MERRY CHRISTMAS

December 23, 2015, 2:00 am

I do hope you have great holiday season over the next couple of weeks. If you celebrate Xmas as I do please remember why there is a Xmas .Steer away from too much of the commercialism that seems so prevalent. If you don't celebrate Xmas have a great new years ending hope you get some time off and I will see you soon!

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PSYCHE-DE-LITE

November 11, 2015, 5:11 pm

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The Blues Maggos formed in the Bronx, New York, USA, in 1964 and initially known as The Trenchcoats, the founding line-up consisted of Emil "Peppy" Thielhelm, vocals, guitar, Dennis LaPore, lead guitar, Ralph Scala, organ and vocals, Ronnie Gilbert, bass and John Finnegan, drums . The group quickly became an important part of the emergent Greenwich Village rock scene and in 1966 secured a residency at the fabled Night Owl club. Near the end of '66, the band was calling itself "Bloos Magoos" and Mike Esposito was brought in as their new lead guitarist. Esposito had at one time been in a college band with Lou Reed, and his inventive guitar playing, utilizing controlled feedback and tape-echo devices, added a new dimension to the group's sound. Having recorded flop singles for Ganim and Verve Records, the band was signed to Mercury Records, where they became the subject of intense grooming. Drummer Geoff Daking replaced LaPore in time to record their debut album, "Psychedelic Lollipop", which was released in November 1966. The band was now using a more traditional spelling of their name, "Blues Magoos".

In February of 1967, Mercury released a single called "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet", written by band members, Gilbert, Scala and Esposito. The song was a Top Twenty hit for the 'Magoos' in America and finished at number 72 for the entire year, but failed to achieve the same success in the UK.

A follow up hit was even harder to come by for the Magoos and their next effort, "There's A Chance We Can Make It" was mostly ignored. Subsequent efforts, "One By One" , "I Wanna Be There" and "Life is Just a Cher O'Bowlies" also failed to gain any attention. One last single release on Mercury called "I Can Hear The Grass Grow", issued in 1968, also missed the charts. By now, tensions were growing among the members of the band and the original line up split.

On November 9th, 2000, The Blues Magoos, featuring Emil "Peppy" Thielhelm and Ralph Scala played at a garage band revival show called "Cavestomp". In July 2008, Blues Magoos, with original members Ralph Scala, Castro and Geoff Daking, reunited for the first time in years for two concerts, including one with The Zombies at the Fillmore New York. In December 2009 they traveled to Spain for the Purple Weekend festival.

In 2014, The Blues Magoos released their first new album in over 40 years, titled "Psychedelic Resurrection". A Nationwide tour was scheduled to follow.

Although they were only "one hit wonders", Blues Magoos, with their electric suits and giant, onstage lava lamps, are fondly remembered as a classic example of the "psychedelic" music era.

The Blues Magoos were famed for their Diana Dew-designed electric suits; the lights grew brighter as the music’s intensity increased.

tracks 1-7 from the Psychedelic Lollipop LP

tracks 8-12 from the Electric Comic BooK LP

tracks 13-19 from the Basic Blues Magoos LP

tracks 20-21 non Lp singles releases

tracks 22-24 from the Psychedelic Resurrection LP

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VENUSIAN RETROGRADE

December 26, 2015, 12:00 am

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Venus Retrograde

A retrograde planet means it looks like it's going backwards in the sky for a time, although this is physically based on an optical illusion.

A nice collection of progressive rock tunes from the first major waves of musicians that projected these astral journeys on our open ears. Dragon art imposed on the above image is a Roger Dean creation. Dean's art would blanket so many progressive album covers.

01 emerson. lake and palmer - peter gunn theme

02 captain beyond - distant sun

03 babe ruth - wells fargo

04 gravy train - staircase to the day

05 pavlov's dog - it's all for you

06 octopus - restless night

07 the nice - america

08 barclay james harvest - child of the universe

09 intergalactic touring band - robot salesmen

10 atomic rooster - tomorrow night

11 odin - tribute to frank

12 camel - freefall

13 curved air - back street luv

14 caravan - surprise surprise

15 paladin - give me your hand

16 rare bird - dollars

17 family - burlesque

18 van der graaf generator - my room(waiting for wonderland)

19 budgie - flowers in the attic

20 pink floyd - a pillow of sand

21 t-rex - slider

22 stawbs - shine on silver sun

23 the flock - big bird

24 king crimson - moonchild

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SONIC HOLOGRAMS

December 27, 2015, 12:00 am

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01 theme of the bginning - a fleeting glance

02 egyptian kings - brainticket

03 tell me - camel

04 sunrise to sunset - pelican

05 a house of hopes and dreams - peter sinfield

06 we..are through - scorpion

07 earthbound future past - absolute elsewhere

08 grandma's lawn - caravan

09 dawn - the damnation of adam blessing

10 death walks behind you - atomic rooster

11 iceberg - rare bird

12 inca roads - frank zappa & the mothers of invention

13 prehistoric sound - osage tribe

14 the river - octopus

15 eclipse - john wetton, peter banks & tony kaye

16 free hand - gentle giant

17 starbright starlight - gravy train

18 get one together - paladin

19 warrrior - wishbone ash

20 the vanilla queen - golden earring

21 zero time - dark

22 walking on air - king crimson

23 sweet dreams - captain beyond

24 round and round - strawbs

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PROGRESSIVE PROJECTIONS

December 28, 2015, 12:30 am

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The Blues project had an interesting history and gave rise to other interesting bands as it moved along in it's own mediocre history.
The Blues Project was a short-lived band from the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City that was formed in 1965 and split up in 1967. While their songs drew from a wide array of musical styles, they are most remembered as one of the earliest practitioners of psychedelic rock, as well as one of the world's first jam bands, along with the Grateful Dead.

In 1964, Elektra Records produced a compilation album of various artists entitled The Blues Project which featured several white musicians from the Greenwich Village area who played acoustic blues music in the style of black musicians. One of the featured artists on the album was a young guitarist named Danny Kalb, who was paid $75 for his two songs. Not long after the album's release, however, Kalb gave up his acoustic guitar for an electric one. The Beatles' arrival in America earlier in the year signified the end of the folk and acoustic blues movement that had swept young America in the early 1960s. The ensuing British Invasion was the nail in the coffin. Seeing the writing on the wall, Kalb gave up acoustic blues and switched to rock and roll, as did many other aspiring American musicians during this period.

Danny Kalb's first rock and roll band was formed in the spring of 1965, playing under various names at first, until finally settling on the Blues Project moniker as an allusion to Kalb's first foray on record. After a brief hiatus in the summer months of 1965 during which Kalb was visiting Europe, the band reformed in September 1965 and were almost immediately a top draw in Greenwich Village. By this time, the band included Danny Kalb on guitar, Steve Katz (having recently departed the Even Dozen Jug Band) also on guitar, Andy Kulberg on bass and flute, Roy Blumenfeld on drums and Tommy Flanders on vocals.

The band's first big break came only a few weeks later when they auditioned for Columbia Records, and failed. The audition was a success, nevertheless, as it garnered them an organist in session musician Al Kooper. Kooper had begun his career as a session guitarist, but that summer, he began playing organ when he sneaked into the "Like a Rolling Stone" recording session on Bob Dylan's seminal album Highway 61 Revisited. In order to improve his musicianship on the new instrument, Kooper joined the Blues Project and began gigging with them almost immediately.

Soon thereafter, the Blues Project gained a record contract from Verve Records, and began recording their first album live at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village over the course of a week in November 1965. While the band was known for their lengthy interpretations of blues and traditional rock and roll songs (making them, along with the Grateful Dead, rock's first "jam band"), their first album saw them rein in these tendencies because of record company wariness as well as the time restrictions of the vinyl record.

Entitled simply Live At the Cafe Au Go-Go, the album was finished with another week of live recordings at the cafe in January 1966. By that time, vocalist Tommy Flanders had left the band and was not replaced. As a result, Flanders appears on only a few of the songs on this album.

The album was a moderate success and the band toured America to promote it. While in San Francisco in April 1966, during the height of the city's Haight-Ashbury culture, the Blues Project played at the Fillmore Auditorium to rave reviews. Seemingly New York's answer to the Grateful Dead, even members of the Grateful Dead who saw them play were impressed with their improvisational abilities. (SOURCE: "Rock Family Trees" TV show.)

Returning to New York, the band recorded their second album and first studio album in the fall of 1966, and it was released in November. Arguably better than their first album, Projections was certainly more ambitious than their first album, boasting an eclectic set of songs that ran the gamut from blues, R&B, jazz, psychedelia, and folk-rock. The centerpiece of the album was an 11-and-a-half minute version of "Two Trains Running", which, along with other songs on the album, showed off their improvisational tendencies. One such song was the instrumental, "Flute Thing", written by Kooper and featuring Kulberg.

Soon after the album was completed, though, the band began to fall apart. Al Kooper quit the band in the spring of 1967, and the band without him completed a third album, Live At Town Hall. Despite the name, only one song was recorded live at Town Hall, while the rest was made up of live recordings from other venues, or of studio outtakes with overdubbed applause to feign a live sound.

The Blues Project's last hurrah was at the Monterey International Pop Festival held in Monterey, California, in June 1967. By this time, however, half the original line-up was gone and most of their early magic was, too. Al Kooper had formed his own band and played at the festival as well, but no sort of reunion was in the offing. Guitarist Steve Katz left soon thereafter, followed by founder Danny Kalb. A fourth album, 1968's Planned Obsolescene, featured only drummer Roy Blumenfeld and bassist Andy Kulberg from the original lineup. Upon the album's completion, the Blues Project called it quits.This 4th LP was indeed the newly formed Seatrain fulfilling the contract obligation of the Blues Project

In 1968, Al Kooper and Steve Katz joined forces once again to fulfill a desire of Al Kooper's to form a rock band with a horn section. The resulting band was Blood, Sweat & Tears. While Kooper led the band on its first album, Child Is Father to the Man, he did not stick around for any subsequent releases. Katz, on the other hand, remained with the band into the 1970s.

The Blues Project, with a modified lineup, reformed briefly in the early 1970s, releasing three further albums: 1971's Lazarus, 1972's The Blues Project, and 1973's The Original Blues Project Reunion In Central Park (which featured Al Kooper but not Tommy Flanders). These albums did little to excite the public, however.

Blues Project

AL KOOPER
STEVE KATZ
ROY BLUMENFELD
ANDY KULBERG
DANNY KALB

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PHILLY THING

December 29, 2015, 12:30 am

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BAND:
Roy Blumenfeld - drums, vocals
Danny Kalb - lead guitar, vocals
Steve Katz - guitar, harp, bass, tambourine, vocals
Al Kooper - keyboards, guitar, vocals
Andy Kulberg - bass, flute

As a repost this is an untracked show- one complete file.

SETLIST:
01. louisiana blues
02. steve's song
03. you go, i'll go with you
04. spoonful
05. violets of dawn>>alberta
06. i can't keep from crying
07. honey bee
08. flute thing
09. wake me, shake me
10. two trains running

As always your comments and feedback are welcome and appreciated !

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SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS

December 30, 2015, 12:01 am

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Spirit .... April 22, 1986 (2 Sets)
Westport Playhouse, St. Louis, Missouri
A great sounding and interesting show from St Louis
Fortunately I got to see this show.

Randy California- Guitar & Lead Vocals
Ed Cassidy - Drums
Scott "The Reverend" Monahan - Keyboards, Harmonica & Lead Vocals*
Dave Waterbury - Bass & Lead Vocals**

Set List:

Disc One: (42:00m; First Set):
01. Romance In Time
02. Mr. Skin
03. Nature's Way
04. Island Of Roses
05. Shadows*
06. Like A Rolling Stone
07. 1984
08. Fresh Garbage

Disc Two: (53.25m; Second Set):
01. Body For Sale
02. Animal Zoo
03. Dark Eyed Woman
04. Sweet Child*
05. Here Comes Joanie**
06. Prelude - Nothin' To Hide
07. It's All The Same>
08. I Got A Line On You (cut)
09. I Got A Line On You (end)
10. Black Satin Nights
11. Miss This Train>
12. Workin' In St. Louis

Re-posted by request

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HOLY MEN

December 30, 2015, 3:00 pm

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A nice quality show from the short SON OF SPIRIT tour. It includes "Holy Man" and "The Other Song" from that album, which were rarely performed after this tour. It also has a nice version of "Elijah", also rarely performed after the original band broke up in 1971. John Locke rejoined the band for this tour but did not play on that particular LP.His presence is absolutely felt with the Elijah track(which he composed)

Disc One (Time: 44:03m):
01. Holy Man
02. The Other Song
03. Veruska
04. Nature's Way
05. Hey Joe
06. Fresh Garbage
07. 1984
08. So Little Time To Fly
09. Guide Me
10. Victim Of Society

Disc Two (Time: 39:09m):
01. Like A Rolling Stone
02. It's All The Same>
03. I Got A Line On You
04. Dark Eyed Woman
05. Elijah

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ATMOSPHERIC MACHINERY

December 31, 2015, 2:00 am

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01 welcome to the machine - pink floyd

02 lost in my dream - spooky tooth

03 mediterreanan c - richard wright

04 voices in the sky - moody blues

05 a new day yesterday - jethro tull

06 to play your little games - cressida

07 turquoise - babe ruth

08 time machine - beggar's opera

09 travelling lady - manfred mann's chapter 3

10 i don't know - may blitz

11 let it happen - vangelis papathanassiou

12 borne on the solar wind - jade warrior

13 nothing at all - gentle giant

14 midnight moses - the sensational alex harvey band

15 indian monsoon - chris wood

16 lord of the ages - magna carta

17 no time to live - traffic

18 napoleon bona-parts 1 & 2 - budgie

19 flying anchors - art

20 lady in black - uriah heep

21 over the green hills part one- free

22 suite in c - mcdonald & giles

23 siege of yaddlethorpe - amazing blondel

24 lucky man - emerson. lake & palmer

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ALL THAT GLITTER... MUST BE GLAM

December 31, 2015, 2:00 pm

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I can think of no better time to visit this subject than New Year's Eve.

In the years of 1971-1975 the UK music scene exploded with a new look at rock and roll....Glam Rock ! It seemed as though this explosion of glitter was a rocking response to the advent of disco, There were countless artists in England that adapted to this trend and made it a successful and popular style of music, As popularity grew the genre began to spread into other parts of the world and into different forms of music Rockers as Kiss, and Alice Cooper began to paint up!! Punkers and new wavers began to jump in the mix and the heavy metal "hair"bands began their responses. While the original concept was successful the genre began to saturate itself and that original style began to fade away. The early works of Sweet, Wizzard, T-Rex and David Bowie seemed to be the backbone of the first wave. Then even Bowie himself began to dilute the style himself. Here's a variety of the better Glam Rock tunes,

Musically glam rock was very diverse, varying between the simple rock and roll revivalism of figures like Alvin Stardust to the complex art rock of Roxy Music, and can be seen as much as a fashion as a musical subgenre. Visually it was a mesh of various styles, ranging from 1930s Hollywood glamour, through 1950s pin-up sex appeal, pre-war cabaret theatrics, Victorian literary and symbolist styles, science fiction, to ancient and occult mysticism and mythology; manifesting itself in outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots. Glam is most noted for its sexual and gender ambiguity and representations of androgyny, beside extensive Glam rock emerged from the English psychedelic and art rock scenes of the late 1960s and can be seen as both an extension of, and reaction against those trends

A lyric from the Burton Cummings' song Glamour Boy sums up the scenario very nicely...

"For $35,000 a night you can dress like a woman tonight

for $35.000 I think it will work out right"

So a have a Happy New's Years Eve and spread a little glitter around the world and maybe it will brighten our dimly lit planet!

01 the ballroom blitz - sweet

02 my coo ca choo - alvin stardust

03 ziggy stardust - david bowie

04 see my baby jive - roy wood & wizzard

05 virginia plain - roxy music

06 crazy little thing called love - queen

07 looking for a kiss - new york dolls

08 the jean genie - david bowie

09 waterloo - doctor & the mechanics

10 hollywood blvd - neil merryweather

11 mama weer all crazee now - slade

12 rock on - david essex

13 don't touch me there - tubes

14 vicious - lou reed

15 tiger feet - mud

16 20th century boy - t-rex

17 all the young dudes - mott the hoople

18 angel fingers - roy wood & wizzard

19 burning love - doctor & the mechanics

20 rock & roll pts 1&2 - gary glitter

21 bang-a-gong (get it on) - t-rex

22 walk on the wild side - lou reed

23 lola - kinks

24 glamour boy - guess who

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SMOKE LOVER BLUES

January 2, 2016, 7:11 am

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01 waffle house blues - cowslingers

02 southhamton blues - iguana

03 sunflower blues - henry vestine

04 whitehouse blues - muleskinners

05 bert's blues - donovan

06 yer blues - rolling stones

07 lazy day blues - blues image

08 jelly jelly blues - blues project

09 moanin"the blues - ronnie wood & ronnie lane

10 repossession blues - dominic troino

11 lost austin blues - shiva's headband

12 columbus stockade blues - plum nelly

13 bladerunner blues - vangelis

14 christmas blues - canned heat

15 blues at midnight - candymen

16 big belly blues - brunning hall sunflower blues band

17 werewolf blues - guana batz

18 rock coast blues - country joe & the fish

19 radar blues - chris corner

20 bell bottom blues - derek & the dominos

21 gyt bucket blues - dr john

22 flying saucer blues - joy of cooking

23 hunger blues - fugs

24 wasted union blues - it's a beautiful day

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FISH FAMILY REUNION

January 4, 2016, 9:00 pm

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In 1977 the original lineup reformed for a slight reunion as such.

Tracks

Come To The Reunion (Hirsch)
Time Flies By (McDonald)
Stateline, Nevada (Melton)
Love Is A Mystery (Melton)
Dirty Claus Rag (McDonald / McDonald / Charters / Marsh)
Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine (II) (McDonald)
Thunderbird (McDonald)
Gibson's Song (Bennet Cohen)
No One Can Teach You How To Live (Melton)
Insufficient Funds (Barthol / Marsh)
Dreams (Cohen / Richardson)

Musicians

Country Joe McDonald - acoustic guitar, harmonica (on Insufficient Funds), trombone (on Stateline, Nevada), vocals
Barry Melton - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, dobro, synthesizer (on No One Can Teach You To Live), vocals
David Bennett Cohen - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Bruce Barthol - bass, vocals (on Insufficient Funds)
Gary 'Chicken' Hirsh - drums, percussion, sandblocks (on Dirty Claus Rag)
John Otis - congas
Sam Charters - jug (on Dirty Claus Rag)
Jim Price - horns
Bobby Keyes - horns
Trevor Lawrence - horns
Steve Madaio - horns

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BILLY'S BIG FISH

January 5, 2016, 7:00 pm

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Band Members: Garth Weber - Lead Guitar, David Margen - Bass Guitar, Bill Kreutzmann - Drums,
Barry Flast - Keyboards, Vocals, Matthew Kelly - Harmonica, Guitar, Vocals

Kingfish is an American rock band led by Matthew Kelly, a musician, singer, and songwriter who plays guitar and harmonica. Kelly co-founded Kingfish in 1973 with New Riders of the Purple Sage bass player Dave Torbert and fellow San Francisco Bay Area musicians Robbie Hoddinott, Chris Herold, and Mick Ward. However, Ward died in a car accident later that year.
In 1974, Kingfish became more well known, and signed their first record contract, after Grateful Dead member Bob Weir, a long time friend of Kelly's, joined the band. (Kelly had previously been a guest musician on the Grateful Dead album Wake of the Flood.) Weir toured with Kingfish and was a band member on their first two albums, Kingfish and Live 'N' Kickin'. When the Dead started touring again in 1976, Weir left Kingfish. (Kelly later appeared on the Grateful Dead albums Shakedown Street and The Closing of Winterland, and on Weir's album Bobby & the Midnites. In 1995 he became a founding member of Weir's band Ratdog.)
The lineup of the band continued to change, with Kelly and Torbert remaining at the core. Then, in 1980, Kingfish disbanded. Dave Torbert died in 1983.
Starting in 1984, Kingfish would regroup from time to time and go on tour with a gradually evolving lineup of musicians led by Matthew Kelly.1985 has the band joined by drummer Billy Kreutzman from the Grateful Dead (In 1987, Kelly also released a solo album called A Wing and a Prayer.) In 1999 Kingfish released a new studio album, Sundown on the Forest, recorded over a period of several years with different combinations of musicians, including Bob Weir.

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HARPOON MAGIC

January 7, 2016, 1:33 pm

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A Wing And A Prayer

Matt Kelly

Initial release : 1985

Matthew Kelly began his musical career in the late 1960s, playing harmonica with some well known blues artists, including Mel Brown, Champion Jack Dupree, Johnny Lee Hooker, and T-Bone Walker.

During this period, Kelly was also involved in the burgeoning rock music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. He played electric guitar and harmonica in several different psychedelic rock bands, along with fellow South Bay musicians Dave Torbert and Chris Herold.

Subsequently, Kelly lived in England for a number of months, and was a member of the rock band Gospel Oak. Upon his return to California, he renewed his association with Dave Torbert, who was then playing bass in the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Kelly would also sometimes hang out with a boyhood friend of his, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. During this period Kelly occasionally performed as a guest musician with the New Riders or the Dead. He appeared on one track of the 1973 Dead album Wake of the Flood.

In 1973, Torbert left the New Riders of the Purple Sage, and he and Kelly formed the band Kingfish, along with Chris Herold, Robbie Hoddinott, and Mick Ward. In 1974, the Grateful Dead went on hiatus, and Weir became a full time member of Kingfish, recording and performing with the band extensively. In 1976, the Dead started touring again, and Weir left Kingfish. Kingfish continued playing many live dates, occasionally with Weir in the lineup, and released several more albums. In 1978, Kelly played on a few tracks of the Grateful Dead album Shakedown Street. He also played on several songs at the December 31, 1978 Dead show that was later released on CD and DVD as The Closing of Winterland.

Kingfish disbanded, for a time, in 1980. In 1981, Kelly became one of the original members of Bob Weir's band Bobby and the Midnites, and appeared on the band's self-titled first album, along with Brent Mydland, Billy Cobham, Alphonso Johnson, and Bobby Cochran. In 1983, Dave Torbert died. The following year, Matt Kelly reformed Kingfish. From that time on, Kelly led a gradually evolving lineup of musicians, as Kingfish intermittently toured and released live albums. In 1987, Kelly also released a solo album, A Wing and a Prayer.

In 1995, Bob Weir formed a new band, Ratdog. Kelly was an original member of that band, along with Rob Wasserman and Jay Lane. Kelly played guitar and harmonica in Ratdog until 1998.

The intermittent existence of Kingfish, led by Matthew Kelly, continues to the present time. In 1999, the band released a studio album, Sundown on the Forest. They have also released a number of live albums of older material.

Tracks

* Eyes Of The Night (Barry Flast)

* Mona (Bo Diddley)

* Dangerous Relations (Matt Kelly)

* Over And Over (Matt Kelly)

* Shining Dawn (Matt Kelly)

* I Got To Be Me (Sammy Davis Jnr)

* It Ain't Easy (Long John Baldry)

* Riding High (Bill Cutler)

* Next Time You See Me (Junior Parker / Sam Philips)

* Mess Around (Armet Ertugun)

* Harpoon Magic (Matt Kelly)

* If That's The Way (Matt Kelly)

Musicians

The tracks on this album were recorded at different times with a wide range of musicians. The musicians on each of the tracks are as follows.

Eyes Of The Night;

* Stan Coley - guitar

* Barry Flast - vocals

* Chris Herold - drums

* Matt Kelly - guitar, vocals

* Brent Mydland - vocals

* Colby Pollard - bass

* Rahni Rains - vocals

* J.D. & Red - synthesizer

* Bob Weir - guitar, vocals

Mona;

* Patti Cathcart - vocals

* John Cipollina - guitar

* Robbie Hoddinot - guitar

* Matt Kelly - guitar, percussion, vocals

* Dave Torbert - bass, vocals

Dangerous Relations;

* Ron Eglit - pedal steel

* Jerry Garcia - guitar

* Chris Herold - drums

* Matt Kelly - guitar

* Rahni Rains - vocals

* Dave Torbert - bass

* Bob Weir - guitar, vocals

Over and Over;

* Sam Clayton - congas

* Stan Coley - synthesizer

* Robbie Hoddinot - guitar

* Nicky Hopkins - piano

* Matt Kelly - guitar

* Brent Mydland - vocals

* Mark Nielsen - drums

* Dave Torbert - bass

* Bob Wright - organ

Shining Down;

* Fred Campbell - bass

* Patti Cathcart - vocals

* Stan Coley - synthesizer

* Barry Flast - vocals

* Robbie Hoddinot - guitar

* Nicky Hopkins - piano

* Matt Kelly - guitar, harmonica, vocals

* Bill Kreutzmann - drums

* Brent Mydland - vocals

I Got To Be Me;

* Patti Cathcart - vocals

* Dave Fogal - piano

* Robbie Hoddinot - guitar

* Matt Kelly - guitar, slide guitar

* San Mateo Baptist Church Choir - vocals

* Jerry Miller - guitar

* Scotty Quick - guitar

* Dave Torbert - bass

* Bob Wright - organ

It Ain't Easy;

* Michael Bloomfield - guitar

* Patti Cathcart - vocals

* Dave Fogal - piano

* Matt Kelly - harmonica

* Jerry Martini - horns

* Jerry Miller - guitar

* Scotty Quick - guitar

* Rahni Rains - vocals

* Dave Torbert - bass

* Bob Wright - organ

Riding High;

* Patti Cathcart - vocals

* Bill Cutler - vocals

* Ron Eglit - pedal steel

* Jerry Garcia - guitar

* Matt Kelly - guitar, harp, vocals

* Rahni Rains - vocals

* Dave Torbert - bass

* Mick Ward - piano

* Bob Weir - guitar, vocals

* Bob Wright - organ

Next Time You See Me;

* Mel Brown - guitar

* Michael Bloomfield - guitar

* Robbie Hoddinot - guitar

* Matt Kelly - vocals

* Jerry Martini - horns

* Jerry Miller - guitar

* Mark Naftalin - piano

* Mike O'Neil - slide guitar

* Dave Torbert - bass

Mess Around;

* Patti Cathcart - vocals

* Bobby Cochran - guitar

* Chris Herold - drums

* Matt Kelly - guitar, harmonica, vocals

* Dave Torbert - bass, vocals

* Mick Ward - piano

Harpoon Magic;

* Buddy Cage - pedal steel

* Patti Cathcart - vocals

* Keith Godchaux - piano

* Matt Kelly - harmonica

* David Nelson - guitar

* Rahni Rains - vocals

* Dave Torbert - bass, vocals

If That's The Way;

* Stan Coley - guitar

* Nicky Hopkins - piano

* Matt Kelly - guitar, harmonica, vocals

* Brent Mydland - vocals

* Dave Torbert - bass, vocals

* Bob Wright - organ

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K-SHE ST.LOUIS

January 8, 2016, 4:00 am

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I received a request for one of the volumes from the KSHE seies. I looked back and seen that it had been awhile since they wer updated so I figured I would redo all 5 volumes

As a young man growing up in the St.Louis area I was fortunate enough to be around for the birth of One of the first underground stations in the U.S. It is common knowledge that the underground radio format was born in San Francisco at KMPX by Tom Donahue and his group. Later it became even more prominent through KSAN. But an underground station In the Mid West? This station rivaled it's east and west coast sisters in every aspect. Amazingly while the others passed on KSHE continued on adapting and becoming even more prominent. They started as a true underground station and in late 69 early 70 began to move to the progressive rockers eventually playing heavier rock and roll. They still are on the air today over 45 years later. I do not care for their harder rock format but alas that is just the older hippie in me.
The picture posted is of Ruth Hutchinson, promoted as the worlds oldest rock and roll DJ She hosted a show called the KSHE Klassics and played music that the St Louis area deemed as classic songs .Ruth was 80 at that time The KSHE klassic show still airs on the radio station. I have put together some tunes from that time frame.
KSHE originally played lighter, female-oriented rock when it first started operating in 1961 as KSHE (Hence, the reason for the SHE in KSHE). In 1967 KSHE changed their music forever. They didn't use top 40 hits and upbeat DJs; they played the type of music that is now known as AOR(album orientated rock). Many bought their first FM radios because of this station. Now, the station is so powerful, some can get reception as far north as Springfield, IL, mainly in truck radios. This is a two-hour drive and approximately 120 miles away. Sweet Meat, the pot smoking Pig is their slogan to this day (though he has kicked his marijuana habit), along with KSHE95 REAL ROCK RADIO. The first song played on KSHE95 was White Rabbit. During the 1970s and early 1980s, KSHE was influential in the growth of many midwestern bands (such as Styx, REO Speedwagon and Head East) as well as playing the album and progressive rock of that era. KSHE had a wide and varied play list, which popularized such rock artists as Lake from Germany and Stingray from South Africa as well as playing the classics from the more well-known rock legends.
KSHE also played free form and would sometimes play up to four hours nonstop until they got into trouble with the FCC.
Because FM radio during these years provided flexibility that the AM stations
usually didn't allow, KSHE would frequently play concept albums in their entirety, as well as entire album sides from favorites such as Rush - "2112". Sunday evenings are dedicated to playing seven albums from seven different artists on a show called the "Seventh Day". The albums usually were played from 7:00 PM until somewhat after midnight. The "Seventh Day" concept was later used by other stations around the country.
KSHE, one of the oldest continually operating rock stations in the United States, celebrated its 48th birthday as a rock station in November, 2015

KSHE Klassics volume 1

01 one fine morning - lighthouse
1a aircheck
02 go back - crabby appleton
03 how long (has this been goin'on) - ace
04 scorchingbeauty - iron butterfly
05 who's behind the door - zebra
5a aircheck -ruth hutchinson
06 as i look into the fire - heartsfield
07 sufficently breathless - captain beyond
08 round and round - strawbs
09 from a dry camel - dust
10 i'm the light - blue cheer
11 neverbeen any reason - head east
12 two hangmen - mason profit
12a aircheck -ruth
13 the last illusion - jf murphy & salt
14 oh well - fleetwood mac
15 touch my soul - micheal finnely
16 the city - mark-almond
17 in the court of the crimson king
18 i'm not in love - 10cc
18a - aircheck - ruth
19 be with me - butts band
20 hocus pocus - focus
21 nostradamas - al stewart
22 while you were out - pavlov's dog
23 the ultimate prophecy - jd blackfoot
24 as far as you can see(as much as you can feel) - gypsy

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Formed in London in 1969, Gospel Oak, a band of American expats (including future Kingfish leader Matthew Kelly), was unable to gig in the UK due to work permit issues, so the group focused instead on rehearsing and writing an album. Gospel Oak appeared in the autumn of 1970, by which time the band had returned to the US. A superb blend of folk, pop, blues, rock, and country influences, it has a growing cult reputation

01 Brown Haired Girl

02 Common Expression

03 Recollections Of Jessica

04 Big Fat White Man

05 South Beach

06 Why We Came

07 Go Talk To Rachel

08 O.K. Sam

09 St. Anne's Pretension

John Rapp - vocals, rhythm guitar, bass guitar

Bob Le Gate - lead guitar, vocals

Matthew Kelly - harmonica, percussion guitar

Gordon Huntley - pedal steel guitar

Cliff Hall - piano, organ

Kerry Gaines - drums, percussion

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KSHE Klassics Vol.2

01 Grand Funk Railroad - I Can Feel Him In The Morning

02 Nektar - Questions And Answers

03 Gypsy - Antithesis

04 Spooky Tooth - Evil Woman

05 Yes - America

06 Neil Merryweather - Hollywood Boulevard

07 Aprodite's Child - The System-Babylon

08 Rare Bird - Sympathy

09 Leo Kottke - Pamela Brown

10 Jake Jones - Trippin'Down A Country Road

11 Ozark Mountain Daredevils - If You Wanna Get To Heaven

12 Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf

13 Ambrosia - Holdin' On To Yesterday

14 Billy Thorpe - Children Of The Sun

15 Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride

16 The Move - Feel Too Good

17 The Amboy Dukes - Scottish Tea

18 Country Joe McDonald - Hold On It's Coming

19 Be a woman - Illinois Speed Press

20 King Crimson - Epitaph

21 The Lemon Pipers - Through With You

22 The Tubes - Don't Touch Me There

23 Pavlov's Dog - Late November

24 Trapeze - You Are The Music

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A somewhat rough but none the less a great documentation of live music from a very short lived SF - Berkeley band. Thanks to the original poster for this little piece of work.

Mad River - Live & Unreleased 1967/1968
Dr. Sunday's Medicine Show, Peoples Park,
Santa Clara, October 8th 1967.

Intro
Wind Chimes +
Snitson @
The War Goes On *^

1967 Demos.

Jerry's Tune
You Just Don't Leave Her
Timothy
Wind Chimes

Antioch College, June 1966.

Lovin Cup
I Just Want To Make Love To You
A Man Like Me Set

Bonus Track.....San Francisco International Pop Festival
Alameda County Fairgrounds, CA, USA
26 October 1968

Bio from Acid,Fuzz,and Flowers....

This unique band were fronted by Lawrence Hammond, who was born in Berkeley, but spent much of his childhood in Nebraska. Bluegrass music was his main musical influence. The band was formed by Hammond (harp, vcls) and a series of fellow medical students (Robinson (gtr), Manning (bs), and Dewey (drms)), who all attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. They were originally known as The Mad River Blues Band - Mad River being a small tributary of the Ohio. The band, minus Manning, then moved to Washington D.C. for a while. In this period they began to write their own material and secured gigs at very disreputable dives. They then returned to Yellow Springs where Manning rejoined the band and Rick Bochner was added on guitars. In the Spring of 1967 the band quit college, headed for San Francisco, and soon became based in Berkeley. Soon afterwards Sam Silver, a friend of Ed Denson, manager of Country Joe and the Fish, became their manager. Consequently, they secured a number of gigs with The Fish. The band were befriended by Lonnie Hewitt and in 1967 recorded their legendary Wind Chimes (EP) on his Wee label (10021). It's an interesting record, not easy to obtain, which contains an early version of Amphetamine Gazelle (simply called Gazelle on the EP), Wind Chimes and Orange Fire. The first two are on the first album. Orange Fire is a non-LP track.

By the end of 1967 they had played a number of Fillmore and Avalon gigs and were signed to Capitol along with The Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Steve Miller Band. Their debut album was issued in 1968. Extremely uncommercial it was particularly noteworthy for Lawrence Hammond's distinctive quavering vocals and some superb interweaving acid guitar work (particularly on The War Goes On and Eastern Light. It has later transpired that during its making the recording and playback speeds were not the same - so everything came out higher and faster than they had played it!

Prior to the recording of their second album, Manning left the band and they got a new manager, Harry Sobol. They also asked Jerry Corbitt (of The Youngbloods), an acquaintance from their Yellow Spring days, to produce it. The album was an amalgam of different styles - short country rock tracks like Paradise Bar and Grill, Love's Not The Way To Treat A Friend and Cherokee Queen appear alongside a couple of long acid influenced tracks, Leave Me Stay and Academy Cemetery. This album was greeted with more enthusiasm than their debut by the critics, but Capitol did nothing to promote it and did not release it in Britain.

Inevitably, then, Mad River split up in 1968. Bochner went to run a homestead in Canada. Dewey worked on Jerry Corbitt's first album and later had a spell with Country Joe and the Fish, Grootna, Eggs Over Easy and Bodacious D.F.. Robinson became a building contractor and Manning did occasional work for him and some session work.

Lawrence Hammond later formed The Whiplash Band, a bluegrass/country music outfit. Supported by this outfit (Alan Lane (bs), Janet Bryson (vcls), Al McShane (drms), and James Louis Parber (lead gtr)), Hammond recorded a country rock album Coyote's Dream (Takoma C 1047) in 1976. Fellow Mad River members, Dewey and Robinson also made guest appearances on the album.

As tor Mad River - their output is essential for any collector of psychedelia.

(Vernon Joynson / Max Waller / Stephane Rebeschini)