Product DescriptionThe Dependables Autumn 1969: I found myself in music heaven as I woke up one morning in Topanga Canyon just west of Hollywood in the west hills area of Los Angeles. Lovely Linda Laurence (now wife of Donovan Leach) had just introduced me to one of the most incredible men I have ever known: Brandon DeWilde. Movie star, singer, writer and friend, this guy was surrounded by everyone in the world who was anyone. He took Gram Parsons out of Harvard and into the music business, put together the International Submarine Band, introduced me to the Blues Magoos, to Bobby Keys, to Leon Russell... wow! I had only been in L.A. about a years an a half when meeting Brandon, just leaving The Millennium band after the recording of Begin (Columbia). I found myself jamming every day at Brandon Wildes house with John Nuise, Mickey Gauvin, Gram Parsons, Bobby Keys, Michael Clarke, Taj Mahal, you name it, it was like a dream. We played every music in the world from country to bluegrass, from 50's rock & roll to real R&B; from Stax to Motown to The Beatles... we played on and on. I had been there about two weeks when in came a bunch of Brandon's friends from NYC, The Blues Magoos. They were on tour in the west and were contemplating breaking up the group and doing something new and different. Brandon introduced me to Ralph Scala and Walla we became instant partners. I joined the Blues Magoos and then we started writing and going to Leon Russell's house and jamming, it was the greatest experience of my life. Between Ron Gilbert's record collection and Brandon's record collection of R&B and country music I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven. They had every song ever worth playing. And playing we did, 24 hours a day; sometimes 24 days in a row we jammed, wrote, learned and performed. So many people use terms like post psychedelic and cosmic American music. It's just rock and roll and rhythm and blues. Chuck Berry said it best: "It's got a backbeat you can't loose it"... yeah baby! R
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