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Today in counterculture history (04/17) 4
#21558475 - 04/17/15 05:59 AM (8 years, 10 months ago) |
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- 1965: The SDS organized March Against the Vietnam War takes place
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The March Against the Vietnam War was held April 17, 1965. The student activist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held its first anti-Vietnam War protest rally in Washington, DC. It was co-sponsored by Women's Strike for Peace. 25,000 attended, including Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Phil Ochs. The host was I F Stone. He began by proclaiming: "Welcome to Washington." One of the two Senators who voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution that gave credence to U. S. involvement in Vietnam spoke (it was either Greuning or Morse). After the speeches and music the crowd started to move toward the Capitol, down the Mall from the Washington Monument.
(http://en.wikipedia.org)
- 1972: Neil Young releases the single for "Old Man" b/w "The Needle And The Damage Done"
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"Old Man" is a song written and performed by Neil Young on his 1972 album Harvest. "Old Man" was released as a single on Reprise Records in the spring of 1972, and reached no. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the week ending June 3.
Background
The song was written for the caretaker of the Northern California Broken Arrow Ranch, which Young purchased for $350,000 in 1970. The song compares a young man's life to an old man's and shows that the young man has, to some extent, the same needs as the old one. James Taylor played six-string banjo (tuned like a guitar) and sang on the song, and Linda Ronstadt also contributed vocals. In the movie Heart of Gold, Young introduces the song as follows:
About that time when I wrote ("Heart of Gold"), and I was touring, I had also -- just, you know, being a rich hippie for the first time -- I had purchased a ranch, and I still live there today. And there was a couple living on it that were the caretakers, an old gentleman named Louis Avila and his wife Clara. And there was this old blue Jeep there, and Louis took me for a ride in this blue Jeep. He gets me up there on the top side of the place, and there's this lake up there that fed all the pastures, and he says, "Well, tell me, how does a young man like yourself have enough money to buy a place like this?" And I said, "Well, just lucky, Louie, just real lucky." And he said, "Well, that's the darndest thing I ever heard." And I wrote this song for him.
He tells a similar story when introducing the song at a February 23, 1971 performance broadcast by the BBC (in which he says that he purchased the ranch from "two lawyers").
B-side "The Needle and the Damage Done" Released April 17, 1972 Format 7" 45 RPM Recorded Quadrafonic Sound Studio, Nashville TN, February 6, 1971 Genre Folk rock, country rock Length 3:24 Label Reprise Writer(s) Neil Young Producer(s) Neil Young Elliot Mazer Henry Lewy Jack Nitzsche
(https://en.wikipedia.org)
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Learyfan] 2
#23127227 - 04/17/16 12:13 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Neil Young - "Old Man"
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#23127251 - 04/17/16 12:27 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Good song!
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Space Elf] 5
#24250883 - 04/17/17 05:21 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Annual bump.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#24251022 - 04/17/17 07:45 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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This is the best series of threads in the pubs history
I salute you sire
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Connoisseur] 1
#24251065 - 04/17/17 08:14 AM (6 years, 10 months ago) |
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Connoisseur said: This is the best series of threads in the pubs history
I salute you sire
Indeed. Many thanks for posting these, Learyfan.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Le_Canard] 1
#25144870 - 04/17/18 05:55 AM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Le_Canard said:
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Connoisseur said: This is the best series of threads in the pubs history
I salute you sire
Indeed. Many thanks for posting these, Learyfan.
You're both more than welcome. Glad you enjoy it. Peace and love. 
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#25145924 - 04/17/18 03:45 PM (5 years, 10 months ago) |
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Vietnam started as a false flag too.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Konyap]
#25939409 - 04/17/19 06:39 AM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Konyap said: Vietnam started as a false flag too.
Gulf of Tonkin incident? Correct.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Konyap]
#26607450 - 04/17/20 08:08 AM (3 years, 10 months ago) |
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55th anniversary of the March Against the Vietnam War protest from April 17, 1965 today.
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Re: Today in counterculture history (04/17) [Re: Learyfan] 1
#27738496 - 04/17/22 09:30 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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50th anniversary of "Old Man" b/w "The Needle And The Damage Done" today.
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Annual bump.
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