Adventures in Mediocrity

Photo by Edgar Obrand

Keith Relf onstage with The Yardbirds circa 1967

The Gentle Soul (1968)

Townes Van Zandt, Mimi Lomax, Antoinette Hopkins, Lightnin’ Hopkins

Finchley Central - single by The New Vaudeville Band, 1967 

(Via GTAT fb page)

I can’t stand what you do, but I’m in love with your eyes - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

Jonathan Richman, 1980

In 1967 a 16-year-old Boston kid named Jonathan Richman was obsessed with a New York band called the Velvet Underground. He wrote an article about them for a tiny local rock magazine called Vibrations. And in that article he included this diagram, showing what he projected their career trajectory to be relative to some other fashionable bands of the time. (via this fine book)

Black Messiah.