TimberCreek
-1975 A Santa Cruz mountain band
who wrote original material, and received San Francisco Bay
area FM radio play with their album Hellbound Highway.
Timbercreek played in concert with the Sons of Champlain and
Kingfish with Bob Weir. Scroll down for more photos and MP3 downloads.
Photo above of band house in Stevens Canyon, Santa
Clara County, Ca.- an old house used by Chinese migrant workers who mined
quicksilver in previous century. Landslide, Cody, Silver Ribbons and Harry
were originally recorded on a Scully 280 4 track recorder with tube Grommes
mixers and later remixed by Gary in 1983 at the Music Annex in Menlo Park.
Finally, in 2000, the remix tapes had to be baked to salvage the sounds
offered here. These songs never made the Hellbound Highway LP.
Harry.MP3, Landslide.MP3,
Cody.MP3 , Silver
Ribbons.MP3 . Pa's Fool Son.MP3 recorded
live at the Boulder Creek Theater remixed at the Disney/MGM studios in 2002.
Tom Haley.MP3 ,
If I had the Strength.MP3 , Fallen
Angel.MP3 are remixed from Hellbound Highway. Wells Fargo Stage
was recorded live in Palo Alto,Ca 1976. Wells
Fargo.MP3
photo below: Timbercreek Live at the Chateau Liberte
with Captain Whizzo's liquid light show.
All songs including MP3s lyrics and music composed
by Larry Ross, Jon Hicks, Carl Holland, Bill Woody,Frank Gummersal and lyrics
by Frank Andrick. Saddle Music, BMI
Please share these free MP3s with a friend. The band
members that are left alive will appreciate any distribution.
Frank Gummersal and Jon Hicks have passed away and
we would like to keep these songs in their memory.
Album
Cover above. Hellbound Highway was recorded and mixed at The Church in San
Anselmo,Ca. on a Scully 8 track with Ampex and Op Amps labs mixers. Copies
of the album are scarce. 2 sealed copies sold for over $100 in Europe. Hellbound
Higway is now being bootlegged, pirated in Europe by Radio Active Records
RR130cd. Don't buy it get your free mp3s here and save your money.
Frank
Gummersal : Vocals, guitar and piano.
Larry Ross : Vocals
,guitar, piano.
Jon
Hicks : Vocals& Bass. Jon made his bass from scratch including custom
wound pickups.
Carl
Holland : Vocals, drums and clarinet
Picture
at left of The Church control room. Notice the 2 track mix down recorder is
a "Scampy" or "Scampex". Bruce Walford and Gary Faller
combined the workhorse Ampex 350 transport with Scully 280 electonics. Primitive
mixing with limited effects by todays standards picture on right of Doug Osbourne
checking out a guitar overdub. To help compensate for the lack of effects
gear, lots of beer was used.
All
photos courtesy of Greg Arrufat, Mary McCaslin's production manager. For great
American folk music info you can go to www.marymccaslin.com
Jon
and Frank listening to mixes
