Clear Light "She's Ready To Be Free"

1967 promo

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Music

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• psychedelic
• west
• coast
• elektra
• Doors

[tuber3019]

I'm quite certain that Moby Grape did "Mr. Blue".

(On the album with the washboard middle finger.)

For some reason I always thought they were covering an old song, so maybe it started with Clear Light, though they were approximately contemporaries.

[ClearLight1967]

Well, Moby Grape have a track called Mr Blues on their first album, but it's a different composition to the song recorded by Clear Light is a cover of a Tom Paxton tune.

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[ClearLight1967]

Ooops that should read:

"it's a different composition to the song recorded by Clear Light which is a cover of a Tom Paxton tune."

[sadhouse]

Is this the band that had the song , how many time , to whip you into light a broken head, Something like that , its been 40 years . Great band , little spooky on acid .

From 66-69 that is the only kind of music we all listed to record , along with Fraternity of Man, sad only don't Bogart me gets played from that cool group , 13 Floor Elevators , now rediscovered and Fever Tree .

drag they never play those anymore .

[ClearLight1967]

Sure is, the track you are refering to is Mr Blue, a cover of a Tom Paxton track which was, I believe, popular with the guys fighting out in Viet Nam. You can hear it on the Clear Light album.

Fraternity of Man are way under-rated nowadays, they had some great material which was much beter than the "Bogart" tune.

Fever Tree too, four albums with some fantastic moments but really only known for their "San Franciscan Girls" 45. I wish I had some footage of those guys to upload here!

[guitargreats1]

Wasn't Doug Lubahn the Bass player on the Doors 2nd LP?

[ClearLight1967]

Yep, he played bass on Strange Days, Waiting for the Sun and some of the Soft Parade album. He has a book out - try googling for it.

[TheMoonchildiva]

Mr. Blue was a song that Bob Mosely did on the Moby Grape album, the MR. BLUE Clear Light did was a different one, wasn't it Pete Seeger's?

[ghostdog7575]

Their bass player is Doug Lubahn, the same who played "occasional bass" on the Doors studio albums...

[spookyben]

Saw this in Los Angeles when I was about 10 years old. They'd find the absolute crappiest music for hippie scenes, hilarious.

[lincbond442]

I gotta see this movie! This song was the B-side to Black Roses which I am fortunate enough to have. Thanks ebay!

[mljansson]

sand , Mr Blue...mm Mari-Louise from Sweden. soooo GOOOd

[ashetonpop]

haha James Coburn! And the drummer´s got a real Punky energy.

[MattHatter]

Well you see bigtinyretard (how can you be both by the way), this is part of a movie from 1967 with a small part featuring the L.A. band called Clear Light. I have the first and only album by the group and it's great but really underrated. If you like bands like The Doors, you might really dig Clear Light. This was filmed before they got their lead vocalist Cliff De Young.

[bigtinyretard]

what the fuck is this shit.

[Vincek88]

Thanks - I'm a slightly dustier 54 myself.

This really is a cool movie, and very much of its time, and the band of hippies are some of its most sympathetic characters.

[Khultan]

We're all gonna die one day and go back to dust. I'm 41 years in age going on the four two.