The Vejtables

A footnote from the dawn of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA rock and roll, the Vejtables scraped underneath of the graphs in 1965 with “We Still Like You,” a nice, poppy folk-rocker. Their couple of singles for the San Francisco-based Fall months label highly recalled a very much poppier Beau Brummels, making use of their 12-string guitars, folky harmonies, and sparse harmonica. The similarity was quite understandable: the Beau Brummels weren’t just also from SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, but also on a single label. The Vejtables’ main distinguishing tag and asset was among the very few feminine drummers inside a middle-’60s rock and roll group, Jan Errico, who also sang and published a lot of their materials (including “I Still Like You”). For an organization with such a short life-span, the Vejtables’ background was fairly tangled and twisting. Their tenure at Fall months was rudely interrupted once the label proceeded to go bust. Errico, who experienced recorded a little bit of single materials at Fall months (under, confusingly, the name of Jan Ashton), became a member of fellow embryonic S.F. music group the Mojo Males, who experienced also had little hits on Fall months. To make issues more complicated, the Mojo Males continued to contact themselves the Mojo Guys after adding Errico, who (as she acquired within the Vejtables) sang and composed a lot of their music. The Mojo Guys with Errico, today under agreement to Warner Bros., documented some pleasant pop-folk-rock in 1966 and 1967, producing the very best 40 using a cover of Buffalo Springfield’s “SIT BACK, I Think I REALLY LIKE You.” In Apr of 1966, the Vejtables’ guitarist, Jim Sawyers, became a member of the Syndicate of Audio, who had simply strike it big with “LITTTLE LADY.” Vejtables vocalist Bob Bailey held the music group moving in 1966, nevertheless, with constantly moving lineups (upcoming Moby Grape bassist Bob Mosley was extremely briefly an associate, although he didn’t record using the group). A few more singles made an appearance in the Uptown and Tower brands in 1966, locating the music group probing a more intense and psychedelic vein, sounding as an completely different outfit in the “I Still Appreciate You” lineup. “Have the Music” (which made an appearance on the Pebbles compilation) was a legitimately excellent effort out of this time, though it cheated the Who’s “Out in the Roads.” However the music group lacked either the songwriting depth or the instrumental finesse of the greatest acts in the now-burgeoning SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA psychedelic picture. The Vejtables finally withered in the vine around the finish of 1966.