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One of the second-to-third-division West Coastline (or nearly Western Coastline) ’60s rings around the Mainstream label, the Superfine Dandelion made 1 middling recording in 1967 that mixed SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic, folk-rock, pop, and jug music group influences. These were created in Phoenix in early 1967 by vocalist, guitarist, …

A favorite mid-’60s Phoenix garage area music group, the Mile Ends recorded only one, “Bottle Up and Move”/”Candy Guy,” released in the small regional Fifth Property label in 1966. The Mile Ends had been incredibly Rolling Stones-influenced, as was evidenced on the initial “Container Up and Move,” an excellent punky, …

Mickey McGee (given birth to William Michael McGee, Oct 25, 1947, New Orleans, LA) spent his formative years around Phoenix, AZ, performing drums in a variety of rock rings and developing his build to the main point where he longed for newer and loftier problems. While touring using the music …

Ed Dark took the pedal metal electric guitar and Dobro, traditionally nation & western equipment, in to the world of rock and roll music. Dark wasn’t the first ever to do that but he was perhaps one of the most unforgettable, having documented the distinct, screaming single in Linda Ronstadt’s …