Light Year (S.F. 1973-75)

Yeah, I found a label to put it out called Green Tree Records out of Berlin. I contacted a bunch of labels, including Musea, but the only one that was interested was Green Tree, so we ended up doing a licensing deal with them. It should be available in the next couple of weeks or so. Most of the songs are from one live session at Wally Heider Studios in S.F., but there are a couple of tracks from a demo they made as well. I really like the album we put together, and we remastered (or I should say, we mastered it. I doubt it was mastered to begin with.) everything, so it sounds really good.

I've been saying all along that there was a lot of music in the West Coast that fits progressive and many other areas, but getting some proper names and information is a total hassle. The West Coast, it seems had no publication or anyone that had a record of these things ... and because of it a lot of music was wasted ...

 

Or as I was told one time in a show in one of the local bars over there some 30 years ago ... "this city is meant to be tasted, loved and enjoyed. You can't take it with you!" ... was someone like Clarence Gatemouth Brown or something like that ... and sadly, a lot of this stuff is also ... kinda "lost".

 

I keep trying to revive it and find it and list it ... to no avail ... I get one song, or one album and the story closes. It's weird. It's like everyone died when Donohue died and Tim was too stoned to know the difference!

 

*but too the vocals heard on Finneus Gauge's two jazz rock albums, can inhibit listening to some excellent instrumental work that lie beyond.