I spent most of the summer of 1965 in Sacramento, Cal swimming at the Beverly Swim and Tennis Club. A friend's family invited me to go there with them and was the best trip of my life up to that time. At meets, my friend Paul would bring a guitar and play in between swims. At one meet, there was a team from Menlo-Atherton that also had someone Paul's age that played. We knew him as Lindsey the kid who had a brother who was incredibly fast in the water. Paul and Lindsey would bonded and played together and Lindsey showed him son songs he was working on. We thought it was cool and fun and a great way to relax between races. Lindsey's brother Greg went on to win a silver medal in the 200 individual medley in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. About 9 years later, I was living in Huntsville, Ala and I heard this song come on the radio by a band called Buckingham Nicks. It had a very familiar deja vu feel to it. It was one of the songs that Lindsey was working on with Paul in between swims, the riff was there, but the words hadn't been added to it. The song was "Don't Let Me Down Again" . I went and bought the album and sho' nuff, there's Lindsey with longer hair paired with this incredibly beautiful, sexy girl - Stevie. Buckingham Nicks was very popular in Alabama during the short time they were a band. We used to play the album over the speakers at the Braham Springs Natatorium during swim practices. When we heard that the duo was going to Fleetwood Mac, everyone who knew of BN, knew this would be a super group. The rest is history.
I love both of them artistically but you could argue there would be FWM without them, in fact there have been several great albums of FWM before 1975, with Bob Welch, Danny Kirwan and the great Peter Green
I can't believe I've never heard any of this before today...and I have searched and searched many times for all she ever created! Guess God had a reason to keep me waiting!
Thank you, glad you liked it. "A Dream Away" was recently redone with Joy Bonner on vocals. Let me know what you think! th-cam.com/video/kAEv04YlikE/w-d-xo.html
Wow... just WOW! I wonder what people thought hearing this back then for the first time? Probably same as me hearing it! Need to find a clearer version of this, just incredible. The familiar Buckingham Nicks sound is there. Can't get this out of my head! Still in love with Stevie after all these years....
You may not especially care for this 2021 version--the singer is Joy Bonner. She is an amazing vocalist. th-cam.com/video/kAEv04YlikE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yUuOvsCeenCJxEj7
Sorry, Terry, the best I could do is refer you to th-cam.com/video/CwfyMYCHzzU/w-d-xo.html. Video/sound cameras were big and clunky in the late 60s, early '70s. Video didn't become important to bands until after '78 and into the 80s. This video has audio edited in. Please see the notes. Thanks for your interest.
The lyrics are killer! I mean, so is the rest of the song, but I never got ahold of the lyrics until I checked the description here. I really am obsessed with this band. 🤪💞🤪
You'll be pleased to know that I am in the process of producing a new recording of this song, as well as several others for Vol 1 of the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band TRIBUTE. It will be streamed and there will be an acetate (Long Playing) recording available with accompanying booklet. The Fritz GoFundMe video is about to go public, hopefully, this month. Stay tuned.
So cool to see the roots and origins of how both Stevie and Lindsey would adopt this style of expressive lyric writing in their music in the Rumours era... and that countenance carried on long after... with Lindsey's lyrics becoming more cryptic moving into the Tusk era and beyond. We should definitely be paying homage to you for that heavy influence… I can't think of any other songwriters who ever used that sort of in-writing to become some of the most beloved, history-making music of all time. So, a heartfelt thank you to YOU... for your influence on history. 😊🎶
I'm trying to research the places we've played to get additional photos that have not already made it to Google Images and whatnot. The idea is to put out a decent narrative and pictures that have not been seen before. Trying to get this done by this year. Please be patient. Did you know that I heard a recording was made of Fritz (by Graham's sound engineers) when we played Fillmore West, March 1970? I'm also looking for any traces of that reel-to-reel recording. It was the best recording of Fritz ever done. We had the distinction of getting standing ovations--not bad for an "opening" band! If I could find it and include it in the CD box set, then we're talking about a real "crucial part of music history."
These songs from the Fritz are magnificient, Stevie’s voice was at its best. Anything you can do to create a full cd, would make me the happiest person.
@@silversprings62 I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting. We started to record in May. Please check out the website. www.fritzrmb.com. Go to our site and listen to some samples of what's on Vol. 1. Please help us by spreading the word. Thanks!
There is. The vinyl record came out in July. Still waiting for permission to release the music in Streaming. Please visit www.Fritzrmb.com. The singer is Joy Bonner (See "About" section for musician bios.)
Completely LOVE this song! Sounds to me like some of the songs you wrote back then influenced Stevie's writing... Totally sounds like a song she could've written! Thank you for sharing!
Well, for one thing, that personal back-and-forth in the songs of "Rumours" wasn't new to Stevie or Lindsey. Since our first year, I had been writing songs addressed to them while in Fritz. "Dream Away" and "Wondering Why" are clear examples of that. Stevie's own composition, "Funny Kind of Love" was another cogent expression of our relationship as band members and friends.
Thank you very much. In those years, I often wrote lyrics and had little clue what they meant or why they originated in me. I think that unknowingly, I was a vessel, churning out songs that spoke of other times. Such was the case with "Bold Narcissus," a gentle tune I wrote when Stevie and Lindsey began to get "serious" with one another (which was way earlier than they have let on, in their latter interviews). We did that tune for a few gigs, but once S&L became aware that they were the subjects of the lyrics, they didn't want to do it anymore. In the song, I predicted that Stevie would betray Linds, way down the road.
@@nightbird1975 Unfortunately, its only a faint memory. There are no recordings of that song. I had scribbled the words out on a piece of binder paper. Most of it is forgotten.
Great times, great band, great pictures. If I'm not mistaken this is on the new Fritz record, which I am planning on buying for Christmas actually. Thank you so much for sharing Javier Whas this inspired by the band drifting apart? Love from the Wales by the way!
Thank you for writing, and yes, this was a compassionate hope for a coming-together in the last full year of the band's existence. In the last verse, note the change to optimism and renewal. Joy Bonner puts in a marvelous performance in the new recording. For more details, see "About" in www.Fritzrmb.com.
This is so cool! My brother was actually at this concert. If I remember correctly the set list was: • Existentialist. • Proudct of The Times. • A Dream Away". • What The world Needs now. • You Don't Get young anymore. • Yellow. • The Power. • Flanes of Frustration. • Georgia. • Reconsider. If you don't mind Javier, I'd love to know the story behind all those songs. Such interesting titles!
Hi Jess, and thanks for the kind comments. How could you "remember" those tunes if you weren't there? That's quite a memory you have!! If you could give me more details about that show, that would really help me. I'm currently writing a BIO entitled "1967" and so much of the past is hard to recall now. Where was that? What year? Ya see, Existentialist, Yellow, A Dream Away, The Power, and Product of the Times were a main part of our shows in the final year. The other titles you threw in belong to our early period. "What the World Needs Now" was written by Jackie DeShannon (1963) and belongs to the list with Georgia (was written by Ray Charles), Reconsider, Flames of Frustration, and You Don't Get Young Anymore, 1968 material, when we used to mix cover tunes with originals. I'm publishing a little booklet that explains the songs, coming out with a Fritz recording in late Spring, 2021. Watch for it: www.Fritzrmb.com. Tell your "brother" about it, too.
I'm not aware of any vibrato issues with Stevie. On the other hand, Lindsey did possess a very strong vibrato in his singing voice, and he did struggle to contain or control it, because it was in everything he sang (the first year).
We agonized for awhile, trying to think of something new and special for a name. Nothing "came" to anybody. I suggested (partly in jest) the phonetics of a German immigrant student I knew (surname was spelled differently) and everybody seemed to go along, we all agreed on the name. Nobody was thinking "long term" with this project, it was supposed to be just rehearsal for a Christmas talent show. I didn't know if we would remain together after that. Circumstances changed for the better, we kept working together, and eventually shortened the name to just "Fritz."
Wow! Pray tell, where did you first hear that song? I wrote that piece on the piano some months after the band broke up. I had completely forgotten about that tune. The problem is, it was originally recorded on a reel-to-reel recorder, and I must have transferred it to a cassette (before digital made its strong showing in our technology) but I am not sure where. "Building castles in the sand, watch the tides bring them down; see,... the power of a man as he cries when he drowns, and the rise of a silent past echoes in my brain; And I'll be On my way at last . . ." I have forgotten the rest. I tucked this song into a folder and simply forgot about it--too many painful memories. Where did you hear about this song? Thank you for inquiring about it!
Hi Mr. Pacheco, I'm a huge fan of Stevie and Lindsey's early careers of the late 60s and early 70s and I love your band! I recently read a Q&A you did on a Fleetwood Mac fan site where you mentioned some songs I had never heard of and I was wondering if you could share your inspiration for them. Also are there recordings existing for these? I love knowing the history of songs I like, so it would be really cool. Joy, Nowhere Fast, Tomorrow Come Today, Pioneers (done prior to the 1980 Lindsey jam session I believe), Louisa Joy, Sing Ye, Oh Lord.
Thanks for your interest. "Joy" and "Oh, Lord" were written by Brian Kane. "Tomorrow Come Today" was merged with (& is the second part of) "Passing Phases," which is featured on Fritz Vol 1 (third number). "Pioneers" (wow, you did some research!) was a jam tune I did with Lindsey in 1980, when he visited with me in San Francisco. "Louisa Joy" was a commercial song I wrote to prove to Keith Olsen, Shiffman and Larson, and Forest that I could write pop ditties. Olsen recorded that tune in Studio City (1970) when they used me (surrupticiously) to help S&L put together their first Demo! They didn't even invite Brian and Bob. I don't plan to re-release that. "Sing Ye" and "Pioneers" were also written for the jam in 1980. I put up "Louisa Joy" and "Sing Ye" as slide shows on this Channel. "Oh Lord" can also be found here. Lindsey wasn't too happy that day in 1980, and left early; it wasn't a long session. He had wanted me to write music for him "in the style" of Fleetwood Mac. Unfortunately, I had been very busy earlier that year, writing horn parts, piano/bass charts for my Latin Jazz band, and found it most difficult to put myself in a FM pop-music frame of mind when I sat down at the piano. So he went away a little miffed that I had nothing to show in that regard. I haven't decided what songs I'm putting on Vol II, but they most-likely won't be any of these mentioned here, except perhaps Brian's tunes, which I would love to record if the three of us (Brian, Bob and I) can agree to get together to do this in 2022. For Vol II, I am going to put out Take Advantage of Me, Product of the Times, and Yellow. That's what I have in the works now. Sorry, I can't go into a long detailed "History of Songs" for you here. There is a chapbook coming out soon that highlights the formation of the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band. Keep a lookout on the website (www.Fritzrmb.com) in 2022 for the link to order it.
I am big Stevie's fan but only now I understand why she's called the second Janis Joplin. And let's not forget about those guys that also were very great (especially Lindsey).
@@PachecureWell, don't get me wrong. Stevie's certainly not as the same level as Janis and playing/ singing R&B is not in Stevie's style neither. But there are delicate similarities and vibes in the voices and singing of both of them or something like that. I think I can feel it but I cannot nail it what it is. Maybe it is also because of that I know that Janis's been a big inspiration for Stevie. I don't know. But during listening to that song I felt a little Janis in Stevie's singing 🙄
***** No, Elizabeth. I don't think he saw us live at all--unless it was at the Santa Monica Civic, San Diego, or the Whiskey-A-Go-Go (on Sunset Blvd). He was in Los Angeles, and Aragon HS is in the Bay Area.
***** The reason I said that was because I recently read an interview with Keith Olsen, and he was saying that he traveled north to see you guys play at a Catholic school dance. I just googled Aragon and it's a public school, so that's not it. I'll have to try to find that interview again....
***** Yes, the memory fails me now, but I coulda sworn that we didn't meet Olsen until we got to Los Angeles. Everybody's memories of the true events leading to the end of Fritz are hazy.
Please let me know if you find that interview. Could've been possibly Homestead High School in Sunnyvale. But I think he heard us most when we played in Santa Monica and at the Whisky-A-Go-Go on Sunset. I don't think Mr Olsen had any taste for our material--after all, we were a product of the San Francisco Bay Area, and he was a newly-arrived Tinsel-Town recording engineer from the MidWest.
according to the book "Goodnight LA" (2017) Keith saw you playing at a private girl's high school in 1970, somewhere around San Francisco I guess. An excerpt: Having learned about Fritz through their manager, who had been dialing every producer in Los Angeles in an attempt to stir up at least some kind of recording interest in the band, Olsen agreed to fly up to San Francisco on their dollar to check them out. After being picked up at the San Francisco airport by a scruffy, twenty-two-year-old Lindsey Buckingham and the group’s drummer in their beat-up instrument-filled van, Olsen rode along with them to that evening’s concert at a private girl’s high school, where he gamely helped load in the gear. Then, ten minutes before showtime Stevie Nicks walked through the door. And roughly eleven minutes after that, Olsen knew all he needed to know. Buckingham and Nicks were standouts. Their talent and chemistry were obvious, not to mention they both looked and acted like rock stars. They had presence. And Olsen had been around long enough to know the difference. He had to sign them. Immediately following the show he made his pitch. “Let’s get together at my studio. Can you do it next week?” Hartman, Kent. Goodnight, L.A.: The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock--The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios (S.18). Da Capo Press. Kindle-Version.
This was a fated bad recording of one of our last concerts. I was using an Uber reel-to-reel tape recording machine with two small speakers that sat on the stage. With the vibrations of the music and all, one of the microphones that was closest to the voice monitor got turned around.Yes, this is not a good quality recording, but its better than nothing at all, and now, you do have options. You can listen to a newer version of this song and then come back and make sense out of this recording. Absolutely free! th-cam.com/video/kAEv04YlikE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=uaH6b3_R3w1wKiwO
Hi Mr. Pacheco, I had a question. Do you happen to remember the photographer behind the iconic Harvey's Resort photos? I'm sort of a Stevie photo nerd and haven't been able to find a credited photographer for those pics.
Thanks for writing, Bruh 99. I'm pretty sure that the photographer was contracted by David Forest, our manager. I don't remember his name, and unfortunately, there is no stamp or reference on his glossies that I ended up owning. After Fritz broke up I ended up saving and obtained the copyright for most of the pics taken of the group, but cannot say who the original photographers were. They didn't "brand" their own work. When S&L were approached by MTV, "Behind the Music," Oprah Winfrey and others, they referred them to me for licensing because I had kept all that material.
Thank you, sir. No, we recorded early in our first year together, but the quality of the songs wasn't that great. What the band usually did was--if they liked the song--they quickly learned the tune and immediately added the music to our working repertoire. Some songs stayed with us longer than others, but we went through several stylistic upgrades, so the material tended to become more developed (from the standpoint of melodies, harmony, rhythmic arrangement, etc.) and a little longer too. We went from 3 minute commercial ditties (original & covers) up to 10+ minutes of concert material designed to play at larger venues like Rock concerts. Every song had a different shelf life. Each new arrangement represented more detail in the parts and overall structure, it was a process of musical evolution for me, as the one who wrote most of what we played. Some songs never got recorded and fell by the wayside, forgotten forever. You have to keep in mind that the group was on the brink of break-up when we went to Los Angeles in 1970 to "ostensibly" sign up with a professional management team, Shiffman & Larson. I refused to sign, so there was no recording contract for Fritz. That spelled the end for everybody.
Some of those pictures crack me up. Two inch heels with legs matching the height of men, sure that's the 4 foot something Stevie who wears platform shoes to put herself up there?
I spent most of the summer of 1965 in Sacramento, Cal swimming at the Beverly Swim and Tennis Club. A friend's family invited me to go there with them and was the best trip of my life up to that time. At meets, my friend Paul would bring a guitar and play in between swims. At one meet, there was a team from Menlo-Atherton that also had someone Paul's age that played. We knew him as Lindsey the kid who had a brother who was incredibly fast in the water. Paul and Lindsey would bonded and played together and Lindsey showed him son songs he was working on. We thought it was cool and fun and a great way to relax between races.
Lindsey's brother Greg went on to win a silver medal in the 200 individual medley in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
About 9 years later, I was living in Huntsville, Ala and I heard this song come on the radio by a band called Buckingham Nicks. It had a very familiar deja vu feel to it. It was one of the songs that Lindsey was working on with Paul in between swims, the riff was there, but the words hadn't been added to it. The song was "Don't Let Me Down Again" . I went and bought the album and sho' nuff, there's Lindsey with longer hair paired with this incredibly beautiful, sexy girl - Stevie.
Buckingham Nicks was very popular in Alabama during the short time they were a band. We used to play the album over the speakers at the Braham Springs Natatorium during swim practices. When we heard that the duo was going to Fleetwood Mac, everyone who knew of BN, knew this would be a super group.
The rest is history.
For me Lindsey and Stevie grew up together, musically. There would be no FWM without, Stevie and Lindsey. Of course the rest of the band!
That's right. They are both talented and they both have done many for Fleetwood Mac.
I love both of them artistically but you could argue there would be FWM without them, in fact there have been several great albums of FWM before 1975, with Bob Welch, Danny Kirwan and the great Peter Green
I can't believe I've never heard any of this before today...and I have searched and searched many times for all she ever created! Guess God had a reason to keep me waiting!
Your wait is over. You have come to the right place! See the new and old music record releases now out! Go to www.FritzRMB.com. Welcome!
Same here.
The vocals were phenomenal, of course. But I also really, really liked the song. Beautifully written, Sir.
Thank you, glad you liked it. "A Dream Away" was recently redone with Joy Bonner on vocals. Let me know what you think! th-cam.com/video/kAEv04YlikE/w-d-xo.html
Javier i can’t stop hearing this song, It’s a masterpiece, what a voice of Stevie!! Felicidades por tu talento, poco reconocido creo
Thank you, sir. Gracias, amigo. Que Dios lo Bendiga.
Gracias a ti desde España
Perhaps the most beautiful song ever written, a perfect match for the most beautiful voice ever, at her zenith.
Thank you, sir.
Was it written by Stevie?
@@Rosalia24-i1n no, Javier Pacheco wrote it, he used to play the keyboards in the Fritz Rabyne and uploaded this video under the pseudonym "Pachecure"
Love this woman, for decades now, so easy. Love from Rotterdam.
Wow... just WOW! I wonder what people thought hearing this back then for the first time? Probably same as me hearing it! Need to find a clearer version of this, just incredible. The familiar Buckingham Nicks sound is there. Can't get this out of my head!
Still in love with Stevie after all these years....
You may not especially care for this 2021 version--the singer is Joy Bonner. She is an amazing vocalist.
th-cam.com/video/kAEv04YlikE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yUuOvsCeenCJxEj7
Thanks, I'll check it out.
God! So young, but such a HUGE voice! She literally sounds the same today. Unreal! Thanks for posting!
I think she sounded much better back then...
you can hear star power in that voice
She's so great here as well as the rest of the band ❤
What would be awesome is to see some live footage of these early years!!!
Sorry, Terry, the best I could do is refer you to th-cam.com/video/CwfyMYCHzzU/w-d-xo.html. Video/sound cameras were big and clunky in the late 60s, early '70s. Video didn't become important to bands until after '78 and into the 80s. This video has audio edited in. Please see the notes. Thanks for your interest.
The lyrics are killer! I mean, so is the rest of the song, but I never got ahold of the lyrics until I checked the description here. I really am obsessed with this band. 🤪💞🤪
You'll be pleased to know that I am in the process of producing a new recording of this song, as well as several others for Vol 1 of the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band TRIBUTE.
It will be streamed and there will be an acetate (Long Playing) recording available with accompanying booklet. The Fritz GoFundMe video is about to go public, hopefully, this month.
Stay tuned.
@@Pachecure Wow, that's very exciting!!! I can't wait for all the fun in store!
This song mesmerizes me!
@@maxineaguilar8899 Right?! How the melody goes from delicate to that more aggressive feel is my favorite part.
So cool to see the roots and origins of how both Stevie and Lindsey would adopt this style of expressive lyric writing in their music in the Rumours era... and that countenance carried on long after... with Lindsey's lyrics becoming more cryptic moving into the Tusk era and beyond. We should definitely be paying homage to you for that heavy influence… I can't think of any other songwriters who ever used that sort of in-writing to become some of the most beloved, history-making music of all time. So, a heartfelt thank you to YOU... for your influence on history. 😊🎶
Thank you very much for that acknowledgement!
@MamaLibby the “Fritz project” is coming along here is the website fritzrmb.com check it out
something's gotta give we need hard copies of this crucial part of music history. come on man!
I'm trying to research the places we've played to get additional photos that have not already made it to Google Images and whatnot. The idea is to put out a decent narrative and pictures that have not been seen before. Trying to get this done by this year. Please be patient.
Did you know that I heard a recording was made of Fritz (by Graham's sound engineers) when we played Fillmore West, March 1970? I'm also looking for any traces of that reel-to-reel recording. It was the best recording of Fritz ever done. We had the distinction of getting standing ovations--not bad for an "opening" band! If I could find it and include it in the CD box set, then we're talking about a real "crucial part of music history."
Pachecure any news on this project Javier? We are all waiting in excruciating anticipation!❤️😊
These songs from the Fritz are magnificient, Stevie’s voice was at its best. Anything you can do to create a full cd, would make me the happiest person.
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@@silversprings62 I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting. We started to record in May. Please check out the website. www.fritzrmb.com. Go to our site and listen to some samples of what's on Vol. 1. Please help us by spreading the word. Thanks!
Wow, what a great band, many thanks for this beautiful track and luv the pictures! :)
Thank you kindly!
I love this song! Goosebumps. I hope you realese your music in streaming soon
Its out there already.
i wish there was a studio version
There is. The vinyl record came out in July. Still waiting for permission to release the music in Streaming. Please visit www.Fritzrmb.com.
The singer is Joy Bonner (See "About" section for musician bios.)
Beautiful thanks for sharing :)
Completely LOVE this song! Sounds to me like some of the songs you wrote back then influenced Stevie's writing... Totally sounds like a song she could've written! Thank you for sharing!
Well, for one thing, that personal back-and-forth in the songs of "Rumours" wasn't new to Stevie or Lindsey. Since our first year, I had been writing songs addressed to them while in Fritz. "Dream Away" and "Wondering Why" are clear examples of that. Stevie's own composition, "Funny Kind of Love" was another cogent expression of our relationship as band members and friends.
your awesome lyrics are really ringing true today in 2020! thank you for posting such a gem!
Thank you very much. In those years, I often wrote lyrics and had little clue what they meant or why they originated in me. I think that unknowingly, I was a vessel, churning out songs that spoke of other times. Such was the case with "Bold Narcissus," a gentle tune I wrote when Stevie and Lindsey began to get "serious" with one another (which was way earlier than they have let on, in their latter interviews). We did that tune for a few gigs, but once S&L became aware that they were the subjects of the lyrics, they didn't want to do it anymore. In the song, I predicted that Stevie would betray Linds, way down the road.
Pachecure thanks for the reply! that’s so cool! is there anywhere I can give that one a listen?
@@nightbird1975 Unfortunately, its only a faint memory. There are no recordings of that song. I had scribbled the words out on a piece of binder paper. Most of it is forgotten.
fantastic!
Awesome track!
Great times, great band, great pictures. If I'm not mistaken this is on the new Fritz record, which I am planning on buying for Christmas actually. Thank you so much for sharing Javier Whas this inspired by the band drifting apart?
Love from the Wales by the way!
Thank you for writing, and yes, this was a compassionate hope for a coming-together in the last full year of the band's existence. In the last verse, note the change to optimism and renewal. Joy Bonner puts in a marvelous performance in the new recording. For more details, see "About" in www.Fritzrmb.com.
@@Pachecure thanks much for the reply, can we expect a volume 2?
This is so cool! My brother was actually at this concert. If I remember correctly the set list was:
• Existentialist.
• Proudct of The Times.
• A Dream Away".
• What The world Needs now.
• You Don't Get young anymore.
• Yellow.
• The Power.
• Flanes of Frustration.
• Georgia.
• Reconsider.
If you don't mind Javier, I'd love to know the story behind all those songs. Such interesting titles!
Hi Jess, and thanks for the kind comments. How could you "remember" those tunes if you weren't there? That's quite a memory you have!!
If you could give me more details about that show, that would really help me. I'm currently writing a BIO entitled "1967" and so much of the past is hard to recall now.
Where was that? What year?
Ya see, Existentialist, Yellow, A Dream Away, The Power, and Product of the Times were a main part of our shows in the final year. The other titles you threw in belong to our early period. "What the World Needs Now" was written by Jackie DeShannon (1963) and belongs to the list with Georgia (was written by Ray Charles), Reconsider, Flames of Frustration, and You Don't Get Young Anymore, 1968 material, when we used to mix cover tunes with originals. I'm publishing a little booklet that explains the songs, coming out with a Fritz recording in late Spring, 2021.
Watch for it: www.Fritzrmb.com. Tell your "brother" about it, too.
@@Pachecure please keep us posted once this BIO is ready for publication :)
When I hear those very early performances I tend to think her vibrato was better before they joined FM, not when she actually had voice coachings
I'm not aware of any vibrato issues with Stevie. On the other hand, Lindsey did possess a very strong vibrato in his singing voice, and he did struggle to contain or control it, because it was in everything he sang (the first year).
I think it's the cocaine that damaged her vibrato, the gypsy live performance in the mirage tour shows it a lot
Who was Fritz Raybyne and why was there a Memorial Band in his honor? Or is the name something like "Jethro Tull"?
We agonized for awhile, trying to think of something new and special for a name. Nothing "came" to anybody. I suggested (partly in jest) the phonetics of a German immigrant student I knew (surname was spelled differently) and everybody seemed to go along, we all agreed on the name. Nobody was thinking "long term" with this project, it was supposed to be just rehearsal for a Christmas talent show. I didn't know if we would remain together after that. Circumstances changed for the better, we kept working together, and eventually shortened the name to just "Fritz."
@@Pachecure Thanks!
The Melody is an early intensely trippy version of "Leather & Lace!"😂😏💃🎤🎼🎵🎶🎸🥁B.W.
Beg to differ. "Dream Away" was written late 1969, and performed in 1970.
@@Pachecure Going by what The Melody reminded me of. Especially the dreamy Acoustic Guitar chordal strumming IMHO.🤔🎤💃😘🎼🎵🎶🎸B.W.
Hi again Mr. Pacheco, I forgot to ask about my favourite song "Silent Song"! What's that about, quite short yet very beautiful.
Wow! Pray tell, where did you first hear that song? I wrote that piece on the piano some months after the band broke up. I had completely forgotten about that tune. The problem is, it was originally recorded on a reel-to-reel recorder, and I must have transferred it to a cassette (before digital made its strong showing in our technology) but I am not sure where.
"Building castles in the sand, watch the tides bring them down;
see,... the power of a man as he cries
when he drowns,
and the rise of a silent past
echoes in my brain;
And I'll be
On my way at last . . ."
I have forgotten the rest. I tucked this song into a folder and simply forgot about it--too many painful memories. Where did you hear about this song?
Thank you for inquiring about it!
Hi Mr. Pacheco, I'm a huge fan of Stevie and Lindsey's early careers of the late 60s and early 70s and I love your band! I recently read a Q&A you did on a Fleetwood Mac fan site where you mentioned some songs I had never heard of and I was wondering if you could share your inspiration for them. Also are there recordings existing for these? I love knowing the history of songs I like, so it would be really cool.
Joy, Nowhere Fast, Tomorrow Come Today, Pioneers (done prior to the 1980 Lindsey jam session I believe), Louisa Joy, Sing Ye, Oh Lord.
Thanks for your interest. "Joy" and "Oh, Lord" were written by Brian Kane. "Tomorrow Come Today" was merged with (& is the second part of) "Passing Phases," which is featured on Fritz Vol 1 (third number). "Pioneers" (wow, you did some research!) was a jam tune I did with Lindsey in 1980, when he visited with me in San Francisco. "Louisa Joy" was a commercial song I wrote to prove to Keith Olsen, Shiffman and Larson, and Forest that I could write pop ditties. Olsen recorded that tune in Studio City (1970) when they used me (surrupticiously) to help S&L put together their first Demo! They didn't even invite Brian and Bob. I don't plan to re-release that. "Sing Ye" and "Pioneers" were also written for the jam in 1980. I put up "Louisa Joy" and "Sing Ye" as slide shows on this Channel. "Oh Lord" can also be found here. Lindsey wasn't too happy that day in 1980, and left early; it wasn't a long session. He had wanted me to write music for him "in the style" of Fleetwood Mac. Unfortunately, I had been very busy earlier that year, writing horn parts, piano/bass charts for my Latin Jazz band, and found it most difficult to put myself in a FM pop-music frame of mind when I sat down at the piano. So he went away a little miffed that I had nothing to show in that regard.
I haven't decided what songs I'm putting on Vol II, but they most-likely won't be any of these mentioned here, except perhaps Brian's tunes, which I would love to record if the three of us (Brian, Bob and I) can agree to get together to do this in 2022. For Vol II, I am going to put out Take Advantage of Me, Product of the Times, and Yellow. That's what I have in the works now.
Sorry, I can't go into a long detailed "History of Songs" for you here. There is a chapbook coming out soon that highlights the formation of the Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band. Keep a lookout on the website (www.Fritzrmb.com) in 2022 for the link to order it.
I am big Stevie's fan but only now I understand why she's called the second Janis Joplin. And let's not forget about those guys that also were very great (especially Lindsey).
Really? I don't see any similarity between the two at all. Joplin sang a lot of blues numbers. Stevie never even liked R&B.
@@PachecureWell, don't get me wrong. Stevie's certainly not as the same level as Janis and playing/ singing R&B is not in Stevie's style neither. But there are delicate similarities and vibes in the voices and singing of both of them or something like that. I think I can feel it but I cannot nail it what it is. Maybe it is also because of that I know that Janis's been a big inspiration for Stevie. I don't know. But during listening to that song I felt a little Janis in Stevie's singing 🙄
I wonder if this is the performance that Keith Olsen came to see them at
***** No, Elizabeth. I don't think he saw us live at all--unless it was at the Santa Monica Civic, San Diego, or the Whiskey-A-Go-Go (on Sunset Blvd). He was in Los Angeles, and Aragon HS is in the Bay Area.
***** The reason I said that was because I recently read an interview with Keith Olsen, and he was saying that he traveled north to see you guys play at a Catholic school dance. I just googled Aragon and it's a public school, so that's not it. I'll have to try to find that interview again....
***** Yes, the memory fails me now, but I coulda sworn that we didn't meet Olsen until we got to Los Angeles. Everybody's memories of the true events leading to the end of Fritz are hazy.
Please let me know if you find that interview. Could've been possibly Homestead High School in Sunnyvale. But I think he heard us most when we played in Santa Monica and at the Whisky-A-Go-Go on Sunset. I don't think Mr Olsen had any taste for our material--after all, we were a product of the San Francisco Bay Area, and he was a newly-arrived Tinsel-Town recording engineer from the MidWest.
according to the book "Goodnight LA" (2017) Keith saw you playing at a private girl's high school in 1970, somewhere around San Francisco I guess. An excerpt: Having learned about Fritz through their manager, who had been dialing every producer in Los Angeles in an attempt to stir up at least some kind of recording interest in the band, Olsen agreed to fly up to San Francisco on their dollar to check them out. After being picked up at the San Francisco airport by a scruffy, twenty-two-year-old Lindsey Buckingham and the group’s drummer in their beat-up instrument-filled van, Olsen rode along with them to that evening’s concert at a private girl’s high school, where he gamely helped load in the gear. Then, ten minutes before showtime Stevie Nicks walked through the door. And roughly eleven minutes after that, Olsen knew all he needed to know. Buckingham and Nicks were standouts. Their talent and chemistry were obvious, not to mention they both looked and acted like rock stars. They had presence. And Olsen had been around long enough to know the difference. He had to sign them. Immediately following the show he made his pitch. “Let’s get together at my studio. Can you do it next week?”
Hartman, Kent. Goodnight, L.A.: The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock--The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios (S.18). Da Capo Press. Kindle-Version.
Hope it's just my bad speakers, but I can't hear the song...or even the melody. :(
This was a fated bad recording of one of our last concerts. I was using an Uber reel-to-reel tape recording machine with two small speakers that sat on the stage. With the vibrations of the music and all, one of the microphones that was closest to the voice monitor got turned around.Yes, this is not a good quality recording, but its better than nothing at all, and now, you do have options. You can listen to a newer version of this song and then come back and make sense out of this recording. Absolutely free!
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Hi Mr. Pacheco, I had a question. Do you happen to remember the photographer behind the iconic Harvey's Resort photos? I'm sort of a Stevie photo nerd and haven't been able to find a credited photographer for those pics.
Thanks for writing, Bruh 99. I'm pretty sure that the photographer was contracted by David Forest, our manager. I don't remember his name, and unfortunately, there is no stamp or reference on his glossies that I ended up owning. After Fritz broke up I ended up saving and obtained the copyright for most of the pics taken of the group, but cannot say who the original photographers were. They didn't "brand" their own work. When S&L were approached by MTV, "Behind the Music," Oprah Winfrey and others, they referred them to me for licensing because I had kept all that material.
Beautiful music Javier! Did the band record most of your songs soon after you wrote them or did you wait?
Thank you, sir. No, we recorded early in our first year together, but the quality of the songs wasn't that great. What the band usually did was--if they liked the song--they quickly learned the tune and immediately added the music to our working repertoire. Some songs stayed with us longer than others, but we went through several stylistic upgrades, so the material tended to become more developed (from the standpoint of melodies, harmony, rhythmic arrangement, etc.) and a little longer too. We went from 3 minute commercial ditties (original & covers) up to 10+ minutes of concert material designed to play at larger venues like Rock concerts. Every song had a different shelf life. Each new arrangement represented more detail in the parts and overall structure, it was a process of musical evolution for me, as the one who wrote most of what we played. Some songs never got recorded and fell by the wayside, forgotten forever.
You have to keep in mind that the group was on the brink of break-up when we went to Los Angeles in 1970 to "ostensibly" sign up with a professional management team, Shiffman & Larson. I refused to sign, so there was no recording contract for Fritz. That spelled the end for everybody.
Please tell me you have video recordings as well, that you wouldn't mind posting.
Only my slide shows on this channel, "Pachecure."
Some of those pictures crack me up. Two inch heels with legs matching the height of men, sure that's the 4 foot something Stevie who wears platform shoes to put herself up there?
I wouldn't know. Stevie didn't resort to elevator boots in the days of Fritz. That was much later, with FM.
She keeps going sharp, but that's okay....it's haunting, like Jeffrey Lee Pierce
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she sounds better before her voice got all coked out....more power....
This was one of our last big shows (1970) before we disbanded. Stevie was at the height of her vocal prowess in the group.
She sounded her best in the early 80s.
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