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Muskego at the Fair: Happy Together Tour Makes Stop at Wisconsin State Fair

When I’m out with friends or family and there happens to be a jukebox, I usually become the hero of the evening because I can please just about anyone’s taste. I’ll load it up with a seemingly odd but workable mix consisting of Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Credence Clearwater Revival, Jimi Hendrix, The Allman Brothers, George Thorogood, Blondie, Al Green, Lenny Kravitz, The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Sinatra, and just about everything in between. For anyone wanting to relive the 60’s - or, in my case, wanting to live through the 60’s for the very first time - this was the concert to do just that. Featuring The Buckinghams, The Grass Roots, The Association, and Mark Lindsay (of Paul Revere and the Raiders fame), and headlined by The Turtles, the concert took place on the Potawatomi Bingo Casino Main Stage and was sponsored by Oldies 95.7 .

The weather could not be better for the nearly three-hour-long concert.

And though there were plenty of jokes tossed out by the performers about growing old, don't let them fool you. It's clear that these guys still have it.

In a pack of 1960s songs that glamorized drug use, Paul Revere & the Raiders’ “Kicks” had a definite anti-drug message; the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and the Byrds’ “Eight Miles High” had some of the more obvious references to drugs. Rockaeology at http://bit.ly/e3EQ8n tells how some were not impressed with the Raiders’s track. In “Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Biography,” ex-Byrd David Crosby called “Kicks” “a dumb anti-drug” that took “a falsely adopted stance. With ‘Eight Miles High,’ we were talking about something very near and dear to our hearts.” The Raiders made “Kicks” one of their biggest hits; it’s been called one of the best examples of the garage band sound.

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Music Scene: The Turtles still 'Happy Together' - Milford, DE ...

The Turtles were one of the most astonishing overnight success stories in rock ’n’ roll history, notching several chart-busting singles before they were even dry behind the ears.

These days, Turtles co-founder Mark Volman and his cohort, Howard Kaylan, have all sorts of things going on, but there’s nothing quite as invigorating as the annual “Happy Together” tours they headline.

This year’s edition features The Buckinghams, The Grassroots, The Association and Mark Lindsey from Paul Revere and the Raiders, along with the Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie.

Volman has one of the more interesting stories of life-after-rock. He went back to school in middle age, earned his bachelor’s degree and then a master’s in music, and now he teaches at Belmont University, outside Nashville, Tenn.

“One of the things that helps us do these tours, a key, is that everybody enjoys what we’re doing,” said Volman, 64. “We all really appreciate the fact that we’re given this opportunity to get together for this sort of summer camp. There’s a lot of joking and reminiscing backstage, and it is very special. We’re all at a point in life where we can look back and reflect on the success each group had and our experiences in what was a very special time in music.

“When you get a chance to look at the list of songs we’re doing,” Volman added, “from ‘Happy Together’ to ‘Kicks’ (Lindsey) to ‘Kind of a Drag’ (Buckinghams) to ‘Midnight Confessions’ (Grassroots) to ‘Windy’ (Association), those were the biggest songs of that mid-1960s era. To hear it all take place again and see people’s reactions to it is very gratifying, and also fun. I have a very full life now, with plenty to do, but nothing else can compare to the kind of fun I have on this ‘summer camp’ tour.”

The Turtles had burst out of the suburban Los Angeles scene in 1965, with a hit cover of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe,” and followed it up with other folk-rock hits like “You Baby,” “Elenore,” “She’d Rather Be With Me,” and their biggest smash, “Happy Together,” which spent three weeks at No. 1.

But by 1970, the band had dissolved and, legally prevented from using the band name, Volman and Kaylan became “Flo & Eddie” and started a new career, including extensive work with Frank Zappa. But the 2009 release of a DVD movie of Kaylan’s “My Dinner with Jimi,” a hilarious memoir of the Turtles’ first British tour, put them in the spotlight again, not that they ever went away.

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