Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970
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Free Music Review: The Music By The Bay
Hit: 5 Stars
Lot's of reviewers have gone after Rhino Records concerning their box set releases. Sound quality, packaging, track selection of past sets have been a big issue of nasty negatives for many reviewers. Well, about this set called: "Love Is The Song We Sing"; San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, I will go on record to say that Rhino, has hit a home run here.
This is a hardcover book of 120 pages, filled with great text and some wonderful photographs of the biggest American music city of the 1960's. Packed into this insightful book are 4 amazing audio compact discs of music. All the right bands are here with only a few of my favorites missing.
From the Beau Brummels {the first SF band to recieve air-play} thro to the Youngblood's massive 1969 hit of Dino Valenti's: "Get Together", good and bad, loud and soft, this was the sixties, that I remember growin' up in, and it was the most magical place on the Planet (along with London/ Liverpool}.
Two AM radio stations were our: 'Colors.' They were 1260 KYA and KFRC. On tiny transistor radios we could listen to: The Jefferson Airplane or Moby Grape, just as often as: The Beatles or The Stones. Wild posters on storefront walls and windows in day glo, advertised dance hall concerts featuring: "The Mystery Trend" or "The Sons Of Champlin". R.Crumb was peddling a strange little 'Comix' book outta a baby's carriage on Haight Street. It was for me, at the time, the very center of The universe.
The song selection over the course of these four Discs is indeed vast, with The Dead and Quicksilver right next to The Family Tree and Public Nuisance. There are 77 selections in this collection, some bands you have heard of: "Santana" and "Steve Miller Blues Band", to some that you only knew from posters: "The Oxford Circle" and "The Mojo Men" and some groups, I sure can't remember at all: "Butch Engle & The Styx" and "Teddy And His Patches". From bands that sounded just like: The Yarbirds, as: "The Count Five" with the garage anthem: "Psychotic Reaction" to the soaring violin of David LaFlamme and It's A Beautiful Day's, classic: "White Bird". This Box/Book is quite a ride of music and history.
This box set along with the great book: "San Francisco Rock", 1965-1985, by Jack McDonough, are two sides of the same coin. Rhino Records, have really produced an enjoyable set of music and history with this excellent package. It is an honest account {with the good & the bad included} of what went down in northern California, from: 1965-1975. Some of this music drives my Wife and Kids crazy...and, that is exactly what it is supposed to do! This is not for everyone....but, if your ears still work and you are ready to expand your mind a bit sideways, over under down....this could be your: "E-Ticket" to the Magic Kingdom.
FIVE STARS !!!
Free Music Review: "WHAT EVER TRIP YOUR ON 5 Stars
An amazing collection of 77 folk, psychedelic songs. When I listen to these songs I can't help but hear how many of the more commercial successful rock bands( The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd etc.) of the time took a little something from some of these obscure tunes and bands and put it into their own recordings. San Francisco was definintly a place to spend time at to hear the fresh new psychedelic sound. The sound and times were happening in New York and just about everywhere at the time of 1965-1970. The remastering is in incredible on these tunes, even on my discman with headphones the sound is incredibly pristine. The book is incredible with photos and recording dates and amazing informative linear notes. This Box set is a collectible. I tell you, listening to this cd box set, really takes you back in time in current events and the music industry of 1965-1970. You know, when I listen to this cd set, I realize how less processed music was in the 1960s, bands made thier own music, today computers do most of the performing, I guess downloading of today takes away something from music regardless of age and genres. It is just not the same as going out and buying the old vinyl lp. I like the convience of a legal download myself, it's just when I hear these tunes I feel like I'm hearing them on the old Sears turntable. Incredible stuff, I really think this cd set should win some awards for music compilations, it's that good. If this box set interest you, you might want to take a trip with Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968 and Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from the British Empire and Beyond. A word of advice, it's nice to listen to the four cds in order, but it is better when you set your audio machine to shuffle, but of course that is your preference.Believe me this cd compilation is a nice trip to Music Review: Excellent Package
Hit: 5 Stars The 120 page hardcover book that encloses the CDs is alone worth the money. Knowledgeable (& sometimes critical) liner notes give good background of the groups & scene & music. Too many pics of Grace Slick for my taste, but there are a couple of Signe Anderson (the original female singer in the Jefferson Airplane) as well, which is nice to see. Great early photos of Country Joe/Fish (some even before Chicken Hirsch joined). The song I most wanted to hear in this set was "Let's Get Together," as performed by it's writer, Dino Valenti (AKA Chet Powers). It was great to hear it as a simple acoustic guitar accompanied folk song; the set also includes the Youngbloods cover version for the sake of comparison, so you can hear what the Youngbloods arrangement/ production added to this beautiful song. I'm not a collector of San Francisco music, per se, so most of these songs were new to me. I especially enjoyed the Great! Society's (the Slick family's group) original version of "Somebody to Love." Other great photos/songs by Janis in Big Brother, Grateful Dead (young!), as well as many obscure groups like The People (I thought they were called "The Magic People," but I guess not). A terrific all-around package!
Free Music Review: C'mon People Now ...
Hit: 5 Stars
I was growing up in New York when all this was happening. Some of it got big enough to be heard back there, but most of this is new for me, and takes me back to that feeling of a local, richly creative, wide open pre-corporate music scene. So this set captures the feeling of a time and place. And what a beautiful storm of music on these 4 discs before things became formulaic, and the feelings trite and derivative. There's something happening here and what it is ain't exactly clear (pardon the L.A. reference), but I sure wouldn't want to do without it. It's also interesting to note the explosion of women in rock, from the obvious Grace and Janis, to Bev Bivens (We Five), Jan Errico (The Vejtables The Mojo Men), Sherry Snow, and Lydia Pense to name just a few represented here. And the set is bookended beautifully, beginning with Dino Valenti's acoustic demo of Let's Get Together, and ending with The Youngbloods touching version of the same. It is a good song to convey the hopes and dreams of 60s American youth, and the naivte as well. But hey, it doesn't hurt at all, in post-election 2008, to once again feel the touch of the winds of change.Free Music Review: WoW! Go ride the music
Hit: 5 Stars
I do not have this yet but I will ASAP! I have been collecting this music since it first came out. Many of these bands I was able to see in person back in the day. The New Breed, The Oxford Circle,Kak,Country Weather and Blue Cheer were local Sacramento bands that played the City. I was able to catch these bands at the Sound Factory or Sacramento Mermorial Hall when they supported British and larger SF acts. Jefferson Airplane, The Vejtables, The Mojo Men,Country Joe and the Fish,Santana, Beau Brummels,Sly and the Family Stone I saw at the Fillmore West or Winterland.You knew that you were seeing something very special just by being there. When I moved to Santa Cruz County The Moby Grape lived nearby and I got to meet them. Great people. They did a gig for my cousin when she got burned to cover medical cost. QMS I saw in Boise ID. Wow! Dino, John, and Gary were magic together. Thanks for the memories!