Talk:Weird Herald (Unreleased 1968-69 Album)/@comment-50.173.132.128-20140625002858

Weird Herald recorded enough material for one album with Max Weiss at Fantasy Records. The contract agreement was Max got a cut (40 or 60%, I don't recall) from album profits after release in exchange for free studio time. The band also played one engagement at the Fillmore Auditorium (old Fillmore) as an opening act (I don't remember which group, maybe Pat or Cecil do) and as an audition for possible future engagements; the band was nervous and didn't play their best, so Graham never asked them back. At that time, their best song was written by Billy Dean, "Burgundy and Yellows"; it had a particularly difficult high note, and was haunting and stunningly beautiful when sung perfectly...it is on the Fantasy recording. Fantasy Records' history is in Wikipedia; I imagine the original recording tape may still be in its Berkeley archives. Weird Herald also played at a high school prom as an opening act for Creedence Clearwater Revival, another San Jose area group at the time. Before the group formed, Paul Ziegler owned a coffee house near San Jose State University (1965) and frequently had Jorma Kaukonen, Jerry Garcia, and other local guitarists play there. (Laurie Merryman Treacher)