The Green Pajamas - Summer of Lust (1984)

It's the mid-80's.  For some reason, a bizarre new fad in pop music was sweeping up the West Coast of this great Nation.  It was called the "Paisley Underground," a loose affiliation of California bands channeling 60's garage, pop and psychedelia. 

 Owing influences to just about every band to ever play popular music on the west coast, the Paisley Underground eventually made it north to Seattle, Washington.  This is a cassette from the group The Green Pajamas.  A band who, according to Wikipedia, has released 22 albums without ever signing to a major record label.

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Buddy Miles - Buddy Miles Live! (1971)

By the time he was 12 years old, Buddy Miles had already been labeled a child prodigy.  At 12, he would play drums with his Dad's band the Bebop's, and as a teenager would spend time in Ruby and the Romantics, The Delfonics, and the Ink-Spots.

So began his storied musical career that would see him play with everyone from Mike Butterfield in seminal blues-rock outfit Electric Flag, to a stint with his friend Jimi Hendrix in the short-lived side project Band of Gypsies. After releasing a live album with a young Carlos Santana, he would even find success later in his career as the frontman to the now infamous ad campaign, California Raisins.  

This set finds Buddy in Seattle, post-Hendrix, with a group called simply the Buddy Miles band.  Over the course of the set, Miles handles drums and vocals, and shows just how experienced he was at performing all different styles of American music.  From rock, to pop, blues, funk, and soul this record touches them all.  Highlights include "Them Changes", "We Got to Live Together", and the epic, aching, soulful cover of Neil Young's "Down By The River"