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UPDATED 3rd October 2006
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INTRIGUING NEWS FROM
60sgaragebands.com
*SEPTEMBER 7, 2006* Alan Brackett of The Peanut Butter Conspiracy informed 60sgaragebands.com that Steve Smith from KDOC-TV (The Beat Goes On, Channel 56) is producing a show with members of The Conspiracy and members of Clear Light performing on one show - "all old friends that used to jam together a lot! If Dallas (Taylor) is well, and he says he will be, he'll be our drummer, and Cliff de Young is gonna sing - hopefully Doug (Lubhan) will fly in from Florida and then there's Ralph Shuckett and of course John Merill, Me, Mike Kollander and our new singer, Karen Mitchell. It should be great!" In other news. Alan's book on his Peanut Butter Conspiracy days is now "off the burner because I have so much else going on with all the commercials (just did 40 days straight on McDonalds, Suzuki, Honda and AGF for France) and everything else. I just wrote a great 'holiday' song and need somebody like Barry Manilow to do it."
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Robbie, Wanda and members of the PBC circa 1966
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"Lost" Clear Light Recordings Discovered.
Two tracks from the recording sessions for the unfinished second Clear Light album have just come to light. Keyboardist Ralph Schuckett discovered a cassette recording he made of an acetate of the two tracks that had lain forgotten in his attic for the past 35 years. One is a song that Ralph co-wrote with Cliff De Young called Darkness Of Day, a romping piece of psych rock in the same style as the first album. The second track is a Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar composition titled What A Difference Love Makes which shows the softer realms he was taking the group into when they split up. It is fantastic to finally have real evidence that Clear Light did start work on a follow up album, let's hope the master recordings are still laying in the old Elektra vault and that eventually they get to see the clear light of day.
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Below are two pictures that have recently surfaced of Cliff and Doug in New York. The photo on the right shows them with Louie Dula, drummer with the all girl group Bittersweet from Cleveland. Both photos were taken in New York
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Doug Lubahn has a new website under construction at www.douglubahn.com
Many thanks to Jason Pennick for the rare Clear Light/Peanut Butter Conspiracy concert posters, be sure to check out Jason's Unofficial Peanut Butter Conspiracy site.
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The Bud Mathis Story CD has just been reissued under the title "Infamous - Bands And Artists From The 60's" ( Sleeve on left). It has both sides of the Brain Train 45 and an instrumental take of "Me" as well as tracks by The Joint Effort. Not sure what label it is on but you can order it here:
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CLEAR LIGHT FORUM
Check out the new Yahoo Groups forum I have set up for Clear Light, you can post questions, observations, corrections and comments there and hopefully get a response too. Click HERE.
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Many thanks to Jim McAlwane for supplying the cutting below, taken from the pages of the UK "Top Pops" magazine, April 27th 1968. The photo is an unusual variant on the inner sleeve picture, but the text is a little out geographically, transporting the group to San Francisco! A shame the Night Sounds Loud 45 didn't break them into the UK scene.
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