Best artist Rock of the sixties secondo DeBaser.

❝ If only one name from the entire history of rock remains in a hundred years, it will inevitably be Jimi Hendrix, said Pete Townshend.

❝ Here. In about two minutes, Jimi Hendrix one day decided to show us his soul and we all realized that his soul was so, so beautiful.

❝ Hendrix and the completely still and mesmerized audience in front of this being who came from who knows where to express everything he had inside with the howls he managed to produce from his guitar..

❝ 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.

❝ 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!

❝ First, buy the record, it’s essential.

❝ Frank Zappa remains nevertheless one of the greatest Composers of the 20th century. Period.

❝ Sheik is essential; it’s true that the orchestral suites of The Grand Wazoo are a work of art, but Sheik is mandatory; it’s true that Over-nite sensation is a revolution, but Sheik is inevitable.

❝ 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 Madcap Laughs... And what laughs! Cheerful, hysterical, desperate.”

❝ “Off-key Music for Off-key People.”

❝ “this album is an enormous piece of crap.”

❝ 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.

❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"

❝ "Best Band, Ever"

❝ 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.

❝ Well, yes. Once again, the old bastard has fooled us all.

❝ What's this shit?

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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)"

❝ “A legendary voice, which has indelibly marked rock music. His records are the object of a cult, also due to his tragic ending at only 28 years old, on June 29, 1975.”

❝ “No one has ever managed to create the void around the voice like Tim Buckley did”

❝ “Starsailor is the unattainable, and the way to get there, Starsailor is not a difficult or easy album, it is not rock, it is not jazz, it is not even music.”

❝ I had always imagined it so desperate.

❝ This album is an enormous joke.

❝ I, without ifs and buts, consider it noise.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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 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.

❝ it was a band, did you know?

❝ I love you.

❝ My life's a mess, I'm waiting for you to pass by... I'm sitting here at the bar with an empty glass in hand

❝ A man who still doesn't seem to have found a minimum of inner peace and serenity.

❝ It's a fact that Townshend needs to play at least three strings at a time (that is, play rhythm) to be great.

❝ 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.

❝ Janis doesn't sing like others, she screams her need to be loved!

❝ Janis Joplin: one of the greatest "white" voices to sing "black" music (forget about Eminem...). This album was released posthumously in early 1971, a few months after Janis had already left us (she died in October '70). The album is the true masterpiece of this sad, melancholic woman, who searched for love she never found.

❝ Listening to "Pearl" is like making love with 25,000 people, savoring in the air the scent of those years, then falling asleep with Janis by your side.

❝ Nevertheless, I still consider their, his, “God Only Knows” the most beautiful song of the sixties, Beatles included.

❝ After a wait of 37 years, the mythical “teenage symphony to God” would finally see the light again: a smile lit up his pale, wrinkled face.

❝ The album is truly structured like a true classical symphony, divided into three movements: musical themes recur, and the tracks blend into each other.

❝ 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.

❝ Elusive as the unconscious, indefinable as a free-associating stream of thoughts.

❝ I think that listening to ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ makes life better.

❝ But at 80, his distinctive voice remains as powerful and remarkably emotional as ever.

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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 Parable of Arable Land" is one of the most shocking albums ever.

❝ Mayo Thompson made history with experimental rock.

❝ Their second album, with a vaguely mystical title, "God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail With It," is, in my opinion, the highest point reached by the group; it is a genuine gem of experimental rock, psychedelic blues, and crooked acid-folk ballads, worthy of the best Syd Barrett.

❝ "What are you waiting for to roll me up and put me away? You're no longer a kid, and by now, you've realized that I can't mean that much to you... Come on, make up your mind, don't be overcome by memories, be strong at least this time, show me the man you've become."

❝ there is a crack in everything and that's where the light gets in.

❝ Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.

❝ "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.

❝ “If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.”

❝ “This is Rock 'n Roll baby!”

❝ “One cannot seriously talk about rock without knowing at least thirty songs by Elvis Presley.”

❝ In "Blessing of Tears," Robert Fripp shows remarkable sensitivity, a clear, emotional message that is also aesthetically consonant from the listener's perspective (something found in very few romantic tracks of his production).

❝ A precious document. Fragmented notes, experiments, songs built on ideas kept in the archive for years.

❝ It is impossible to achieve an aim without suffering

❝ 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.

❝ Phil is a perfectionist.

❝ Warning to readers: everything that will be covered on this page will be excessive, plethoric, and overabundant.

❝ The question here isn’t whether you own 'Made In Japan', but: which version do you have?

❝ The Deep Purple, then! Even though they are all more or less in their sixties, except for Steve Morse, our guys manage to rock like never before.

❝ I am "selfish," I wish that Deep Purple had stopped making records after "Perfect Stranger";

❝ 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.

❝ There is a dark jewel, emitting reflections of a spectral light, embedded in the discography of John Cale.

❝ After all, we're talking about John Cale, master of eccentric pop and all sorts of other things, eccentric as well.

❝ I didn't want to write this review. The artist is too overwhelming for a music layman like me.

❝ Page’s guitar here you hear as much as Muddy’s in “Waters At Newport 1960”—practically nothing!

❝ Works lacking inventiveness and light-years away from that three-dimensional sound that the Led had managed to invent.

❝ …unleashing Page in “Heartbreaker”: everything stops for the master’s solo.

❝ 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

❝ "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."

❝ “Like an underwater song sung by dolphins beneath the ocean surface.”

❝ “I am madly in love with pop music. Many great composers are inspired by folk, I am inspired by pop. I'm not saying I'm a great composer nor that pop is a form of folk. But for sure, pop has generated a never-ending flow. You can also build your little pond, but if the pond is not connected to the river, which in turn flows into the ocean, sooner or later it will dry up. It will become little more than a piss. And I have lived too long to be happy with a puddle” Robert Wyatt.

❝ “I was deeply struck by something I had read about the organogenic marine mud on the ocean floors: in the abysses there are things just as strange and bizarre as those we imagine on Mars” (Robert Wyatt)

❝ “Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo” is one of the most beautiful musical testimonies of the last fifty years (or almost—technically, fifty-one years)... too underrated, too little known.

❝ “E Pluribus Unum,” recorded by Sandy Bull in ’68 and released a couple of years later, is an album divided into two long parts.

❝ A little-known album, but worth rediscovering.

❝ Kevin Ayers, in other words, a genius who pretended to be dumb to avoid going to war....

❝ Kevin Ayers is missed, and it’s absolutely worth rediscovering him.

❝ Kevin Ayers was the king of the realm of laziness.

❝ 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.

❝ Ray’s world is unique and peculiar.

❝ This is not a mere commercial operation, but the desire to relive some of the most beautiful pages of his career by tackling them in a dynamic rather than static way, as he could have done, for example, through the release of a best-of.

❝ This is an album to listen to in one breath.

❝ ''I chased a dream for years: to record an album of Native American music. But I had no intention of doing it just for fun; I felt the need to create something that was of great emotional impact but, at the same time, respectful of the Indian culture'.

❝ The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack is an utterly indispensable product for fans of British Progressive and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, especially for its seminal value.

❝ It is certain, however, that if one were to choose which five groups more than others have made progressive rock into what it has become, the Nice would be among the first to be mentioned.

❝ And the live performances are the highlight of the English combo, entirely acrobatic, with appearances even here in Italy.

❝ The cosmos couldn't bear it… and wept its tears copiously.

❝ An interesting anecdote: in Rome, Mario meets director Marco Ferreri and poet Giuseppe Ungaretti; to the latter, already in his eighties, he offers an evening at Peyote.

❝ “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.

❝ 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!!!

❝ 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.

❝ We always wondered who would get us out of the way, and it was the Led Zeppelin.

❝ Vanilla Fudge was the first of these realities, followed and envied certainly not for the repertoire, but for how they played it.

❝ "Some Velvet Morning" is the band's jewel, a gem of music in general and of the Sixties.