#the loading zone

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Poster advertising the Jan 7, 1968 Stop The Draft benefit concert at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, featuring Phil Ochs, Mad River, The Loading Zone, Blue Cheer, The Committee & more

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The Loading Zone (1966)

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Can I Dedicate - The Loading Zone (The Loading Zone, 1968)

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Bill Graham Presents - The Who in San Francisco

   Psychedelic Art Poster, 1967

   Artist - Bonnie MacLean

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The Bells - The Loading Zone (The Loading Zone, 1968)

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The Loading Zone "One For All" 1970 Psychedelic Rock, Jazz-Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz

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Solid soul / jazz / psych pastiche with some truly freaky free jazz tunes Loading Zone was playing a form of jazz rock funk free fusion and was unfortunately greatly overlooked by the generally unsophisticated audiences at that time. This album was recorded in 1969 before fusion got fused and the word had a completely different meaning. The audiences were mostly very stoned (I know because I was there) and the music of The Airplane was closer to their hearts. Not that the Airplane was bad, just unsophisticated. But listening to this album in 2005 is very interesting in that it doesn't sound so strange at all....styxtheelder ...............

Greetings all. What better way to slide through the middle of the week than with some of that funky, head-nodding goodness? I have made mention of the Loading Zone previously, in relation to the singing of its one-time vocalist Linda Tillery, aka Sweet Linda Divine. The group formed in the mid-60s, then recruited Tillery, recording an album for RCA before the singer left to go solo. The Loading Zone’s sound, if they can truly be said to have had one, was an odd mixture of soul, jazz and rock, which doesn’t sound all that complicated, but instead of blending the three strains into a single admixture, they kind of rode it like a sliding scale, moving from one sound to another. That they did this in 1960s San Francisco (or just in the 60s) explains how they got signed to a major label. Everybody was experimenting with stylistic blends, and where a band these days might be accused of aimlessness, in the earliest days of progressive (in the truest sense of the word) rock, this was the mark of versatility. I’m of the school that leans toward the latter characterization, and sees it as a net positive. You have to remember that in 1967, rock was barely a decade old, yet in incubators like San Francisco, Los Angeles and London, (ostensibly) rock musicians were dipping into all kinds of sounds and redefining what that style meant. There’s hardly a better example of this than the closing track from the Loading Zone LP, ‘Can I Dedicate’. Sounding at times like Horace Silver and the Holding Company, ‘Can I Dedicate’ (later sampled by the Souls of Mischief for ‘Live and Let Live’) is a nine-plus minute exercise in jazzy, stoned funk. Listening to it today it sounds like something stitched together using soul jazz samples and looped drums, waiting for someone to drop a verse or two on top of it. There are traces of hard bop, woven around a hypnotic, rolling bass line, tight drums, and the out of the blue, a Fillmore West-style guitar solo (followed, naturally, by a jazz trombone solo…). It is heavy, wonderful stuff, and one of those tracks I find myself going back to a digging all the time. I hope you dig it too, and I’ll see you all on Friday. Keep the faith .......Larry............. Tracklist A1 Think 5:30 A2 Time Stops 1:19 A3 Help Me 3:21 A4 Untitled 7:06 A5 One For All 3:42 B1 You Got Me Hummin' 5:55 B2 Enter 15:35 Albums The Loading Zone (RCA Records, 1968) One for All (Umbrella Records, 1970)

[johnkatsmc5]

The  Loading Zone  “Live At Fillmore” 1968 West Coast Psych Blues Rock bootleg.

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The Loading Zone was one of many big ensemble San Francisco bands to break out of the Summer of Love in 1967. Along with contemporaries such as It's A Beautiful Day, Tower of Power, Cold Blood and others, The Loading Zone wanted to play it all: R&B, jazz, funk, rock, psychedelic, and blues. And like the other aforementioned bands, they were spearheaded by a charismatic lead vocalist: Linda Tillery. The Loading Zone also had great musicianship and a director/leader in keyboardist/founder Paul Fauerso.

What The Loading Zone didn't have was songs. Because of the response the band received at its live shows in the Frisco area, they did land a deal with RCA Records, but they could never capture the energy of the band's live show on the record. The result was a greatly overproduced debut album. The record contained too many over-arranged Motown covers, and upon the release, it was grilled by most critics. Furthermore, the band failed to gain the support of radio programmers at the time. In the end the criticism and lack of radio support was too much for the band, which dissolved in 1969. Fauerso and Tillery revived the group with new members in 1970 before breaking it up once again less than a year later.

This show was recorded at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, in February, 1968. It was during this period that The Loading Zone often opened for the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company and Cream, among others. The band's original's are arguably unmemorable, but they do have some cool covers, among them Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man," The Temptations' "Get Ready," and a very bluesy take on "Stormy Monday," long before the Allman Brothers had turned it into a rock-blues classic..............................

Linda Tillery - vocals; Paul Fauerso - keyboards, vocals; Pete Shapiro - guitar; Steve Dowler - guitar; Bob Kridle - bass; George Newcom - drums; Todd Anderson - saxophone; Pat O'Hara - trombone

1 Watermelon Man 12:57 2 Get Ready 02:46 3 Stormy Monday 06:42 Love Feels Like Fire 02:30 5 Just Can't Please You 04:47 6 The Monkey Time 05:05 7 Kali Yuga-Loo 03:17