I was there. OMG!
Ian Anderson, the man who made the flute a rock and roll instrument.
Tangentially related to prog rock - Steve Howe (Yes) with Les Paul (āInventor of rock and rollā might be too grand a title for him, but only by a smidge). Les Paul was only about 80 in this video. Thereās a bunch of film of Paul still cookinā and improvising at 90 in the 2017 AXS tribute film.
Oh wow, thatās a blast from the past. Somewhere in my teens (the 70ās), my dad knew I loved rock music. He didnāt, much. So whenever some music store was clearing out their old albums, theyād cut a corner off the album cover and sell it for a buck or less sometimes. Dad would browse through and grab dozens of them at a time, I think based mostly on the cover art, since Dad was an artist, and heād give us kids each a few albums every Christmas or birthday.
One Christmas, I got Jethro Tullās āThick As A Brickā and The Allman Brothers āEat A Peachā, and a few more, but those two I remember, because while I mostly disliked the albums heād give me, those two I kept coming back to, and I eventually came around to love them a lot. There was also a Janis Joplin and the Holding Company album in there, but I bounced off that one pretty hard back then, only learning to appreciate her when I got into my 40ās.
In the 70ās, I was mostly into the big arena acts, like BOC, Thin Lizzy, BTO, Foghat and Uriah Heep. Also glam rock, like Queen, Sweet and Angel, which I guess were both glam and big arena acts. I just couldnāt get into anything less loud than that. So I have Dad to thank for making me appreciate the less sonic side of rock.
I still have those albums around here somewhere. I should really dig them out. I havenāt heard either one of those in decades.
Trees is awesome, and Rush helped inspire one of my favorite branches of music.
So Iāll post one of the influenced, and the biggest band from the first waves of the genre
I will take your lead and go back before Rush in the same Genre for an earlier influence:
Of course Iāve had it in the ear before!
Ripping Yarns, the Michael Palin (and sometimes Terry Jones) Python Alumni spoof of the Stories for Boys genre are back on YouTube. One of my all time favorite War-themed scenes in media is time-linked below. (@divedivedive , @Brooski, @Rod_Humble, @Panzeh, enjoy!).
Archie: Intelligence thinks the Germans might be up to something very underhand.
Harry: Bloody Intelligence, they never did like the Germans.
Ooh, I quite enjoyed that episode! Are the rest as good as that one?
Somehow, Iād never even heard of that series.
They are all pretty good. That is the first episode from Season 2, so if you like that, youāll enjoy the rest.
This is the best cosplay Iāve ever seen.
Madrid police dog trained to perform CPR:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speaks about Sherlock Holmes and psychics.
Not terribly interesting, but I had never actually seen or heard him speak before, so this was kind of cool.
This is 1927, so heād be 68, three years before his death of a heart attack.