Episode 147: “Hey Joe” by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Ia La Tethe Rift Was So Ubiquitous in the L a Scene
The birds were the beall and endall of los angeles rock. And then a group called love was it. Ia la tethe rift was so ubiquitous in the l a scene that in the late eighties, frank zapper would still cite it as one of his main memories of the scene. By contrast, the l a costumery was more randam and outlandish. Musically, the northern bands had a little more country style. In l a, it was folk rocked to death.
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