Communication like this is why i don't give up music..

a recent merry christmas is sent out ..
note who it was to... (he replied...)


> And best wishes to all of you.. May you not only recieve
> all you want for christmas,but may what you want and need be the
> same thing!Cheers from Doc!

-------reply..

Doc...Very happy holidays to you too !!

Best,

Bob Welch

A special treat for y'all!

It was a blustery boxing day, many years ago, in a warm cozy little club in Hackensack, New Jersey, that an entirely unknown Jimi Hendrix recorded this, with Curtis Knight and the Squires, of which he was a member at the time.
Immediately after this, he would be discovered in a club just like this, doing the exact same things...
But this was before anyone knew who he was...
an it smokes...
Here's the first one (i'll post more in a bit...)

DRIVING SOUTH (note.. top quality sound.. ATM calibre!)



Curtis Knight should REALLY get a special mention for how much he supported Jimi in those days... until then Jimi'd been roped in by very strict guidelines as very much a 'sideman'.. but Curtis gave hinm lots of room to show off, and stretch out, and is truly under appreciated for his contribution..
So , THANK YOU, mr Curtis Knight Sir.. from those of us that know!

Repost: my two foghat demos..

Thought i'd just repost this as i've been ill and haven't been able to do much with this blog for a while..
I'll be back folks!
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In an attempt to throw my hat into the ring for a possibility of getting a gig with Foghat i made a couple demos.. sent them into what i thought was the only Foghat.. i had no idea that there was gonna be TWO Foghats after the dust settled (but not for long, either).. so i don't know if they even got this... But here they are.. I did post em much earlier, but they're remixed and cleaned up..keep in mind they're 20 years old , and on ferric  tapes (it's all i had left)..





P.S. For best results have a good stiff drink and crank it LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you're a rare audio cassette collector your eyes will pop out!

You'll wanna check out my slideshow down below...
I also photographed as many of my vinyl covers as possible.. i'll dig them up and make a slideshow of them too, after i've found the rest of the cassette covers (i've got several TB of artwork to plow thru!)
I have a freddy king christrmas treat on the way tho first, folks!

The 'Public Record' recording method

Man this is soo Kool!
This is the exact same idea i had myself , where i'd upload a track and see what others could do with it...
now i'm adding my lix.. wiping out the guitar and adding some Kickass shit instead!!!!

check this site out man!

http://www.thepublicrecord.com/mayhem/download-raw-tracks/

Common sense on copyright...

You all REALLY should see this video..
Seme enlightened people ARE speaking out, you know.. on behalf of us all!

Comments and/or reviews of my music are the only thing keeping me out of the soup kitchen lines...

Why?
Well, if you go into a record store, and you see an album by someone you've never heard of, and know nothing about, with no liner notes, are you gonna buy it instead of the one with any one of those three?

Any chance i will ever have of getting off the dole and back playing is if somebody knows about my music, not me.. so far nobody does.. still, after 35 years. if someone comes to my page, they will not see any reviews such as 'i like this' or that's good' or 'that sux lemons'.
The reason almost nobody's heard of me after 35 YEARS of gigging is mostly that the press, also, did nothing...
You've heard it said that the only bad press is NO press... well i can attest to that, but in fact the only bad press is no press ABOUT THE MUSIC.
I can distinctly remember the second to last gig that the Alhambra hotel ever held, in Victoria, and we played it that night... the whole entertainment staff of 'Monday' magazine were there... i could see them bangin on the table and digging the boogie we were laying down... all original or remakes...
Not a word was EVER mentioned in that paper..
so nobody ever knew..
anyone coming to my blog will see MY opinion of the songs i post but other than the couple of comments on a couple tunes, by one of the only 4 readers i know about (thank you guys, sincerely...!)
the rest is... well,nobodys gonna take the time out to listen if there isn't a single comment om any of these...

Thiis isn't a hobby... it's what i spent most of my life doing... but if i'm horribly deluded, and these really DO suck, at least id like to know, cuz then it's GONNA be a hobby an i'm hangin it up...
So i'm gonna post a couple that i THOuGHT were good.. in case i really AM deluded...


This ones mostly rythmn with a little lead
BOOGIE No# A-03 (extra strong durability model - warranty extended for the full life of the song)


and this ones mostly lead with a little rythmn
A BLUES SONG


And this one i thought kicked..
AMPLIFIER FRYER

Please boycott 'my space'

And here's why...you can view any my space site in even a year old browser, but even a TWO WEEK old revision of camino isn't new enough to log in.. this is not even a personal page, but my band space.. apparently there's 'a whole lot of new features' that can't be seen with old browsers.. well since (in my opinion) that's not true, as they can be 'seen' just fine.. just the security of anyones page is threatened since if you cant log in you cant affect what's hap[pening.. this is just (in my opinion) some new way of applying invasiveness or other suspect software (in my opinion)

Both of my old girlfriends used to love 'swing time'

Now now! there... Shame on you for thinking such a thing... did you really think I was talking about.........
Lawrence Welk ;-)

But this is my 'Swing Time'
And yes, they both really did like it..



I don't think i've posted this one before either... it was recorded in the late 90's and was entirely done on a couple of cassette decks...

P.S. here's an AMAZING bit of trivia about Mr. Welk... between the bubbles, cocktail schwaltz, and endless polkas, his love for Surf Music would surface...
Yes, Surf rock...Astonishingly, he had some of the surf greats on there! Such as the Astronauts, The Chantays, Surfaris, and i think even the Fireballs etc...
....You'll never think of him in the same light again!
i wish more tape had survived of these.. they were the first thing to go when allocating show time... although the show was , for the most part, live , some bits were taped...

recorded between institutional stays..

And produced by mr zappa too.. this fella was truly what gave credibility to the name 'bizarre' for frank's record label..



I wonder how many of you know who this is...

Doc is my REAL name

so im faced with a bit of a dilema.. before the innernut it was easy to be doc rock... but it seems that theres a few i seen now i've been online... now i aint gonna change my name legally...
Firstly Doc is, of course short, like Tom for Thomas.. in my case it's DOminiC.. it stuck cuz of all the pharmacological studies etc etc (hey man if ya know any other pharmacy techs, ask them if THEY ever memorized Goodman's and Gilman's ;-)..
Folks just started calling me doc 'rock' cuz around here there was Doowop Doc, steel guitar Doc, an me.. folks would ask 'are ya singer Doc, country Doc, or Rock Doc? when they met me..
So anyways i wuz bored, and thought i'd clear the air..
That's the story, folks...

boy was that interesting (yeah right...)