Tag Archives: 1975 in San Francisco

Automatic Man arrived of nowhere in 1976. Leading cover of their debut record acquired a simple however eye-catching blue alien looking out from space. An in depth go through the four-man lineup on the trunk sleeve, however, displays highly-respected ex-Santana drummer Michael Shrieve. However the brains and key songwriter behind …

Miranda Lee Richards’ songwriting profession was shaped by her bohemian upbringing in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, where her parents (Ted and Teresa Richards) made a full time income while influential comic publication artists. She was raised in the underground comic publication picture, with R. Crumb providing as her de facto …

A figure in the bop era who had potential but, unfortunately, retired from music in 1952, Benny Harris used Tiny Bradshaw (1939) and twice with Earl Hines’ Orchestra (1941 and 1943). He was a fixture on 52nd Road in the first ’40s, getting involved in many early bop periods and …

Though he was chiefly referred to as the leader from the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia was a lot more than that. For most, he was the embodiment from the freewheeling creative spirit from the 1960s. A masterly guitarist and songwriter, and an extremely underrated vocalist, Garcia was a genuine music …

A founding person in the Invisibl Skratch Piklz and Triple Threat DJ crews, Shortkut is among the West Coast’s esteemed turntablists. Blessed Jon Cruz, Shortkut started DJing in 1987 at age 12 and shortly joined his initial DJ crew, Simply 2 Hype!, quickly thereafter. At 18 he helped discovered the …

Hot Kitchen knives was a music group with an extraordinary pedigree and a lot of talent which inturn was in the proper place at the incorrect time — using enthusiastic and tuneful power pop and folk-rock using a faint psychedelic undertow, the group must have been correct at home in …