Probably the best studio recording of the group was done by Elektra
Records who sent a producer, Barry Friedman (aka Frasier Mohawk), up to
Seattle to cut some demo tracks. They thought we were a bit ahead of
the times. You won't get that from listening to "Maggie" or much of the
Jerden cuts. That company was run by a guy whose business was losing
money on recordings as a tax write-off for rich folks. He did have
enough of a soul that if an act was really good to try to sell off the
contract to a major label. He sent me to Hollywood where I met with
major labels interested. And he also cut loose Danny O'Keefe who had a
hit with "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues". I also played in Danny's
band sometimes.
Some background about some of the bands on the CD label shown on
YouTube. Crome Syrcus was a bunch of U of W fellow music students.
They went with Scientology. Talented guys though. The Bards were more
bubble gum trying to capitalize on the Paul Revere and the Raiders
popularity. P.H. Factor Jug band were dropouts from Reed College in
Portland and had an FBI entourage following them around (I noted at one
"be-in" the FBI agents were more interested in taking pictures of the
girls in bikinis than the band). Bluebird was the band of another
Seattle friend. Brave New World was headed by a guy who was in the
first band I had back in the early 1960s.
The Jerden library is owned by one of your locals Fairwood Music and I
see the listing on IMDB has been updated to mention the recording was
licensed through the Spirit Music Group. Most of the recordings made by
Jerden were demo cuts. There are some live recordings of the band
floating around that show it off much better.
On 12/13/2013 10:10 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Grace Slick and Marty Balin - both powerful singers.
You get 18 thumbs up and 0 thumbs down on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQ0HiypYf4
