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Other music forums => Various Artists, Lyrics, Discographies => Topic started by: Hello Goodbye on January 06, 2014, 01:32:07 AM
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The Vejtables
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The Vejtables hit the San Francisco Bay Area Scene in 1964. Jan Errico wrote some their songs and was the drummer for the group. She was one of the first female rock drummers. She changed her name to Jan Ashton as she felt it sounded more British. The Vejtables helped pioneer early Bay Area folk and psychedelic rock.
They were most notable for I Still Love You which was written by Jan Errico...
The Vejtables - I Still Love You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdToSxH1KtY#)
1965
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The Vejtables covered The Last Thing On My Mind, a song written and recorded by Tom Paxton in 1964...
Tom Paxton - The Last Thing On My Mind (1966) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08lVuhv_Va8#)
Vejtables - The Last Thing On My Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7x-DuF-WH4#)
1965
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By late 1965 and early 1966 The Vejtables were becoming noticeably psychedelic...
Smile, Smile, Smile
The Vejtables - Smile, Smile, Smile (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jslo98P2LdE#)
Shadows
The Vejtables - Shadows (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN7n3qdYX1k#)
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How have I never heard of them? I like their sound and will check them out further.
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They were a Bay Area phenomenon, Todd. I heard them when I was in California during the summer of 1965. They were folk-rock and just evolving into psychedelic at that time. Here they sound like a cross between The Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane...
Feel The Music
VEJTABLES-FEEL THE MUSIC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHGuaTLr0Oc#ws)
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Jan Errico (Ashton) left the group in early 1966 when The Vejtables were evolving into a more hard-core psychedelic group and began sounding like this...
Hide Yourself
The Vejtables - Hide Yourself (60's Garage Punk Psych) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMtZcRDR1Q#)
1966
She preferred folk-rock and wrote this song recorded by The Vejtables...
Cold Dreary Morning
Cold Dreary Morning - Jan Ashton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7tvjhEEUio#)
1965
She played drums on all The Vegtables' recordings. She had a pretty good voice too.
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I have 'Feel...The Vejtables' - very enjoyable. I didn't know of them in the day, but crossed paths with this last year by accident. Glad I did.
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I bought the Feel...The Vejtables CD years ago. Somehow it got shuffled back to the rear of my cabinet. I just "discovered" it again over the weekend. And I'm glad I did too!
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Anyway, Jan Ashton moved on and joined The Mojo Men in 1966. Here she is singing Sit Down I Think I Love You, written by Stephen Stills...
The Mojo Men - Sit Down I Think I Love You (1967) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8VAtmT--tE#)
1967
Sit Down I Think I Love You
Buffalo Springfield "Sit Down I Think I Love You" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGR_bUYe-PA#)
Buffalo Springfield 1966
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Jan making good use of her toms...
Till I Find You
The Mojo Men-Till I Find You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61Rznv3zKA#ws)
1966
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I have 'Feel...The Vejtables' - very enjoyable. I didn't know of them in the day, but crossed paths with this last year by accident. Glad I did.
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I bought the Feel...The Vejtables CD years ago. Somehow it got shuffled back to the rear of my cabinet. I just "discovered" it again over the weekend. And I'm glad I did too!
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Mansion Of Tears
The Vejtables-Mansion Of Tears (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDJctWyobSc#)
The Vejtables 1965
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That's good stuff! I'm surprised I've never heard them on Pandora. My station plays a lot of the less widely known bands like this. It's neat hearing them as they made their progression from folk/rock to psychedelic. I was particularly interested to see what they did with Tom Paxton's song. It's probably my favorite track on Peter, Paul and Mary's "See What Tomorrow Brings" album. The Vejtables certainly gave it a more upbeat treatment but I like it. Thanks for sharing these Barry.
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I see that that it's been released by Sundazed Records, a great label for 60s music.
Hmmm...no longer on Sundazed, but Feel The Vejtables goes for only 703.51 new on Amazon. ha2ha
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That's good stuff! I'm surprised I've never heard them on Pandora. My station plays a lot of the less widely known bands like this. It's neat hearing them as they made their progression from folk/rock to psychedelic. I was particularly interested to see what they did with Tom Paxton's song. It's probably my favorite track on Peter, Paul and Mary's "See What Tomorrow Brings" album. The Vejtables certainly gave it a more upbeat treatment but I like it. Thanks for sharing these Barry.
They only have 5 songs on Mog, and no albums.
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Nice surprise, I like them, their sound reminds me a little to the early Jefferson Airplane. How I love these old raw-sounding recordings that modern remastering didn't get to touch!
Jefferson Airplane - It´s alright (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIWe_XD_7o#)
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...Feel The Vejtables goes for only 703.51 new on Amazon. ha2ha
I should never have unwrapped my CD!!
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Nice surprise, I like them, their sound reminds me a little to the early Jefferson Airplane. How I love these old raw-sounding recordings that modern remastering didn't get to touch!
Nowhere Man, they certainly did sound like early Jefferson Airplane when Signe Toly Anderson was with them. The Bay Area was a fertile spawning ground for these folk rock groups. Many groups like these formed in 1964 and 1965 and played in San Francisco coffee houses and clubs. The Matrix was considered the home of The Jefferson Airplane.
The Feel...The Vejtables CD has a few more songs which are equally enjoyable as the ones I posted. The alternate take of I Still Love You better highlights the group's vocal harmonies and guitar playing.
Hola Adiós
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They only have 5 songs on Mog, and no albums.
What's Mog?
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That's good stuff! I'm surprised I've never heard them on Pandora. My station plays a lot of the less widely known bands like this. It's neat hearing them as they made their progression from folk/rock to psychedelic. I was particularly interested to see what they did with Tom Paxton's song. It's probably my favorite track on Peter, Paul and Mary's "See What Tomorrow Brings" album. The Vejtables certainly gave it a more upbeat treatment but I like it. Thanks for sharing these Barry.
Tom Paxton wrote one great folk song there! And Peter, Paul and Mary covered it well...
Last Thing On My Mind - Peter, Paul, and Mary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNh87PgHCWw#ws)
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But it was inevitable that these Bay Area folk groups plugged in and went electric with some of these folk standards. By 1964, young people wanted to hear something more lively than Michael Row The Boat Ashore.
You Were On My Mind
You Were On My Mind - Ian & Sylvia (1964) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1f9KWZd7A#)
Ian & Sylvia 1964
You Were On My Mind
We Five - You Were On My Mind (Live On Hollywood Palace) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_f16t1JGHo#)
We Five 1965
Yes, We Five was a Bay Area group.
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Look what George Harrison started with his acquisition in 1963 of the first Rickenbacker 360-12 built. You see that same 12-string electric guitar in both The Vejtables' I Still Love You and We Five's You Were On My Mind videos.
And, though from LA, Roger McGuinn recognized just how special this guitar can sound...
The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLC9ErSYSnA#)
Turn! Turn! Turn!
Pete Seeger ~ Turn Turn Turn (To Everything There is a Season) ♫♪ (1962) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y7P4n2uT0w#)
Pete Seeger 1962
Turn Turn Turn Pete Seeger Live Jan 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCAM3D2bYOQ#ws)
Pete Seeger 2010
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Hey Todd, here's something that might interest you. The Feel...The Vejtables liner notes mention that Jan Errico started playing drums just one week before her first gig with the band in late 1964. And she was still in high school!
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What's Mog?
MOG is a subscription service that allows users to play tracks from its catalog on a variety of digital devices, including computers, handheld devices, Sonos system and television (through MOG's Roku channel).