'seeds said, ''The world should know how great QMS was, otherwise it's a tragedy of omission.'' So fortunate to have grown up in the City and seen this stuff. It was a different day and different time. I think that their music and musicianship holds up today. You can't really explain what an experiance it was to see them. Those boys rocked ...

I saw Hendrix and I saw the Mothers. Did you? Zappa was an inovative composer and studio arranger. I got Zappa. He was a hundred times the musician Jimi was in my book. Just look at his scores. I don't think Jimi could even read music. Zappa was no Gil Evans, George Russell or Duke Ellington, however. The thing for me is that he didn't ...

Ok, so we laid down on the floor in the stereo listening room at Sherman Clay on LSD and listened to the first album when it was first released and delivered to the store. We were hooked and had to see them when they came to Fillmore West in early '69. It was so disapointing. Plant was so drunk that he could hardly stand up. Jimmy Page was ...

OK, here it is in a nutshell. Recordings are just a snapshot in time. Hearing, seeing it live is what it is all about. Hendrix had so much energy live that it burned an imprint into my memory. That is where the bar was set and nobody has jumped over it yet. Jimi was a true artist. Right there, it sets him apart, period. The gear that recorded ...

I'm listening to the concert that was just posted. Quicksilver was overlooked and rally undiscovered by the mainstream music machine. God, those guys were incredible. I saw them so many times. Free in the Park, at the Avalon and Fillmore West. Cipollina was a shaman, a guitar wizard. I keep saying this over and over. Recordings are just a ...

I saw Spirit many times also. I tell young players to listen to spirit and Randy California. He never got his due. They don't get it. Those guys were badd.

It's funny that you mention Neil Schon. I took clarinet lessons form his dad Matt for a couple or years for like $3.50 a half hour at the Sherman Clay Store in the Hillsdale Mall. Matt was a master musician. He could play all the woodwinds and was the music contractor/musical director for the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos if my memory serves

Uh, like '74 or '75, at Bimbo's 365 Club on Columbus with Iggy Pop and the Stooges. Un real stage show!! The tubes were way ahead of their time. These guys could play too. A shame that coke played such a heavy role in what was hip and happpin' at the time. Too many bands and musicians never made it past that.

See, I knew it... Hillsdale High, 1970 I don't remember the year, but Bill Graham's offices burned in a fire. I just don't remember the details, but wasn't it arson or something? I do remeber that he lost all kinds of memorabila and tapes and 16mm film. He filmed a lot of the stuff I remember. I thought that all that stuff was long gone and ...

The first time I knew about Janis was a black and white performance aired on KQED channel 9 in SF. I'm thinkin' '66?? I was maybe fourteen or fifteen. I had never seen any ''hippies'' before and this stuff was so raw. I had never seen any one with hair that long and dressed like freaks. My mom came in and wouldn't let us watch the end of it ...

I saw Alan Holdsworth at the legendary Keystone Korner in North Beach. It was some kind of electric fusion band with a killin' keyboard player. I remembered that he was blazing straight eighth or sixteenth notes like a horn player, except that he didn't have to breath and ran the lines right through the phrases. I just remember him smoking. Hey ...

I can remember that my brother and I sat up in the balcony, about five rows up. There were some people with about a pound of weed just rolling joints and throwing them off into the crowd or lighting them and passing them down. There were some hippies in the front row that had brought in gallon glass jugs of wine and were getting pretty wasted. ...