After you put Betty to bed, have a long listen to this ...

Slik Toxik - Doin' the Nasty (full album)

For "Lonely Town", [Al] wrote the following: "One of mine, from the SF Eyes sessions, ’78, Mushroom studios. Why it was deleted from the album, I can’t recall—internal politics, likely—it’s a shame the world didn’t hear this. A great moment of Ron & I bonding via my writing & Ron’s vocal performance. This one still moves me—Ron did a great job on it."

Lonely Town - PRiSM Demo(See Forever Eyes Sessions, 1978

I shall leave you in good hands with the sounds of Vancouver and Where It's At

Have a look at the summary under the video!

Vancouver Psychedelic Sixties - Seeds of Time and Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck

The Collectors - What Love

In on PRiSM's ground floor? That's a rock and roll fantasy right there!

Well, they started at the basement. Sadly, I missed out on that part. I wouldn't have if I had lived in Vancouver at the time, I can assure you! :)

Lost Horizons - Ron Tabak - Sunshyne Studio Sessions, 1976

PRiSM fans everywhere will always and forever wonder what could have been ...

Turn it up LOUD!

They opened for Styx at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium in 1977, the year of the release of their eponymous debut album, the first debut album, by the way, by a Canadian rock band to achieve platinum status in Canada! I went to see Styx but came home with PRiSM! :)

Ron Tabak, the late and great vocalist for PRiSM in their heyday (1977-1980), was very unceremoniously fired from the band at the end of 1980. There were serious plans for a reunion in 1984 but, sadly and tragically, Ron was killed in a bicycle accident, Christmas, 1984.

Thankfully, Al Harlow, member of the classic PRiSM lineup - Lindsay Mitchell(guitar), Al Harlow (bass), Rocket Norton (Drums, Rocket Norton:Lost in Space), John Hall (keyboards, his cousin, Marc Gladstone is current PRiSM keyboardist!), the great Ron Tabak (RIP, lead vocals) - has kept the band alive, and put his own revived solo career on hold, until now!

Here's a favourite PRiSM:Ron Tabak Era tune that I think you will all love ... off of their 1980 Young and Restless album for which they won the Juno (Canadian Grammy) for Group of the Year in 1981 ...

PRiSM - American Music

In on PRiSM's ground floor? That's a rock and roll fantasy right there!

I don't think it's quite the same thing, but MY rock and roll fantasy happened in late-1970s Ann Arbor. I was bopping down the street and I passed this record shop that was blasting this wonderful music that I'd never heard before. So I walked in, praised their simple but effective sidewalk marketing prowess and bought More Songs About Buildings and Food.

WITHIN WEEKS, I found myself in shoe-box sized Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, seated in the third row about 20 feet from The Talking Heads. All they did was play the entire album that I'd just bought. Forty-five minutes and they were out of there. During the show I smoked weed and raised my smoldering pipe to the band. I was too shy in those days "rush the stage" which in this case would have entailed walking up to them while they were unplugging and breaking down. Maybe I should have given their fabulous Bassist Tina Weymouth a special "welcome" Ann Arbor.*sigh*

Ya just gotta love Nick Walsh!

Like An Animal

Bounty Hunter was a, wait for it, Vancouver based band!

Enjoy their Pocket Full of Blues

Come to think of it, I am thankful for the pandemic, only in the sense that I have discovered and re-discovered (PRiSM) so many great bands during this down time.

I should have been loving Slik Toxik back in the day but I was too busy listening to, well, other types of music. What can I say ... I'm always late to the party ... well, except for this one. :)

Anyways, here is a full concert by the phenomenal Canadian band, Slik Toxik!

Slik Toxik Live in Concert

Not bad. I'm glad I stuck around for the killer guitar solo. Never heard of these guys, ya got something else that is tasty?

Sweet Asylum

Nick has a new project, well underway ... Famous Underground ... more about that a little later!

Here he is fronting Slik Toxik ...

helluvatime! ... kind of like what we have right here, every Sunday night, NOT! YET! ... we need some new blood ... hint, hint :)

Welcome, everyone, to the CW Sunday Night Music Festival and Dance Party, where we leave politics behind for a few hours and immerse ourselves in the tunes. Which, I hasten to add, may be as political as we wish - we just have to forgo any hint of our own special brand of political commentary. Heh.

And, with that said, if I've said it once, I've said it a million times ... if ever I am able to travel back in time, I'll fire up the Delorean to take me to Vancouver, sixties to eighties, where the music was happening and anyone who was anybody was there!!!

So, to get this party off to a rip roarin' start, enjoy this fine seventies tune by Vancouver band, Zingo ...

Merry Go Round

Republicans are doubling down on stupid.

FREEDOM OF RELIGION is meaningless without freedom from other people's religion. Anti-abortionists are trying to impose their religious beliefs on all of the rest of us. At best, they'll make it more difficult (and dangerous) for poor women in red States to get an abortion. If their Pastor knocks up the Church Secretary THEY won't have any problems getting an abortion.

Yes, wearing a mask, social distancing and getting vaccinated is a PERSONAL CHOICE. And I make the personal choice to RESPECT myself and my neighbors. A pandemic was always in the cards and this is how grownups deal with it.

...one realizes that fulfillment cannot come when the present moment is merely a struggle to bear in service of the future, because that future is destined to become nothing more than the struggle of a new present, and the glorious end state never arrives.

And I've got 150 45-r.p.m.s I can dig through for inspiration. Psychadelia? You betcha!

I've got some great 'obscure' bands lined up for Sunday night, some of them psychedelic! I might even have time to raid what's left of my stash first. Heh.

And so we have the Kennedy family, the Bush family (but not quite the Clinton family. Frankly, I think the Kardashians are Murica's new royalty.