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 > > http://www.emusic.com/artist/The-Young-Veins-MP3-Download/12660442.html > > michael > > --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Anna Borg wrote: > >> From: Anna Borg >> 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. >> >> >> > > > > > -- Ronald Sanchez Director of A&R www.CareerRecords.com www.Donovans-Brain.net