SONS OF ADAM Saturday's Sons: Complete Recordings 1964-1966

The Sons Of Adam—a lean, mean rock’n’roll machine from the Hollywood rock scene of the mid-1960s—quite literally blew the competition off the stage. Led by influential lead guitarist Randy Holden (Other Half / Blue Cheer), the Sons boasted an affable frontman in Jac Ttanna (Genesis) and an incomparable rhythm section in Mike Port and Michael Stuart-Ware (Love). Schooled in surf, emboldened by the British Invasion, the band had a fearsome reputation as a live act. In this unprecedented anthology, Saturday’s Sons features a previously unreleased 1966 full concert performance from San Francisco’s famed Avalon Ballroom, a recording so powerfully dynamic that few listeners will doubt the band’s masterful live presence. The quartet enjoyed a brief but incandescent three-year career which is fully documented on this compilation with rare 45s, studio outtakes and demo recordings, including fiery surf material from their early incarnation The Fender IV, and the legendary single “Feathered Fish”, donated to the band by Love’s Arthur Lee. The story of the Sons Of Adam’s unfulfilled reach for the brass ring is detailed in a definitive 15,000 word essay on the group written by compilation producer Alec Palao, presented here in a full-color booklet with many rare and previously unseen images, and housed in a deluxe CD digipak.

Tracklist: vinyl edition
[LP 1]
Live At The Avalon Ballroom:
1. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
2. Mr Sun
3. The Long Road
4. Evil Hearted You
5. It Won’t Be Long
6. Saturday’s Son
7. Go Away
8. Gloria
1966 Studio Recordings:
9. Feathered Fish
10. Baby Show The World

[LP 2]
Singles & Outtakes:
1. Take My Hand
2. Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day
3. I Told You Once Before
4. You Make Me Feel Good
5. Without Love
6. You’re A Better Man Than I
7. Saturday’s Son
The Fender IV:
8. Mar Gaya
9. You Better Tell Me Now
10. Malibu Run
11. Everybody Up
12. Lonely Surf Guitar
13. Highway Surfer
14. Little Oly
 
CD tracklist:

LIVE AT THE AVALON
1 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
2 Mr Sun
3 The Long Road
4 Evil Hearted You
5 It Won’t Be Long
6 Saturday’s Son
7 Go Away
8 Gloria

SINGLES AND OUTTAKES

9 Take My Hand
10 Tomorrow’s Gonna Be Another Day
11 I Told You Once Before
12 You Make Me Feel Good
13 Without Love
14 You’re A Better Man Than I
15 Saturday’s Son
16 Feathered Fish
17 Baby Show The World

THE FENDER IV
18 Mar Gaya
19 You Better Tell Me Now
20 Malibu Run
21 Everybody Up
22 Lonely Surf Guitar
23 Highway Surfer
24 Little Oly

Tracks 1-8 recorded live at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco (8/6/66) by Bob Cohen. Previously unreleased.

Tracks 9-10 Decca single 31887 (12/65)

Tracks 11-13 recorded 9/65, first released on Captain Trips CTCD-056 (97)

Tracks 14-15 Decca single 31995 (7/66)

Tracks 16-17 Alamo single 5473 (10/66)

Tracks 18-19 Imperial single 66061 (9/64)

Tracks 20-21 Imperial single 66098 (3/65)

Tracks 22-24 recorded 64, first released on Captain Trips CTCD-056 (97)