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Old foof music-fest

From Rhino Records, here's a new 4-CD boxed set entitled "Love is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970." The CDs are contained within a 120-page hardbound book with rare photos and essays.

There are some big hits here, but there are a lot of songs from bands which never made it outside of the Bay Area, too. Amazon has a full track list. Ed Ward reviewed it for "Fresh Air."

For flavor, here are some of the bands on Disc One:

• Dino Valenti (pre-Quicksilver)
• Country Joe & the Fish
• We Five
• Quicksilver Messenger Service
• The Beau Brummels
• The Warlocks (precursor to the Grateful Dead)
• The Great Society (from which came Grace Slick)

Disc Three includes material from:

• Moby Grape
• Big Brother & the Holding Company
• Blue Cheer
• Sly and the Family Stone
• Jefferson Airplane

Looks like a winner to me.

Posted by Linkmeister at January 8, 2008 10:14 AM | TrackBack