The SUBSIM Music Thread

[Eisenwurst]

[ET2SN]

Well would you look at that, its Friday.

[Catfish]

[vienna]

Over the last few weeks, I had this sense of deja vu and I couldn't quite put my finger on the whole feeling; then I was walking home from the pharmacy a bit back, (you know, the one that blasted 24-hour-a-day Barry Manilow music on its outside speakers to shoo away the riff-raff) and I walked by a building that had once, back in the late 60s, been the Aquarius Theater, the West Coast home of the stage musical Hair. I've walked by that building hundreds of times and never gave it a second thought, but I was stopped short when I noticed something different: the theater had the old Aquarius name back on the marquee and the show listed was Hair. On top of that, the theater building had been repainted in all its 60s glory with its original murals:







A couple of days later, I walked by again and found the walls and lampposts festooned with flyers which were facsimiles of the sort of postings you would find on Sunset Blvd. back in the day; it was all very realistic. There was a security guard posted on the sidewalk and I asked him if there was a film being shot at the location; he said there was and it was a Quentin Tarantino production, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. The film centers on two characters who are swept up in the Manson Family-era of Los Angeles in general and Hollywood, in particular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_U...e_in_Hollywood

When I looked it up, I found that my sense of deja vu was due to the glimpses I has gotten of the various locations here in Hollywood that were restored to their 60s conditions. This blog entry gives a good description of some of the location sets used in the filming; a description of the Aquarius makeover starts about half-way down the post:

https://theatresinmovies.blogspot.co...hollywood.html

Living in Hollywood, streets or building being used a sets nothing new to me; once, I walked a couple of block west of my place, turned the corner and found myself on a street in Pakistan; the block had been transformed for an episode of one of the NCIS Tv shows...

In honor of the return, if only briefly, of the Aquarius, here are a couple of songs from the musical Hair:





BTW, The Cowsills were a family act and became the inspiration for the TV program, The Partridge Family...









<O>

[ET2SN]

Meanwhile, its still Friday.

[Rockstar]

[Eisenwurst]

[Jimbuna]

[Catfish]

^ how fitting, in this time

[ET2SN]

How about some old British blokes singing pub songs?

[Rockstar]

[Eisenwurst]

I've known a few birds that didn't mind a cigar or two. Damn fine company they were too.

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

[ET2SN]

They're playing in Europe in 1972.