Biography
In the closing years of the 1960s, the San Francisco psychedelic outfit Gold displayed potential despite leaning heavily on existing styles, issuing just a single 45 in the form of “No Parking” backed by “Summertime,” whose B-side received production help from Country Joe McDonald. The group had laid down enough unreleased recordings in 1969 and 1970 to fill an album, a substantial share of which later surfaced on the 2003 CD compilation Oregins S.F. 1970; that set also contains eight tracks captured during a March 1970 appearance at the Fillmore West. Their sound merged blues, the minor-keyed folk-rock favored by many Bay Area ensembles, and Santana-style rock-Latin fusion, resulting in performances marked by appealing raw energy even though the songs themselves never matched the originality of the scene’s leading psychedelic acts.
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