Vaj wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > >> Rick Archer wrote: >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhairitu >>>> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:39 PM >>>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >>>> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Happy Birthday FFL >>>> >>>> Though the rock group I had in 1967 toured for a week with the Buffalo >>>> Springfield I didn't get to know Neil that much because he was kind of >>>> the quiet one in the group and he was also have a little problem with >>>> his epilepsy flaring up during the tour. Nice guy though, he came out >>>> one evening when we played a little extra so that Richie Furay could >>>> gain some strength (he had the flu) and raved about our band to the >>>> audience and that we probably become very famous (we didn't). >>>> >>> >>> What was your band. Ever cut an album? >> The "Magic Fern", a Seattle group. > > > Did you know your posters were selling for over 3000 USD on wolfgangs > vault? No. :) Unfortunately I don't have one of those California Hall posters. That concert didn't go so well as there was not good attendance and was the only time we played in California. However the following Monday I visited the Columbia Records offices in San Francisco where we were offered a good contract if we could get out the contract with the jerk who screwed a lot of northwest bands including the Kingsmen who recorded "Louie, Louie." I also did a radio interview with Tom Donahue on KMPX (I think those were the call letters) that night.
We did a lot of concerts with the Youngbloods. At the Yardbirds concert in Richmond, BC the backdrop caught fire while the Family Tree was playing. Fortunately they got it under control. I don't actually see the Magic Fern on the 1979 poster and I was still living in Seattle at the time, actively playing music so I would have probably been contacted for a band reunion. Earlier in the summer we played a Trips Festival at the Seattle Center and only found out a few years ago that offstage incognito Mick Jagger was watching. At another festival later that summer at the Montlake Aquatheater we were introduced by Sonny and Cher who emceed the show. Also we rented an old mansion on Queen Anne Hill as the band house and many folks including the Grateful Dead came to visit. If you've seen the Elvis Seattle World's Fair movie the scene of the fairgrounds and Space Needle was taken from the balcony of the house. We got the mansion because the owner wanted to tear it down and put a condo there. He figured letting a rock group rent it would get the neighbors up in arms and he could get his condo. He did. :)
