05-11-2014, 01:09 PM
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So Fucking Banned
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Originally Posted by Robbie
And for you other ignorant statement...YES, I did see all those bands on television in ALL their glory in the 1970's (we weren't as hung up a society back then). And yes, I had to search for it.
That meant staying up to midnight on a Friday night, taking my 13 inch black and white television into the front yard with an extension cord (because that's the only way I could pick up the station that had it with my rabbit ear antennae), and then watching Don Kirshner's "Rock Concert" show every weekend.
So yes. I saw Alice, I saw the Stones at their most decadent and "satanic", I saw all of it....on television.
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Let me apologize ahead of time if for some reason you think this is an insult; but your recollection of life in the 60's/70's seems to be a little distorted or a lot different than mine anyway. For example:
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At The Ed Sullivan Show The Doors were to perform People are Strange (to promote their new album, Strange Days) and their hit Light My Fire. The Ed Sullivan show was a family type show (it was aired early at night) and had a large family based audience. Ed made many groups change their lyrics. Just as The Stones had to change the words in Lets Spend the Night Together to seem more clean, The Doors were instructed to change higher to better in LMF. Ed felt that the word higher was highly inappropriate to say on their family network. Using the word higher at that time alluded to sexual/ drug references depending on how the person hearing interpreted it. Before the show Ed and some of his people came in the dressing room to tell The Doors they had to edit their lyric. Ray (the keyboardist) got angry because he called them boys, he felt that he was too condescending. Ed told the group they had to change it to better, The Doors just agreed (knowing later they would sing it their way) Before he left the dressing room he asked The Doors why they never smiled (he walked in on them while laughing at something, and they stopped when he came in) Jim replied in saying they were a sullen group, and Ed told them to smile more. The Doors went to perform People are Strange, and afterward it was time for LMF. I want to emphasize that it did not happen how it was shown in the Stone movie. Jim sang higher how he did on the album and how he normally sang it for concerts. The Doors had their tech people working the sound, so there was no blocking of the word, and was said on tv. People also say that Jim had a bit of a hard on (again not like in the movie) which pissed Ed off (I am pretty sure John, the drummer said about this in his book) After the performance a show crew came in and whined about The Doors not listening to Ed's request. Ed then came in and said that he had the Doors booked for 6 more shows but they blew it. That is when Jim said the classics line, "Hey man, we just played the Ed Sullivan show" According to Ray, after that Jim said, "You know, once a poet twice a pervert" This made Ed furious and he refused to shake their hands after the show.
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