SAN FRANSISCO ROOTS Acetate LP Pre Airplane Grace Slick

	£		40
	$		53

 Acetate    Various: San Fransisco Roots

This is a pretty special item, an acetate of The San Fransisco Roots compilation, featuring Grace Slick in her pre-Airplaine band ‘The Great Society’  Acetates are pressed in tiny numbers and often only mailed to band members and production, in this case the record was sent to one of Americas top reviewers (See below)

Condition: Acetates are hard to grade, they are made of Lacquer cut onto an aluminium plate, paper rubs the soft surface giving a poor appearance very easily, even so, tis is clean and I have no problem grading to EX-
EX-

Label: Vault

Label ref: n/a

Tracks:
A1: The Great Society (Somebody To Love (45 Version)),
A2: The Great Society (Free Advice (45 Version)),
A3: The Beau Brummels (Stick Like Glue (45 Version)),
A4: The Beau Brummels (That's If You Want Me (45 Version)),
A5: The Mojo Men (Dance With Me),
A6: The Mojo Men (She's My Baby),
A7: The Knight Riders (I),
B1: The Beau Brummels (Don't Talk To Strangers (45 Version)),
B2: The Beau Brummels (Sad Little Girl (45 Version)),
B3: The Vejatables (Anything),
B4: The Vejatables (I Still Love You),
B5: The Tiki's (Darkest Night Of The Year),
B6: The Tiki's (Pay Attention To Me)

This record was from the collection of the late Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975;) - I will include printouts of the previous time it was sold to prove provenance. Gleason wasone of the most influential jazz and pop music critics of all time. He was a central figure in the San Francisco rock scene, helped organize the Monterey Pop Festival, co-founded Rolling Stone magazine, and was a cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival.

When Gleason joined the San Francisco Chronicle in 1950, he initiated the first regular coverage of jazz and pop music in the mainstream US media. Gleason was the first critic to review folk, pop, and jazz concerts with the same attention and space as was given to classical music. Gleason was one of the first critics to perceive the importance of Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Miles Davis (all of whom became close friends of his.)

Gleason was one of the first to write supportively of the San Francisco scene and it’s bands, including the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead (his 1969 book The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Scene, was the first serious study of the subject.)

Bill Graham himself credited Gleason with suggesting the Fillmore Auditorium to him as a site for concerts, while the Family Dog met with Gleason at his home to discuss their idea to stage dance concerts, prior to their first show at the Longshoreman’s Hall. When the organizers of the Monterey Pop Festival had trouble recruiting the San Francisco bands, they turned to Gleason and Bill Graham, who were able to convince the major acts to come on board.

Gleason wrote liner notes for hundreds of albums, including “Jefferson Airplane Takes Off” and “Bitches Brew” by Miles Davis (for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award.) His articles also appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, New Statesman, Evergreen Review, American Scholar, Saturday Review, New York Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun Times, Sydney Herald, Playboy, Esquire, Variety, and Stereo.

Gleason produced a series of twenty-eight programs for public television on jazz and blues, Jazz Casual, featuring John Coltrane, B.B. King, Dave Brubeck, and Sonny Rollins, among others. His two-hour documentary on Duke Ellington was twice nominated for an Emmy. He also produced a four-part series on the Monterey Jazz Festival, the first documentary for television on pop music, Anatomy of a Hit, and a two-hour performance and documentary on San Francisco rock, Go Ride the Music and A Night At The Family Dog. We are proud to offer this and record and many more we’ll be selling over the coming months from the Ralph J

SELLER 6X – For the next few weeks I am selling a friends collection, they specialized in west Coast rock and British Folk, There is a lot more to come so Add me to your favourite sellers!

POST - Because I am selling these records for someone else I cannot absorb the costs of post and mailers. Please be fair, mailers and pads are expensive post is charged at cost, it may be more than some who include the cost in the item but you know the reason why! Please do not mark me down in the DSRs!