The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
Here’s another example of knowing The Beatles before I really knew The Beatles. Although I was pretty insulated from radio and music generally until I was about 12, I spent my teen years as...
Category: Psychedelic
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Love Is
“Love Is” is the last Animals album in my collection. It is also the last album by the “new” Animals, but bassist Danny McCullough and guitarist/pianist Vic Briggs had left the group. In their...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Every One Of Us
The pace of record releases in the ’60s was truly astonishing, and almost certainly one of the reasons so many bands fell apart under the pressure. Perhaps a bit easier when they were covering...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – The Twain Shall Meet
As we’re going through these old records, some of them are so well-known and familiar to me that I really don’t have any need to play them to tell the stories I associate with...
Eric Burdon & The Animals – Winds of Change
The ‘60s were an incredible time of social upheaval, experimentation, change. Anything was possible — any artist could borrow inspiration from anything that had come before. The old rules had to be thrown out....
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