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Kaleva

(36,298 posts) Thu Dec 1, 2016, 10:22 PM Dec 2016

An early rock and roll group from my hometown

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An early rock and roll group from my hometown (Original Post) Kaleva Dec 2016 OP

It's got a California beachy / Ventures vibe Lucinda Dec 2016 #1

That's exactly what I thought DFW Dec 2016 #2

I didn't find Kottke until I was older. Lucinda Dec 2016 #3

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

1. It's got a California beachy / Ventures vibe

Reply to Kaleva (Original post)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 11:03 PM

Dec 2016

DFW

(54,369 posts)

2. That's exactly what I thought

Reply to Lucinda (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 12:28 PM

Dec 2016

But while all my classmates were into the Stones in the sixties, I was into the Ventures. Then, in 1971, I was turned onto Leo Kottke and the focus if my musical universe changed forever.

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)

3. I didn't find Kottke until I was older.

Reply to DFW (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 03:25 PM

Dec 2016

Watching one of his videos with the sound off is fun, he makes it look so easy and effortless. Then when you replay it with the audio you wonder where the other musicians are...all that cannot possibly be coming from just one guy! But it is.

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