Best band Rock 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”

❝ 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;

❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"

❝ "Best Band, 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.

❝ “Freak Out!” was released in 1966 and it is a product of impressive variety:

❝ one of his masterpieces, almost a manifesto of total music.

❝ “Music journalism consists of people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read”

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ it was a band, did you know?

❝ I love you.

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

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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)"

❝ 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

❝ "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.

❝ “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.”

❝ 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.

❝ 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".

❝ 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.

❝ 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.

❝ 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 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";

❝ “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.

❝ 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...

❝ 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.

❝ "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.

❝ their equivalent in England was the Deviants of Mick Farren.

❝ A manifesto group of politicized British underground, born from a commune of anarchic freaks

❝ Everything sounds indescribably cool&sexy.

❝ Jimmy Page called them “My favorite band of all time, my ideal band.”

❝ “A young and eclectic band, moreover capable of writing excellent original material... it's no small feat”

❝ The Kaleidoscope is a small, colorful, and crazy orchestra, and the list of instruments played by the 5 on the record is a brilliant testimony:

❝ 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.

❝ In fact, more underground than this you die.

❝ The first time I listened to "The Jeweller," I was stunned; the second time, I felt like a child; and the third time, I sang while butchering the words, partly because I didn't know the lyrics and partly because it felt like a magical spell.

❝ Rapp himself described his music as “constructive melancholy,”

❝ 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

❝ The unique characteristic of the USA, a musical project headed by Joseph Byrd, a student of John Cage in early '60s New York, is the total unfamiliarity of each member with rock music.

❝ Psychedelia yes, but much more: artistic journey, at times Dada, at times Naif, at times grotesque, at times avant-garde.

❝ 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!

❝ “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.

❝ "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."

❝ 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.

❝ The Fugs, in their own way, were revolutionary, as counterculture activists and as pioneers of Underground music.

❝ “First Album”, the first album of the Fugs, is one of the pillars of the American underground of the Sixties.

❝ To conclude: the album cover is designed by a chimpanzee named Jezebel who dabbled in surrealist painting at the Portland zoo.