Ok we did it again 16 consecutive years of the Annual Annual. This time I was happy to have Copper Stripper with me, who really brought the soundzzzzz.

I asked him what year we should cover this time around, and he offered 1928 and 1967. I know he would have loved to have brought in a bucket load of 78s, but we went with 1967 instead. What a brilliant year!

When I was a young teen in the early 80s, living in the Bay Area, I was really excited about 1967. I began collecting concert posters when Peter Albin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, gave my mom, whom he worked with, a stack of original 1960s-era posters. I was blown away and on the bus right then and there. I consumed everything I could from 1967 and the surrounding years.

My walls were covered by those posters along with any others I found at the local head shop, The Magic Theater, in San Mateo, where I was living. The music from my stereo was mostly from the San Francisco bands of that time.

Because of my older sisters I had already been listening to a lot of 70s-era rock (Queen, Journey, Boston, Bob Seger), and my dad turned me onto 50s and 60s rhythm and blues and Chicago electric blues. West coast 60s psych was all on me. The was my first foray into discovering music on my own.

Though the west coast sound is what drew me in, it didn't take long to stretch across the country and then to Europe. Today, next to punk, psych is still a mainstay in my collection. And yes, the Grateful Dead are still at the top of that list. I'm a Dead fReAk and proud of it, even if they don't often get played on my show.

Enjoy the special we made for you. We talk less than usual. You're welcome. Copper Stripper is also getting over being sick, so you get some lung butter throughout the night, but he makes it entertaining.

Some of my absolute favorites are in here, along with some artists I have never heard before, but I want to know more about today.

It's never too late to discover 1967.

Enjoy and please share.

jh

Break on Through: The Doors (S/T)
Cream Puff War: Grateful Dead (S/T)
Fall on You: Moby Grape (S/T)

Bend Me, Shake Me: The Models (7")
Work Song: Nina Simone (High Priestess of Soul)
Indian War Whoop: The Holy Modal Rounders (Indian War Whoop)
I'm Waiting For The Man: Velvet Underground and Nico (S/T)

Slip Inside This House: 13th Floor Elevators (Easter Everywhere)
Dropout Cookie: Captain Beefheart (Safe As Milk)
A Question of Temperature: Balloon Farm (7")
Bike: Pink Floyd (Piper at the Gates of Dawn)

Iowa, A Girls Name: The Baroques (S/T)
If 6 Was 9: Jimi Hendrix (Axis: Bold as Love)
Tales of Brave Ulysses: Cream (Disraeli Gears)
Somebody to Love: Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow)
Brown Shoes Don't Make It: Mother's of Invention (Absolutely Free)

Hole in My Shoe: Traffic (Dear Mr. Fantasy)
Creole Love Call: Roland Kirk (The Inflated Tear)
Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite: Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Don't You Listen To Her: Serpent Power (S/T)
7 & 7 Is: Love (Da Capo)

Tattoo: The Who (The Who Sell Out)
The Hunter: Albert King (Born Under A Bad Sign)
Ain't That A Groove: James Brown (7")
She's Looking Good: Roger Collins (7")
Face To Face: Zakary Thaks (7")

Don't Come Home A Drinking With Loving On Your Mind: Loretta Lynn (Country Hall of Fame)
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere: Bob Dylan and The Band (Basement Tapes Bootleg)
Sloop John B: Beach Boys (Pet Sounds)
Sgt Peppers Reprise: The Beatles (Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)