Aye aye aye aye - canta, no llores (sing, don't cry):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE&NR=1
Neil Young – Heart of Gold - The guy who makes mumbling cool, then switches to poetry in the blink of an eye.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGOVWeD_Mc
Free – Fire and water - probably my all-time favourite band, and the one I would most like to have been a part of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OTwnFz83c&feature=related
The Who – Tommy - Apart from the fact that the bass player (John Entwistle) should have stuck to just that, this is energy of the highest octane (above). The drummer (Keith Moon) manages to keep the beat amid a chaotic frenzy - he used to end up kicking the drum set over the stage while Pete Townshend smashed his guitar up. Punk poets (below), before the term was invented.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xHkuYfqIIg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXBEjeNzePw&feature=related
Light my fire - another pre-punk poet lets rip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjHdBDnHEeU&NR=1
Star Spangled Banner - to my mind the most subversive performance ever - at the height of America's imperialist war of aggression on a third world country, by a black to a privileged white audience - the rich kids that didn't have to go back to work - this is around 5 a.m. on the Monday morning. The Guernica of rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obfci1CIqq8&feature=related
Neil Young – Like a hurricane - transcendental trance music
aye aye aye - excuse me, while I kiss the sky
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On a more sober note it might be pointed out that Paul Kossoff (lead guitarist with Free), Keith Moon (drummer with The Who), Jim Morrison (singer of The Doors), and Jimi Hendrix, all died at the height of the creative powers from drug overdoses, while John Entwistle (bass player of The Who) died in a hotel room with a hooker a couple of years ago, having taken too much cocaine - but as Roger Daltry (lead singer of The Who) said, that is just the way he would have wanted to go.
