Fever Tree-San Francisco Girls

Classic! From the debut Album,1968.

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• Fever
• Tree
• san
• francisco
• girls
• psychedelic
• hippie
• rock
• 1968

[thepowderedclouds]

@rupilan this IS off the debut album from 1968, another time another place is the 2nd album from 1969, so maybe YOU should do your homework...and stop shouting.

[searayus1]

58.....unemployed.....if I knew it was going to be like this, I would have stayed back then.......pass the orange barrel please...........

[gblueslover2]

I love this tune, it's SO reminds me of SO many fine youthful memories. But I cant help but to comedically submit that the words " San Fransisco girls, with San Fransisco ways " Would take on a WHOLE new meaning today. .lol

[drdonwhill]

Gee, Mr. Kesey, your Kool-Aid is really tasty! May I get on the magic bus?

[jrmolitor]

@finylvinyl66 Not in Austin anymore. Lived there for 20+ years and spent a lot of time there in the late 60's, when the Vulcan Gas Co. (later as Armadillo World Headquarters) was alive and jumping. All of the bands in those days traveled Austin, Dallas, Houston, mostly. There were a lot of great bands out of Dallas, too. I did concert photography in the early 70's to early 80's and often wish I would have had the foresight to have done that in the late 60's when I worked at Love Street.

[finylvinyl66]

@jrmolitor So you're in Austin? Great music town - I have a friend there who's a really good blues guitarist if you're looking for one! Roky's a real legend. For me he's the American version of Syd Barrett. Your description of him seems very appropriate. 

[drdonwhill]

I understand Vivian Holtzman banged out the lyrics to this wicked psychedelic standard way back in the mid 1930's when she was a Bohemian out in the city by the bay. Wow. She must have been a proto-hippie!!! I grew up in Houston and these guys made a big splash. The hippie was dead by the end of '71, and I am so lucky to been alive then...

[jrmolitor]

@finylvinyl66 I did know Roky. He was and is a strange combo of brilliance and sadness. I haven't seen him in ages, but I do remember he and I having a very deep discussion about a dead bird on the ground at Allen's Landing in '69 . We were sitting on the green below Love Street Light Circus (they may have been playing there, but who knows...I didn't even know he was with the Elevator's when I met him) and he was dressed all in gauzy white. He's been in Austin for awhile. Yes, FZ was right!

[finylvinyl66]

@jrmolitor Lots of great music came out of Texas in the Sixties and it must have been a blast to get to know some of the musicians. Did you get to know Roky Erickson?  Frank Zappa once said that in the Sixties, the record companies were run by old men who were willing to give all types of bands a chance. But he also said that in the next couple decades, the old guys were replaced by yuppie, bottom line type guys who cared about profits and not about the music. FZ was right.

[jrmolitor]

@finylvinyl66 Yet, in spite of the competition in those days (or maybe because of it), everyone was approachable, like Johnny & Edgar Winter, 13th Floor Elevator, ZZ Top, etc. Born and raised in Houston and being 18 in the 60's gave me unique opportunities to know these people as friends. That's all they were...we went the same places, knew the same people...not realizing their stamp would be immortalized 40+ years later. Will today's "stars" be able to say the same thing in 10 years?

[jrmolitor]

@Prestostark Still got mine and even bought it on CD so I could listen to the brilliance in my car

[jrmolitor]

Simply called "Fever Tree", their first album, this is one of those rare albums where every single song is brilliant...check out Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing, Unlock My Door, Imitation Situation...Old friends in Houston and saw them more times than I could count. Never grew tired of them or their music...