The amazing jazz fusion group that shook the Central Coast in the seventies
Originally formed to perform music for a play, Us, The Rest of Us folded opening night, leaving the band, already a tight-knit unit, to open at a small club in Menlo Park, Butterfield's.
A few weeks later, club filled to overflowing, the band began plans for this project.. The rest, as they say, is hysterical...
Personnel:
Bill Courtial - guitar
Errol Knowles - vocals
David 'Dasher' Kempton -Dyno-Rhodes, Arp 2600 and Elka String Machine - bellbottoms, anyone?
Ed Williams - electric bass
Geoffrey Whyte - drums
Jose Najera - percussion
Would you like to hear more? I have unearthed a cassette recording of the very last night of the Courtial band at Butterfield's, where it all began. The recording is extremely distorted, but the band was really kicking some serious tail that evening, even if the arrangements got left in the dust!
If you can handle the truly terrible recording quality, here is:
Courtial - Last Night at Butterfield's
And finally, just for fun...
Here is a piece I composed for a Radio Shack CB Radio Contest - they were really looking for 30-second commercials, but this turned into a pop tune, sort of. Again, recorded onto 4-track cassette with many overdubs...
