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The Early Years
Jimmy the Cold Eskamo Blues Flat Bed Mama E-Port Shuffle Her Heart is Like Still Life Jazz I've Got A Job Bonehead
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In the beginning there was this band. It was a band built on the dreams of a bunch of recently graduated high school kids that wished it was still 1967. Unfortunately it was 1974 and disco was rearing it's ugly head. But some people never learn, or at least refuse to pay attention to reality. So they got together and in the finest tradition of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, they said "hey kids, lets put on a show." And they did. The band that they founded was know to the world as the Flying Dogs of Jupiter The Flying Dogs have the distinction of being the first garage band to release a full length LP on their own label. This isn't a claim we make. This was told to us by a guy who says he knows this stuff. Anyway he bought up all the available copies of the Flying Dogs Album "American Dream", put them in his catalog and sold them all off at $15.00 a copy. Shit, we couldn't even give them away when we made them in 1975. Now we have seen them for sale at vintage music stores for $100 a copy. Go Figure!
The Flying Dogs had a jamming kind of thing going when it was not cool to be a jam band
on the local club circuit. Their best audience was found at the colleges. They
had a ton of equipment that they built themselves to make their scene happen, and a
dedicated road crew to make it all work for them. This road crew had a name. And
guess what, the name that these guys went by was
The Spuds had control of all this equipment, so when the dogs had down time, out came the Spuds. Since the Spuds weren't schooled enough to play songs written by other people, they had to write their own. The first song that they wrote and recorded was a rock and roll polka called "Jimmy, the Union Mans Friend". A delicious little number depicting the possible methods that might have been used to do in Teamsters Boss, Jimmy Hoffa. Things took off from there. The Spuds played a couple of parties, and even opened once for the Dogs. Although this might have contributed to the eventual downfall of the Dogs. The Spuds recorded almost every performances they did in those early times. They wrote a bunch of songs and played when they could. Their style was mostly songs connected in between with long jams. From this jamming came the Spud opus, "Her Heart is Like an Iceberg". Eventually the Flying Dogs hit rock bottom and broke up. The Spuds
were owed money from making the album, so to pay the Spuds back, the Dogs gave up the
equipment. The year was 1978 and from that point on,
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