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Here's an article about their set followed by a youtube posting of my favorite song by them - perfect for 1967 rock. You can hear how tight they could be. https://www.nicholasjennings.com/music-feature-the-paupers-at-monterey-pop Monterey was a big deal for The Paupers after their Café Au Go-Go showstopper. The group spent two weeks rehearsing for the festival, working out a strong, twenty-minute medley of their best numbers. The chance to blow away the competition looked good when the band was scheduled to follow mellow popsters The Association. David Crosby hyped The Paupers in his rave introduction, calling them the best thing heʼd ever heard. “Just watch,” he told the crowd of 30,000, “youʼre going to be amazed.” The minute The Paupers kicked into their set, everything seemed to go terribly wrong. First of all, guitarist Chuck Bealʼs amp crapped out, then came back on, emitting an odious, sputtering noise. To make matters worse, Denny Gerrardʼs bass playing seemed strangely out of sync. The problem may possibly have been a batch of LSD circulating at Monterey, likely Purple Haze tabs from Owsleyʼs infamous lab. According to Pauper Adam Mitchell, Gerrard had dropped some acid just before going on-stage, and wound up marching to the beat of his own drummer. Says Mitchell: “Denny was probably the best bass player who ever lived, certainly at that time. But on this particular day, he totally fucked up.” Many of the Monterey acts blew peopleʼs minds. The Paupers simply blew it. Ralph Gleason, influential music columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle, called the band one of the festivalʼs real disappointments. (Gleason had already been a champion of Gerrardʼs talents in Playboy, where the musician had twice been voted top bassist in the magazineʼs annual jazz poll.) And, perhaps most significantly, the groupʼs performance was not included in Monterey Pop, the seminal rockumentary by D.A. Pennebaker that helped to make superstars out of Hendrix and Joplin.

I actually have a good bit by Lighthouse. And it was a GREAT 45 hit in 1971. Evolution Records in the USA, GRT in their native Canada. Skip Prokop had been in the Paupers (of Monterey Pop Festival infamy).

Good music. Agree most are lesser-known, though few are obscure. I have dozens of CD's combined by these groups. Kalapana and Upp are new to me, but they appear to be mid - 70's groups. Love the early Rare Bird albums and the first few Shawn Phillips A&M albums and the original two Blodwyn Pig albums. Blues Project with Al Kooper are pretty legendary and very good. Have never heard the Three Man Army albums, ca early 70's. Camel were a very accomplished 70's Canterbury prog group. Moby Grape were notorious for Columbia's over-promotion of their debut album. Ian Matthews was originally the "other" singer in Fairport Convention. PG&E had a great 1971 single - "Are You Ready".

I'll see your Archie Whitewater (which I am quite enjoying, thanks!) and raise you a Good God - excellent covers of John McLaughlin's "Dragon Song" and Zappa's "King Kong".

Thoughts on this one? I love it, but am unqualified to join the present conversation:

Of course! They were the advance publicity band for the festival, playing around town the whole week before.

Very mixed bag there. I like the second cut quite a bit, and find the MFT portion of the first cut very nice, but the "Funky Broadway" chick shtick is really hard to take in 2019 (and I bet it also was in 1973). Must have seemed like a good idea to somebody. I actually love the first two Chicago double albums, and like III/IV/V quite a bit. Goes downhill from there, and useless by VIII. Really really liked Guercio's earlier work with the Buckinghams.

Very cool programming idea. My alma mater, and where Michael Cuscuna cut his teeth five years ahead of me. Other major talents, such as the great Michael Tearson, and Gene Shay and David Dye have been involved with the station through the years. It is a Philly institution along with WRTI, the Temple U. radio station, and only legit jazz station in the city (though it is only a shadow of what it was in its prime, with Harrison Ridley Jr., Kim Berry, etc.). WXPN has remained vital through the years.

That is a gorgeous set. I own it and feel sort of guilty whenever I play it, because it is so opulent.

Also a favorite of mine. Miller Anderson ruled!

I haven't either. Azteca was a really good and interesting band from the same period - I know them. As for Madura, just looked them up. Talented keyboard player Hawk Wolinski (later of Rufus - he wrote the spectacular "Ain't Nobody") was a member, and Chicago mainstay James William Guercio produced, so I'm interested to give a listen via the magic of youtube or whatever.

I did, too. And when I listen to "Om" and "Live in Seattle", McCoy seemed totally not into it, so I think Alice was the right pianist for the final stretch. And I like her own stuff also - she didn't sound like anyone else on any of her instruments.

$110 pre-order price on Amazon. 2 CD set at $90 less is good for me.

What are people's overall impressions of the new Getz set? Essential? Not essential, but nice to have? Well done? Getz is "on" or "off" overall that night?

Keef Hartley Band, but somehow there is now audio of their set. LOL!

Some cuts by both have been out before. Creedence had cuts on the 25th and 40th boxes. BST had one cut on the 40th box. Both, of course, are on the new sets, and the full CCR set has just been released on a standalone CD. There were a lot of money issues around Woodstock, for sure. May have been "peace and love" for some of the attendees, but it was a gig for the musicians and their management. Some who did seem to lift their game are Havens, Sweetwater, Sommer, Johnny Winter, maybe TYA ( have not heard their whole set), but it seems like most of the musicians just did their set amidst the chaos, and a few (Hendrix, CSNY) were really quite subpar.

The payout to Keef Hartley is shockingly low. They had to come over from the UK, and there were quite a few band members in the group at that time, including the great Miller Anderson.

It's the one that just came out.

Reason enough to keep the 1994 box then, an authentic record of the fake original releases! Read the article - very interesting and very very tragic.

Did a little research on the new Woodstock sets. The 38-CD, $800 extravaganza has 1733 minutes of music and 439 minutes of announcements. The 10-CD $110 set has 702 minutes of music, and I'm guessing around 80 minutes of announcements. So if you just factor music, you are paying 16 cents/minute for the music on the 10-CD set. On the margin then, you are paying another $690 for another 1031 minutes of music, or 67 cents/minute for the additional music, minus whatever the additional announcements and the package trinkets are worth to you. Want to factor out the music that has already been available in previously released individual artist sets at some point, as I believe I have all of those (except the new Creedence). 67 minutes of music appears on the 2009 6-CD set which does not appear on the 2019 10-CD set. Have not compared the 4-CD 1994 set or the original Woodstock/Woodstock II sets.

I always check theseconddisc.com and superdeluxeedition,com for upcoming non-jazz reissues. Great sites. One us USA-based, the other UK-based, so they often have different radar out.

He eats more chicken than any mom ever seen.

I just got home from work and played this. Wow. My daughter disapprovingly called out "what's that?", but my 17-month old grandson came over and started dancing to it!

Strongly agree. That was the one where the earth shifted.