Music1967.com: Monkees to Mothers

OK, yes, I’ve been a non-blogger: We’re on our fourth day of 100+ degrees and the attic is toasty. More importantly, I am drawing to a close of an epic project, this week on the writing of the last four weeks of music1967.com. When it is all finished, this project will be well over 100,000 […]

I used to be surprised when people would say, in casual conversation, how fast life, or the year, was going by. Kids growing up, sure. But years going by? No. Not for me. It is not unusual for me to stop at this point in the year and WONDER at the fact that January seemed […]

Week 21 of music1967.com takes us back to Los Angeles, center of the U.S. recording industry, where a remarkable diversity of acts hold sway. Frank Zapps’s Mothers of Invention finally release their second album, Absolutely Free this week, while Zappa’s buddies in The Monkees finally get their third out. Headquarters is the attempt to be […]