Well I assumed it was The Beatles, with the park being Candlestick Park (site of the farewell concert they had when they quit touring) but now I'm guessing it's something more obscure...
It was the Weavers, Pete Seeger's original group being blacklisted for their supposed communist sympathies, something that affected them for years. The reference to whilst Lennon Read a book on Marx, in other words reading and spouting words whilst doing nothing and becoming very rich, was a comparison between him and others who were suffering for their principles involving Marxist thought. Admit I didn't get it originally.
(I'm posting this as it is the B-side on the copy of Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out' my granddad gave me) Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out is my favourite single of all time.
Not wishing to be pedantic (OK,I,am,) Quill, but that was an A side in the U.K. A track which no party was complete with in the mid 1960s ( A Leonard Cohen was the signal the party was over and the host wanted to drive you out). Was briefly a B side in US before being rereleased onStax as an A side. Though I would be surprised if a youngster like yourself knew that. Best instrumental group bar none.provided the backing for many of the best soul records. Steve Cropper is the only musician left I would like to meet. Great track anyway, though Time Is Tight is my favourite by them.
Green Onions is the best instrumental track ever. When I snuff it it'll be played as my coffin disappears into the flames.
It was definitely originally the B-side, they re-released it four months after the original with the tracks switched round as everyone was playing the b-side anyway. It wasn't actually a hit in the UK until fifteen years after its original release(1979), after it was used in the Quadrophenia soundtrack.
Used to know a lad who played as a support band on the Stax tour with Otis Redding , Sam And Dave etc in 1967. Amazing what happened when Don Robinson was your manager and omitted to happen to mention you were a white band when pitching them. Anyway, on the second of the two dates he was having trouble with his guitar during the warm up . Steve Cropper said,"here, borrow mine". Class bloke. Highlight of the lad's brief career.
As I said, it was a B side (on Volt, the Stax subsidiary), as you will have found out googling in an attempt to prove me wrong. Unless you knew it was four months from memory of course. I said that. But it was never a B side in this country. It was released twice as a single in the U.K. Neither time a hit. Surprising as you heard it everywhere you went in 1967 when they rereleasedit it following the success of the Stax tour, and which is when I bought a copy. Your maths isn't very good BTW. It's original release date was 1962. Do the maths.
I love how you always take these things as a personal attack, you sad old ****er. This is a thread for B-sides and Greens Onions was one. No.7 in the UK chart is generally considered a hit. I did add it up wrong. There's probably some inaccurate punctuational in there as well.
I was at Hull Crem. a few years ago, for the 'baking' of an old mate of mine. He was a massive Dylan fan. I was starting to feel 'weird' and then the vicar told the assembled host of my mate's Dylan obsession. The first song was 'Knocking on Heaven's Door'; I flaked out and ended up in Casualty at HRI. Missed the wake/piss-up. Beat that for funeral music... [Edit: When I came round, in the ambulance, we weren't rolling. I asked the paramedic if we were still at the Crem. She said we were, so I gleefully said 'Two for the price of one'.]
It wasn't a B side in this country. And I doubt Quill knew that despite his great interest in music when he posted it. Hilarious stuff from someone who rushed onto google to try and disprove something another poster wrote. You will eventually transform into a sad old ****et after being a middle-aged one.
Good to see you using alternative words to ****. Nothing paranoid about pointing out the depths some people will go to in order to try and prove more knowledgeable people wrong.
