The Peace Seekers – Last Day Saloon – San Francisco 1983
October 21st, 1983
Left to right clockwise on the front cover:
Gene Parsons (banjo, guitar, vocals)
Sneaky Pete Kleinow (pedal steel guitar, vocals)
Skip Battin (bass, vocals)
Ed Ponder (drums)
During the fall of 1983, Gene Parsons, Skip Battin, Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Ed Ponder played around California without using any real band name.
In July of 1984, after a change in personnel, they used the name "The Peace Seekers" for a tour of Europe with Roger McGuinn.
I credited this particular concert to the then-not-yet-existing band name “The Peace Seekers”.
Skip Battin does most of the talking.
From Thomas Aubrunner’s webpages:
Gene Parsons remembers:
"I didn't like the name "Peace Seekers", it sounded too weird! I mean, we all look for peace, but the name makes no sense. We were not really a band with a permanent line-up. We started in the Fall of '83 in California. I defineitely didn't want to be a drummer anymore so we got Eddie Ponder, and for the European tour we've got Jim Goodall. I wasn't supposed to come over to Europe with the band, it was a situation where it was gonna be SneakyPete or me - we can't afford to be a five man band. We also lived so far away from each other, rehearsals were a real problem. We were supposed to have two weeks of rehearsals in Los Angeles for this tour but I drove down to LA from northern California only to learn that Skip hadn't arrived from Oregon!"
1. Go And Say Goodbye (3:04)
2. Don't Go Down The Drain (4:48)
3. Rider In The Rain (5:30)
4. Willin' (5:18)
5. Have You Seen My Baby (6:24)
6. Take A Whiff (On Me) (5:29)
7. Fango (4:36)
8. Here Comes Love (4:05)
9. Do Not Disturb (3:19)
10. Alley Oop (5:31)
11. You Don't Miss Your Water (6:59)
12. California Blues (7:30)
13. In My Hour Of Darkness (7:22)
14. Banjo Dog (6:24)
15. Santa Ana Winds (4:42)
16. Only One You + talk (5:03)
Artwork Included (front, back, CD)
7 comments:
https://workupload.com/file/r8WWHGJvpNE
Rocking Byrd, welcome back! It's weird, I was listening to Clarence White's Lost Masters this weekend and thinking about all the amazing shows that you shared and wondering what you were up to. Thank you so much for the Peace Seekers show, this is a nice and unexpected treat. I am looking forward to listening to the Fall 1983 show while I work. I hope you are doing well and having a great day!
Hi RB ! Really nice to see you back again, I've missed your posts ! This is a really good one, but I think I would have called it Battin Parsons Kleinow as I agree with Gene about the name. Quite decent sound quality ! Thanks again
There is another 1983 concert by this lineup that was posted in 2009, credited to Parsons, Battin & Kleinow.
https://rocking--byrd.blogspot.com/2009/02/gene-parsons-skip-battin-sneaky-pete.html
The link is obsolete but I can refresh it if needed.
A pleasant enough concert, although by this time their kind of music was no longer as popular as it was ten years earlier. Skip sounds better singing than he did with the Byrds, where his phrasing was kind of quirky. Gene always had a nice, mellow voice. The music itself is not so surprising, with the exception of Alley Oop, which I remember in my childhood. Thanks for the upload, it's always interesting to hear later music from members of the Byrds.
rockingbird!
thanks for this one, any gene parsons post is really welcome!!!
Howdy buckaroo! Welcome back! It's great to have you back once again and, btw, Merry Xmas & Happy New Year from Italy to you and yours! Tks... always...
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