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(Poster for The Alan Price Set gig, 1967 - can't picture a lot of dancing going on)

Staying with 1967 tonight. This one from The Alan Price Set and a single that didn't go anywhere in the States, Shame (literally and figurativly). Alan Price was a former member of The Animals, who set off to blaze new trails as a solo artist in 1965. He's still around and still gigging.

Lucky for us.

Well, I know when both of my cats (Sam and Babe) want to eat---that's for sure. I just didn't know how much power they actually have over the human race.

If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat.

Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.

This meow is actually a purr mixed with a high-pitched cry. While people usually think of cat purring as a sign of happiness, some cats make this purr-cry sound when they want to be fed. The study showed that humans find these mixed calls annoying and difficult to ignore.

"The embedding of a cry within a call that we normally associate with contentment is quite a subtle means of eliciting a response," said Karen McComb of the University of Sussex. "Solicitation purring is probably more acceptable to humans than overt meowing, which is likely to get cats ejected from the bedroom." They know us

Previous research has shown similarities between cat cries and human infant cries.

McComb suggests that the purr-cry may subtly take advantage of humans' sensitivity to cries they associate with nurturing offspring. Also, including the cry within the purr could make the sound "less harmonic and thus more difficult to habituate to," she said.

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After quitting her job in Alaska while many Americans struggle to make ends meet, a new CBS poll found that most Americans think she's not up to the task of being President---including a huge majority of Republicans.

If Sarah Palin is resigning her position as Alaska's Governor to run for president, she faces doubts – even from Republicans – about her ability to be an effective one, according to a new CBS News poll.

Less than one in four Americans, 22 percent in particular, say she does have the ability to be an effective president. Only 33 percent of Republicans say she does. Sixty five percent of all Americans, and 51 percent of Republicans say she does not.

In this CBS News Poll, conducted one week after Palin announced she would resign, these assessments are even more negative than they were among registered voters before last year's presidential election. Then, 37 percent of all registered voters thought Palin could be effective if it became necessary for her to take on the job, and 53 percent did not...read on

I'd say that's terrible news for her, and it shows that America isn't buying the reasons she gave for quitting with a year and a half left in her term during the nutty press conference she staged. And what was with all the animals quaking in the background?

Another CBS poll, which was released on July 13th, now shows that most Americans believe she quit to help her own political career.

A majority of Americans believe that Sarah Palin is resigning as governor of Alaska not because it's in the best interest of her state but because it will benefit her political career, a new CBS News poll finds.

Just 24 percent of those accept Palin's explanation that she resigned because it was the right thing to do for Alaska. More than twice that percentage – 52 percent – cited her political ambition as the reason for her resignation. An additional 14 percent said they don't know the reason.

Even Republicans are skeptical of the explanation, with a higher percentage saying Palin resigned for her political career (36 percent) than saying she did so for Alaska (31 percent).

Wonder if all those right-wing talking heads who were touting the earlier polls showing strong GOP support for Palin will bring these polls up ...

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(Fresh from their visit to Americas Drug Store)

My apologies for being late posting this weekend. I was debating whether or not to put this track up at all. As with the previous Hollywood Bowl posts from August 16, 1968, this one has a ton of audio problems, and they aren't relegated just to the technical side. There are a lot of flat notes and strange harmonies.

But in the end I figured as long as I issue a caveat, you could be potentially a lot more forgiving than the original equipment was that recorded this concert and bear in mind we're talking a historic document here.

Here is Eric Burdon and The Animals from August of 1968. The lineup had been revamped completely since the days of "House Of The Rising Sun" and the sound was a lot more raw and experimental than was previously the case, with songs like "Monterey" "San Francisco Nights" and "Sky Pilot" breaking the mold of the traditional blues outfit and branching off into a new direction.

With the massive amounts of distortion and wrong notes though, this is still an enjoyable piece of history and an interesting turning point from the era of the 45 to the era of the Lp (the chunk of black plastic that went around and made sound via a needle grinding into the groove).

It's still a wonder any of us survived.