Text by Bruce Gallanther (Downtown Music Gallery, January 2nd, 2025)
“Groovin’ Is Easy” by The Electric Flag, from their debut album, A Longtime Comin (released 1968)
A Homage to The Electric Flag, An American Band.
Category Archives: BLG Homages
A Homage to SUN RA…”I’ll Wait for You”
Text by Bruce Gallanther (Downtown Music Gallery, March 27th, 2025)
“I’ll Wait for You” By Sun Ra, from Strange Celestial Road, Released on LP in 1980
Who Are Free Design (1967-1972)?
Text by Bruce Gallanter (Downtown Music Gallery, August 22, 2024)
“The Hook” by Free Design . From their reunion album, Cosmic Peekaboo (released in 2001)
All the pretty young singers with their popular songs
Kind of short on meaning but the beat goes on
You really have to love them – but not for very long
They’d like to thank their managers
And fans, and friends and yawn…
A Homage to the Psychedelic Rock Band The United States Of America
Text by Bruce Gallanther (DMG Newsletter for April 14th, 2023)
“The Garden of Earthly Delights” performed by The United States Of America, released in 1968. Written by Joseph Byrd and Dorothy Moskowitz
Poisonous gardens, lethal and sweet
Venomous blossoms
Choleric fruit, deadly to eat
Violet nightshades, innocent bloom
Omnivourous orchids
Cautiously wait, hungrily loom
A Homage to THE BYRDS’ “Eight Miles High”
Text by Bruce Gallanther (DMG Newsletter for February 16th, 2023)
Photograph of The Byrds (1965): http://www.drb-fans.com/pre-drb.html, Copyright : Sony Music Entertainment, 1965 (then CBS, Inc.)
“Eight Miles High” written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn & David Crosby. Released as a single on March 14, 1966. Performed by The Byrds, from their Fifth Dimension LP,
Eight miles high, and when you touch down
You’ll find that it’s stranger than known
Signs in the street, that say where you’re going
Are somewhere just being their own
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Rain gray town, known for its sound
In places, small faces unbound
Round the squares, huddled in storms
Some laughing, some just shapeless forms
Sidewalk scenes, and black limousines
Some living, some standing alone
