Peter Albin

Peter Albin was raised in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA and initially arrived for the city’s booming folk music picture in the first ’60s being a guitarist. In tandem with drummer Chuck Jones and fellow guitarist Sam Andrew, he produced the primary of the group that became YOUR GOVERNMENT & the Keeping Company. Albin acquired an extremely melodic electric guitar style which was pleasing towards the hearing, but he afterwards switched to bass and opened up just how for his friend Jim Gurley — who acquired a more distinct and experimental method of the device — to consider the second electric guitar spot (sometimes Gurley or Andrew would change to bass in order that Albin could play some electric guitar). Albin was also the group’s primary business lead singer, an undeniable fact frequently overlooked due to the fame which the band later attained with Janis Joplin within the business lead vocal place — he continuing to contribute vocals after her entrance, however, and transferred back into the location pursuing her departure. Albin and firm were an excellent folk band, and may play the blues well for the white music group, but Joplin was confident — unwisely, many would state — with the springtime of 1968 that she could perform better, and parted firm with YOUR GOVERNMENT. Suddenly still left high and dried out, Albin, alongside drummer David Getz, became a member of Nation Joe & the Catch an excellent chunk of 1969, but had been back with YOUR GOVERNMENT by the finish of the entire year and attempting to determine a post-Joplin profession. The group in fact released a set of albums, Be considered a Brother and exactly how Hard IT REALLY IS, on Columbia in 1971, but hardly ever attracted greater than a small fraction of the target audience or the press that they’d become with their traditional lineup. Albin offers since played regularly with Nation Joe McDonald and Barry Melton, in addition to using the reactivated YOUR GOVERNMENT. He was also the founder through the early ’80s from the Dinosaurs, a jocularly called ensemble of experienced Bay Area music artists from your 1960s, including Melton along with other past musical affiliates. He remains a dynamic member of YOUR GOVERNMENT & the Keeping Organization in the 21st hundred years.