Gary Faller Engineering: Installations

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. Nobody on the Streets.MP3 , 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 The bands first FM radio airplay on KFJC was You Can Be Anything.MP3 recorded live at the Boots and Saddles lodge in La Honda, 1974. Hell In The Hills.MP3 live version from the Chateau Liberte Truckers Song.MP3 recorded live in Palo Alto, Ca.

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 2009

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