ROCK DIARY
Some San Francisco groups grew-up sad, some grew-up glad. Some groups wanted to grow-up to be The Lovin’ Spoonful. The rest, the sad ones, wanted to grow-up to be something strange. Some San Francisco groups grew-up liking the feature film.
ROCK DIARY
THE DREAM BANDS
Richard Robinson
Some San Francisco groups grew-up sad, some grew-up glad. Some groups wanted to grow-up to be The Lovin’ Spoonful. The rest, the sad ones, wanted to grow-up to be something strange.
Some San Francisco groups grew-up liking the feature film. In real surreal b&w. Foreign films-art films-classic cinema-the Russians: Segi Eisenstein and Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin. The others still think Mickey Mouse is a gas. And Hopalong Cassidy never went to the bathroom. Zorro; Superman; Donald Duck — you remember the rest, but do they MEAN anything to you?
The Charlatans, The Flamin Groovies, Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks, Tongue ‘N’ Groove.
Dan Hicks was never really a drummer. He’d pretend he was absent-minded (when he was really sly and foxy) and had just plumb forgotten in the middle of a song that he was playing drums and gotten up to tickle the ivories. But The Charlatans probably never noticed. You dumb fuck, HOW THE FUCK COULD THEY NOTICE SHITHEAD, they were
They were so fucking far out they’re still smilin’. They got grins cornin’ out a their ass.