{"id":8044,"date":"2023-01-12T23:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2023-01-14T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T10:32:53","slug":"music-the-youngbloods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8044","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: The Youngbloods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xGxQXmu7Os?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Youngbloods best known hit, Get Together, looks and sounds like a hippy anthem, in the rear view mirror of music history. And so it was. Although it had a more convoluted history than its light and happy vibes might suggest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s a false memory, or, indeed, what it is, but I have these dim and distant memories of a mixtape cassette a childhood friend made for me, purporting, in one lengthier segment, to be The Youngbloods jamming with Jimi Hendrix. Whatever it actually was, that was some great music.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same pal introduced me to early T Rex (Jewel) and Beefheart (Pachuco Cadaver!). So I feel I owe him a debt of gratitude. Thank\u2019ee, Edwin, wherever ye may be now? I last saw him (Ed\u2019) in Ely, looking a bit like a mental health casualty of war. I rather fancied his sister Eleanor, back in the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1004\" height=\"1004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6326.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8045\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6326.jpg 1004w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6326-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6326-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6326-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6326-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But back to the present. And presents &#8211; Amazon gift vouchers &#8211; are what allows me to indulge, as I have just done, in a musical gamble: I just ordered two \u20183-in-2\u2019 sets, both by BGO. The first collects <em>The Youngbloods<\/em>, <em>Earth Music <\/em>(both \u201867), and <em>Elephant Mountain<\/em> (\u201869), whilst the second gathers together <em>Rock Festival<\/em> (\u201870), <em>Ride The Wind<\/em> and <em>Good And Dusty<\/em> (both \u201871).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6327.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8046\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6327.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6327-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6327-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6327-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The only official release album I won\u2019t have will be 1972\u2019s <em>High On A Ridgetop<\/em>. There are some other related recordings of interest, such as drummer Joe Bauer\u2019s <em>Moonset<\/em> (1971), and something called <em>Crab Tunes\/Noggins<\/em>! Which seems to basically be The Youngbloods, sans Young, and under a different name.**<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope this first foray into what is, for me, basically uncharted territory, proves better than my recent Harry Partch experiment. I bought <em>The Harry Partch Collection, Vol 1<\/em>, and have listened to it a couple of times. I got it \u2018cause Iggy Pop mentions getting stoned and listening to it with his Stooge bandmates, and I\u2019ve kept \u2018hearing about Harry\u2019, in relation to Beefheart and Tom Waits. I found Partch\u2019s music really doesn\u2019t do it for me. The ideas are more interesting than the actual sounds, which, frankly, wind up irritating me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"743\" height=\"727\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6328.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8047\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6328.jpg 743w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6328-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Reckon I\u2019ll be returning this\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But as to The Youngbloods, in a day or two I should have the discs. And I\u2019m hoping to bask in what I anticipate being an eclectic hippy-era melange of folk, blues and whatever else they might serve up. The cats certainly look pretty cool:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"684\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6318.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8048\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6318.jpg 684w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6318-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Drummer Joe Bauer was intending to be a jazzer\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6321.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8049\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Multi-instrumentalist Lowell \u2018Banana\u2019 Levinger, and friend!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6332.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8050\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6332.jpg 525w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6332-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jesse Colin Young.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6334-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8051\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6334-1024x685.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6334-300x201.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6334-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6334-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6334.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The early years group was a quartet: Young, Jerry Corbitt, Bauer and Banana.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>* Every now and again I look into it, and usually I come up with naught. But just looking again now, I found a load of stuff with Hendrix playing with <em>Lonnie Youngblood<\/em>. That <em>must<\/em> be the Hendrix\/Youngblood connection? But it\u2019s <em>not<\/em> the music on my friend\u2019s cassette!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6322.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8057\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6322.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6322-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6322-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6322-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Best avoided, apparently!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>** After a bit of digging I\u2019ve discovered that Noggins was the nominal group, and <em>Crab (Crap?) Tunes<\/em> was the title of the album. The album artwork and personnel make it look intriguing and inviting. But apparently it is an appalling musical turd, and very deliberately so, as it was fulfilling a \u2018contractual obligation\u2019 to the band\u2019s record label. But this doesn\u2019t quite stack up with the chronology: their first three albums are with RCA, then Corbitt left. Their next four albums were for Warner. And the last of those, <em>High On A Ridgetop<\/em>, came <em>after<\/em> this. Weird!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6325.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8058\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6325.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6325-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6325-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img_6325-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This, on the other hand, might be worth checking out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Youngbloods best known hit, Get Together, looks and sounds like a hippy anthem, in the rear view mirror of music history. And so it was. Although it had a more convoluted history than its light and happy vibes might suggest. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s a false memory, or, indeed, what it is, but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: The Youngbloods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[200,89,194,130,77,114,195,139,209,104],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-25K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8064,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}