genre: rock
country: canada
quality: lossless (wv, cue, log, booklet scans)
time: 41'50" size: 272 mb
misc.: 2000
Side one
1. "American Woman" 5:10
2. "No Time" 3:50
3. "Talisman" 5:10
4. "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" 4:54
Side two
5. "969 (The Oldest Man) (instrumental)" 3:00
6. "When Friends Fall Out" 3:03
7. "8:15" 3:20
8. "Proper Stranger" 4:04
9. "Humpty's Blues/American Woman (Epilogue)" 6:10
2000 re-issue bonus track:
10. "Got to Find Another Way" 2:50
Burton Cummings – vocals, guitar, piano, organ, flute, keyboards
Randy Bachman – guitar, tambourine, vocals
Jim Kale – bass, vocals
Garry Peterson – drums, percussion, vocals
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genre: soft
country: canada
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans)
time: 34'02" size: 210 mb
"Bus Rider" – 2:57
"Do You Miss Me Darlin'?" – 3:55
"Hand Me Down World" – 3:26 (#10 Can.)
"Moan For You Joe" – 2:39
"Share the Land" – 3:53 (#2 Can.)
"Hang on to Your Life" – 4:09 (#5 Can.)
"Coming Down Off the Money Bag"/"Song of the Dog" (Leskiw)/(Cummings) – 3:54
"Three More Days" – 8:55
All songs written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter except as noted.
Burton Cummings – vocals, organ, piano, flute, harmonica, keyboards
Jim Kale – bass
Greg Leskiw – guitar
Garry Peterson – drums
Kurt Winter – guitar
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genre: soft
country: canada
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans)
time: 40'53" size: 264 mb
misc.: 1992
Dreams Fantasies & Nightmares:
The roots of The Guess Who lay in the Winnipeg-based group Chad Allan and The Reflections (who were also known as Chad Allan and The Expressions when a U.S. group called The Reflections had a big hit with Just Like Romeo And Juliet), who'd formed in Winnipeg in 1962. Chad Allan and The Reflections themselves had evolved out of two late fifites combos who didn't make it onto vinyl, Mickey Brown and The Velvetones and Al and The Silvertones.
Chad Allan and The Expressions recorded a cover of Johnny Kidd and The Pirates' Shakin' All Over for Quality Records in 1965, which was picked up by Scepter Record in the U.S.A.. It became a Canadian No. 1 and got to 22 in the U.S.A.. When they later released their debut album of the same name Quality Records printed Guess Who? on the cover to give the impression the group was English and this became their new name. By now Bob Ashley had left the band because of increasing nervous problems and shortly after Chad Allan left the band to return to school. His replacement was Burton Cummings, vocalist of local Winnipeg band The Deverons.
With Cummings supplying the vocals the band continued to enjoy hits with Neil Young's Flying On The Ground Is Wrong and His Girl, which got a lot of pirate airplay over here in the U.K. after being leased from Quality Records by the independent King label. It got to No. 45 and the band visited the U.K. to do a promotional tour but returned to Canada $25,000 in debt after falling out with the King label who wanted to sign them before organising a tour. Whilst here, though, they did record some songs by U.K. writers Jimmy Stewart and Jerry Langley.
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genre: psych
country: us
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans)
time: 42'23" size: 274 mb
Fuzz Acid & Flowes:
One of the very first San Francisco underground groups. The Great Society, played in the first dance organised by The Family Dogg at The Longshoreman's Hall in 1965. Thereafter, they gigged regularly at the Fillmore, the Avalon, the Matrix and Mother's. The nucleus of the group were Grace, with her unique vocals, her husband, Darby and his brother Jerry. They recorded a single for Tom Donahue's North Beach label Someone To Love. The first LP recorded live at the Matrix is of particular interest in that it contained an early version of Darby's Somebody To Love and Grace's White Rabbit which
The Jefferson Airplane were later to transform into nationwide hits. However, the record company held back its release until after the group had split and Grace had become famous. In addition to White Rabbit, Grace also wrote three other songs on the album Didn't Think So, Often As I Mayand Father Bruce (a tribute to Lenny Bruce). However, the group never made it nationally and when the nucleus of the band resolved to set off for India to learn sitar music Grace was snapped up by
The Airplane who then really began to develop. Her husband, Jerry joined another San Franscisco band,
The Final Solution.
Peter Van Gelder later played with Saddhu Brand. ~ (Vernon Joynson / Max Waller)
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