Mastin & Brewer

Folk-rockers Tom Mastin and Mike Brewer initial collaborated on-stage on the Blind Owl Coffeehouse in Kent, OH, in 1964. Regarding to articles at www.classicrockpage.com, both vocalist/guitarists were single veterans from the folk circuit and, using the picture waning in later 1965, the duo relocated to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA with fellow folkie Dave McIntosh in tow. The last mentioned continued to be in the Bay Region while Mastin & Brewer shortly relocated to LA, where they befriended New Christy Minstrel Randy Sparks, who subsequently presented the duo to manufacturer Barry Friedman. A causing three-song demo resulted in a agreement with Columbia Information, and a support group including Tim Buckley bassist Jim Fielder and ex-Skip Battin Group drummer Billy Mundi was hastily set up. Mastin & Brewer distributed their Hollywood rehearsal space using a pre-Buffalo Springfield Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and in the springtime of 1966 both groupings opened up for the Byrds on a short tour of southern California. Mastin & Brewer also headlined the famed Whisky A Go-Go furthermore to satiating their even more psychedelic leanings by playing beneath the alias the Elesian Senate. While documenting their debut record the group splintered — Mastin, experiencing a episode of serious depression, strolled out rather than returned. He later on returned to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, eventually committing suicide. Brewer attempted resuscitating the group with the addition of his sibling Keith, who overdubbed Mastin’s unique vocal monitor for the lone Mastin & Brewer solitary, 1966’s “Require You.” Credited to Brewer & Brewer, the record proceeded to go nowhere, as well as the music group finally dissolved. Mundi after that joined the Light of Years as a child before putting your signature on on using the Moms of Invention, where he and Fielder reunited. Mike Brewer, in the meantime, employed on as personnel songwriter at Great Sam Music — there he restored ties with older friend Tom Shipley, a fellow transplant from Ohio. Performing mainly because Brewer & Shipley, the duo documented some LPs for Kama Sutra, rating a high Ten strike in 1971 with “One Toke On the Line.”