![]() ![]() Q - What does it mean in your bio when it says in the early days, you played in the house band for people like Linda Rondstadt and Emmylou Harris?Ī - What house band? Where'd you get this bio from? Just kind of a party atmosphere in general back then. I met her at the Berkeley Folk Festival and she was a little more subdued. Everyone was drinking and smoking and what not and having a good time. Q - What a time that was! You must've met all the up and coming San Francisco groups.Ī - Janis used to have parties at her house regularly, in Larkspur. The Grateful Dead saw us and had us open for them at The Family Dog which was Chet Helms' operation. Q - You arrived in the Bay Area and did what?Ī - I arrived there June 4th, 1969 and started doing auditions at bars. We couldn't play for shit, but it was a fun idea. Q - The idea of an all life guard band was a novel idea.Ī - It was a horrible band. In that period of time, after Dylan picked up electrical instruments, other folk-oriented artists did also. Bands like Country Joe And The Fish were basically electrical folk bands. He just saw the situation in music in the Bay Area, especially Berkeley, where Folk and Country, mostly Folk was very, very popular. Bill Kirchen, the guitar player had moved to San Francisco and was working with a band. Q - What were you looking to do in San Francisco?Ī - To get my band back together, that I had in Michigan. Then I went and taught for two semesters in Wisconsin, Oshkosh and then in June of 1969, when that second semester was over, I got my van and drove out to San Francisco. Q - You worked as a lifeguard and performed in an all lifeguard band?Ī - Yeah, I worked at Jones Beach for ten years when I was going to college, plus the summer after that. ![]() I got a Masters Degree in painting and sculpture from the University of Michigan. Q - When you were of college age, you studied sculpture and painting?Ī - Yeah. So, as he went up the ladder of making money, he did the same thing as most people do down there, he moved further out on the island. Then we moved to Rockville Center in Nassau County and then moved to Bayshore in Suffolk County, where I graduated in 1962. Then, he ended up getting a little more money and we moved to Queens. We lived there for maybe three to five years. He got a job in New York City and the first place we lived in was Brooklyn. He first moved to New York and was gonna be an illustrator. First recollections I have of being a kid were in Brooklyn with my Dad. Q - You're living in Saratoga Springs, New York, but you're originally from Brooklyn?Ī - I was born in Idaho. George Frayne spoke with us about his life in music. Best known for a Top Ten hit in 1972 called "Hot Rod Lincoln", Commander Cody is still going strong. He was born George Frayne, but the world knows him as Commander Cody. Gary James' Interview With Commander Cody ![]()
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