"Music is critical to the masses. It communicates their feelings, their hopes and even their anger. I want music to sooth the soul, take us to a place of joy, nostalgia, surprise and maybe even enlightenment."

Charlie Ellicott: Peace, Love & Music

Charlie Ellicott started out in the music business in 1966 playing guitar and acting as…

"I've learned that if you focus on music as a craft, you have a better chance to have real art happen to you."

Bill Champlin: The Son of Rock n' Roll

Bill Champlin’s musical career began in 1961 when he formed a band called the Opposite Six. A year later he began writing music. After forming the Sons of Champlin in 1967 he focused his songwriting…

"The blues are a feeling. It comes from one group of men taking another group of men and making them their slaves. And it’s one of the greatest contributions that Black America has given the world."

Butch Trucks: Beat, Soul, Heart & Mind…

"I want music to be continuously natural in the future. Music nowadays seems to be too mechanical oriented, well formatted. I want to feel people, human, nature, grooves, souls in music."

Nobuyuki Yasunari: A Trip to Fillmore…

"The 1960’s were an amazing time to be alive and involved. Today I see the youth struggling with the way life is for them."

Helen Hersh: Let The Rock Colors Roll

Helen Hersh is an artist…

"I can only hope that music today can turn around full circle and return to that type of mindset. Today it’s more visual and not as creative for the most part."

Johnny "V" Vernazza: Slides With The Truth…

"Psychedelic is a frame of mind, available to anyone, and attainable without drugs if you are open to and desirous of more than what faces the average person."

Marc L. Rubinstein: See the…

"Blues is a natural resource and what it needs to grow and thrive is energy and innovation. Leave the roots, but water the plant and it will grow new branches." 

Monica Dupont: Life Like A Fairy Tale…

"The blues is very direct and real. The songs tell a story. That’s what I liked and wanted to do."

Joe Gorfinkle: New Roots, Fresh Air

As a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter,…

Bad laws and evil wars are the connection to "underground culture" in my life, a kind of religious persecution that has kept us out of the mainstream.

Lee Conklin: Cyberdelic…

"My philosophy is…if you want it, go for it. If you fall, get up, if you work hard and you will get it…picture it, if you can see it, you can be it."

Genya Ravan: Priestess of Rock n' Roll …

"Can’t go back… do the things you want to now."

Jocko Marcellino: Rock And Roll Is Here to Stay

SHA NA NA brings their rock & roll celebration to town in a…

"The thing I miss most about the 60's is the freedom and inspiration we had musically. Everywhere you looked people were trying new and exciting things and it was very stimulating and creative."

Tower of Power: The Power of Music…