Track List

Songs of The Dead
Midnight Ride
Devil’s Film Festival
Medici
Summer’s Comin’ Soon
Blind Man
Blue Skies Comin’
My Lady
Friends Or Lovers
Mind Trip
Concrete Jungle
If I’m Elected I will Not Serve

Parchment Farm History

Over the course of about five years beginning in late 1968, several musicians living in eastern Missouri rocked the area clubs and festivals with a mix of cover and heavy original songs. The band’s name, Parchment Farm, came from a song on Blue Cheer’s debut LP, “Vincebus Eruptum.”

Parchment Farm 1.0

Figure 1: L to R – Mike Watermann (drums), Paul Cockrum (guitar, vocals), Ace Williams (bass, vocals), Gary Reed (keyboards; RIP)

According to Mike Watermann, original drummer for Parchment Farm, their first gig was in late 1968.

Parchment Farm 1.0 was an opening act for the following:

Sons of Champlin, sometime in early August and/or November 26, 1969 at The Rainy Daze Club (Dates for Sons of Champlin shows are according to a post on The Rainy Daze Facebook page. That Parchment Farm 1.0 was an opening act is per Mike Watermann).

Brian Auger & Trinity on July 7, 1970 at The Rainy Daze Club (per Mike Watermann).

NOTE: Parchment Farm 1.0 played with another local band, Burlington Route, at The Rainy Daze Club on January 9, 1970.

 
Parchment Farm 2.0

Figure 2: L to R – Mike Dulany (drums, vocals; RIP), Paul Cockrum (guitar, vocals), Ace Williams (bass, vocals)

In early 1971, Mike Dulany (RIP) became the drummer and they were, now, a 3-piece band. The development of original songs ramped up and they began playing and recording them right away.

Parchment Farm 2.0 was an opening act for the following:

ZZ Top on July 29, 1972 at the Airway Drive-In Theater, St. Louis, MO.

Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes on October 14, 1971 at the Shrine Mosque in Springfield, MO.

Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes on January 29, 1972 at the Columbia, MO National Guard

Velvet Underground & Brownsville Station on August 29, 1971 at Fun Valley Lake in Pacific, MO

Parchment Farm 3.0

Sometime in late 1972, Mike Lusher became the drummer and the band added a keyboardist, Cliff King. They expanded the repertoire by playing songs by The Moody Blues, Yes, etc. At some point after February, 1973, Cliff left the band and was replaced by Mike “Scotty” Scott, a young Keith Emerson follower that owned a Moog and played the flute.

Parchment Farm 3.0 (presumably with Mike Scott) was an opening act for the following:

Canned Heat, The Hollies, and Rare Earth on Sunday, May 27, 1973 in Evansville, Indiana (as reported in the Evansville Press on May 28, 1973)

REO Speedwagon on August 18, 1973 at the Rollins Music Festival near Villa Ridge, MO.

Parchment Farm disbanded in late 1973.

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Over the course of a couple of years in the mid-1970s, several musicians from the St. Louis, Missouri area gave notice to club and festival crowds that they were there to rock the house down. Their cover and original songs were accentuated by a bedrock rhythm section, heavy guitar riffs and tasty solos, topped off with powerful vocals. Rockers that witnessed them agree – Back Jack created solid songs and high-energy performances.

Beginning in 1971 as Trellis, the band members changed their name to Back Jack when they saw the bumper sticker that Kim McKinney’s Dad, Jack McKinney, distributed during his election bid for the Mayor of Pacific, Missouri, home of the core 3-piece band: Kim McKinney, Mike Collier, and Hans Myers (RIP).

The 1974 version of Back Jack was active from very early 1974 to late-fall of 1974. The core 3-piece band, Collier, McKinney, and Myers, recorded several tracks during their tenure and four of those tracks are included on this LP. Temporary band members not on the LP recordings were Gary Reed (piano, RIP), Greg Witt (guitar, keyboards), Paul Cockrum (guitar), and Bill Niehoff (drums). Some of Back Jack’s most notable gigs were as an opening act for the following artists:

• Blue Oyster Cult in Cape Girardeau, Missouri on August 29, 1974
• Trapeze in Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 31, 1974

The 4-piece, 1975 version of Back Jack was a merging of members of Back Jack 1974 (Mike Collier and Kim McKinney) and another local band, Osage Lute (Jeff Ballew and Mike Lusher). They were active from late-fall of 1974 to late-summer of 1975. Four of the tracks on the Back Jack LP were recorded by these four musicians. Some of their most notable gigs were as an opening act for the following artists:

• James Gang (w/Domenic Troiano), and Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids at the Omaha Civic Arena in February of 1975
• Charlie Daniels and Rush at the KSHE Kite Fly in St. Louis, Missouri on April 13, 1975
• Flock at the Youth Expo in St. Louis, Missouri, also on April 13, 1975
• Ted Nugent & Canned Heat at the Arnold, Missouri, Ice Rink on April 26, 1975
• J. D. Blackfoot at the Sullivan, Missouri Raceway on June 29, 1975
• J. D. Blackfoot at the Stonehenge club in Lebanon, Illinois in late summer, 1975. NOTE: This was Back Jack’s last gig and they disbanded afterwards.

Track Listing –
1. Bridgewaters Dynamite
2. Reefer Madness
3. Gearhead
4. Satisfied Man
5. Assault And Battery
6. As You Were
7. Tomorrow
8. California
9. She’s Been Down So Long
10. Over and Over
11. Rock N Roll Boogie
12. Phonic Voyage
13. Silver Star

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EIGHTEEN AND I LIKE IT… if you survived trips 1-17 with one tiny speck of psychedelic sunshine intact, Brown Acid The 18th Trip will be your coming of age nightmare. Vintage underground ’70s hard rock, coming at you from bizarre angles, local scene wasteland America when everybody was out for themselves and the drugs went bleak. The guitars kill, the attitude is twisted, even the sex is headed down the wrong road. Real people, no compromise, pure and potent. Get stoked, take the 18th Trip and know that the artists will get paid for pulverizing your soul!

“People… are you ready?, ’cause the music now is getting so heavy”… Back Jack out of St. Louis, Missouri in 1974 launch our trip with “Bridge Waters Dynamite”. It’s an invocation to rock flashing on Mark Farner whooping up a Grand Funk crowd, then getting to the point quickly with berserk guitar assaults. Heavy riff with power chord stalks beneath as you take their advice… get loose and blow up the past.

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