Via one of my favorite music sites, Big Rock Candy Mountain, I’m hip this morning to a band out of San Fran called the Fancy Dan Band. As you can see from the photograph, Dan is indeed fancy but his music seems to be anything but. The one cut I’ve heard, again courtesy of BRCM, is loose as a goose with a bottle of juice — musical purity!

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From an out of print Japanese import of his Glad to Be Here album (from 1982), here’s an ultra-rare track from Chic bassist Bernard Edwards called Hard Lovin’ Man.

In light of today’s news from the political front, we’re wondering if this would be better suited as the theme song for John Edwards. Could it be that Bernard Edwards was John Edwards love child (or vice versa)? Seriously, you never know about these things.

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Southern California psychedelia rears it dreamy surrealistic head in the land of the Ingrid Bergman with a band called jj. For me, it tweaks my love for the late 60s stuff I grew up with like the Tremeloes, the Association and Mercy (though some may disagree with those comparisons).

And it dovetails into our current family obsession with the Beatles, given our many hours spent since Christmas on rock band. My 11-year old has decided George is his favorite (he’s a budding guitarist rebelling against the violin) and my 9-year old (the one with the perfect pitch) is playing Revolution, Nowhere Man and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds in 5 different keys. (He says he prefers Lucy In The Sky in BM because “everything I play out of the books is in ‘C’”.)

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