Now Playing: Common People LP
Topic: Minor change or comment
A snazzy-looking retrospective LP featuring the West Coast Natural Gas titled Two's A Pair is now out on the renowned RD Records label from Switzerland (RD#22). The liner notes give the band's story for the first time, and helps sort out the confusion around the Matthew Katz clusterfuck of Fifth Pipe Dream & so forth. The data in the Acid Archives book basically checks out, to which can be added that "Aquarian Dream", credited to It's A Beautiful Day, was recorded by a one-off group with producer Mark Uzilevsky (aka Rusty Evans), his girlfriend, Tripsichord's lead guitarist, and 1-2 guys from West Coast Natural Gas. This track, which is cool cheese psych, is NOT included on the RD Records sampler, while all the other WCNG numbers on Fifth Pipe Dream (where Katz credited them to Indian Puddin' & Pipe) are. Like several second wave Bay Area groups, WCNG were originally from Seattle and relocated to SF in mid-1967. The tracks heard on Fifth Pipe Dream were recorded locally in early 1968.
