After Denver hosts 10 of the first 16 games, they then hit the road for 9 of the next 10. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.The NBA is looking to limit travel for all teams this season, and that will create some strange quirks on the schedule. THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS: (Singing) You're going to wake up one morning as the sun greets the dawn. Maybe we'll be talking about it 50 years from now. RASCOE: So start thinking about that playlist. THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS: (Singing) Oh, yeah. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME") And maybe who knows who's going to listen to one and be inspired to carry on the tradition - to become that person that they admire and then become themselves. KAYE: That's what "Nuggets" is about - to keep records alive in this world. But he stresses that what he did and continues to do for psychedelic proto-punk rock is something you can do for the music you love and think others should love as well. Kaye always intended to make a follow-up. Those garage rock sounds influenced the punk scene, something Lenny Kaye witnessed firsthand when he played alongside Patti Smith. RASCOE: "Nuggets" was created from what was at the time rock's recent past. You're pushing too hard - what you want me to be. THE SEEDS: (Singing) You're pushing too hard - pushing on me. You have the kind of proto-punkiness of The Seeds. You have the orchestral rock of Sagittarius. "Nuggets," really - it's all over the place. And that to me is the most interesting thing of music's evolution, when all of a sudden, you know, you don't know what's happening. And I have to say, it was my moment because I was in a band in New Jersey in the mid-'60s called The Zoo where you felt an opening of definition. ![]() RASCOE: This one is "Oh Yeah" by The Shadows Of Knight out of Chicago. Everything going to be all right this morning. THE SHADOWS OF KNIGHT: (Singing) Whoa, yeah. ![]() You know, there were teen scenes throughout the Midwest. Bands out of the San Francisco area were starting to partake of psychedelics. Los Angeles certainly had a higher level of technical quality. KAYE: These local scenes coalesce and have their own personality. RASCOE: Lenny Kaye wanted to spotlight music like this and also to highlight the different sounds being created in different parts of the country. NAZZ: (Singing) Underneath your gaze I was found in the haze I'm wandering around in. It didn't chart when it was released, four years before it landed on "Nuggets." Todd Rundgren was 19 when he recorded it. It was called "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts" - that's arty, with a Y - "From The First Psychedelic Era." Its cover was an explosion of color appropriate for the tracks on the vinyl inside, created by musicians who were sometimes just teens in their parents' garages. ![]() ![]() RASCOE: And the result was one of the most influential compilation albums of all time. KAYE: Which would be those kind of songs that were rapidly vanishing under the radar or an album track that had been overlooked. RASCOE: So Kaye created a list of about 60 psychedelic rock tracks he loved from off the beaten path. LENNY KAYE: Would you assemble a list of songs for me? He had been with the label for a few months in 1972 when Jac Holzman, the boss, called him into his office with a proposition. RASCOE: Lenny Kaye to the rescue - Kaye was a record store clerk in New York City's West Village, a rock writer and a scout for Elektra Records. (SOUNDBITE OF THE ELECTRIC PRUNES SONG, "I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM (LAST NIGHT)") Stevie Wonder and Elton John and Carole King all have new albums out - and Miles Davis and Al Green and Dolly Parton. You're in a record store because that's how you chose your own music back then, and you're browsing the newest stuff.
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