Should the Quicksilver Messenger Service be in the Rock n Roll HOF?.

[Harry Dresden]

Why not? They have put some real jerks in there. Hip Hop is not music.

well its not RnR.....thats for sure....they should just change the name to the Music HoF.....

 

[JGalt]

KMET in LA when it was an underground station. First time I heard Blue Cheer on that station, too.

Did they ever take their problem to the United Nations?

 

[Harry Dresden]

KMET in LA when it was an underground station. First time I heard Blue Cheer on that station, too.

they were a great station.....another good one was KNAC in Long Beach....

 

[Ringel05]

"Who Do You Love" off of their only gold album.

I recognize the album cover but not the song.

 

[Ringel05]

if you listened to FM Rock back then the better stations played them....

Nope, didn't start listening to FM until the mid 70s.

 

[okfine]

they were a great station.....another good one was KNAC in Long Beach....

Back to QMS, if there would have been a Hammond B3 on Who Do You Love it would have been killer.

 

[okfine]

I recognize the album cover but not the song.

Sorry to say but many of them ended up in the cutout section at places like K-Mart.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Back to QMS, if there would have been a Hammond B3 on Who Do You Love it would have been killer.

Nicky Hopkins was their key board player,never knew that until years later.....

 

[okfine]

they were a great station.....another good one was KNAC in Long Beach....

I remember that one also. Every once in a while I hear some good stuff on KCRW (college radio workshop)

 

[Ringel05]

To me it's interesting you all remember radio stations, I couldn't tell you any call letters of any radio stations I ever listened to and I've listened to quite a few throughout my life.

 

[okfine]

To me it's interesting you all remember radio stations, I couldn't tell you any call letters of any radio stations I ever listened to and I've listened to quite a few throughout my life.

What about XTRA? Wolfman Jack in Rosarita Beach. Real powerful station.

 

[Ringel05]

What about XTRA? Wolfman Jack in Rosarita Beach. Real powerful station.

Oh I remember Wolfman, I could do his voice almost exactly but the radio station...... Nope. Like Dr Demento, have no idea what station he was on.

 

[okfine]

Oh I remember Wolfman, I could do his voice almost exactly but the radio station...... Nope. Like Dr Demento, have no idea what station he was on.

I think it was XERF-AM that had a 250,000 Watt station. FCC wouldn't let them play a lot of content, so over the border the Wolfman went.

 

[Ringel05]

I think it was XERF-AM that had a 250,000 Watt station. FCC wouldn't let them play a lot of content, so over the border the Wolfman went.

Okay, if you say so. Apparently radio station call letters weren't important to me, still aren't but then again I think I've listened to the radio maybe three times this year and maybe for 30 minutes each. Haven't turned on my TV in a year and a half.

 

[okfine]

Okay, if you say so. Apparently radio station call letters weren't important to me, still aren't but then again I think I've listened to the radio maybe three times this year and maybe for 30 minutes each. Haven't turned on my TV in a year and a half.

Years ago I listened alot. Not as much now. Was into DXing for awhile. It was all about receiving and identifying far away stations.

 

[JGalt]

You didn't miss much. I was there in the mid-60's and was right in the middle of it. Quit high school, got on a bus, and went to Haight-Ashbury in SF. Most of those West-coast bands sounded the same, and QMS was no exception. They were exercises in artistic masturbation, the Grateful Dead being the worst of the bunch.

They'd get so fucking high on LSD and pot that that they thought they were mushrooms playing a guitar, bass, keyboard, or drums. Guitar players were the most egocentric out of the rest, they'd drone on for hours with their crappily high-strung and maladjusted guitars that used a fucking 0.013 string for the high E string, so rusty that you'd get tetanus from running your fingers over it.

The only difference between any of those bands, was that one or two would have a chick singer. Like Janis Joplin and her band Big Brother and the Holding Company. She is way over-rated, as far as I'm concerned. If anything, she had the most singular distinction of being able to horribly abuse her voice, as well as her body. She was a drunk slut, a lush, and a sex object, nothing more. The best thing she ever did for her career, as well and several others back then, were to choke on their own vomit and die. Otherwise, few if any of them would even be remembered today.

Most of those artists who are admired today, are not really heroes nor are they what we think that are. They were leftists. They were insurrectionists, insurgents, anarchists, social outcasts, incels, trust fund hippies, red diaper doper babies, and attention whores. They smelled like a sickening mixture of vomit, sweat, urine, pot, incense, spoiled mild, and bad sex. In this day and age, hey would have been out there rioting, committing arson, looting, and spray-painting obscenities on a wall. Which is what much of their music is: An artistic obscenity.

And the worst part of it was, that we had to endure the same thing over in the late 80's and 90's, with the resurgence of the Grunge era. Thank God Kurt Cobain had the generosity and presence of mind to suck on the business end of a shotgun and put an end to that nonsense.

This is why I shouldn't drunkpost.

 

[Harry Dresden]

To me it's interesting you all remember radio stations, I couldn't tell you any call letters of any radio stations I ever listened to and I've listened to quite a few throughout my life.

in the LA area back then, there were 3-4 stations that actually played good rock music.....KDAY and KLOS were 2 others....