Mystery Trend
1965-xx-xx San Francisco, California Museum Of Modern Art (low gen. onstage AUD)

01. Question & Answer Session with moderator, band & audience!
02. --band introductions by moderator--
03. Love Moves Around (*)
04. Do I
05. I Wish I Knew
06. Casbah
07. Never (cuts)

Total Time ::: 26:02

NOTES ::: Part of the birth of the "San Francisco Sound". If you dig the Great Society, the Beau Brummels, the Warlocks or the Charlatans, these guys will probably get you off. I believe this was part of the museum's "Insights" program of 1965-66. Presumably taped by band or someone connected. Quite listenable, surprisingly so for the time period. Check the samples. Seems to have been taped on or at the side of the stage by the band. (*glitch near start on master).

Recording Information ::: unknown mono equipment -> master tape -> unknown tape generations -> unknown (low!) generation MX-S 90 cassette, Dolby B on

Playback 2011-08-15 ::: unknown (but low) generation MX-S 90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized -> Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder -> CD-RW -> computer -> EAC secure -> wav file(s) -> Audacity (for fades and/or glitch repair, some volume fluctuation fixes, no EQ) -> CD Wave for track splits -> Trader's Little Helper -> various ears around the world.

Line-up :::
Ron Nagle - keyboards, vocals // Larry Walorny (aka Larry West) - lead guitar // Bob Cugg - rhythm guitar, vocals // Larry Bennett - bass // John Luby - drums, vocals

Nothing here has ever been commercially released to my knowledge. If I'm wrong, please advise & I'll take the offending trax offline.

Thanks to the original taper & traders!

Corrections welcome. If the pitch is still incorrect, email me & maybe I'll get around to fixing it. I use a pitch pipe, check 3-4 songs & when in doubt compare 1-2 songs on a time-appropriate album, but sometimes I'm off. If Dolby was present, it was dealt with as seemed best.

Cool Sonics Series CSS-025 ::: Very Cool! These guys must have had a lot of material. While there may be an incorrect title among those above (feel free to correct them!), these songs seem to all differ from those on the fantastic "So Glad I Found You" CD on Big Beat, and we can assume this isn't the end of it. I think I did a passable job of editing the bad glitch in the first song & other than that & the microphone bumps during the Q&A sessions & intros (which I worked on), this is jammin'. In many respects we really have a winner here, as we get to hear the band with the 5 man line-up with two guitars, which is only briefly represented on the CD.

Hopefully someone could pass along some of the band's other live recordings at some point. According to the liner notes on the CD there should be plenty more. If they ain't of releasable quality, maybe we could just hear them, soon, while our ears are still workin'! It's closing in on 50 years after the fact! It would be greatly appreciated by a number of folks.

This gig musta been near the beginning for the Trend. The evening must not have been very well planned. At the end of the Q&A sessions the moderator announces they are going to close the talk with a song by the band, at which point you can hear the band discussing the fact they thought they would get to play a set.

More recordings on the way. Alas, up until September 2011, I suffered from SERIOUSLY slow internet access (hence my lousy ratio). I am fixing that as fast as I can, now that I am able. Enjoy, share, give, spread peace.

Since we're all gettin' older & reminiscin' is in vogue... Kudos to: Zongo for life support & Lochner for microphones & much more. A bow to Fast Freddie for running Video Dick's Record Emporium with the bathroom office full of tape decks & supporting my 1980's 20+ cassette-a-day habit (4 machines at home just weren't enough)! Thanks to Hanwaker (few among us can keep his pace) for over 30 years of trading, friendship (+ frau introductions!). Mountains of gratitude to Davmar, D.White, Sanchez, Elliot, The Florida Kid, Kloiber, Zingg, JTW, Bershaw, Boston Gold, Moore, Miller, Gough (G.-if you read this, get in touch!), Berger & SO many more for all that collecting & sharing... And royal thanks to The Man In The Palace, Doc Tinker, Brinkhoffs, Barely Eatin', Reel Master Gaule, Dean Parrish (how are ya dude?) & all those traders who housed & fed me through my many music acquisition & travel years. Steppin' back to the seeds - hats off to Brother Kent, Uncle Jake, Ena Whisnant (& her neighbor Frank) & his honor Ptomaine Thomas. A glass is raised to Byron for musical horizon expansion & am much obliged to J & Thurston for keepin' my concert fires burnin' since my continental shift.

Support the artists! I think the Big Beat CD is still around.

Do whatever you want with it except sell it, 'cause that ain't cool!