I hope this is a fun page to visit. It's just me sharing my times with the listening & the jamming experience. Also, I'd like to promote my friends from entertainment central. They keep the legacy alive for great acts (who are classic, but not in the contemporary public attention- but still working their butts off!) Check it out. Bust me if you like, but the Monkees were and are cool! email me
A special thank you to Terrie Neilson, of Yo Mo Smothers & Bolton rules for her inspiration for me to make this page.
In short, here's a personal page to share a unique part of Deadheadland and some cool links.
What a long, strange trip it's been!
Check out the best of the Grateful Dead from the official site):
hippiePersonals.com is a peacenik progressive personals portal for good green peoples to mingle with singles and other like-minded intelligent folks for friendship and dating!
See Hawaiian photographs of different Hawaii landscapes & seascapes, sea turtles, Hawaiian Monk Seal, dolphins, outrigger canoes, Haleiwa sunsets, Flower Leis, Maui waterfalls, The Big Island, KoOlau mountain range, rainbows, hula girlspalm trees even on a black sand beach, an active Octopus, Photos with Positive messages, Aloha and more
Artist-approved fan site for Ron Dante, lead singer of the Archies and the Cuff Links. Features news, bio, photos, message board and much more, plus an exclusive interview with Ron!
Swinging 60's Zone has information on the 60's scene today. Includes tour dates, news and The Searchers, Troggs, Monkees and many more Zones for the featured acts. 60's fans views and reviews are always welcomed. Part of the Route 66 Network.
The Route 66 Network is for webmasters of 50's, 60's and 70's music websites, including TV and other sites related to the era.
Route 66 is a new-styled webring where instead of having a normal webring, each member site sets aside one page on our websites where we would post news on what's happening at other members' sites.
To help accomplish this, a new Yahoo Group was set up where members can post what they would like to have included on all the Route 66 Network pages, and when each webmaster updates his/her site, the Route 66 pages will be updated correspondingly.
Please note that this group has NOTHING to do with the US highway.
In the 50's 60's and 70's there were some great music acts that made some of the best music ever. But as time passed and new acts were put together the record companies and main tv stations dismissed the acts as has beens.
Many of these great acts are still working with more or less the same band members and sounding great, but the only place fans get to hear them is at concerts or self-recorded albums with no big-label promotion behind them.
Today, radio and tv stations have programmes that only feature current Top 40 musicians. But what about the bands and solo artists who paved the way?
I have set this group up so that people who agree could work together in our goal to promote the idea of a tv show that features live performaces by acts from the 50's, 60's and 70's.
Working together we can reach our goals and other such projects
YoYo SmoBro
the long and illustrious career of Tom and Dick, the Smothers Brothers
For those who may not know, Michael Bolton is the singer-songwriter for such great recording artists as Barbra Streisand, Patti LaBelle, KISS, and more...
Here's where all us fans of 60's and 70's pop and bubblegum music can share info about our favorite songs and acts of the era including RON DANTE (of the Archies and Cufflinks) and ANDY KIM, MARK LINDSAY, PETER NOONE, and any artist from the era who holds a special place in your hearts.
All things entertainment: movies, TV, music, comedy, drama...40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s. This is a "plug-o-rama" group, so if you have a great fan page/site, group, webring, message board, forum--or know someone who has one or more--here's you chance to stand up for and promote your favorites. If your page has voting links, let us know so we can vote for you. Just keep with the usual rules: no flaming, no spamming, no adult material.
Petition online
There is a petition for a return of all older performers, especially those still actively
touring and performing, to TV, radio and other media.
I'm game to get the word in whatever way we can to bring back the good stuff. Hope you will sign and pass along.
[Entertainment_Central] Today in Rock History - November 10
1948 - Greg Lake, bassist and vocalist with Emerson, Lake & Palmer and King Crimson, is born.
1958 - A Billboard article notes Dick Clark's "phenomenal" rapport with his teenage audience and advertisers see him as "one of the hottest merchandising and promotional properties" on the tube. The article points out that Beechnut gum's sales have gone up 100 percent since becoming an "American Bandstand" sponsor.
Sam Cooke suffers minor eye injuries in an auto accident near Marion, Arkansas, which takes the life of his driver, Edward Cunningham and also injures singer Lou Rawls.
1960 - Gregg Allman gets a guitar for his 13th birthday. He and his 14 year old brother Duane will learn to play the instrument by listening to blues records and in a year will form their first group, the Kings. Other groups include the Allman Joys and Hourglass before the Allman Brothers Band is put together in 1969.
1967 - The two night 9pm to 9am "Paris Love-In" begins in Paris, France, featuring concerts by the Spencer Davis Group, Soft Machine, Dandelion's Chariot, Keith West and Tomorrow and other European bands.
The Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin".
1969 - "Led Zeppelin II" is certified gold.
1986 - Bruce Springsteen's "Live 1975-1985" box set hits stores.
1998 - Bruce Springsteen releases Tracks, a 56 song box set featuring demos, unreleased recordings and outtakes, from Springsteen's previous albums. The set debuts at #27 on the Billboard album chart.
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The following is from the Entertainment Central community:
Hi Chuck, welcome aboard! Now we have several Webring owners
among us!!!
Laura
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By jove I think you've got it! :)
Where LinkTogether is set for us to cross link sites (for the rest of the gang here, LT is predominately made up of folks with their own businesses,though there are a few non-profs like me there) our little collective adds the extra bits of updates to each others' pages. With the Route 66 Network that is the specific plan--cross-link and cross-update. My group here is for everyone here to toss up whatever entertainment can be shared.
Which reminds me: the calendar should be open for everyone here to use. Several of us have act sites (me with the SmoBros, Laura with Ron Dante, Wayne and Brian with their multiples covering the UK and Mersey beats). Let's put it to good use--tour dates, member birthdays, acts' birthdays, etc. Also I've set up a folder for my SmoBro pics I've added. Reserve an album for yourselves.
How you liking the place Chuck? :)
Terrie
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You're welcome for the welcome Chuck.
When you mention Laura's posts about the This Day In History add a link to her page if you haven't already--her Ron Dante page is great! Don't know if you caught the message but Laura's working on what's probably going to be a mega-page called Oldies Conection. Wayne Of the 60s Zone--who will eventually post soon (he's a busy guy with all of his goings-ons)--has got some goings-ons with a petition to, basically put though it goes way beyond this, keeps still active oldies acts from benig forgotten with all these newbies getting fame and attention (not trying to shirk them though since this is intended to be a mass-generational multi-decade group about entertainment of all kinds).
Nothing against the LT group, because I have spotted my links coming up in search engines from the other members' link pages. It's the same with the Route 66 thing,...but with us giving each other goodies and sharing ach others updates (and with the Grateful Dead and Mersey tidbits of recent, letting my burrowing research skills and knack for timing of info go to work for the group) there is the sense more gets done--and R66 to LT, R66 linkers show up more often in my counter results. True this is more in my "turf" than LT but I thin the LTers are missing what us folks here have a handle on.
Sorry we've made a mess of your page at the moment, but in the end I know your page(s) will come out great.
Terrie
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The funny thing is that a lot of the sites in this group are dedicated to preserving the memory of groups that may fade from the public consciousness. The Dead really doesn't need that kind of help. It's as if I had a Beatles site....
I guess my role would be to introduce the Dead to people not exposed to their music, and wouldn't have stumbled across it except for visiting & clicking on a link.
Thanks again!
Chuck
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11/6/03
Sad to say, Bobby Hatfield, the smaller on in the Righteous Brothers,
died today ,he was found in his hotel room about half & hour before a
gig with his long time partner.
It's so sad,yet another one go's.
Brian. (mersey)
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Here's how Terrie got the PBS Winterland dates:
...I'm glad you liked the dates. For TV listings I use
three main TV Guides (though I do have more at my
disposal): TVGuide.com, Yahoo's TV search, and
PBS.org (both their station finder and their A-Z lists
turn up results). What put me in the neighborhood for
looking up the Winterland dates is that for my
Smothers Brothers page I'm looking dates for the PBS
specials called "American Soundtrack: This Land Is
Your Land" and "Jack Paar: Smart Television". With
my one friend looking for stuff for his Dead page it
