Dino Valenti, real name Chet Powers, wrote “Get Together”, and later with Quick Silver “What About Me”. Died in Santa Rosa in 1994 at 57. Alcohol took its toll as did hard living. He was a seriously good song writer who unfortunately took himself even more seriously. It made for a hard life; being really talented and hard to deal with.
I lived in Houston in the mid ‘80’s and discovered KTRU, Rice University. The college students were aghast at the leading edge of what Reagan, et al, were adding to our national Kool-aid.
Music such as Gill Heron’s B Movie; The Subhumans, Straight Line Thinking; Stiff Little Fingers, Suspect Device; Noh Mercy, Caucasian Guilt…. Alternative Music was made available because these small college stations could play songs that were not commercially acceptable, performed by bands with ideas that told inconvenient stories. The era around Punk has songs worthwhile too.
Nicely balanced article on the evolution of mid-late 20th century popular music.
Dino Valenti, real name Chet Powers, wrote “Get Together”, and later with Quick Silver “What About Me”. Died in Santa Rosa in 1994 at 57. Alcohol took its toll as did hard living. He was a seriously good song writer who unfortunately took himself even more seriously. It made for a hard life; being really talented and hard to deal with.
Thanks, Tim. A very close friend of mine, now passed, was a fellow Marin musician with “Dino” and left me some great Quicksilver live tapes.
I lived in Houston in the mid ‘80’s and discovered KTRU, Rice University. The college students were aghast at the leading edge of what Reagan, et al, were adding to our national Kool-aid.
Music such as Gill Heron’s B Movie; The Subhumans, Straight Line Thinking; Stiff Little Fingers, Suspect Device; Noh Mercy, Caucasian Guilt…. Alternative Music was made available because these small college stations could play songs that were not commercially acceptable, performed by bands with ideas that told inconvenient stories. The era around Punk has songs worthwhile too.