13 November 2010

Zephyr

This band never really made it big, but for some reason, I was turned on to them a long time a long time ago. I just read up on the band on the internet and foud out that the singer, Candy Givens died in 1984.

Sunset Ride album, 1972
 
picture on the back of the cover
 


...Boulder, Colorado, in the fall of 1968, was the gateway to the Rockies for thousands of people leaving the East and West to look for a cleaner, more rewarding life. Nowadays, Boulder is a cute little Disneylandesque example of why homosexuals shouldn’t plan cities, but twenty years ago it still had a couple of rough edges left. The popular bands in town were the Leopold Fuchs Hate Band and Black Pearl. Drugs, parachutes, skis, mountain climbing gear, motorcycles, and waterbeds were the popular recreational toys of the day...

...We played about half-way down the bill on the first night. It was just before sunset. The city powers-that-were had prepared for bloody, Communist inspired riots: plenty of cops on hand. There were a dozen or so street freaks who wanted to get in for free; you know, “music belongs to The People” types, gathered on a little hill just outside the stadium. They were typical noisy jerks, drunk, who are probably now the sportscasters on your local talk radio station...

... Carly Simon...was a very smart girl, and she deduced, correctly, that if she struck up a romance with Eddie, she would receive priority treatment. She was ever so right: ...she began getting the better time slots and more of it. Eddie is not the most macho of men and I suppose that f**ing a big horse of a woman like Carly did something wonderful for his ego.... - David Givens, interview about Zephyr

5 comments:

Jason McGlone said...

To bring it back to Cincinnati, Zephyr played the 1970 Cincinnati Pop Festival. That, of course, was the one where Iggy Pop rubbed peanut butter on himself. Awesome.

Anonymous said...

"Boulder is a cute little Disneylandesque example of why homosexuals shouldn’t plan cities"

Seriously, now? I know you didn't write it. Maybe I'm being picky. But that attempt at humor just fails, IMO.

CityKin said...

The guy may be a bigot and jerk, but I thought his first person accouning of the rock scene from 1968-72 humorous.

Anonymous said...

Humorous? I'd say vulgar and tasteless...not to mention inaccurate. Eddie Kramer was hired by Jac Holzman of Elektra Records to produce Carly's DEBUT album by Jac Holzman. There was no fucking. Was this writer in high school?

CityKin said...

He isn't a writer, he was a band member, married to the singer. He was there, you weren't.