please share your California music

[LabelKing]

Wasn't Janis Joplin based in California?

 

[acidboy]

guns n roses and metallica originated from california too

 

[Matt]

Originally Posted by j

Yes, I think they're well qualified to represent the LBC. However, most people I know got their fill of them in 1997.
something quintessentially Californian about their lazy laid back music style tho

 

[Nantucket Red]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

Wasn't Janis Joplin based in California?

She and Country Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the Fish were lovers for a while.

 

[Alter]

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Camper Van Beethoven

 

[modsquad]

"Goodbye Caroline" by Aimee Mann is the last word in lost California dream songs. Wilson Brother might also be interested in the soundtrack to the 1972 movie "Welcome to L.A." It amounts to a song cycle called "The City of the One Night Stands."

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Stu

I thought Merle was on California via San Quentin. Was he not originally an Okie, or do I just think that because of the song Okie from Muskogee?
"Okie" is a slur used by California natives to denigrate Dustbowl migrants who came to California in the 30s from Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle and elsewhere. The Joads, essentially, though apparently Steinbeck vastly overplayed the extent of the crisis and the size of the migration. Nonetheless, a lot of them did come, and they settled primarily in the southern and eastern parts of the Central Valley, in the High Desert, and in the Inland Empire.

Bakersfield is a lot like Texas and Oklahoma. It's hot. It's dry. The main industries are (or were) oil, cattle and farming. Everyone with a little cash drives a huge, top of the line Ford or Chevy truck. Country music is very popular. It's hard to say whether the Okies settled there because it felt like home or if, by settling there, they made it like home.

 

[Manton]

Scott Mckenzie.

 

[RJman]

Fourth on Warren. His mail used to come to my apartment building when I lived off Melrose. I thought he might live in the same building until a friend told me she got his mail too where she lived.

Jefferson Airplane, anyone? Is Grace Slick from CA, or did she just end up in Mill Valley?

The Doors...

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by RJman

Is Grace Slick from CA, or did she just end up in Mill Valley?
She was born somewhere else (Illinois I think?) but her parents moved to the Penninsula when she was in high school.

 

[Joffrey]

Originally Posted by m@T

Sublime


No doubt

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Manton

She was born somewhere else (Illinois I think?) but her parents moved to the Penninsula when she was in high school.
Last I heard of her she was chasing imaginary people off of her property with a shotgun. Bad Marin Music: Journey Night Ranger I remember going to see Sublime at the Cactus Club in San Jose. They sucked then and continued to for their entire ride. My High School English teacher was Robbie Krieger's guitar teacher. He was his English teacher as well. The Doors peobably qualify. Jim Morrison lived for a bit in Los Altos and RK was from Menlo Park or Atherton.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Last I heard of her she was chasing imaginary people off of her property with a shotgun.
Better than Phil Spector, who apparently hits his targets, with all the attendent legal consequences.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Manton

Better than Phil Spector, who apparently hits his targets, with all the attendent legal consequences.
Sixties: Wall of Sound
Noughties: Bullet of Lead

 

[romafan]

Originally Posted by iammatt

Last I heard of her she was chasing imaginary people off of her property with a shotgun.

Sounds like Nina Simone!

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