" Bill Plummer- Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood-1967 US":

Bill Plummer, is a master of the String Bass. Any kind of Bass Instrument, and any style of music. Upright Bass, Contra Bass, Double Bass, Electric Bass, and East Indian Sitar, Bill Plummer has had a legendary career performing with such noted artists as The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, Willie Nelson, Ry Cooder, Pat Boone, Paul Horn, Spanky & Our Gang, Charles Lloyd, and The Jazz Corps just to name a few.

He studied under Ravi Shankar and Herman Reinshagen, principal bassist for the New York Philharmonic, and has been an instructor of String Bass, Guitar, and music theory for the last forty years.

" Bill Plummer And The Cosmic Brotherhood" is a great West Coast Psychedelic/Jazz Sitar album!!!

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"Bobby Callender - Rainbow -1968 US":

Callender is an afro American who turned to mystic and reaches himself into Indian raga, philosophies from the East. Bobby Callender really made an interesting release, loads of sitars and some very fine melodies.Originally released in 1968 by MGM, pure Eastern influenced psychedelia produced by Alan Lorber, music to be seriously stoned by.

"Rainbow" is a very personal spiritual approach with end 60's progressive foundation. The singing has deep emotions, is fragile in its mellowness. The association for listeners and for Bobby might be different. He was on his spiritual search. For us he's in a sort of musical mind-blowing experience.

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"Country Joe McDonald - Quiet Days in Clichy-1970 OST -Denmark (US)":

In Scandinavia, McDonald (co-founded and led of the US psychedelic folk/rock band Country Joe and the Fish) was contracted by film producer Knud Thorbjorsen to compose songs for a film based on Henry Miller's novel "Quiet Days In Clichy".

The songs he wrote were included on the film's soundtrack. When Grove Films attempted to import copies of the film to show in United States theaters, they were seized by customs and dubbed "obscene." Grove Films eventually won a court battle and the movie premiered in New York in 1971.

The "Young Flowers" were a Danish psychedelic band.

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"The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Vol. 2 -1967 US":

The "West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band" was an psychedelic band of the late 1960s, based in Los Angeles, California. Recorded and released in 1967, "Volume Two" was a more ambitious and coherent album, with all of the tracks credited either in whole or in part to members of the band. It featured Markley’s anti-war rant "Suppose They Give A War And No One Comes" partly based on a speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the song "Smell of Incense", featuring Morgan’s guitar work and later covered by Southwest F.O.B. (re-post by request)

Former Members:Bob Markley (vocals) Shaun Harris (bass) Danny Harris (guitar, vocals) Michael Lloyd (guitar, vocals) Ron Morgan (guitar)

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"The Seeds & Sky Saxon- Bad Part Of Town -1963-1972 US":

Sky Saxon & The Electra Fires - Do The Swim/Trouble With My Baby (1963)
Richie Marsh & The Hood - Baby Baby Baby/Half Angel (1964)
Sky Saxon & The Soul Rockers - They Say/Go Ahead & Cry (1964)
The Seeds - Bad Part of Town / Wish Me Up (1970)
The Seeds - Love In A Summer Basket / Did He Die? (1970)
The Seeds - Shuckin' And Jivin' / You Took Me by Surprise (1972)

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Sky "Sunlight" Saxon died at the age of 63

Saxon died on June 25, 2009, in an Austin, Texas hospital. He had been hospitalized with what doctors suspected was an infection of the internal organs, but the cause of death has not yet been released. He was reported to be 63 years old.

Saxon was born Richard Elvern Marsh in Salt Lake City, Utah. Different sources suggest a birth year of 1937, 1945or 1946. His widow has said that his birthday was August 20, but would not confirm the year because he believed age was irrelevant.
He began his career performing doo-wop pop tunes in the early 1960s under the name Little Richie Marsh. After changing his name to Sky Saxon, he formed the Electra-Fires in 1962 and then Sky Saxon & the Soul Rockers.

In 1965, Saxon founded the psychedelic flower power band The Seeds with Jan Savage (guitar), Rick Andridge (keyboards) and Darryl Hooper (drums).Hit songs for Saxon and the Seeds included "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" and "(You're) Pushin' Too Hard", which became a top 40 song in 1967. Saxon's singing performance has been dismissed by critics like Lester Bangs of Rolling Stone Magazine as an American imitation of Mick Jagger,while others considered it a more complicated synthesis of Jagger, Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly.

The music on the Seeds 1966 albums The Seeds and A Web of Sound has been described as "weird psychotic blues highlighting Sky's demented vocal sermonizing."

"Les McCann - Talk To The People-1972 US":

Les McCann is a soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul. Born in 1935 in Lexington, Kentucky, Les is a self-taught musician (other than the four piano lessons he took as a youth from a nice old lady who lived in the neighborhood).

In the early fifties, he left the South and joined the Navy. While stationed in California, he took every opportunity to visit San Francisco's jazz clubs, where he first experienced Miles Davis and his music. His first major influence though, was pianist Erroll Garner, who shared the same exuberance and bursting vocalizations. After his discharge from the military, McCann moved to Los Angeles and formed a trio, Les McCann Ltd., which became a favorite on the Sun Strip in the late fifties.

Les is best known for his work in the late 60s and early 70s with partner/saxman Eddie Harris, whom he first encountered at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

" Talk To The People" is the album that should be as big as Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" . Funky with deep and heavy wah wah guitar , clavinet , fuzz bass , electric piano and Les's soulful voice .

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