Two records which have reached the top spot in the charts recently are the Beachboys’ GOOD VIBRATIONS and the Monkeys’ I’M A BELIEVER. GOOD VIBRATIONS is a very interesting single due to an excellent and intricate arrangement of music and …
FE Author: Franklin Bach
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 20, December 15-31, 1966
It was a Thursday night, December 8, at Wayne State’s Community Arts Auditorium. I was about to hear Lyman Woodward play for the first time…Mustachioed John Sinclair came out of the wings and quietly told us Lyman was going to …
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 18, November 15-30, 1966
In 1964, when almost everyone in Greenwich Village was playing an acoustic guitar and singing “folk, there was a red-haired ex-Marine named Tim Hardin who was using an electric guitar and sang a sort of jazz flavored blues. Before Hardin …
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 17, November 1-15, 1966
I remember that there was a time not too long ago when yours truly sat in one of Detroit’s few coffee houses wanting so badly to have a good time and hear some good music that I actually applauded the …
Bach on Rock
by Franklin Bach
Fifth Estate # 16, October 16-31, 1966
In the last issue of the FIFTH ESTATE John Sinclair put down “acid rock” in favor of new-thing jazz, implying that Coltrane is really where it’s at and that rock is nowhere. His opinion revolves around the term “psychedelic”. Sinclair …