They Made the San Francisco Sound
Oh, sure. Everybody knows about Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and Santana and how they helped bring The San Francisco Sound of psychedelic '60s rock to the rest of the world.
But what about Frumious Bandersnatch? Chocolate Watchband? The Vejtables? They may not have had the fame and the gold records, but there were dozens of bands who were just as much responsible for the birth and development of The San Francisco Sound.
Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 is a four-CD, 77 track compendium of the music of the bands, both famous and not-so, who brought us that unique brand of Bay Area rock.
Check out the photo gallery, the track list and listen to sample tracks [Online | Real Player | Windows Media Player]. Release date is September 18.
Chocolate Watchband was one of the many lesser known but influential San Francisco bands of the '60s. Photo courtesy Alex Palao.
Comments
Let us not forget about other Bay area bands like Moby Grape & The Charlatans, to name only a few!
As a matter of fact, Noel, I’m working on a feature that will run next week on that very subject. I’m up to about 30 so far!
Dave
Hey, you never mentioned my favorite, LYDIA PENSE & COLD BLOOD. They were a killer band. On hindsight, I even prefer the pipes of Lydia over Janis and Grace. Any news about them ? recordings ? how many albums did they cut ?
Hoagy, that’s one I didn’t run up on in my research. I think I may have to add them! It looks like they are still active, per their page on MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/coldbloodmusic
Thanks for posting!
Dave
Uriah Heep was a fantastic band, so was Velvet Undergroung, Vanilla Fudge, Traffic, Electric Prunes and many others. I listen to a classic rock psychdelic every day and there are some great one time wonders…. I can’t listen to the music they call rock today. I’m a 66 year old hippie and oh how I wish those days were back again…..
mistieestar
A good, heavily psychedelic band led by Wayne Ceballos called AUM recorded for Bill Graham’s Fillmore label in 1969. Worth a listen, probably only on vinyl.