What is your favourite historical period
Mine is the French revolution, it was bloody, chaotic,there were heads rolling on the streets.......SO GOTH..........
shareThe sixties - music was really taking off and everything looked exciting.
shareThe sixties were great! I was living in San Francisco at the time and went to all the Jazz Clubs where I met a lot of famous singers and musicians. It was a time of great change, protests against the war in Vietnam, etc. It was quite an experience. I loved the sixties!
shareI would genuinely love to hear some stories about this if you’re ever up for it.
shareThere were several jazz clubs in San Francisco (North Beach), the The Jazz Workshop, where Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Horace Silver, John Coltrane, and Dizzy Gillespie held forth;
Basin Street West, where one could be in the royal presence of Duke Ellington and his orchestra;
Sugar Hill headlined big name blues stars like John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton and T-Bone Walker; and
El Matador with top performers such as Charlie Byrd, Erroll Garner, the Modern Jazz Quartet, George Shearing, and Oscar Peterson.
I met Miles Davis and John Coltrane who were my favorite jazz musicians at the time. Fun days!
Wow. What a time that must’ve been. I can’t even begin to imagine how cool that scene was. Did you see all those guys play? Did you get to see John lee Hooker?
If you seriously met Miles Davis AND John Coltrane, you are my hero.
This one’s for you oldtimer. Much respect.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZXW9McIZCE
I don't remember seeing Hooker, and yes I did meet Miles Davis. Those were the days. San Francisco is nothing like it was in the 1960s.
shareWhat a great place to live, just at the right time to experience it all.
shareWell I was a pre-teen and despised the hippies, and older adults who were touchy-feely New Age.
shareNo, don’t burst my balloon, maaaan.
shareI was expecting a harsher reply and feel a little relieved at your good humor. I was a kid so take that opinion as a kid's one.
shareYeah, I’m just kidding. You know me, I’m not one for picking a fight. Besides, you were there and I wasn’t. I’m viewing the whole thing through rose-tinted glasses.
shareI couldn't stand what I call the "real" baby boomers either ( the ones born between 1945 and the early 1950's ) the political activists and the feminists in particular. They were arrogant, highly opinionated, in your face, my way or the highway nasty pieces of work. I didn't like the "tune in, turn on and drop out" layabout loser hippies either but they didn't do much damage to anyone but themselves, unlike the former group. And to think this miserable bunch of wreckers were spawned by the so called "greatest generation".