012 - Russ Giguere, guitarist & singer for The Association joins us for a fantastic hour of story telling.

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Show number 012 is with one of the founding members of The Association – Russ Giguere. The Association are known for such hits as Along Comes Mary, Windy, and Cherish. Russ played Rhythm Guitar, sang and played percussions. Russ has a new book titled: “Along Comes the Association; Beyond Folk Rock & Three Piece Suits”. Russ talks with us about how the band started, not only playing at the Monterey Pop Festival, but seeing and meeting Jimi Hendrix at the concert. Also Russ was offered to join the Mothers of Invention by Frank Zappa and he talks about the secret places at Disneyland that he and the band would….. you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out all the fun stuff.

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Show Notes:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAssociation/

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The Icehouse located in Pasadena, is still standing today, although it us basically a comedy club: https://icehousecomedy.com/

“Hoot” night at the Troubadour in Los Angeles: https://www.troubadour.com/history/

Rita makes mention of the “27 Club” here is an explanation of what the 27 Club is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

Smithsonian article out the concert posters: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/psychedelic-concert-poster-rocked-world-180958780/

The Association singing “Changes” with Andy Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDfY9C5wv3E

Happy Together Tour 2020: https://theturtles.com/tour/

Django Reinhardt movie CW talks about: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6247936/

Russ mentions one of his first concerts was Sabicas. Take a look at real Flamenco guitar playing; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnFtLjQ_rr8

One of Russ’ first concerts was Josh White, take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hnuJZt7Mvk

In case you were wondering about Russ’ prize and who Forest Ackerman was, here is a brief explanation. Forest started a movie magazine in the late 50s/early 60’s called Famous Monsters. He used to be a huge sci-fi and monster fan, and the movies, once finished, would pass on their many props to Forest to keep. So in the 80s he had a big house in the Hollywood Hills, and once a month he would open it to the public to come see his collection. Check out this video to give you more of an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvJdwc9ItjQ

The Association videos:

Windy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHpwzpaFI4g

Cherish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD94tZgPuvc

Along Comes Mary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZsQSFzIsb8

A special thank you to Elliot Kendal from Film and Music Promotion

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Russ’ Lightening Round prize. Ray Bradbury self portrait.

Russ’ Lightening Round prize. Ray Bradbury self portrait.

Original Monterey Pop Festival poster

Original Monterey Pop Festival poster

One of the first psychedelic “Fillmore” type posters. This one featuring The Association

One of the first psychedelic “Fillmore” type posters. This one featuring The Association