The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - американская психоделическая рок-группа 1960-х гг. Они возникли в Лос-Анжелесе в 1966 г. из группы фолк-рока "The Ashes", включавшей Джона Меррилла гитара/вокал), Алана Брекетта (бас/вокал), Барбары "Сэнди" Робисон (вокал), Спенсера Драйдена (ударные) и Джима Чернисса (гитара/вокал). Группа ранее была известна под названием "The Young Swingers", под которым выпустили два оставшихся незамеченными сингла. "Ashes" выпустили в 1966 г. на лэйбле "Vault" один сингл "Is There Anything I Can Do?", написанный Джеки ДеШеннон. После этого Дайден покинул "Ashes", чтобы заменить Скипа Спенса в Jefferson Airplane, Робинсон ушла в декрет, и группа временно распалась.
Алан Брекетт возродил её с новым гитаристом, Лансом Фентом, и новым ударником, Джимом Войтом, назвав новое трио "The Crossing Guards". Мерилл и Робинсон присоединились, и группа из пяти человек взяла название "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy". Группа подписала контракт с "Columbia Records" в конце 1966 г., выпустив с продюсером Гари Ушером сингл "It's A Happening Thing", который достиг 93 места в национальном поп-чарте. После этого последовал первый альбом группы, "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading", с тем же Ушером, который привёл в студию музыкантов, включая Глен Кемпбелл и Джеймса Бёртона, чтобы улучшить звучание группы.
Их сингл конца 1967 г. "Turn On a Friend (to the Good Life)" не попал в чарты. Однако, они гастролировали по стране, добили нового гитариста, Билла Вульфа, и записали для "Columbia Records" второй альбом, The Great Conspiracy, который обычно упоминается как их лучший.
В 1968 г. они обратились в лейбл "Challenge", принадлежащий компании "Warner Bros. Records" в изменённом составе, включив бывшего органиста "Clear Light" Ральфа Шукетта и ударника Майкла Нея (Стивенса), и записали свой последний альбом "For Children of All Ages". Запись альбома задумал и осуществил Брекетт. Тем временем Мерилл изменил версию "Ashes", чей единственный альбом был в конце концов выпущен в 1970 г. на лейбле "Vault".
"The Peanut Butter Conspiracy" провели последний гастрольный тур и распались примерно в 1970 г. Мерилл и Брекетт продолжали писать песни и продюсировать других музыкантов. Робинсон также участвовала в туре 1970 г., но умерла в 1988 г.
Psychedelic rock band formed in Los Angeles, 1966. Spun off from the folk-rock band Ashes, incl. John Merrill (guitar/ vocals), Alan Brackett (bass/ vocals), Barbara Robison (vocals), Spencer Dryden (drums) and Jim Cherniss (guitar/ vocals). Ashes recorded a 45 for Vault Records mid-1966, after which Dryden split to San Francisco to replace Skip Spence in Jefferson Airplane. Around this time Robison had given birth to a son (Scott) and Merrill had left for Europe, while Cherniss also parted ways with the group. Brackett then hooked up with a new guitarist named Lance Fent and a new drummer, Jim Voigt.
According to Alan Brackett: "I got together upon John's recommendation with Lance Fent and Jim Voigt and, with the help of Owsley, we learned 50 or so songs in one day and went out that night and got our choice of about three gigs in Hollywood. We played at the Sea Witch on Sunset Blvd. as the Crossing Guards. We were a power trio, and then John and Barbara joined back up with us and we changed our name to the PBC. The PBC was a name that Jim Voigt came up with-- actually it was the Peanut Butter Controversy originally, but we changed it to Conspiracy right away."
Their first release under their new moniker was the late-1966 gem "Time Is After You", a song they later re-visited on THE GREAT CONSPIRACY. Their new manager Billy James had already succeeded in getting the Rising Sons their deal with Columbia, and he made sure the PBC signed up with CBS after a bidding war ensued with Elektra. The debut 45 for the new label was the timely "It's a Happening Thing", produced by west coast studio impresario Gary Usher. The single cracked the KHJ "Boss 30" in February of 1967 and eventually became a regional hit, charting at #93 nationally. The follow-up single "Then Came Love" featured a magnificient lead vocal from Barbara Robison (or "Sandi Peanut Butter" as she was called at that time), but it failed to chart. However, the song is still notable for being one of the earliest (and best) attempts at symphonic rock music, predating the Beatles' SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND.
The new band's debut LP, THE PEANUT BUTTER CONSPIRACY IS SPREADING, was also recorded with Gary Usher at the helm. During the sessions Gary called upon musicians such as Glen Campbell and James Burton to help bolster the sound, and the group later disavowed the record for that reason. Nevertheless, it stands as a fine relic from the early Flower Power era with strong original compositions by Merrill and Brackett, particularly the memorable "Most Up 'til Now" and the cautionary "Why Did I Get So High?" The album scraped the lower reaches of the Billboard Top 200, largely based on word-of-mouth surrounding the band's live shows. In the studio the Peanut Butter Conspiracy crafted intricate melodies with adventurous progressions that were by turns dark and optimistic. Their blend of male and female voices reminded many of the Mamas and Papas. They were at their best when they let Sandi Peanut Butter take center stage, conjuringing up dreamy psychedelic riffs around her soulful vocals. (Sandi could sound like Cher one minute and Cass Elliot the next; a very commercial sound for an underground band, but it worked.)
Their late '67 single "Turn On a Friend (to the Good Life)" again failed to chart, but overall they had still sold a fair amount of records for an American rock group of their time. With one album remaining on their Columbia contract, the PBC undertook recording sessions in New York and L.A. during the latter half of 1967. The result of these sessions was the late '67 GREAT CONSPIRACY album, hands down their finest work. This time the group played on every track and handled all the writing themselves. A national tour and the addition of new lead guitarist Bill Wolff (formerly of Sound Machine) had made the PBC a tighter unit instrumentally, and they were able to stretch out the arrangements accordingly. Among the best results were the gorgeous "Lonely Leaf", "Living, Loving Life", spacey "Too Many Do" and "Ecstacy". The lyrics could still be overreaching at times ("Firecracker sky / filled with roots of fusion / trash cans floating by / we're so far ahead we're losin'") but the songs were all melodically adventurous, running the gamut of chord changes and stops and starts. "Too Many Do" garnered significant FM airplay and was one of the first long cuts to be played on the radio. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY ultimately made it into the low 90s on the Billboard Pop Album chart.
The PBC played many high profile live shows in '67 and '68, including the famous Sky River Rock Festival in Sultan, Washington, and gigs at San Francisco's Fillmore and L.A.'s Whisky a-Go-Go. Brackett, Merrill and Robison also collaborated with producer/ arranger Stu Phillips, adding their trademark vocals to many of Phillips' movie scores. The group's final Columbia single was Brackett's kinetic "I'm a Fool", which found them moving in a more soulful direction with another stand out performance from Barbara. The 45 garnered extensive airplay on the west coast, but without much of a push from Columbia it could only chart as high as #125 on Billboard. Shortly after the "I'm a Fool" single had run its course, the group parted ways with Columbia.
Surfacing on the Warner subsidiary Challenge, with a revamped line-up featuring ex-Clear Light organist Ralph Schuckett and drummer Michael Ney (Stevens), the group recorded and released their final album FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES. The disc was written and conceived by Al Brackett without the assistance of John Merrill, though Merrill did play on it. The result was a hit-and-miss collection of white California soul, bolstered instrumentally by Schuckett's subtle B-3 fills. Explains Alan Brackett, "I had written a bunch of songs on (the most recent) tour and went into Hollywood Sound to record the demos for Four Star, my publisher. In the middle of this demo session, Dave Burgess-- VP and producer for Four Star on this session-- said, 'That sounds great! Bring in the eight track!' This was at the time when four track recording was just changing over to eight track, which was more expensive. All of a sudden we were making an LP. The tracks were sweetened and put out as the FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES LP on Challenge. This may explain to you why it was so different (from the other PBC albums)-- it was really just my songs and not really a planned PBC release."
Many of the album's highlights came courtesy of Barbara Robison, who was now no longer billed under her "Sandi Peanut Butter" alias. "It's Alright" and "Try Again" featured some of her most stunning leads. The new unit toured briefly, but to little avail. Like most of the other "food groups" of the 1960's (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Chocolate Watchband, Electric Prunes, Ultimate Spinach et. al.) as the novelty of their name wore off, good music couldn't overcome listener preconceptions in the face of a changing musical spectrum. They split up ca. 1970, with Merrill and Brackett continuing on in the business writing and producing for other artists. Robison toured with her new husband throughout the seventies to little recognition. Sadly, she passed away in 1988, ending any hopes of a full PBC reunion. We are also sad to report that original PBC drummer Jim Voigt passed away a couple of years ago.
-Jason Penick
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The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading / The Great Conspiracy Collectables Records COL CD 6096 / SONY A-27366Год выхода альбома: 1967 & 1968 Год переиздания: 1999 Аудио кодек: FLAC Тип рипа: image+.cue Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 1:19:42.493 Трэклист: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading:01. It's A Happening Thing (2:27) 02. Then Came Love (3:44) 03. Twice Is Life (2:50) 04. Second Hand Man (3:26) 05. You Can't Be Found (2:48) 06. Why Did I Get So High (2:10) 07. Dark On You Now (2:22) 08. The Market Place (4:05) 09. You Should Know (2:12) 10. The Most Up Till Now (2:36) 11. You Took Too Much (2:10) The Great Conspiracy:12. Turn On A Friend (To The Good Life) (2:22) 13. Lonely Leaf (3:53) 14. Pleasure (3:26) 15. Too Many Do (6:35) 16. Living, Loving Life (3:20) 17. Invasion Of The Poppy People (0:41) 18. Captain Sandwich (2:11) 19. Living Dream (4:20) 20. Ecstasy (6:20) 21. Time Is After You (3:04) 22. Wonderment (4:12) Bonus tracks:23. I'm A Fool (2:36) * 24. It's So Hard (2:33) * 25. Peter Pan (Unreleased) (3:18) * * - bonus tracks
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The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - For Children Of All Ages Rev-Ola / Cherry Red Records / CR REV 253#777Жанр: Psychedelic Rock / Proto-Prog Год выхода альбома: 1969 Год переиздания: 2008 Аудио кодек: FLAC Тип рипа: image+.cue Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 0:47:43.667 Трэклист: 01. Gonna Get You Home (5:01) 02. Back In LA (3:14) 03. Have A Little Faith (2:42) 04. Good Feelin' (2:50) 05. Loudness Of Your Silence (2:50) 06. It's Alright (3:28) 07. Out In The Cold Again (2:34) 08. Now (3:13) 09. Simple Things (2:57) 10. Return Home (3:39) 11. Think (3:02) 12. Show You The Way (2:34) 13. Try Again (2:49) 14. Try (2:27) 15. You're Not Getting Into It (2:05) 16. What Did I Do Wrong? (2:17) ---- The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: - Barbara Robinson - vocals - Alan Brackett - bass, vocals - John Merrill - guitar, vocals - Ralph Shuckett - keyboards - Pete McQueen - drums - Michael Ney - drums ---- - Producered for compact disc by Joe Foster and Andy Morten - Sound recreation by Norman Blacke and Joe Foster at Studio 3, Glasgow - Liner notes by Brian Hogg - Artwork and design by Marc Argenter for Pepperbox
I like this album. I can't seem to stop playing it, even though it has some obvious faults. The best way to relay to you my listening experience with this record is just to ask you to scroll up and listen the first two sound clips. Can you stand this guy's voice? Literally. That's it. That is the key to whether or not you will enjoy this record.
Okay, Alan Brackett is the guy singing lead on most of these cuts. He was the PBC's bassist and 1/2 of their in-house songwriting duo. The group was once signed to Columbia where they cut two great records with producer Gary Usher, which were subsequently compiled on the previously mentioned 2-fer. I won't go into details about those albums because you can read my review under the appropriate heading. We're discussing the FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES cd release here, and I intend to critique it!
Where to begin?... Well, the most important thing to remember about this record was that it was recorded in 1969. The style du jour was "horn rock", a la Blood, Sweat, & Tears and Chicago Transit Authority.
The PBC had previously excelled at psychedelic rock music, but times were changing. To compete in '69, you needed soul, baby, you needed to FEEL IT. Alan Brackett knew this, and he reassembled the PBC into a psudeo-R&B configuration, replacing lead guitarist Bill Wolf with former Clear Light keyboardist Ralph Shuckett (whose organ lines you previously heard drench the Monkees' "Porpoise Song" in shimmering glory) and bringing in Clear Light's drummer Michael Stevens as well.
While Clear Light was a psychedelic band first and foremost, you can obviously tell the two new PBCers new how to "cook", as they used to say back then. The precise, sneaky fills from Shuckett's B-3, Brackett's melodic bass runs and rocksteady drumming anchors every track on this record. These guys FEEL IT, baby.
The songwriting is hit or miss, but by my estimation the PBC bats around .750 on this release. "Back in L.A." and "Simple Things" rock, while "Out in the Cold Again" and "Stayin' Inside Kind of Day" are merely perfunctory. "You're Not Getting into It" latches onto a psudeo-Caribbean groove and "Good Feelin'" was funky enough for Three Dog Night to cover. "Try" is a cover of a decent Crabby Appleton song. The sounds on FOR CHILDREN will surely transport a listener back to the heady summer of 1969.
Throughout the album Alan Brackett howls with a mock-psuedo-soul inflection, coming across like a poor man's David Clayton Thomas. Like I said, listen to the sound clips. This is not a voice everybody can appreciate... No, that would be Barbara Robinson (or as we once referred to her high-ness, "Sandi Peanut Butter"). Barbra was the obvious star and focal point of the group. Her vocals are up front in the mix here, but regrettably she only gets to sing lead on a few of these tracks.
When she does get a lead, however, she certainly makes the most of it. "Return Home" may be perhaps the best female lead vocal in the rock genre I've ever heard in my life. The band plays tastefully and restrianed on that one, letting Barbara just belt. This is potent music, not for the faint of heart. "It's Alright" is similarly gorgeous-- a real sonic beauty and not the phony MIDI excrement you always hear nowadays.
"Try Again" ends in a impressive reverse-taped wall of sound. "Now" is a fake-live cut with overdubbed audience. "Simple Things" pits Robinson's and Brackett's vocals against each other. "Gonna Get You Home" has cool string overdubs... Look, either you like this kind of record or you don't. Maybe you think there's no use nowadays for a white LA psychedelic band trying to act funky and only partially succeeding. But the thing of it is, the genius is in the failure, or vise versa. This record wasn't a hit, but who cares? This was a band that would "Try" and "Try Again" to be SOMETHING, get THAT SOUND, really GROOVE. And I just don't think you have enough of that today.
This is the sound of a band that worked hard to put out good music. The fact that they possessed perhaps the best female rock vocalist of the 1960's will only add to the allure of this record over time (review by Jason Penick).
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The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Living Dream: The Best Of The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Sony BMG Music / Sundazed / SC 11144#777Жанр: Psychedelic Rock / Proto-Prog Год выпуска диска: 2005 Аудио кодек: FLAC Тип рипа: image+.cue Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 1:06:33.600 Трэклист: 01. It's A Happening Thing (Single Version) (Mono) (2:24) 02. Twice Is Life (2:48) 03. You Can't Be Found (2:47) 04. Why Did I Get So High (2:10) 05. Dark On You Now (2:20) 06. The Most Up Till Now (2:36) 07. Peter Pan (3:10) * 08. Turn On A Friend (To The Good Life) (2:23) 09. Lonely Leaf (3:54) 10. Pleasure (3:27) 11. Too Many Do (6:33) 12. Living, Loving Life (3:22) 13. Captain Sandwich (2:10) 14. Living Dream (4:20) 15. Ecstasy (6:20) 16. Time Is After You (3:03) 17. Wonderment (4:12) 18. I'm A Fool (2:41) 19. It's So Hard (2:34) 20. Out Of Phase (3:21) * . . .* previously unissued
A late-'60s California quintet with a sound that falls somewhere between the Mamas & the Papas and the Jefferson Airplane -- unfortunately without the elegance of the former or the edgy recklessness of the latter -- the Peanut Butter Conspiracy's albums now seem like timepieces of the flower power era, and since the group never managed a big radio hit, they don't even generate the easy nostalgia that might bring them a fresh audience in the 21st century.
Led by bassist Alan Brackett and guitarist John Merrill, both songwriters, and singer Sandi Robinson, who should have been the marketable centerpiece of the band, but curiously wasn't, the PBC certainly had potential.
Columbia Records teamed them with producer Gary Usher, who spotted the 12-string guitars and the careful group harmonies of the band and promptly made them sound like the Byrds, which wasn't necessarily a bad idea, but a better idea might have been to make Robinson's vocals the clear focus of the group, which would have given them a stronger public identity.
The closest the PBC came to having a hit was with their first single, the now hopelessly dated "It's a Happening Thing," and if most of the songs on this anthology (drawn from the group's first two albums, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading and The Great Conspiracy) now seem half-written and full of hippie-driven jargon, there are still a few gems here, including Merrill's Byrdsian "Twice Is Life" and "Dark on You Now," as well as Brackett's intriguing "Living Dream."
Other songs have strong points, like Brackett's "Living, Loving Life," which has a killer opening line ("Everyone has a bomb in their mind"), or the previously unissued "Peter Pan," which sounds today like a brilliant satire of the late-'60s hippie ethos, but wasn't anything of the sort when PBC recorded it.
Maybe the strongest cut is "I'm a Fool," a Brackett song that features an unusually aggressive vocal from Robinson (matched in the arrangement by horn blasts) that suggests an alternate musical path for the group that unfortunately was never followed.
This set from Sundazed has all the essentials from the group's 1967 and 1968 albums for Columbia, plus two previously unissued tracks and the single mix of "It's a Happening Thing," making it both an ideal introduction to the Peanut Butter Conspiracy and probably all that most listeners will ever really need
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#777The Peanut Butter Conspiracy - Spreading From The Ashes Ace Records / Rhino Records / CDWIKD 245 / Previously Unissued / Female Vocals#777Жанр: Psychedelic Rock Год выпуска диска: 2005 Аудио кодек: FLAC Тип рипа: image+.cue Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 1:11:52.947 Трэклист: 01. Time After You (Vault 933) (1967) *(2:54) 02. Love's Last Ground (2:14) 03. Is There Anything I Can Do (Vault 924) (1966) **(2:31) 04. Eventually (1:55) 05. Dark On You Now (Vault 936) (1967) **(4:03) 06. Winds Up High *(2:18) 07. Free (3:02) 08. Big Bummer (Vault LP 113) (1967) *(2:48) 09. Light Bulb Blues (2:20) 10. Let's Take Our Love *(2:13) 11. Enchanted World *(2:11) 12. I'm Falling (2:41) 13. Flight Of The Psychedelic Bumble Bee (2:03) 14. Foolhearted Woman (3:19) 15. Shirley, Can You Come Home & Play (2:50) 16. 1-9-6-7 (Vault LP 113) (1967) *(2:02) 17. So Lonely *(3:00) 18. Floating Dream (Vault 933) (1967) *(2:13) 19. Shuffle Tune (2:18) 20. Moment Of Happiness (1:44) 21. Hangman *(2:59) 22. Roses Gone (Vault 936) (1967) **(2:51) 23. Make Someone Happy (2:09) 24. Naturally (Wintry Ways) *(4:29) 25. Taste Of Something New (3:05) 26. You Should Know (Live) (5:40)
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The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: - Barbara "Sandi" Ronbinson - vocals - Jim Voigt - drums - John Merrill - vocals, guitar - Lance Fent - guitar - Alan Brackett - bass, vocals
In a world where you can now get cds of so many artists that had become collector items as hard-to-find lps, this cd not only offers the first re-issue on cd of hard-to-find releases of The Peanut Butter Conspiracy and it's predecessor group, The Ashes, but also gives an in-depth look into the history of the core members leading up to their great releases on Columbia Records in 1967.
Included are the songs from that rare Vault lp., "West Coast Love-In" and some single releases by The Ashes. There are other recordings made in professional studios and from private recordings where the writer/singer/players are in a rehearsal situation. As it turns out, these are some of the best recordings on the cd.
The outstanding vocals of Barbara Robison, along with the accompaniment of John Merrill and Alan Brackett at these "rehearsals" gives a sense of intimacy seldom heard. One is reminded of the comparison to sitting in on a "Peter, Paul and Mary" rehearsal.
Listen to "Enchanted World", "Naturally", and "Shuffle Tune" and you'll hear what I mean. There are studio recordings that show how experimental and unafraid to try something different this group was. There is no "re-hashing" of the same old material here - this is new fresh music even in the year 2005.
I must say that it's nice to hear music that is not a fabricated product like most of the music of today, but an honest introspect into a group during a time period in music that still is perhaps the best ever.
It is hard to say which songs are the stand-outs because I think different people will have different favorites, but mine are "Roses Gone", which features a wonderful vocal by Barbara, "Enchanted World", the great vocal arrangement on "Moment Of Happiness", their nice rendition of the Holly's song, "So Lonely", and "Foolhearted Woman".
Most of these feature Barbara and I guess I'm partial to that because she had such a wonderful voice. There are certainly others that typify the 60's and delve into styles I'd not really heard before, but find intriguing nevertheless.
I must add that it helps to be familiar with the groups previously released lps that they made and released in 1967-68, but even without that knowledge this has a potpourri of music that is sure to leave you wanting more.
The booklet in the cd is written by 60's expert Alec Palao and has many quotes from interviews he did with the group along with pictures and posters. I highly recommend this "new" release by the Peanut Butter Conspiracy to anyone like me who loves the music of the '60's and appreciates "insight" into what it was all about
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