by talkfromtherockroom | Jun 4, 2026 | Reviews, Take One
Now spinning in the rock room is the Mamas and the Papas August 1967 single, “Straight Shooter,” the strutting flip side to “Twelve Thirty (Young Girls are Coming to the Canyon)”. The track first appeared as an album cut on the group’s February 1966 number...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 20, 2025 | Reviews, Take One
Certainly, one of the most divisive songs in the Byrds catalog, and perhaps one of the most misunderstood songs on a classic rock album. David Crosby’s “Mind Gardens” is an experimental sound collage tucked away on the flip side of the Byrds’ 1967 Younger Than...
by talkfromtherockroom | Mar 1, 2021 | Now Showing, Reviews
Aired smack dab in the middle of the ‘Summer of Love’ and one week after the Beatles released Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, ‘Moby Grape’ appeared for a live appearance on the Mike Douglas Show. A rare paisley glimpse into arguably one of the tightest and...
by talkfromtherockroom | Dec 28, 2020 | Reviews, Take One
The famed prefabricated four. ‘The Monkees’, as you know if you are perusing this article were a made for television band developed by producers in the mid 1960’s. The ‘Monkees’ grew quickly in stature and fame to eventually become referred to as the...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jul 3, 2019 | Reviews, Take One
Playing today in the ‘rock room’ is a revolutionary, ‘proto-psychedelic’,‘A’ side single from the summer of 1966. Recorded by the highly influential but not always mainstream Los Angeles group “Love”, the track, “7 By & Is” b/w “No. Fourteen” was cut...
