Falling From The Burnside Bridge / Various Artists - Falling from the Burnside Bridge - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The story of Floating Bridge begins in the mid 1960's in Seattle. Guitarist Rich Dangel had been a member of the Wailers, the lesser known the Rooks and a late incarnation of the Time Machine. When the Time Machine split up in 1967, Dangel and bass player Joe Johnson decided to form their own band. Recruiting guitarist Joe Johansen and drummer Michael Marinelli, they became the Unknown Factor - a for-hire backing band that worked with local acts such as Patti Allen and Ron Holden. In 1968 they added former Punch singer Pat Gossan to the lineup. They became the house band at Seattle's Eagle Auditorium and gained exposure via the 1968 Sky River Rock Festival. The resulting publicity attracted the interest of L.A. based Vault Records who debuted the band with a 1968 single InchBrought Up WrongInch b/w InchWatch Your Step.Inch the single attracted enough attention for Vault to finance a follow-up album. Released in 1969 with the band name changed to Floating Bridge, the album teamed the band with producer Jackie Mills. With Dangel, Johnson and Gossan responsible for most of the original material, tracks like InchBrought Up Wrong,Inch the earlier single InchWatch Your Step,Inch and InchThree Minute & Ten Second BluesInch feature a distinctively heavy, Hendrix-inspired sound. Anchored by Gossan's powerful voice and Dangel and Johansen's twin leads, Floating Bridge remains one of the great if obscure rare psychedelic rock albums of the late 1960's. Finally available in the digital domain, all selections have been newly remastered. Album Tracks 1. Crackshot 2. Hey Jude 3. Watch Your Step 4. Three Minute And Ten Second Blues 5. Brought Up Wrong 6. Eight Miles High / Paint It Black 7. You've Got The Power 8. Gonna Lay Down 'N Die (Slow Blues)

Anchored by Gossan's powerful voice and Dangel and Johansen's twin lead guitars, 'Floating Bridge' remains one of the great obscure psychedelic rock albums of the late 1960s. Only adding to the mystery, 'Floating Bridge', was the band's only commercial , and is now a staple of the psych rock collectors market. Released in 1969, it arrived at the height of the counterculture revolution, leaving an indelible mark on the musical landscape of it's time. This true slice of quality acid blues rock features a blend of exciting original material with rearranged cover versions, including a rousing rendition of the Beatles Hey Jude' and a wonderful instrumental medley of the Byrds Eight Miles High' and the Rolling Stones Paint It, Black'. Album Tracks 1. Crackshot 2. Hey Jude 3. Watch Your Step 4. Three Minute and Ten Second Blues 5. Brought Up Wrong 6. Medley Eight Miles High / Paint It Black 7. You've Got the Power 8. Gonna' Lay Down 'N Die (Slow Blues)

The Fall of America Volume II is a musical tribute to Allen Ginsberg, to benefit Pen America. Musical interpretations of Ginberg's poems are performed by Ai Weiwei, Philip Glass, Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore With Saul Williams, Miho Hatori, Jack Dangers, Kai Campos & Cj Mirra and more. Fall of America Poems published by City Lights Books in San Francisco, covers the years 1965-1971 when Ginsberg was crisscrossing the country, exploring a system of composition by narrating into the portable reel-to-reel Uher that Bob Dylan had gifted him. Album Tracks 1. Ai Weiwei with O Future & Aliah Rosenthal - Hum Bom! 2. Anne Waldman and Fast Speaking Music - Pentagon Exorcism 3. Thurston Moore Feat. Saul Williams - a Prophecy 4. Kai Campos and CJ Mirra - Bixby Canyon 5. Jack Dangers - Holy Ghost on the Nod Over the Body of Bliss 6. System 7 - Sonora Desert Edge (The Abyss) 7. Why? - Death on All Fronts 8. Seb Taylor - Over Denver Again 9. Ashes (Bill Laswell, Eraldo Bernocchi & Reeno) - September on Jessore Road 10. Miho Hatori - Iron Horse (The Universe Is Empty) 11. Philip Glass - Have You Seen This Movie?