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Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 [Box set] [Original recording remastered]

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  • Audio CD (24 Sep 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B000PHX0VE
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,750 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Let's Get Together - Valente, Dino
2. I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die - Country Joe & The Fish
3. You Were On My Mind - We Five
4. Number One - Charlatans (2)
5. Can't Come Down - Warlocks (1)
See all 22 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Psychotic Reaction - Count Five
2. Got Love - Front Line (1)
3. Satisfaction Guaranteed - Mourning Reign
4. Foolish Woman - Oxford Circle
5. My Buddy Sin - Stained Glass
See all 20 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Alabama Bound - Charlatans (2)
2. Carl Street - Mystery Trend
3. Somebody To Love - Great Society
4. Superbird - Country Joe & The Fish
5. Two Days 'Til Tomorrow - Beau Brummels
See all 21 tracks on this disc
Disc: 4
1. Evil Ways - Santana, Carlos
2. Red The Sign Post - Fifty Foot Hose
3. Lemonaide Kid - Kak
4. 1982 A - Sons Of Champlin
5. How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away - Hicks, Dan & His Hot Licks
See all 21 tracks on this disc

Product Description

Uncut September 2007

"Hypnotising 77-track distillation of the Bay Area's
heyday..ignited by high voltage garage-rock, distorted electro-folk,
social commentary and mind melting acid..."


Album Description

SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS is the last word on one of popular
music's defining
regional scenes -- though as scenes go, the music it
produced is remarkably diverse. The 77 tracks heard here share little
beyond an artistic adventurousness long encouraged in the City by the Bay
(which was a magnet for free thinkers from the days of the
Beats.

Celebrating the folk-rock, garage, and psychotic reactions of such
neighboring areas as Sacramento, San Jose, Berkeley, and Sausalito. While
rarely given the respect accorded to the Dead or the Airplane, groups like
The Chocolate Watchband ("No Way Out"), Frumious Bandersnatch
("Hearts To Cry"), Butch Engle & The Styx ("Hey I'm Lost"),
and Teddy & His Patches ("Suzy Creamcheese") could easily match
their more vaunted SF brethren when it came to intensity, instrumental
skill, musical ambition, and just plain weirdness.

The summer of 1967
drew legions of flower children from all over the country to the
intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets and - following the epochal
Monterey Pop Festival -- legions of record company A&R people. The
resulting gold rush produced such nuggets as "Somebody To Love"
(performed here by Grace Slick with her original group The Great! Society),
"White Rabbit," Moby Grape's "Omaha," and Blue Cheer's
thunderous take on "Summertime Blues." Musicians, too, flocked to
the area, and the Summer Of Love disc shows such transplants as Janis
Joplin (from Texas) and Steve Miller (who'd left Chicago for 'Frisco)
entering the spotlight.

By the end of the decade, the extended
instrumental jamming of Santana, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the
Grateful Dead that for many embodied the SF rock scene finally found a
receptive home at radio when San Francisco became ground zero for freeform
FM.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a long, strange trip it's been!, 29 Oct 2007
"When the truth is found to be lies and all the joy within you dies, don`t you want somebody to love", thus sang Grace Slick then of The Great Society. Later in her illustrious career she looked back ruefully to say "This is the music that tried to change the World and failed". Grace Slick undoubtably epitomized The San Franciscan Sound of the era, inspired, passionate and of endless free spirit. Constrained by no limits.

I've been waiting for this magnificent Compilation ever since the excellent Uncut review. Is it worth the wait? Is the late Jerry Garcia a legend? There`s something about San Fran and the Bay area uniquely Cosmopolitan in U.S. Society. Perhaps it is this melting pot of cultural influences that initiates the City`s ability to attract Artists and Bohemians from all over the globe. The Beat Generation made it their spiritual home in the late 50's / early 60's with The City Lights Bookshop based there and following that, The Merry Pranksters mime troope, The Family Dog, Ken Kesey`s Psychedelic Acid Test and the Haight - Ashbury District, all spawned the Hippy Generation.

This superb Box Set traces the rise of the Bay area`s Counter Culture from Garage and Jug Band beginnings to the dominence of the City as a purveyor of Musical happenings. The legendary promoters Bill Graham and Chet Helms were behind much of the exposure afforded these bands with the Fillmore West and The Avalon Ballroom, where much of this fine music was played live to some fantastic light shows. The advertising posters produced by Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Al Kelley and Wes Wilson for many of the concerts, were superb artistic creations and have since become highly collectable. There are many fine examples of these within this 120 page booklet. This is not merely a C.D. retrospective but is more appropriately a comprehensive exploration of the whole San Francisco Scene at that time.

So what of the 77 tracks contained in this set? Many will be familiar to officianados of the period, however, careful attention has been made to find alternate takes of those songs. Everything you would expect to be included is here and much, much more. The Great Society, The Charlatans, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, Country Joe & The Fish, It`s a Beautiful Day, and ofcourse, The Airplane, Big Brother, The Dead and Santana. However, it is the lesser known luminaries who really capture the imagination here, especially Frumious Bandersnatch, Vejtables, Kak and The Sons of Champlin.

Highlights are too many to list and similarly to the other reviewers, I sincerely hope this fine set will be followed by a Los Angeles edition. Long Live West Coast Rock. If you`re looking for ideas for Christmas, look no further than this great set, then go ahead, make someones day.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hippie Heaven!, 30 Mar 2008
By James B. Spink "Jim" (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
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A collection of this type could never please everyone! Alex Palao, an Englishman who "wasn't there at the time", does a very good job of pleasing himself, however, and I'm sure many more of us at the same time. Issued to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of The Summer of Love this collection of late sixties SF sounds is a pretty representative selection of the major and minor sounds from that era.

The collection highlights more of an overall SF atmosphere than a specific unified sound and shows what a unique city San Francisco was for artists of that period. Some tracks will be over familiar and some unknown, and we could all choose some to leave out or different ones to add. Although far from perfect this is a true labour of love by someone who has done his research with great care. The CDs are loosely themed under the headings "Seismic Rumbles", "Suburbia", "Summer of Love" & "The Man Can't Bust Our Music".

The book is nothing less than sumptuous with 120 pages of rare photographs and information. Each track is reviewed in detail with recording information and pictures of the sleeves where available. The only criticism would be the way the CDs are housed in the back of the book; my discs are showing signs of scuffing from fitting at the factory. Great care would be needed handling them over a period of time.

The collection is a worthy addition to the "Nuggets" family, although the term nuggets can't be genuinely applied to a number of the tracks many of us will already own. Check out the price on Amazon's sellers as retailers such as Caiman currently offer this package for around £28, which makes it truly excellent value.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars san francisco: have you any hair left never mind the flowers, 25 Sep 2007
By GRANT CANYON "grant canyon" (out there in pysch land) - See all my reviews
What a stunning set! A beautiful package, containing mesmerising music and superb notes and fotoz. Some of the tracks are very obvious and very easily obtained, some are very obscure, but to have them all together like this set makes for a truly mind expanding experience! There are and have been a lot of similar attempts at covering the West Coast scene; this one deals with San Fran only and is spot on! Can we have a L.A. compilation now please.
Grant Canyon, ex hippie and diverse music reviewer, and beer consumer.
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