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Stained Glass - Piggy Back Ride and the Camel
Stained Glass started out as a Beatles cover band, and this song, Piggy Back Ride and the Camel, really drives that home with its kazoo tomfoolery.
Stained Glass - Light Down Below
I’d been told that Stained Glass had released 2 albums, but I’d only ever come across Aurora, the follow-up record. Just before I went to Italy, I found a copy of their debut, Crazy Horse Road, and it’s most of what I listened to while away. It’s so good that I’m going to post a pair of songs off of it. This one’s called Light Down Below.
It turns out that the band put out a number of great singles, bundled onto a CD reissue of this album because none of them wound up on Stained Glass’ LPs.
Stained Glass - Jim Dandy
Arched window!
Stained Glass’ Aurora was the soundtrack to my 2009 summer, and I relish any opportunity to share it with people who haven’t heard it. It’s such a wonderfully weird bit of psychedelia, heavy on the falsetto vocals and bouncy guitar-work. This is their cover of Lincoln Chase’s Jim Dandy, a beautiful fairy-tale of a song.
Stained Glass - Gettin' On's Gettin' Rough
According to me room-mate, I saved this band from the internet in that he couldn’t track down a place to download it over the break. Maybe I’ll upload a torrent somewhere.
More of a folk-rock band than a psychedelic band, Stained Glass started out in 1966 playing Beatles covers. They performed in and around their native San Jose until an A & R man from RCA signed them to the label later that year. Of the multiple singles they recorded, the first two were a mixture of folk and Merseybeat, and met with some local success. The best was “We Got A Long Way To Go”, a driving rock song with immediate appeal, which was a big hit in San Jose during April of 1967.
They moved to Capitol in the Spring of 1968, issuing three singles and two albums. Of the six 45 sides on Capitol only Lady In Lace is non-LP. Both albums were quite highly-rated, but failed to make much impact and the band disbanded in November of 1969.
I’ve never seen this fabled second album. I’m going to try to track it down.
Stained Glass - Gettin' On's Gettin' Rough
This might the best song I ever tracked down on the internet.
Andy and I decided a while ago that the reason the singing in 70s rock seems so much better than current stuff is that the guys forming bands in 70s had all been forced into church choirs when they were kids, so they have some conception of what falsetto’s actually supposed to sound like.
