It's been a while....

.....so thought I would start a thread to see if I've forgotten how.

I was reminiscing about my early years in music during the psychedelic days and recalled (and googled) an artist I'd totally forgotten about.

Do any of you remember Sandy Bull?
I only had his first album which was 'Fantasias'.
Unfortunately, my dad came home in another drunken stupor at 2am (1970), dropped a lit cigarette at the garage entrance and burned down the garage, all my vinyl collection AND all my USMC/Vietnam artifacts.....I'm still pissed and can feel my temporal arteries inflating when I think about it!

I also saw him at the 'Northern California Folk Rock Festival' in June of 1969 at the Santa Clara, Ca. Fairgrounds.
Wish I could remember more about that concert but you know how those days were....ahem.

Anyway.....hope all are doing well making music and money.

Later...

OMG......I used to have that poster!
You are a gem for posting this....I can't  believe it.

Ok...I got out of the Marine Corps on June 30, 1969 and knew that this concert was very close to my discharge.
I remember the other groups better now and I was wrong about Big Brother and realize I meant Jefferson Airplane.
It must have been the mescaline prescription.

I'm printing this out so I can really go back in time.

Thanks so much for your reply and the polite memory jog for me...ha.

EDIT:  Also...being a drummer at heart....I loved Lee Michaels but can't remember if Frosty played drums at that concert.
I saw Lee again (with Albert King) at the Fillmore West and he had some other drummer who did not measure up
to Frosty (Bartholomew Smith-Frost).  Santana and Canned Heat with Fido on drums...more of my favs. 

Katie_Katie


Here ya go...feel young again.
 

Wow...  Look at all those names and not a single rapper, MC or DJ...  How did we get so far away from this?  (*Sob!*)

CraigB.....

"How did we get so far from this".....I don't have a clue so mega'sobs' from this camp.
It was quite the line-up and Fillmore West was doing similar events with all of them.
I think FW is where I was Iron Butterfly (yes, I had "Heavy" and "Ina Gada Da Vida") but it's a bit foggy at this moment.

Thanks for chiming in...

I agree...to me....that was the inception acid/metal for lack of better contemporary pigeon hole.
Both sides were good as was all of 'Heavy'....IMO.
In listening to those 60's recordings there was always the raw, *sounds like a band performing* quality that went bye bye a long time ago.
Hard to put in words but I miss that (analog?) quality.

'The Doors'....I never saw them in concert.
'Mama's and Papas' played a gig in Vietnam but I didn't see them.

Thanks....I know I can count on you to keep my dated facts straight.

Quazelar


CraigB.....

I think FW is where I was Iron Butterfly (yes, I had "Heavy" and "Ina Gada Da Vida") but it's a bit foggy at this moment. 

Hehe... Not sure if I fully get that sentence there (though under certain 60's influence it makes perfect sense!).  I happen to have a fleeting connection to Iron Butterfly.  The band was formed in San Diego, California (where I was born) and the keyboardist who wrote In A Gadda Da Vida was named Doug Ingle.  The drummer for the very first band I was in back in the 70's was also named Doug Ingle - his son.  He and I both were in the same graduating class at the same high-school.  Unfortunately, I didn't know about Iron Butterfly back then and it wasn't long before Doug Jr. went to join a different band where he could play keys like his dad. 

Mornin' bapu....

The Doors were one of my favs so don't know how I managed to miss seeing them.

Hmmm...the 'Florida incident'....as in the lewd exposure during concert episode?
I'm shooting from the hip on that guess.

Hope all is well in So. Ca.

Bitflipper....

I wish I recalled more from those days....they were very busy band/music days for me.
Alas, those '60's post military prescriptions left me with some neuronal gaps.

After posting this I was terrified the forum would perceive it as a pre-dirt event and no one would be old enough to comment.

EDIT: Read you're profile.  We were playing clubs 5-6 nights a week until 'disco' reared it's head.  Completely changed the club scene in a few nano-seconds.

Later....

Katie_Katie


Old dirt, new dirt.   Matters little.
 
I personally believe that many musicians and/or people that have an intimate relationship with music have old souls.   Meaning, they understand, discuss, and appreciate musical eras that occured long before they were born.  Some can hold discussions is if they personally experienced eras gone by.  Music transcends generational boundaries, and is one of the reasons I love it so.

Ah, you've met my son?