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| From | "Michael Adelsheim" <madelsheim@adelsheimvineyard.com> |
| Subject | Re: Emusic help |
| Date | Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:04:53 -0700 |
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Ronald,
Thanks for writing. I totally missed the album when it came out, but
just found that Ace had issued an expanded (more bands, 26 songs).
Here's the blurb from their web-site. I figure that if I fall in love
enough with the 12-song download, I may pop for the hard copy.
"With Love: A Pot Of Flowers" was originally issued in late 1967 by
Mainstream Records. It is testament to the quality of the groups and
songs included, not to mention the A&R proclivities of Mainstream head
honcho Bob Shad - as irascibly indefatigable as anyone you might choose
in the hothouse atmosphere of the independent record business of that
era - that the album plays so well and, if you'll pardon the pun, really
grows on you. That in hindsight it also plucked four bands from within
the vortex of 1966 nascent psychedelia and places them in a historically
fascinating context, is equally remarkable. This expanded version of "A
Pot Of Flowers" includes additional material by other relevant groups
released on Brent or Mainstream from 1965 to 1967, as well as the mono
single mixes of selected tracks from the album and some unreleased cuts.
The collection was amongst the first of a swathe of rock albums that
Mainstream issued towards the end of the 1960s, the result of a
remarkable A&R odyssey conducted by Shad across the United States, in
much the same fashion as the location recording expeditions the producer
had made to the south in the late 1940s in search of blues and R&B acts.
Whether by luck or design, Shad decided to make one of his first ports
of call San Francisco, which in early 1966 was well into the honeymoon
period of its own socio-cultural renaissance, with the entire Bay Area
awash with rock'n'rollers of all shapes and sizes.
As our extensive liner note details, he had initially issued several
unsuccessful singles by Bay Area groups on both Mainstream and Brent,
but by subsequently collecting the best of these together on "A Pot Of
Flowers" he unwittingly created one of the more satisfying surveys of
the scene at the time. The acts in question were the Wildflower,
pioneering folk-rockers who were an early fixture at the Fillmore and
Avalon; San Jose's popular garage band the Otherside; legendary East Bay
punks the Harbinger Complex; and, from southern California via Texas,
the idiosyncratic Euphoria, whose pathfinding, off-beat take on
psychedelia has given the group a cult reputation.
The bonus material included on this Big Beat reissue doubles the track
list of "A Pot Of Flowers" y adding appropriate folk-rock and
proto-psych sides from other West Coast acts on Mainstream such as the
New Dawn, the Word, the Ariel and Thee Unusuals, the latter a Northwest
group featuring blue-eyed chanteuse Kathi McDonald, who would later to
take Janis' spot in Big Brother & the Holding Company (who were also
signed by Bob Shad during his California sorties). We are also proud to
include several stellar unissued garage rockers from the Ban and the
Montells, as well as the original mono singles mixes of selected tunes.
Mainstream has a particular cachet with aficionados of late 1960s psych,
and thanks to assiduous research conducted in the label's vaults, we are
proud to announce an exhaustive Mainstream pop-psych anthology
forthcoming on Big Beat. Stay tuned.
By Alec Palao
Michael Adelsheim
Director of Sales
Adelsheim Vineyard
16800 N.E. Calkins Lane
Newberg OR 97132
Ph: (503) 538-3652
Fax: (503) 538-2248
Cell: (503) 318-9359
Email: madelsheim@adelsheim.com
-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
Of Ronald Sanchez Career Records
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:53 PM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Emusic help
Otherside, "Going Down The Road" was a San Jose group. Sort of a
parallel band to Chocolate Watchband. Ned Torney and one other guy (I
want to say Danny Fay) were members of the original CW line up. A very
good band too. I saw them several times. A bit more folk rock than
Watchband. I thought they were just as good if not a little better. They
had a drummer who had the same style Bunny Carlos adopted. Shame this is
the only stuff they released, one single. Alec Palao was working on a
compilation of stuff they recorded a bit later when they were called
Bogus Thunder. Same band, but I think they discovered there were several
bands called Otherside.
I forget who else is on this album, but I think they are all Bay Area
bands.
On 7/18/10 8:57 AM, Michael Adelsheim wrote:
> I just downloaded a 1967 release on Mainstream Records. It's called "A
Pot Of Flowers" and features 4 obscure pop-psychedelic bands (at least I
- who lived and rocked through the era - had never heard of them before
now.)
>
> Adelsheim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On
Behalf Of govango
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 6:50 AM
> To: anna@tallboyrecords.com; audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Emusic help
>
> The Young Veins - Take a Vacation
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>
http://www.emusic.com/artist/The-Young-Veins-MP3-Download/12660442.html
>
> michael
>
> --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Anna Borg<anna@tallboyrecords.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Anna Borg<anna@tallboyrecords.com>
>> Subject: Emusic help
>> To: audities@smoe.org
>> Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 1:23 AM
>> I'm totally totally out of it.
>> I have to use up my 30 downloads, have absolutely nothing
>> in mind.
>>
>> Please throw a few titles at me, if you please.
>>
>> Old or new. I have spent an hour browsing and nothing
>> is working for me.
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Ronald Sanchez
Director of A&R
www.CareerRecords.com
www.Donovans-Brain.net
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