THE TONY BENNETTS
Hope you all had a great Valentine's Day1 Signe Toly Anderson - Chauffeur Blues - Jefferson Airplane2 Janis Joplin - Bye Bye Baby - Big Brother and the Holding Company3 Grace Slick - Sally Go Round The...
View ArticleBAY AREA MISTRESS
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...
View ArticleAUSTIN POWER PLANT
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...
View ArticleCALL ANY VEGETABLE
"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...
View ArticleWHAT TO DO
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...
View ArticleTRAFFIC JAMS
01 the streets of your town - country joe & the fish02 south street - orlons03 no 10 downing street - troggs04 love street - doors05 mason street - fireballs06 hollywood blvd - neil merriweather07...
View ArticleBLINDED
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...
View ArticleNAKED DECISION
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...
View ArticleFROM A BLIND FOX
Fox-San Francisco Session[69-70] 1.Susie S. Kalator2.Sun City3.I Can't Take It4.Keep On Livin' This Way5.I Was Alone6.Geraldine7.Parchment Farm (bonus)8.Baby,Please Don't Do (bonus)Gary...
View ArticleTURTLES 101
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...
View ArticleMISSION GOLD
"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)...
View ArticleROGER, ROBIN & THE BEAR
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...
View ArticlePUSHIN' FOR SPRING
01 fiberglass jungle - crossfires02 clearout - cream03 nut popper #1 - paul butterfield04 four hundred and five - beacon street union05 the witch doctor life- captain beefheart06 highland fling - nicky...
View ArticleCOVERED IN FUDGE
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...
View ArticleAND YOU TOUCHED THE DISTANT BEACHS
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...
View ArticleMILL VALLEY CLOVER
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...
View ArticleJAKE WHO ?
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...
View ArticleBOSSTOWN BEACON
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,...
View ArticleRICHARD NIXON'S JUKEBOX
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...
View ArticleSIX BY FOUR - BOSSTOWN
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...
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