Tag Archives: Joel Larson

Joel Larson is a drummer who produced a successful leap from a higher school music group in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA to 15 many years of program work in LA, and involvement on some popular (and fondly remembered) recordings over the ’60s and ’70s. Created in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA …

The Merry-Go-Round were formed in LA during the summer time of 1966 when Palace Safeguard drummer Emitt Rhodes remaining that music group and began rehearsing within the Rhodes family garage along with his high-school friend Gary Kato. Following a few weeks with close friends Mike Grain and Doug Harwood on …

The Lawn Roots had some main hits — especially “Let’s Live for Today,” “Midnight Confessions,” “Enticement Eye,” and “Two Divided by Like” — that help define the essence from the era’s best AM radio. Even though group’s users weren’t even near becoming recognizable, and their in-house songwriting was alongside irrelevant, …

Even those that pride themselves on the understanding of mid-’60s California bands could be forgiven for not really realizing the Bedouins by name; alternatively, listeners acquainted with the folk-rock picture in LA from that same period will understand well at least some of the information that this group released. The …