Arguably, one of the best live band in the world performing in 1975 in Berkeley, CA.

Recorded live, July 26, 1975, at the Keystone in Berkeley, California and features:

Commander Cody (keyboards/vocals)
Bill Kirchen (lead guitar)
'Buffalo' Bruce Barlow (bass)
Andy Stein (fiddle/saxophone)
Lance Dickerson (drums)
Billy C. Farlow (harmonica/vocals)
John Tichy (guitar)
Ernie Hagar (pedal steel)

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen is a country rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967. They secured a Top 10 hit in 1972 with 'Hot Rod Lincoln,' and Billboard listed them as the best live band in the country.

'In 1972, my friend Freddie Herrera opened a small nightclub in San Francisco. It was a hip joint where I met and worked withElvin Bishop, the Pointer Sisters and Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. We were the third or fourth band in there, we had a ball, got in a lot of trouble, rocked out, etc., etc., etc. The place was cool and became wildly successful and soon, Freddie opened Keystone Palo Alto and later Keystone Berkeley, buying up a large dump up on University right near campus where Creedance began their career and the owner of that joint didn't like my band very much.

Things changed after Freddie bought the place; it turned out to be a major Berkeley dive, right up there with Mandrakes and the Longbranch/Babylon hellhole.
Needless to say we fit right in, enjoying many rocking nights there in the middle seventies- in fact I lived about a mile away from there (vertically). We were practicing our double live album for Warner Brothers and had a decent recording company (Wally Heider) and we used the Keystone Berkeley as out trial balloon before heading out to London and Hammersmith early the next year.

This was John Tichy's last gig and he went off to R.I.P. to become a famous 'perfesser' while we worked Ernie Hagar in on steel guitar. The end was near for the Lost Planet Airmen but we went down swinging.'

-- George Frayne 'Commander Cody,'
Nov. 13, 2017

Track Listing

• Tequila
• Truckin' and Fuckin'
• The SHadow Knows
• Seeds and Stems (Again)
• Connie
• Cajun Baby
• Honky Tonk Music
• Minnie, the Moocher
• Semi-Truck
• Paid In Advance
• Lookin' At the World Through A Windshield
• High On A Hilltop
• Oh Mama, Mama
• Hot Rod Lincoln
• Roll Your Own
• Don't Let Go

Additional Details

Label: RockBeat Records

Genre: Pop/Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 53:57 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 02/09/18

UPC: 089353340728