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THE TONY BENNETTS

February 14, 2015, 12:01 am
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Hope you all had a great Valentine's Day

1 Signe Toly Anderson - Chauffeur Blues - Jefferson Airplane
2 Janis Joplin - Bye Bye Baby - Big Brother and the Holding Company
3 Grace Slick - Sally Go Round The Roses - The Great Society
4 Lynne Hughes - Cherry Ball ( Shake Mama Shake) - Tongue and Groove
5 The Ace Of Cups - Music
6 Jan Errico - I Still Love You - The Vejatables
7 Tina Meltzer - Flying Away - Serpent Power
8 Patti Santos - Ridin' Thumb - It's A beautiful Day
9 Lydia Pense - Let me Dowm easy - Cold Blood
10 Tracey Nelson - Seven Bridges Road - Mother Earth
11 Toni Brown - The War You Left - Joy Of Cooking
12 Barbara Mauritz - Cross Between - Lamb
13 Lydia Moreno(Phillips) - Bad News - Stoneground
14 Annie Rizzo - I'm Funky But I'm Clean - Grootna
15 Linda Tillery - Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahed - The Loading Zone
16 Clara Miles - Tell Me - Under Milkwood
17 Janis Joplin - One Good Man - Kosmic Blues Band
18 Kathi McDonald - I Need A Man To Love - Big Brother and the Holding Company
19 Lynne Hughes - Gypsy Good Time - Solo
20 Deirdre LaPorte - Ajax - Stoneground
21 Ellen McIlwaine - Bow'd Up - Fear Itself
22 Donna Jean Godchaux - Sunrise - The Grateful Dead
23 Suzy Fischer - Pride Of Man - The Dinosaurs
24 Grace Slick - Fast Buck Freddie - Jefferson Starship
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BAY AREA MISTRESS

February 15, 2015, 11:09 am
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Following the disbandment of Country Weather in 1972, guitarist Greg Douglass teamed up with bassist Brian Kilcourse and Bill Baron to form the Bay-area power trio Mistress. Though the group had a local following, they were unable to secure a record deal for their self-recorded debut and ended up calling it quits. In late 1976, Douglass opted to reform Mistress and brought in vocalist Dave Walker, bassist Skip Olson, Chris Paulsen and Chris Kovacs. The quintet's self-entitled debut was recorded in 1977 for RSO Records, who released it 2 years later, just as the band's members opted to head off in separate directions.

Mistress 
Keystone, Palo Alto, CA 
April 30th, 1977 

Disc One: 
1. I Can't Stay Too Long 4:24 
2. It Takes Time > Same Old Blues 14:35 
3. Maelstrom 5:42 
4. band intro > tuning > Prayers 6:11 
5. Sister Sweet 7:35 
6. Tuscaloosa Tony 11:10 
7. Collection Box 9:18 
8. She's a Shiner > Band intro 11:26 
Total 70:25 

Disc Two: 
1. Back Home to You 6:47 
2. Shot in the Head 6:22 
3. Jungle Love 5:42 
4. Bringin' It Back from Mexico > Do the Hip Shake 15:43 
Total 34:36 


Dave Walker - vocals, Greg Douglass - guitars, Skip Olson - bass, Chris Paulson - drums, Chris Kovacs - keyboards 





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AUSTIN POWER PLANT

February 21, 2015, 1:17 am
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The Golden Dawn are an American psychedelic rock band formed in Austin, Texas, in 1966, that broke up and then reformed in the early 2000s.
Taking their name from the esoteric teachings and philosophy of the Hermetic Tradition, this band was formed in Austin in 1967. The 13th Floor Elevators got them a recording contract with International Artists. Indeed, George Kinney and Roky Erickson had grown up together in South Austin, attended the same school and played together in The Fugitives, a garage band from 1964/65. Kinney also played in Chelsea from late 1965 to late 1966 joining The Golden Dawn at the invitation of some high school friends when Chelsea fell apart.

The band released one album, entitled Power Plant, before breaking up soon after the album's release in 1968. Their sound is similar to their well-known Austin contemporaries, The 13th Floor Elevators, and both bands were on the International Artists label. In 2002, Eric Arn from the psyche rock music group, Primordial Undermind, asked George Kinney to reunite the other members of the band and play the Texas psyche fest. Kinney formed a new Golden Dawn and recorded the band's second album, titled Texas Medicine, which came out in 2006. The Golden Dawn play around Austin and Houston, and have been featured at the Austin Psych-fest the last couple of years
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CALL ANY VEGETABLE

February 22, 2015, 6:23 am
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"Mr. Green Genes" is a pop song from the Mother of Invention's 1969 LP Uncle Meat.Slow and heavy, it featured strange lyrics about vegetables (a subject already used in "The Duke of Prunes" and "Call Any Vegetable") and contained culinary advice: "Eat your shoes,""You can eat the truck/That brought' em in/Garbage truck." The song ends on a concluding statement of "Nutritiousness/Deliciousness" and "Worthlesness" over a pompous finale. The slow pace and lugubrious mood of the song conjures up the image of a giant -- the Green Giant on packs of frozen vegetables!

In 1970 Frank Zappa released an instrumental version of the song entitled "Son of Mr. Green Genes" (the process of naming a song "son of..." is recurrent throughout Zappa's career, starting with the 1966 "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet,"and was the result of his fondness for cheap horror movies). This version, included on Hot Rats, kept the original melody over a jazzier, sunnier musical background and featured drummer Paul Humphrey for the first time on a Zappa recording. "Mr. Green Genes" was occasionally performed live from 1968 to 1973, disappeared for 15 years,and was resuscitated for the 1988 tour (it is featured on The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life). "Son of Mr. Green Genes" was part of Zappa's set list from 1970 to 1973, mostly in the form of a medley with "King Kong" and "Chunga's Revenge." The Grandmothers and the Muffin Men interpreted the original version. 

Frank Zappa the musician was born in Baltimore, the son of Sicilian immigrant Francis Vincent Zappa, Sr.  Frank Zappa Neither of them was related to Hugh Brannum,the actor who portrayed Mr. Greenjeans on the Captain Kangaroo television show between 1955 and 1984. Brannum, who started his career as a bass player with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians orchestra on the ''Chesterfield Hour'' radio show in 1940, had a son, but his son was certainly not Frank Zappa. One of the sillier rumors to make the rounds, this legend most likely came about because of Zappa's inclusion of a track entitled "Son of Mr. Green Genes" on his 1969 Hot Rats album. (The song itself was so named because it was a variation on the earlier "Mr. Green Genes," a track from Zappa's 1968 Uncle Meat album.) someone either made a joke about the song title (or took it literally, despite the misspelling), and a legend was born. Frank Zappa himself reported:Because I recorded a song called "Son of Mr. Green Genes" on the Hot Rats album in 1969, people have believed for years that the character with that name on the 
Captain Kangaroo TV show (played by Lumpy Brannum) was my "real" Dad. No, he was not.
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WHAT TO DO

February 25, 2015, 6:42 pm
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Time for your input on this sites future. I would like your feedback on an important issue. Blogger intends to tighten it's censorship a bit on the area of sexually slanted materials ( mostly the use of  nudity in the images posted) What is going to happen is if they determine your blog is in violation that will convert the site to a private( by invitation) blog> I do not have very many issues but it leaves me with the thought of just going ahead and making it a private blog. I would like to know if you would be willing to work with it as a private site. I believe that it would allow 100 people to join and the postings would be a little better in regards to materials presented..

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TRAFFIC JAMS

February 26, 2015, 3:21 pm
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01 the streets of your town - country joe & the fish
02 south street - orlons
03 no 10 downing street - troggs
04 love street - doors
05 mason street - fireballs
06 hollywood blvd - neil merriweather
07 sunny goodge street - donovan
08 42nd st - beau brummels
09 electric avenue - eddy grant
10 down street - arthur lee
11 shakedown street - grateful dead
12 madeline street - jefferson airplane
13 positively 4th street - bob dylan
14 53rd & 3rd - ramones
15 2120 south michigan ave - rolling stone
16 retribution drive - greg lake
17 riot on sunset strip - standells
18 bleeker street - simon & garfunkel
19 the 59th street bridge song - harper's bixarre
20 park avenue blues - wind in the willows
21 baker street - gerry rafferty
22 pleasant street - tim buckley
23 on braodway - neil young
24 penny lane - beatles



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BLINDED

February 28, 2015, 8:33 am
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Day Blindness came together in 1968 from a pair of competing bands at Jefferson High School in California's San Mateo county. One of the bands was a trio led by guitarist Gary Pihl -- from nearby Santa Clara High -- and included Felix Bria on keyboards and Dave Neuman on drums. This unit ran across one of its rivals, the Dimensions, at a county battle-of-the-bands competition at which both were short-listed. the Dimensions were made up of the Tabucci brothers, Mark and Charles, on saxophones; lead guitarist Ken Starr (younger brother of a Ventures member); Roy Garcia behind the drums; John Vernaza on rhythm guitar; and bass player Ramos Ramirez. So impressed were Pihl and Bria by Garcia's drumming abilities upon seeing the band play that they soon asked him to replace Neuman. The resulting trio officially became Day Blindness in the summer of 1968.

Over the next year, Day Blindness played gigs at many of the most notable venues throughout the Bay Area, even landing an opening slot for Sly & the Family Stone, both locally and on tour. By 1969, Mark Tabucci, who had also become a behind-the-scenes supporter of the band during the Dimensions swap, began to construct a small studio at 10 Claude Lane, funded by local backers and sponsors, in anticipation of the recording of an album. Once Studio 10 was ready, Day Blindness, with new skinsman Dave Mitchell in Garcia's old spot, set about working on that debut record. During the sessions, both Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin stopped by to submit a variety tips, including song titles and artwork. Soon thereafter, Day Blindness was released, though to little fanfare.

The band started to come apart almost immediately after the album's release. Producer and engineer Tom Press used some of his proceeds from the album to buy a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and disappear into the '70s. Tabucci became an automobile repairman for the Jefferson Airplane. Drummer Mitchell went on to produce and engineer for other acts, including Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Pihl later turned up in platinum-selling rock band Boston, then went on to play with Sammy Hagar in the 1990s. Day Blindness, not a big seller upon its release, took on a life of its own in collector's circles, including the circulation of a pirated bootleg CD in the late '90s.


"Day Blindness" track listing:
1.) Still Life Girl - 6:22
2.) Jazz Song - 2:18
3.) Middle Class Lament - 3:38
4.) I Got No Money - 4:28
5.) House and a Dog - 1:58
6.) Live Deep - 2:45
7.) Young Girl Blues - 4:20
8.) Holy Land - 12:30


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NAKED DECISION

February 28, 2015, 3:43 pm
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Well it seems that my decision to review my blog site and it's content has been made for me by Blogger itself. So... thanks for all the feedback and life will continue as normal here. I do appreciate the support comments and I have to at least say if the subject is important it does bring out the feedback, Thanks to the reader who tipped me off about the change in mind at Blogger. As I had said before I do not per say practice sexually explicit material but an occasional nude will be part of my graphic input  every once in a while     Let the music continue!

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/02/27/google-reverses-move-to-censor-nude-sexually-explicit-material-on-blogger/
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FROM A BLIND FOX

March 1, 2015, 5:42 am
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Fox-San Francisco Session[69-70] 

1.Susie S. Kalator
2.Sun City
3.I Can't Take It
4.Keep On Livin' This Way
5.I Was Alone
6.Geraldine
7.Parchment Farm (bonus)
8.Baby,Please Don't Do (bonus)

Gary Pihl–guitars,vocal
Johnny Vernazza-bass
Roy Garcia-drums

An unreleased album from this post-Day Blindness band,recorded in 1969/70.This album is a heavy bluesy psychedelic masterpiece of the highest order.It is virtually the second Day Blindness album with slight personnel changes,but musically in a more heavy psychedelic direction.The lead guitarist Gary Pihl is well known today for being the guitar player of Boston.Here he plays an amazing psychedelic guitar and it reminds us in parts of the mighty Mariani's Perpetuum Mobile album.Superb bass guitar by Johnny V. Vernazza and crazy drums by Roy Garcia,who later went to play with the legendary band Gold 

Only one 45 single was ever released of those fantastic sessions on Studio 10 and the single is mega rare these days.Added features 2 long (17 minutes!!!) bonus tracks." 


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TURTLES 101

March 1, 2015, 7:32 am
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Benjamin Hirsch, the founder of Turtle Wax, wanted to be a chemist, but had to drop out of college during the Great Depression. Instead, he became a magician, supporting his family with his silks and wand. But he never lost his interest in chemistry nor his fascination with cars. In the late 1930s he developed a car wax and mixed up batches at night in the bathtub. His wife, Marie, filled the bottles by hand. During the day, Hirsch traveled by street car to gas stations around Chicago, selling the wax he named Plastone. In 1941, he invested $500 and opened the Plastone Co., which operated out of a series of storefronts.

To promote his wax, Hirsch would go into a parking lot and shine one fender of each car. He then waited for the owners to arrive and hope to convince them to buy his wax to finish the job. Plastone was a couple of years old when, according to company lore, Hirsch made a sales call in Turtle Creek, Wisconsin. The name of the town clicked in his mind with the hard shell of a turtle and the protection his wax offered. Thus was born a new name for the company and for the wax, Turtle Wax Super Hard Shell.

Yes I know they are tortoises. Tortoise, Terrapin, Turtle whatever !
Now here's a lesson on the North american turtle family.
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MISSION GOLD

March 2, 2015, 1:05 pm
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"Mission Rock was recorded live in San Francisco 1971 (excellent studio soundquality) -- music ranges in the early Quicksilver/Santana/Big Brother & The Holding Company style -- (68 mins) unreleased material! Gold in 1971 was one of the hottest bands in S.F. still without an LP. Bill Graham was booking the band to open shows for Ten Years After, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Mike Bloomfield....., with the hope and the support for an LP release. Now finally after 32 years here is the album Graham would have liked to hear. Country Joe McDonald took a personal interest in the band and worked with them on a number of projects, on this CD he wrote 2 of the 13 songs, which he had never performed with Country Joe & the Fish. The very telented guitarists Ed Scott/ Joe Bajza remind often to 'John Cipollina' founded Gold in 1967/68. Gold vocalist on Mission Rock Robin Sinclair was of the same cut of female singer of the time in the style of a 'Janis Joplin' -- an experienced professional who had recorded two LP's on Cadet Concept/Chess as part of a group called Saloom -- Sinclair and the Mother Bear. The music itself is very powerful in rhythm section with congas, two acid jamming guitars and vocals a la Janis 

Ed Scott - Rhythm guitar
Joe Bajza - lead guitar
Roy Garcia - drums
Chico Moncada - bass
Sebastian Nicholson - congas
Robin Sinclair - vocals
Ron Cabral - percussion

Track List: 

1.All Right 
2.Livin' High 
3.Can't Get Enough 
4.40 Days Blues 
5.Piece of Your Action 
6.Filet of Soul 
7.You Can't Judge a Book 
8.Good Old Wagon 
9.Frisco Kid 
10.Good Things Coming 
11.Conquistadores 
12.Home Cookin' Woman 
13.Summer Dresses 


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ROGER, ROBIN & THE BEAR

March 3, 2015, 1:16 pm
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A kind of unusual posting with this one. If you have been looking at the posts recently we have gone from Day Blindness who morphed into Fox. The drummer from DB went on to play with Gold who also had a vocalist named Robin Sinclair, Robin had been with the Mother Bear before joining Gold
Robin joined Gold after making a duo Lp with Roger Salloom
Not to my liking per say but interesting and a piece of SF musical history

Anyway here is some Salloom Sinclair.....

Salloom, Sinclair & the Mother Bear were a late-’60s psychedelic band with an energetic but clumsy mixture of blues-rock, Bob Dylan-ish folk-rock lyrics, and some generic San Francisco psychedelic-style heavy rock.

Their vocals were handled by principal singer-songwriter Roger Salloom and the more distinctive, often keeningly high tones of Robin Sinclair, whose style was at times reminiscent of that of Janis Joplin, though sometimes she went into an astronomically high range.Their sole, self-titled album was produced by Marshall Chess on the Chess subsidiary Cadet Concept. The album can be seen as a “concept album”, mainly because of the narrative element and the talking during and in between the songs.

Slightly later, Salloom and Sinclair, as the hyphenated duo Salloom-Sinclair, released an album on Cadet Concept in 1969 produced by esteemed Nashville session man Charlie McCoy. 


Salloom, Sinclair & the Mother Bear

Be Born Again
Conversations With Gentility
Steals 
Griffin
She Kicked Me Out Of The House After This One
Florida Blues
Sitting On A Finger
Marie La Peau 


Salloom and Sinclair

Lesson At The Delicatessen
Motorcycle
One More Try
I'm Comin' Home Again
Violence, Blam Blam, I'm Sorry
Animal
Faith Has Been Given
Let's Be Right
Exhaustion
Sleep


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PUSHIN' FOR SPRING

March 6, 2015, 2:21 pm
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01 fiberglass jungle - crossfires
02 clearout - cream
03 nut popper #1 - paul butterfield
04 four hundred and five - beacon street union
05 the witch doctor life- captain beefheart
06 highland fling - nicky hopkins
07 the traveler - don strandburg
08 albatross - fleetwood mac
09 more - main theme - pink floyd
10 dismal swamp - nitty gritty dirt band
11 portrait of jan with flowers - bill nelson
12 sultan - neil young
13 dust to dust - ginger baker
14 natural magic - rolling stones
15 cherry ball blues - ry cooder
16 hodge,podge strained through a leslie - steppenwolf
17 banjo - kaleidoscope
18 turtle - deadbeats
19 hummingbirds - love
20 jerry's breakdown - old and in the way
21 white lightning pt2 - byrds
22 juggling suns - solar circus
23 funky zena - mickey hart
24 big noise from speonk - lovin' spoonful


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COVERED IN FUDGE

March 9, 2015, 1:10 pm
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Another of those bands that falls into the category of you either like them or you hate them. considering their durability as musicians, I have learned to enjoy their approach to music, they most certainly have their own identifiable sound. It is without a doubt a fact that the Fudge were not really known for their own original compositions but rather for their reworked covers of other peoples songs. From the beginning almost 50 years ago they took possesion of the Supremes "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and made it their own. It charted high in 1967 and established them as an original psychedelic band. they have a sound that is that of a musically psychedelic locomotive ...big and heavy. They still perform today and have just released a new CD once again focusing on implementing their sound in reworking songs  from the sixties.

The band circa 67-68


The band today

supremes - you keep me hangin" on
zombies - she's not there
beatles - ticket to ride
impressions - people get reagy
sonny and cher - bang bang
    "  "     - the beat goes on
donovan - season of the witch
dusty springfield - the look of love
nancy sinatra/lee hazelwood - some velvet morning
jr walker and the all stars - shotgun
supremes - my world is empty
dione warwick - walk on by
rod stewart - do ya think i'm sexy
marvin gaye - ain't that peculiar
led zeppelin - immigrint song
   "   "   - dazed and confused
who - i can see for miles
procol harum - whiter shade of pale
doors - break on through( to the other side)
monkees - i'm a believer
spencer davis group - gimme some lovin'
buffalo springfield - for what it's worth
smokey robinson & the miracles - the tracks of my tears
box tops - the letter


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AND YOU TOUCHED THE DISTANT BEACHS

March 9, 2015, 7:06 pm
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The universal myth of the mermaid is the myth of the possessive woman, killing her lovers after having made love with them  .
At the beginning, mermaids were creatures of the Greek mythology, whose charming sings lured the sailors, leading them to crash their boats on reefs. Everybody knows the famous passage from Homere's Odyssey, where Ulysses is attached to the mast of his boat to listen to the sings of the mermaids
What is less known, is that the first mermaids of the Greek mythology were represented as creatures half-woman, half bird 
The creature half-woman, half-fish, which we now knew appeared much later in the story of the myth.
A teratological anomaly, fortunately very rare, called symely, may have taken a part in the genesis of the mythe of the mermaid : il is a fusion of the lower limbs, giving birth to a human being with a kind of fish tail 
The mermaids were considered goddesses of the Dead as well as the Harpies and the Furies but they could sometimes be turned into benevolent goddesses through some specific rites. 
In general they were a danger for all the sailors who passed in their nearby since they enchanted them with their seducing voices till they lost any control, dived into the sea where they died drowned. 
Ulysses was able to save himself and his crew by this lethal destiny thanks to Circe, the enchantress Circe who was in love with Ulysses.She warned him to fill his men’s ears with  wax so that theiy could not hear the mermaids’voices but, on the other hand,  she advised him to listen to their voices. So Ulysses asked his men to tie him to the mainmast and to let him there no matter what he said or did. 
With this devise Ulysses defeated the mermaids who, as a consequence, were condemned to die throwing themselves into the sea.their bodies were driven away along the coast. Parthenepe’s body arrived to the islet of Megaride (where later the Castel dell’Ovo was built ) where it was buried with all the honours due to a divinity.






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MILL VALLEY CLOVER

March 11, 2015, 4:20 pm
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While John Ciambotti was at the University of California in Los Angeles, he joined a bluegrass group called The Valley Boys who were well known around the Los Angeles bluegrass circuit. After a two day visit to San Francisco, Ciambotti was so excited by what he saw that he left Los Angeles and moved to San Francisco with his family.

There, he played bass for a band called The Outfit (managed by Bard Dupont, ex-bass player with Great Society) who at one time used the same rehearsal venue as Moby Grape, and they jammed together regularly with The Tiny Hearing Aid Company at the Muir Beach Tavern. When Ciambotti joined the latter they changed their name to Clover.

Clover’s first gig was on 4 July 1967. They spent a couple of years gigging around the Bay Area basing themselves in Mill Valley. They played venues like the Avalon and Fillmore, before they signed to Fantasy in the summer of 1969.

Clover were never really recognised as part of the San Francisco Sound - in ‘Frisco itself they were regarded as a Mill Valley band.

The album "Clover" was recorded under primitive conditions. It is full of original compositions with the exception of "Shotgun". Most of these were competent numbers like "Southbound Train" and "Stealin’". They also made one 45 for Fantasy "Wade In The Water/Stealin’" in 1970.

The second album "Fourty Niner" was a progression on "Clover". It’s music is more varied and mature. It’s best tracks are "Mr. Moon", "Chicken Butt" and "Keep On Trying". After this album, Clover left Fantasy in 1971 and did little of note until they moved to England to launch a new career in 1976.

The Band:

    * Johnny Ciambotti
    * John McFee
    * Alex Call
    * Mitch Howie 

Songs: Debut LP

   1. Shotgun
   2. Southbound Train
   3. Going To The Country
   4. Monopoly
   5. Stealin'
   6. Wade In The Water
   7. No Vacancy
   8. Lizard Rock'n'Roll Band
   9. Come
  10. Could You Call It Love'

Songs: LP 2 - Forty Niner

  1. Harvest
   2. Keep On Trying
   3. Old Man Blues
   4. Fourty Niner
   5. Sound Of Thunder
   6. Chicken Butt
   7. Mr. Moon
   8. Love Is Gone
   9. Mitch’s Tune
  10. Sunny Mexico
  11. If I Had My Way 




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JAKE WHO ?

March 12, 2015, 3:19 pm
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A 1970’s St. Louis progressive rural rock group consisting of Mike Krenski (bass-vocal), Charles Sabatino (flute- recorder-vocal), Joseph Marshall (electric & acoustic guitar-pedal steel) Phil Jost (keyboards-vocal), and Jim Bilderback (percussion). 

LP 1 -  Jake Jones

Breathe Deep
Catch The Wind
Feather Bed
I'll Be Seeing You
Ill - Mo Junction
In All My Dreams
Lost In My Own Backyard
Mirrored Door
She Must Be Free
Trippin' Down A Country Road

LP 2 - Different Roads

A Suite from the Court Jester
Child Child
Different Roads
I'll See You Through
It's Only Love You'll Know
Motherly Comfort
Of No Concern
Speak To Me Lady
When Your Brother






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BOSSTOWN BEACON

March 14, 2015, 6:40 am
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The Beacon Street Union was a 1960s psychedelic era rock band, named for a street in their native Boston, whose original members were John Lincoln Wright (vocals, percussion), Paul Tartachny  (guitar, vocals), Wayne Ulaky (bass, vocals), Robert Rhodes (keyboards, bass), and Richard Weisberg (drums). With the exception of a few rock standards, their diverse music was composed by group members, primarily Wright and Ulaky. A later lead singer was Travis Fields.

MGM Records promoted them as part of the so-called "Bosstown Sound" (along with the groups Ultimate Spinach and Orpheus), with little success. Their first album was released directly before Ultimate Spinach's first album. After two albums, Wright, Ulaky, and Rhodes were joined by guitarist Jamie James and recorded an album as Eagle.

The Beacon Street Union were part of the dreaded, overhyped Bosstown Sound. The scene was a reaction to the San Fransisco rock explosion but Bosstown could in no way compete with the Bay area. The Beacon Street Union released three good experimental psych/hard rock albums (one album under the Eagle moniker) during the late 60’s and early 70’s. They were one of the best among a desperate bunch which included the Ultimate Spinach, Eden’s Children, Puff and Orpheus.


Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union

Recitation 
My Love Is 
Beautiful Delilah 
Sportin' Life 
Four Hundred And Five 
Mystic Morning 
Sadie Said No
Speed Kills 
Blue Avenue 
South End Incident 
Green Destroys The Gold 
The Prophet



The Clown Died In Marvin Gardins

 Blue Suede Shoes
Not Very August Afternoon
May I Light Your Cigarette
The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens
Angus of Aberdeen
King of the Jungle
The Clown's Overture
Now I Taste the Tears
Baby, Please Don't Go



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RICHARD NIXON'S JUKEBOX

March 14, 2015, 9:48 pm
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A couple of months back I had a comment from a reader about my compilations. I have since forgotten who it was but I remembered his final line of the comment was that I should do one and call it Richard Nixon's Jukebox..........SO.........

Nixon could play five musical instruments. 
Nixon’s mother insisted he practice on the family’s upright piano every afternoon, and in the seventh grade he was sent 200 miles away to take lessons with his aunt, who had studied at the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music. Although he never learned to read music, Nixon could also play the saxophone, clarinet, accordion and violin. His musical talents turned ot to be political assets: Nixon’s 1963 appearance on “The Jack Paar Program,” during which he played a tune he wrote, helped rehabilitate his image after losing the California gubernatorial election the prior year. As president, he occasionally tickled the ivories, playing “Happy Birthday” for Duke Ellington at the White House and “My Wild Irish Rose” in honor of his wife at the Grand Ole Opry.



Here are 24 tunes that are or could have been connected ( in some bizarre way) to Nixon

01 a well respected man - kinks
02 buckle down with nixon - brian dewan
03 nixon's the one - mono puff
04 politician - cream
05 the love of richard nixon - manic steet preachers
06 go vote nixon - clancy hayes dixieland band
07 i wanna grow up to be a politician - byrds
08 politician - lee micheals
09 nixon now - mike curb congregation
10 nixon is fixin" -1972 campaign song 
11 elected - alice cooper
12 i'm the boss - burl ives
13 wild thing - richard nixon?
14 the 68 nixon(this tears model)- denver,boise and johnson
15 the richard nixon song - electric needle room
16 tricia tell your daddy - jay & the americans
17 campaigner - neil young
18 here's to the state of richard nixon - phil ochs
19 tricky dicky - country joe and grootna
20 ohio - crosby, stills. nash & young
21 nixon sings the blues - richard nixon?
22 moody richard - dan hicks & his hot licks
23 richard nixon - christmas
24 watergate blues - howlin" wolf 


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SIX BY FOUR - BOSSTOWN

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In 1968, a record producer named Alan Lorber started hyping “the Bosstown Sound” as a marketing concept. Other American cities had their influential scenes — Detroit, Memphis, San Francisco — so why not Boston? The Bosstown Sound is remembered today as a bad hype gone wrong, but the reality is, as reality tends to be, more subtle.
Lorber had signed a group of artists to MGM Records, and he believed Boston was a fertile place to launch their careers because of its heavy concentration of college students. But he ran into trouble after MGM took out trade-paper ads hyping the Bosstown Sound and its first three acts, Orpheus, Ultimate Spinach, and Beacon Street Union. Prominent rock critics promptly accused MGM, Lorber, and their bands of being commercial sellouts. A year or two later, when MGM set about to purge its roster of “drug-oriented” acts, the Bosstown acts were the first to go, although their lack of sales helped usher them out the door.
Lost in the controversy was the music and the bands themselves, some of which found an audience and left a mark. Orpheus opened for a number of top acts during its brief lifespan, including Janis Joplin and  Cream. Beacon Street Union, despite being produced by Partridge Family auteur Wes Ferrell, had chops enough to back Chuck Berry in their early days, and eventually went fully psychedelic. Ultimate Spinach, famed for its use of the theremin, counted among its members  Jeff Baxter, later to play with the Doobie Brothers and  Steely Dan. Earth Opera was fronted by bluegrass mavens Peter Rowan and  David Grisman. In years that followed, many Boston-area artists cited the Bosstown bands of the late ’60s as influences.

The most successful bit of the Bosstown Sound was probably “Can’t Find the Time” by Orpheus, a lovely sunshine-pop song that charted briefly in the fall of 1969. If you don’t know it, get acquainted.




ULTIMATE SPINACH

behold and see( guildedlight of the cosmos)
mind flowers
where your at
pamela
don't cry for me
just like romeo and juliet

EARTH OPERA

home to you
the great american eagle tragedy
it's love
home of the brave
the child bride
the red sox are winning

ORPHEUS

can't find the time
congress alley
door knob song
mine's yours
never in my life
the dream

TANGERINE ZOO

like people
wake up sun
can't you see
please don't set me free
symphonic psyche
crystalescent heaven





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