The Peace Seekers – Last Day Saloon – San Francisco 1983
October 21st, 1983
Left to right clockwise on the front cover:
Gene Parsons (banjo, guitar, vocals)
Sneaky Pete Kleinow (pedal steel guitar, vocals)
Skip Battin (bass, vocals)
Ed Ponder (drums)
During the fall
of 1983, Gene Parsons, Skip Battin, Sneaky Pete Kleinow and Ed Ponder played around California without using any
real band name.
In July of
1984, after a change in personnel, they used the name "The Peace
Seekers" for a tour of Europe with Roger McGuinn.
This particular concert is credited to the then-not-yet-existing band name “The Peace
Seekers”.
Skip Battin
does most of the talking.
From Thomas
Aubrunner’s webpages:
Gene
Parsons remembers:
"I
didn't like the name "Peace Seekers", it sounded too weird! I mean,
we all look for peace, but the name makes no sense. We were not really a band
with a permanent line-up. We started in the Fall of '83 in California. I
defineitely didn't want to be a drummer anymore so we got Eddie Ponder, and for
the European tour we've got Jim Goodall. I wasn't supposed to come over to
Europe with the band, it was a situation where it was gonna be SneakyPete or me
- we can't afford to be a five man band. We also lived so far away from each
other, rehearsals were a real problem. We were supposed to have two weeks of
rehearsals in Los Angeles for this tour but I drove down to LA from northern
California only to learn that Skip hadn't arrived from Oregon!"
1. Go And
Say Goodbye (3:04)
2. Don't Go
Down The Drain (4:48)
3. Rider In
The Rain (5:30)
4. Willin'
(5:18)
5. Have You
Seen My Baby (6:24)
6. Take A
Whiff (On Me) (5:29)
7. Fango
(4:36)
8. Here
Com
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