The Sopwith Camel "Leave The Light On For Linda" Great American Music Hall Halloween 2015

Описание: "We'd formed around the same time as Big Brother & The Holding Company (pre-Janis)... in fact, we got together in the same room. It started out with me and Terry [Nandi Devam], who I'd met at a hangout called the Big Little Bookstore on Polk Street in San Francisco, writing songs together. So the Camel was evolving at a time when there was very little rock in the city. In 1964, I shared a house on Page and Masonic with a thespian called John McIntyre (later manager of the Grateful Dead). I lived at one end of the attic and a girl called Laurie had the other end... and I should guess there were less than a dozen longhairs in the whole of San Francisco.
Then, one day, Chet Helms came to town; he'd just got out of El Paso jail, where he'd been held on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of President Kennedy! The only basis for his arrest had been the length of his hair. Its true!
Anyway, that house was a sort of nucleus in the developing San Francisco psychedelic scene. The first rock dances were in the basement of 1090 Page, which was organized by Chet. All the longhairs used to go there. It was an amazing experience for me, because I knew just about every single person in the place... and there were three or four hundred people! There was such a spirit at those gigs... I cant tell you!
Mind you, the San Francisco thing happened soon afterwards and eventually most of that core of 400 people moved out I can walk around now and not know a soul.
Artie Ripp, from Kama Sutra, who were putting out our records, came into the studio [in New York] the day that I had a temperature of 102. We were finishing up Postcard from Jamaica (the only tune we managed to write at the Albert Hotel in New York), and I was having to use three microphone stands: two to support me as I sang in the general direction of the third. I had bronchitis, actually. Anyway, Artie, who came in to see how his boys were doing, thought I should go to the Luxor Uptown Mens Club sauna baths to get myself in shape. So at two in the morning, we left Bell Studios and Artie Ripp just leapt out in front of some limousine, flagged it down, and gave the guy 20 bucks to take us to this sauna bath . . . . "
(Interview with Peter Kraemer, Zizzag Magazine. Date unknown.
Peter Kraemer also used to tell a story about how he and his girlfriend visited Louis Armstrong, whom he very much admired, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

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