, although fortunately a good part of it continued to carry forward its visceral nature).

❝ A band of true rock blues purists, on par with the contemporary Rolling Stones, with a singer like Eric Burdon whose intense singing style would also inspire other subsequent rockers like Jim Morrison and Joe Cocker.

❝ If we go back to the sixty years of the "British Invasion", when many were singing the blues, no white singer had a soul as black as Eric Burdon;

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"This Is The End" had already been announced years earlier by James Douglas Morrison.

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"This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end my only friend..."

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"Break On Through (To The Other Side)"

❝ At least that damn record still sounded like it used to.

❝ Some say they do it better than anyone else, others say they’re now pathetic, and some, like me, claim that this is the true classical music of the late twentieth century, together of course with the best jazz.

❝ This album, despite being recorded under the most terrifying conditions and remixed an indeterminate number of times, remains one of the main cornerstones of the Rolling Stones' discography.

❝ I will have no other Floyds besides Syd!

❝ Goodbye Cruel World (of Business).

❝ The Dark Side Of The Moon is not only the compositional and musical climax of the post-Barrett group's experience

❝ The result was "Sweetheart of the Rodeo," probably the most important country-rock album of all time, as well as the swan song of the Byrds themselves.

❝ Wittingly defined by Lester Bangs as the "Revolver of American pop-rock," this work best synthesizes the band's multifaceted nuances, while serving as a fundamental archetype for entire successive rock generations (from R.E.M. to Pavement passing through the Smiths).

❝ The single was released on April 12, 1965, immediately reaching number one on both the American and British sales charts

❝ It's hard to separate the name of Procol Harum from the song that made them popular worldwide back in 1967, namely "A Whiter Shade of Pale"...

❝ A refined and elegant work, standing among the very first albums of progressive, then still in the womb of the groups that were giving birth to it, including Procol Harum.

❝ It is an unjustly overlooked work, which I consider worthy of a well-visible place among the usual titles reviewed here at the pace of a mushroom cultivation.

❝ The wah-wah of Kaukonen in "Good Shepherd" pushes you to movement, to action, towards where? Forward, towards the future, start moving.

❝ This monument or testament, if you prefer, consecrates the Jefferson Airplane into the Olympus of all rock.

❝ In short, an absolutely must-have album, which paved the way for other masterpieces by the American band, like "After Bathing At Baxter's" and their probable career pinnacle, "Volunteers".

❝ it was a band, did you know?

❝ I love you.

❝ “Who the hell is that guitarist?!”

❝ “Many times their fame is overshadowed by the great “giants” of English rock of the period like Zeppelin, Purple, or Sabbath, but Ten Years After, led by the great and unfortunately recently deceased Alvin Lee, the “Fastest Guitar in Rock 'n Roll”, are absolutely no less in terms of skill and spectacle, and this double album is the most sincere testament to that.”

❝ “This is essentially the band’s most original work, perhaps also the most refined, and (needless to say) misunderstood by most fans at the time.”

❝ If God had recorded an album, it would have been Pet Sounds.

❝ Smiley Smile is precisely the collection of the few published fragments of Smile.

❝ Published in 1971, "Surf's Up" is the last decent work of a group now divided by internal dissensions and the slow, inexorable mental deterioration of Brian Wilson.

❝ The Grateful Dead's live performances are the real trademark of the band.

❝ Finally, the most requested show in Grateful Dead history.

❝ the pinnacle of their production is the amazing double Live/Dead, a cornerstone of the genre and music as a whole, which contains, among other things, Dark Star, THE symbol of psychedelia, one of those tracks capable of wiping out entire discographies.

❝ It was supposed to be a messed-up evening.

❝ GENNAIO!!!!! Damn, GENNAIOOOOO!

❝ I won’t say more because this record must simply be listened to.

❝ "I picked up my bag, I went looking for a place to hide
Then I saw Carmen and the devil walking side by side
I said - Hey Carmen come on, let's go downtown
She said I gotta go but my friend can stick around..."

❝ The result was a classic bolt from the blue, that "Music from Big Pink" destined to quickly establish itself as a milestone of American music.

❝ They decided to title this concert "The Last Waltz", a final waltz to dance together with those they loved, to bid farewell to the audience with a smile, without regrets.

❝ An album full of Beck’s “school” licks, feedback, slide, wha-wha and probably one of the most elegant and delicate recorded till then by our hero.

❝ In summary, what appeared to me for years as an experiment by Jeff, a mix of rhythm & blues and rock-funky, is perhaps truly the real dividing line between the Jeff Beck rock and the rock-fusion of Blow by Blow and Wired, of course not considering the subsequent fanta-boogie interlude of the BBA group!!!

❝ An album that is certainly not a milestone nor an excellent record (it’s a bootleg, after all), but for the selling price, it is by far advantageous.

❝ The Kinks have given us many little pop gems and Ray Davies was a genius. Period.

❝ It's time to rediscover them, isn't it?

❝ Known mostly thanks to the seminal riff of "You Really Got Me", the Kinks have gone even further, releasing throughout their career several examples of undisputed compositional talent, with an energetic and peculiar sound, that today serve as a true "beacon" for many bands.

❝ “Forever Changes” by the Californians Love is one of the greatest albums in the History of music, one of the symbols of the entire psychedelic season, one of the most radiant and dramatic examples of sonic intimacy.

❝ The magic that made this album a masterpiece lies in the subtle work with which “Love” managed to weave flamenco adornments onto a rock sound tapestry, harmonizing beat and psychedelia, the sound of strings with wind instruments.

❝ All of this is the last great album labeled Love: before the tunnel of the 70s swallowed Arthur Lee.

❝ My relationship with "Starless And Bible Black" is instead on another level of values, being the album that has most contributed to developing my way of perceiving music over the last twenty years.

❝ Needless to say, our guys still have full control of their voices, definitely more mature compared to their beginnings, of course, but still capable of interlocking perfect harmonies and intertwining, chasing, complementing each other.

❝ “Live It Up” is a mediocre work, spoiled by excessive use of synthesizers and drum machines.

❝ listen to it, it is a rare gem...

❝ 1967 was an unrepeatable year. Rock had reached maturity, producing a stunning series of masterpieces. The second album by Buffalo Springfield is certainly to be counted among that elite.

❝ There’s something happening here/what it is ain’t exactly clear…

❝ From this legendary (re)encounter, along with drummer Dewey Martin, the Buffalo Springfield are born, one of the most creative groups of the emerging Californian folk-rock scene and also one of the least known at the time.

❝ And right now... right now... right now it's time to... kick out the jams, motherfuckers!!!!!!

❝ Recorded live in 1968 (on Halloween night) at the Grande Ballroom...

❝ Jeff Beck plays everything on the electric guitar; his hands bang the bridge, tremolo arm, headstock, the string remnants between the bridge and the tailpiece, and those between the nut and the headstock tuners, then the wah wah pedal, the slide thimble sliding across the strings using not just the left hand but sometimes the right, constantly using the volume and tone knobs and the pickup selector.

❝ Here, it borders on the absurd, but in the most positive sense of the word: after listening to this work, one is left astounded; there are no words to describe what Beck has managed to accomplish with the guitar and how naturally he was able to put his soul, his passion, his energy onto vinyl.

❝ In many respects, Jeff is the greatest electric guitarist of all time: his touch and sound are princely, unmatched; his approach to rhythm and melody is intriguing and surprising...

❝ This is rock’n’roll!

❝ These gentlemen are the Stooges: take or leave, hate or love, ignore or listen.

❝ it's over for everyone else, there’s no more room for anyone.

❝ The blues in its true form is a reflection of a man's life and comes from personal experiences, both good and bad. I acknowledge that I have unintentionally hurt many people, left friends, and now the only thing worth living for is the blues

❝ “Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton” marked an indelible turning point for blues and rock blues, laying the foundation for the subsequent hard and heavy evolution: it influenced many musicians, and bands like Cream, Led Zeppelin, and Free, just to name a few, certainly owe something to this record.

❝ I believe that John Mayall is the most important white Blues musician, and he has been since the sixties when, with his Bluesbreakers, he took on the role of a true pioneer of the British blues revival.

❝ 1967 was the year when singer Bob Hite, nicknamed "The Bear," along with guitarist Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, formed one of the greatest and most important blues bands in history: the Canned Heat.

❝ Canned Heat is the best white blues band that ever existed, they are all soul and little technique.

❝ the legendary "Going Up The Country," showcasing the joy of country life among carefree flutes, psychedelic sounds and vocals, and lively boogie rhythms.

❝ Unjustly forgotten, the Sir Lord Baltimore are a power-trio from New York who left a scorching mark on the music scene with their debut in 1970, with the album "Kingdom Come," to be considered as a true example of heavy metal ante litteram.

❝ It is difficult to attempt to classify or even describe in broad terms the sonic chaos that comprises "Trout Mask Replica"

❝ Because I didn't understand a damn thing.

❝ Critics have slaughtered it, purists hate it, it seems even Captain Beefheart disowned it... yet "Unconditionally Guaranteed" is perfect.

❝ Summer 1966, Austin (Texas): for the first time the term "psychedelic" is applied to the music scene.

❝ The genesis of psychedelia is here, in these grooves, in this expanded space filled with luminescent reverberations.

❝ Those who consider them a minor group are mistaken, they were precursors of the American counterculture, a fundamental band of the American music scene.

❝ The Small Faces were one of the most beloved yet also unfortunate bands in British musical history.

❝ The Autumn Stone is the posthumous album by the Small Faces, after Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie.

❝ Amon Düul II. Eh, not easy to talk about. A huge, multicolored, shapeshifting, indefinable, free group. Virulently free.

❝ "Tanz Der Lemminge" (1971), the third and final part of an unrivaled "triptych" (with "Phallus Dei" and "Yeti"), is an inexhaustible source of ideas and innovations, contaminations, a milestone of rock overall.

❝ The Amon Düul II had the intuition to merge American psychedelia with Stockhausen, and the result is epic, dark, pagan, and completely insane yet, at the same time, original and musical, unlike the senseless sessions of their little brothers, Amon Düul.

❝ One of the most beautiful albums of the 60s.

❝ The music of Traffic is one that makes you feel good about yourself.

❝ This masterpiece, to which no one would give 35 years, was born during yet another reunion of a band with a short and troubled history, full of breakups, departures, and reunions, and yet capable of leaving a beautiful mark in the history of music.

❝ Spirit might be the most paradigmatic band of the late '60s Californian scene, even more so than better-known names like Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane.

❝ Spirit were one of the most important and acclaimed bands of American psychedelia.

❝ Worth mentioning is the old story that Taurus was the inspiration for Stairway to Heaven.

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"Shut up, don't cry"

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it's monk time now!

❝ But here we are still in 1969, the acid sun of California has not yet completely set, and behold, the twenty-five minutes of Who Do You Love (a Bo Diddley cover), reveal an incredible machine of good vibrations.

❝ The group, active since 1966, arrived late to a major contract, but it was two years prior that they made a name for themselves in the San Francisco area as one of the most exceptional live acts around.

❝ Next comes "Fresh Air", a song that needs no introduction, listened to and re-listened to by generations, which belatedly taps into that chart-topping psychedelic rock, accessible to everyone.

❝ Zappa has no epigones. Yet, usually, anything in Popular Music that is extravagant or bizarre is immediately labeled as zappian. Zappism is a religion.

❝ “Uncle Meat” is his absolute masterpiece.

❝ The album is characterized by lush production, complex instrumentation, and high-quality vocal arrangements.

❝ It is not jazz, it is not rock, it is not psychedelia, it is pure progressive, it is history taking sound and form.

❝ All these people are assembled by the bandleader Jon Hiseman, an absolute drum superstar at ease in rock, jazz, blues, progressive...in everything basically: a true rhythm god!

❝ Two stars for this damn album is an insult to music, dear dictionary of my boots.

❝ "Cheap Thrills" should be listened to not because it's the testimony of a singer who mocked every limit, who played with her life with candid innocence; this album should be listened to simply because Janis Joplin sang and interpreted an excellent blues.

❝ The first album of a band destined to have brief but intense success and the first album of a shouter with an exceptional voice destined to become the Queen of Blues.

❝ Neil Young: the singer-songwriter, the rocker. The forerunner, the anti-hero par excellence, the Loner.

❝ "Rust Never Sleeps" is probably the Canadian's most significant work.

❝ There isn't a single weak moment in this album which moreover cements him as the putative father of the Seattle grunge generation

❝ “Hellbound Train” was released following the success of “Street Corner Talking,” which also marked the beginning of a new collaboration.

❝ The Savoy Brown were one of the first blues bands from the United Kingdom, they've been on the scene for about forty years and the terms to describe them have been numerous; some call them legendary, others innovators.

❝ A Step Further, as the album title itself suggests, marks the growth of Savoy Brown and expands the band's dimension, no longer just classic blues but incorporating new sounds into the band.

❝ Thus "Third" is born, a superb monument of experimental music and the entire art of the Twentieth century, a swan herald of a sudden dawn, a rainbow framing an autumn sunset, a blazing comet in boundless skies.

❝ "Playing now is lovely here in the BBC"

❝ Hang your ears on the handles of your umbrellas, you will be hit by a rain of electric and reckless sounds!!

❝ A MUST not just for PROG-METAL enthusiasts but for all lovers of great music.

❝ Undoubtedly a little gem. However, the band will not succeed and will disband. S. House will later join Hawkwind.

❝ Guys, this is truly a gem of prog! Those who haven't should go out and buy it immediately!

❝ “Our music is red, with purple flashes.”

❝ The Creation, in this sense, were decidedly noble: they participated in the development of the psychedelic sound, not anonymously - as at the time, they received a decent success thanks to their live performances and a handful of fortunate singles - but without nevertheless receiving the recognition and fortune that were rightfully theirs and which they would have deserved endlessly, up to the present day.

❝ If in the sixties there was an alternative to the Beatles and Beach Boys' mainstream pop, it is certainly to be found in the grooves of this little-known masterpiece by the English band Zombies.

❝ "Care Of Cell 44" is a song from the album "Odessey And Oracle" by The Zombies from the year 1968.

❝ “Odessey And Oracle” is the most unfortunate and “fantozzian” album ever that a company could produce.

❝ “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown,”

❝ “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” is the only story in the world that smells like fish gone bad.

❝ “One thing I’ve learned about Johnny Cash is that you don’t tell him what to sing.”

❝ “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash,”

❝ “I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die”

❝ A man, a name, a voice, Roger Chapman. I consider him, in the international music scene of those years, second only to Tim Buckley.

❝ A great and forgotten ensemble was the Family, who possessed great qualities increasingly rare in the years to come: imagination, instrumental talent, emotionality.

❝ Chappo’s throat gargles like a teapot boiling full of nails and bolts.

❝ Two albums combined into one.

❝ Many know the Free only for their worldwide hit “All Right Now”, and it's a real shame.

❝ A roaring boom greets a random note, an almost intimidated "Hello" and one of the most famous riffs of the '70s.

❝ All Right Now - an extraordinary piece, with incredible drive, with a sharp and indelible riff, very current, undoubtedly the emblematic track of Free and a true generational anthem.

❝ The Steamhammer is a blues rock band born at the end of the '60s.

❝ They started 'My white bicycle' in a way that had never been so powerful

❝ If you love Sergent Pepper by the Beatles but want more songs in the same style and atmosphere to satisfy your craving for psychedelia, if you have already listened to Odessey and Oracle by the Zombies and liked it, if you are a fan of the Kinks, then this is the album that will satisfy you.

❝ Primordial is the most suitable adjective to define the sound of Blue Cheer, a Californian combo from the late '60s.

❝ It's not exactly the type of music I usually listen to, and it's not an easy album to review: it is raw, harsh, primitive, and the production work is quite sparse, but let's not forget the historical importance of the record and the influences it has had on the hard rock and heavy metal genres, and how exciting and dramatic the album itself is.

❝ A Must, superlative! If you want rock and roll done thoroughly and "original," you must come here.

❝ What more can be said, a masterpiece, a lost gem in the record ocean.

❝ Probably the most heartfelt concept of the Pretty Things, after the psychedelic binges of a couple of years earlier.

❝ "Knock twice before listening" … this is the warning found on the label of the vinyl for this self-titled debut by the New York-based Silver Apples.

❝ Folk between rigorous Anglo-American tradition and jazz experimentation: this is Cruel Sister (1960), the fourth album by Pentangle, founded in 1967 by the Scotsman Bert Jansch and the Englishman John Renbourn, to which the extraordinary vocalist Jaqui McShee and jazz musicians Danny Thompson and Terry Cox would join.

❝ what these five Britons proposed was truly something INIMITABLE.

❝ Here, McShee’s voice becomes a "flute," poignant, sweet, and melancholic, the arrangement of the guitars is elegantly perfect, a timid flute duets without ever being intrusive with the voice, the double bass provides solidity and depth.

❝ Just one word: MAMMOTH!

❝ As often happens, life is short and success a smoky chimera...

❝ "The inheritance of future sinners and the writings of future revelations will be our final downfall. We can all worship the devil if we please but there is still time just let us breathe awhile..."

❝ they entered the studio to begin recording what would become one of the absolute masterpieces of English psychedelia.

❝ This album can be considered as "the best debut record in rock history" and thus the finest debut work of all time.

❝ "There is no weak point, even if it is "only" a good album, not pretentious, but which demands respect."

❝ "'Days Of Future Passed' will become your travel companion throughout the duration of each day you live and will never abandon you, I assure you."

❝ "In short, a prime example of popularity inversely proportional to the actual value: if you want to remember the Moody Blues, it's better to do so with the image from the '60s in mind, not the dismal one of this record that succeeded only in part."

❝ “So many lies and contradictions rage in our lives;”

❝ Ah, time... If it's true that it's the cure for all ills, it's equally true that it can erode everything and consign the beautiful things to oblivion.

❝ A pivotal album in the underground scene and in the broader sense of English progressive: all of this is 'Wasa-Wasa', released in 1969 and produced by Peter Jenner, who was already the manager of Pink Floyd.

❝ In the end, disparate elements and a lot of eccentricity perfectly amalgamated make this album worthy of entering the Olympus of Progressive.

❝ The East Of Eden can be considered among the pioneers of Jazz-rock fusion in its most progressive form.

❝ The best track? Definitely "Communion", a reinterpretation of Béla Bartók in ethnic sauce.

❝ The album is a pleasant listen and above all reveals a remarkable intuition for future musical trends, truly astonishing.

❝ How can we not talk about this extraordinary album, a hidden gem of its time?

❝ Electric music for mind and body.

❝ Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send down your sons before it's too late, and be the first on your block to have a son come home in a box!!!