Turtlewax Express

In 1979, I played with Turtlewax Express.
E.g., here is a recording of our gig at Branford College, Yale University, November 17, 1979 (MP3, length ~1:38, ~205 MB). Some parts are quite good (others, fairly rough: caveat audiens!)
Music:

Eric Miller - Mandolin, guitar, vocals
David Kohane - Guitar, vocals
Janet Feld - Vocals
Mary Jane Donovan - Vocals
"Slim" (Dan Cohen) - Fiddle, vocals
Bruce Donald - Guitar, vocals
Nat Hewitt - Banjo, bass, vocals
David Handrick - Bass, Drums
*Jon Bower - Harmonica
Sound and Lights:

David Gelineau
Douglas Weston
Raoul Berman

*Not at the Yale gig.
That summer, we played weekly on Saturday nights at The Surf (Nantasket Beach), and every Thursday night at The Corner Bar (Salem, Mass.). This picture (right), taken at The Surf, shows me with Janet Feld, who is now a famous folk musician in Cambridge.

For more, here here are some clips of our electric set from August 4, 1979, where I played electric guitar. I still like the (long! - you have been warned) jam on For What It's Worth.

For those who are interested, FWIW (above) starts at ~5:45 on the full recording.

While later (in the 80's and 90's) I developed a very different guitar style, this tune captures a lot of the "70's sound" we were trying to make:

(+) For What It's Worth (file: MP3, 9 MB), a clip from:
(+) Electric set from August 4, 1979 (file: MP3, 29 MB)

(+) The Nantasket Beach recordings feature our friend Joe from Martian Highway, sitting in as guest drummer. The gig was recorded by Eric Miller, who has a copy here.

I am very sorry to report that David Kohane, Nat Hewitt, and David Gelineau have passed away. As you can tell from these recordings, they were great friends and musicians. Please listen to these songs by David Kohane, and these tunes of Nat.

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