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Blues Image
1970 — Mike Pinera was 18 years old when he moved from Tampa to Miami, where he opened a Rock N Roll club, Thee Image, on the beach. His group, Blues Image, served as the club’s house band, backing many older Bluesmen who toured solo, with no band, only their guitar.
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alligator
Dub’s Steerhouse — The bar on the outskirts of town. The one with nickel beers and the topless go-go dancers. Where Tom Petty, Don Felder, Marty Jourard, and most all of Gainesville’s Rock N Roll talent got its start.
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“Ride Captain Ride”
1970 — Mike Pinera had moved from Tampa to Miami, where he opened Three Image, a Rock N Roll club on the beach for which Blues Image served as the house band. While there, Pinera opened shows for many popular acts, including Cream, Frank Zappa, the Grateful Dead, and the Yardbirds.
“Ride Captain Ride” Blue Cheer Mike Pinera Tampa Miami Beach “Isla”
Kent State “Ohio” Crosby Stills Nash and Young Isley Brothers (’73)
1971 — Apollo 14
This time, Alan Shepard, the first American in Space, was piloting an Apollo Mission to The Moon. Before his return, Shepard had delivered a special edition of TODAY (“Florida’s Spaceage Newspaper”), and put in a round of golf, hitting 6-irons toward a number of in-the-distant craters.
1972 — Quang Tri, Vietnam
1973 — KOHOUTEK (COMET IN THE SKY)
1974 — When Wayne Cochran brought his show to Gainesville’s favorite Dub’s Steer House. Playing in Cochran’s C.C. Riders was a 22-year-old Jaco Pastorius, a hot shit bassist from Fort Lauderdale, who also played with saxophonist Ira Sullivan and guitarist Pat Metheney at the University of Miami, and was frequently seen playing private (house) parties in Palm Beach.
You WILL Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.
Stephen C. O’Connell’s Holy War
1969 — UF’s most notorious president begins his tenure-long (seven years), throughout the VIETNAM WAR, to demand all University of Florida professors and employees sign a LOYALTY (ANTI-COMMUNISM) OATH as a requirement to work for Florida’s first, and largest, state university.
All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix
1970 — Electric Ladyland
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bill day
Stephen C. O’Connell
by CARL HIAASEN
Dead (UF) Presidents
ALBERT A. MURPHREE* (THE HOLY SPIRIT)
Murphree’s Opening Message (alt.)
Best Bible College in the Land. CHRISTIAN SOUTHLAND THAT IS.
STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL’S SUDDEN RESIGNATION
by CARL HIAASEN
ROBERT Q. MARSTON* (THE FUNDRAISER)
NIXON “GOODBYE DICK”
GERALD FORD (“SUBSTITUTE”)
JIMMY CARTER (“EVEN THE LOSERS”)
CARTER “RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA”
RONALD REAGAN (“JUST SAY OH NO”)
1970 — Friendly Fire
KENT STATE (MAY 7) #1
JANIS JOPLIN (May 29, 1970)
YEAR OF THE WOMAN
JANE FONDA AND JOAN BAEZ (ACCENT ’71)
accent-working
1970 — Miles Davis
The Creator
HOLY TRINITY OF ROCK
HOLY TRINITY OF JAZZ
Signs
1971 — Five Man Electrical Band
Good-Byes and Butterflies
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alligator
“American Pie”
“Starry Starry Night”
1971 — Insurrection Day
SPACE TRUCKIN’ (APOLLO 14)
FEBRUARY 3, 1971 (ASTROTURF)
Countdown to Insurrection
PEACE BE WITH YOU (FATHER GANNON)
CHRISTIAN PORN (JANUARY 7)
CHRISTIAN PORN (ALT.)
SEX IN 1970
LESSONS IN LOVE
FEBRUARY 1-14, 1971
FEBRUARY 4, 1971
More Than Paper
LOYALTY OATH RESOLUTION (JUNE 22, 1971)
IN FAVOR OF MY LAI
by John L Young
1972 — Gainesville Rising
SPACE TRUCKIN’
Gainesville Rising
GAINESVILLE SCREAMING
George Wallace (Let’s Not Stay Together)
Stephen C. O’Connell vs. UF Faculty
1973 — Independence Day
SURPRISE RESIGNATION
Who was Stephen C. O’Connell?
Nixon Won’t Leave
Naughty or Nice (Watergate Christmas List)
A Year to Forget
ELTON JOHN @ THE FLORIDA GYM
ANGELA DAVIS
HENRY KISSINGER/HANK AARON
RICHARD NIXON
SPIRO AGNEW
1974 — Let The Party Begin
GoodBye Dick
tuesday
September 18, 1974
vol. 70 no. 112
Homecoming 1974
The Gainesville 8
Storm Is Rising
Nixon No More
Nixon Resigns
The Marstons Have Landed
President Marston’s Higher Calling
1975 — EXTRA!
LOOKING BACK AT ’74 (PG.3)
ON THE ROAD WITH CHARLES KURALT
Wakulla to the Moont
FLORIDA SUGAR (How Sweet Is It?)extra!
A1A (FLORIDA’s EAST COAST)
FLORIDA SUGAR: HOW SWEET IS IT?
EXTRA! (PG3)
ROCK N ROLL (TIMELINE)
A1A (FLORIDA’s EAST COAST)
God’s Hard Sale
Gainesville Strippers
Bob Dylan (The Prophet Returns)
Freddie (The Other King)IN SIN WE LIVE
LOVE AND COHABITATION
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TREE POWER ENERGY CRISIS (EDITORIAL)
a.lligator*
PG1 — [From The Beginning]
PG2 — [Ride Captain Ride]
PG3 — [Into The ’80s]
PG4 — [TO THE MOON]
PG5 — [Lost In Space]
Summer ’69
1968 — For Earth Below (Apollo 8)
1969 — Gator On The Moon (Apollo 11)
1971 — Space Truckin’ (Apollo 14)
The “Astro” MixTapes
MOON SHOT (PLAYLIST)*
MOON SHOT (PBS) VIDEO [WATCH IT]
MOON (PLAYLIST)*
EARTH (PLAYLIST)*
Apollo 11
JULY 1969 — ALLIGATOR MOON
(JULY 8) GATOR IN WAITING
(JULY 11) A MATTER OF TENURE
(JULY 15) ANXIOUS MOON
(JULY 18) RESTING UP
(JULY 22) PIONEER STROLLING
(JULY 25) SPLASHING DOWN
Slow Ride To The Moon*
On The Alligator Road
w/ Charles Kuralt*
FLORIDA SUGAR
How Sweet Is It*
The Marstons Have Landed*
[A1A]*
Along The Atlantic Coast
[SR50]*
Weeki Wachee to The Moon
Day Tripping (#1.)*
Mysteries In The Florida Jungle
Day Tripping (#2.)*
Weeki Wachee to the Moon [SR50]
FLORIDA ROAD TRIPS
ROAD TRIPS (NOTES) 1.
ROAD TRIPS (NOTES) 2.
A Beach For All Seasons*
SUMMER
Apollo 14
FEBRUARY 3, 1971
Special Delivery
Back To The Moon
Artemis
APRIL 1, 2026 — After fifty five years, NASA sends men (and women) back to the Moon. (((VIDEO))) See it like a Native, including the drive north on Indian River Drive (The River Road) to the 1880s church, with a widow’s watch with a clear view of the Sacred Ground, across the Indian River Lagoon.
SPACEX (MARCH 31, 2026)
ARTEMIS (K’S BEACH)
ARTEMIS (A MOON TO REMEMBER)
ARTEMIS (IN THE SHADE)
That’s One Small Step For Man … One Giant Leap for Mankind.
Apollo 11*
Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival
1969 — Green River
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On the Road with Charles Kuralt (CBS)*
Charles Kuralt, in his “On The Road” documentation of the Apollo 11 mission, sent teams of reporters around the country, producing a kind of “Day In The Life of America” … THE DAY Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon.
alligator
1966 — “Paint It Black” (Rolling Stones)
MUSIC ’66 — Good Vibrations, Strangers In The Night, These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ Eleanor Rigby, Summer In The City, Reach Out I’ll Be There, When A Man Loves A Woman.
1967 — Psychedelic Summer
San Francisco / Free Love / LSD
Flowers In The Barrel of Your M1 Rifle
St. Pepper’s Lonely Heartsclub Band
1968 — War & Hope
EARTHRISE (APOLLO 8)
VooDoo & Assassination
“Abraham, Martin, and John”
The White Album (Beatles)
“Space Truckin'”
Deep Purple
When the Florida Alligator waged war against the University of Florida, not just Gainesville, but THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD WAS SHAKING. Thousands were being killed in Vietnam, and NASA was shooting astronauts to the moon. The Alligator was an “independent” and honest witness to it all.
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In A Gada Da Vida
Iron Butterfly w/ Mike Pinera* (Tampa)
Blues Image (1970) “Ride Captain Ride“
Thee Image Club (Miami Beach) Collins Ave.
Led Zeppelin (February 14, 1969)
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Time Passages
Al Stewart
1978 — Time Passages
((( Into the ’80s )))
Time Passages
(1971-1981)
The News
On Campus
The Mysterious Murphree Stones
introduction (HISTORY)
introduction (PIKES)
introduction (MUCOZO)
College Life
GATOR COUNTRY
FOR THE LOVE OF GATORS
UF 75 YEARS AFTER
THE DAILY SCROLL
CONVENIENCE (PG1)
is in the Eye of the Beholder
CONVENIENCE (PG2)
Letters to The Editor
CONVENIENCE (PG3)
Little Richard
Trouble with The Growl
UF HOMELESS
Swastika
Hometown Racer
FLORIDA NUKES