Center for Arts at the Armory
91 Highland Ave Somerville
The City of Somerville will launch its first “one city, one book” campaign, entitled “Somerville Reads,” in March 2010 with book discussions, art displays, community read-alouds, and film screenings throughout the month of April.
featuring music from the Vietnam War by
The Band That Time Forgot
Somerville’s program will be based on The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, a collection of related stories about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War.
Many copies of the book are available for checkout at all three Somerville Public Library locations. All locations also have copies of the book on CD.
Hear all the songs that weren’t played at Woodstock 40 years ago THE BAND THAT TIME FORGOT
groove here
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An American Institution since 1984 or so
JOHNNY D’S UPTOWN LOUNGE
this SATURDAY AUGUST 15TH
9:00 PM with
STASH, HEAD, RAINBOW, & SONNY CALIFORNIA
Come revel in Section 32L . Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, possession of one ounce or less of marijuana shall only be a civil offense, subjecting an offender who is eighteen years of age or older to a civil penalty of one hundred dollars and forfeiture of the marijuana, but not to any other form of criminal or civil punishment or disqualification. READ WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE BAND
“Institution? They should be IN an institution” Bud - a fan
“These guys are about as American as marijuana and beer” Willow - another fan
“These guys are so totally, you know, whatever” Breeze - yet another fan
“The Band That Time Forgot brings back memories that I never had before” Feather - a fan
“That’s the guy I saw with my girlfriend” Blaze - a former fan
LISTEN TO STUFF AND BUY THINGS. TOO
Sample from The CD
BoTown Does MoTown
REFLECTIONS
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!!!!!!
AND from the new Capitalist Band That Time Forgot
BUY MEMORABILIA BELOW
We will return to Johnny D’s on August 15th
MEANWHILE
Here’s some starnge history from Stash’s own Website!!
They died with a year of one another and Betty Pages’s (d. Dec. 11 at 85) liberated 50’s chick schtick seems to me about 6 degrees from Sky Saxon. Sunlight Saxon of the Seeds was also a member of The Source family led by Ya Ho Wha or Father Yod. On June 25th at 71, Sky Sunlight Saxon, as they say, “passed over to be with YaHoWha”. But if you’re not familiar with it - get a load of this history. The Source was funded by a successful Veggie restaurant. Father Yod (Ya Ho Wha) had been a marine and then a member of the Nature Boys. eden ahbez (no capitals) wrote the song ‘Nature Boy’ and had a hit when Nat King Cole’s recorded it in 1947!
eden ahbez
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That’s how America discovered the first real hippie/back to nature movement!
Nudists worshipping the Sun, 1926
And its roots were from Germany! From The German Roots of Hippies:
The expression “Lebensreform” (life-reform) was first used in 1896, and comprised various German social trends of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. I mean check it out!!
1. vegetarianism
2. nudism
3. natural medicine
4. abstinence from alcohol
5. clothing reform
6. settlement movements
7. garden towns
8. soil reform
9. sexual reform
10. health food and economic reform
11. social reform
12. liberation for women, children and animals
13. communitarianism
14. cultural and religious reform: i.e. a religion or view of the world that gives weight to the feminine, maternal and natural traits of existence
The one Nature Boy to pass the torch from the old era to the the 1960’s hippie generation was Gypsy Boots.
Gyspy Boots
In the 1940’s Boots lived wild in Tahquitz Canyon with all of the Nature Boys, bathing in the cool mountain water, eating fruits and vegetables, sleeping on rocks or in caves, hiking and selling produce in Palm Springs. In the early 1960’s he appeared on the Steve Allen show over 25 times to an audience of some 25 million households. He appeared as a contestant on Groucho Marx’s TV show You Bet Your Life. He was friends with Kirk Douglas. His son directed the movie Life Drawing.
Thanks Glen Snow:
1. Never start a trio with a married couple.
2. Your manager’s not helping you. Fire him/her.
3. Before you sign a record deal, look up the word “recoupable” in the dictionary.
4. No one cares who you’ve opened for. Read the rest of this entry »
