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    Posted: November 26 2010 at 14:24
After 36 years of total obscurity the recordings of San Francisco's own Light Year are finally seeing the light of day courtesy of Green Tree Records in Germany! Recorded at the famous Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, Reveal the Fantastic is seven tracks of furious prog/ fusion from the 70s. A lost gem, now available for the first time ever!






Listen to some tracks (including some not on the album) here:
http://www.myspace.com/lightyear74

Light Year was formed in 1974, when drummer Zak McGrath joined forces with his friend and colleague, pianist Cornelius Williams, with the idea of putting together a band to play new music. They recruited Randy Sellgren (Mingo Lewis-Flight Never Ending) to play guitar. John Yu, the bass player, brought Doug Johnson to play percussion (vibes, marimba, hand drums and other bells and whistles). The singer Sharon Pucci joined later to complete the ensemble. 

The band was fortunate in having a fledgling manager, Sandy Einstein, who later went on to success with Journey and Mr. Big. Einstein’s energy and persistence secured Light Year gigs at the best clubs in the Bay Area, as well as the reviews reproduced on this site, despite the definite oddness of their music. The one thing the band could not achieve was a record contract. 

Light Year was, as a rule, admired by the public and reviled by club owners. They were also championed by such notable groups as The Tubes and The Sons of Champlin, who would persuade reluctant impresarios to let Light Year open for them. One exception was Todd Barkan of the well-known jazz spot Keystone Korner, who liked them and booked them on Monday nights--one of the few unsigned groups to play Keystone. But most clubs refused to book them more than once. 

Their big “showcase” gig at the Starwood in Los Angeles was marked by record executives exiting the club en masse with their hands over their ears. Without a contract, and with the scarcity of gigs and money fraying their psyches, the band broke up after less than two years.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2011 at 09:16
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 09 2011 at 23:14
Doug Larson Imports finally got this cd in! 

http://www.hicom.net/~dlarson/Updates-Mar.html
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 14 2011 at 03:28
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2011 at 14:35
already in the jazz/rock fusion evaluation queue ...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2011 at 20:46
That's great news! I was just wondering about that, actually. 

Meanwhile, someone posted the album on Youtube. Here's the first track, "Giant Babies".



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2011 at 11:33
Numusi just pressed this album on vinyl and it's available on their site now!





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2011 at 13:42
How long is this queue again?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 28 2011 at 15:51
So is this still in the queue? It's been nearly a year now.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 30 2011 at 07:02
yes, how is going with this band so far?????
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2013 at 07:06
so , is this band in or what??? Confused is 2 years since was suggested.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 21 2013 at 11:55
I forgot I even submitted it! What's up with this?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2015 at 01:50
Bump.  Big smile
Someone mentioned this in the "what did you listen to today" thread.  Listening now, and this band must be here!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2015 at 02:23
Infocat, pretty sure the band were already proposed quite a while back for jazz/rock/fusion and were voted `No', which I cannot for the life of me understand why.

I think at the time the album was limited to a few stray clips on Youtube, so access to the whole album was not available. It's a damn shame, because it's a real knockout, I'm a very proud owner of the recent CD reissue.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2015 at 09:14
Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

Bump.  Big smile
Someone mentioned this in the "what did you listen to today" thread.  Listening now, and this band must be here!


Michael's right. They were rejected for fusion back in april 2012.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2015 at 21:13
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

Bump.  Big smile
Someone mentioned this in the "what did you listen to today" thread.  Listening now, and this band must be here!


Michael's right. They were rejected for fusion back in april 2012.

Absolute craziness!  CryDeadAngry
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2015 at 04:35
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2015 at 11:09
Would evaluating it again with proper samples (the album) be a good way to go?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2016 at 06:19
Bump! If the problem was lack of samples, someone recently posted the full album on Youtube:


By the way, did the Eclectic team ever look into them?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2016 at 06:21
Oh man, the album that keeps coming back to haunt us, but GOOD haunting!

Seriously needs a home on the Archives somewhere.
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