Vintage issue # 64 of Rolling Stone magazine dated August 6, 1970 and featuring the classic cover of Janis Joplin.
Besides the excellent feature length article Janis Joplin's Full-Tilt Boogie Ride, there is a full length essay on rock festivals. There is a composition on someone named Wavy Gravy. He must have been influential because the article is six pages long! the band Traffic is also chronicled in a lengthy piece.
There are good reads on the Stones album Get Yer Yas Yas Out, Ringo Starr, Mike Bloomfield, Donovan, the Byrds, fall album releases including Led Zeppelin III, and After The Gold Rush by Neil Young.
The column Random Notes is a fascinating time capsule which provides a glimpse of the events and perspectives of the time.
Album reviews are of Jesse Winchester's debut album, My Whole World Ended by David Ruffin, Benefit by Jethro Tull, King Kong - Jean Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa, Spanish Moss by Doug Kershaw and many, many more.
Book reviews are of My Lai 4 by Seymour Hersh, Jim Morrison's first book of poems The Lords and The New Creatures and One Morning In The War by Richard Hammer.
The film review is of Catch 22, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Alan Arkin.
So where were you and what were you doing around the time this issue hit the newsstands. Post up and share anecdote to help us all reminisce a little. Thanks!
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