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| Here it is - the first of the Pyewacket recordings. If you like this CD please let us know and we'll release more music by this wonderful "band." We have, what else, "1968" waiting in the wings. But for now please enjoy the best melding of The Beatles and The Byrds I've ever heard.
Play I Thought Play Together Play Why Me Play Samples of the entire album Songs on this album are: 1. Together 2. I Thought 3. Tears For A Shadow 4. Love For Love 5. And If I Do 6. I Am The Sky 7. I Can’t Know Why 8. If I Really Cared To 9. Torn Paper Tom 10. The 8th Moon 11. Reflections In Crystal Springs 12. Today, Tomorrow & Always 13. Why Me 14. The Journey Is Over Now bonus track: 15. You Were On My Mind With each copy of "1967" you buy we will include this very cool Pyewacket button/pin: 
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Produced by John McKindle All songs by John McKindle Pyewacket Music ASCAP except “You Were On My Mind” by Sylvia Fricker WB Music Corp OBO Salt Music All instruments and vocals by John McKindle except vocals on “You Were On My Mind” by Shannon Myhill Graphic Design & Digital Mastering by Dean Sciarra Extra Special Thanks to Mike Somavilla Liner Notes: In 1967 all I could do was play “Sgt. Pepper” and “Magical Mystery Tour” endlessly. Of course, I found some time for previous Beatles albums and I filled in the cracks with ”Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,” “Fifth Dimension” and “Younger Than Yesterday” by The Byrds. I lived directly between England and California in more ways than one. I was 18 and loving every minute of the music coming out in those days. Little did I know how much it was to affect me decades later. As the story goes, they had recorded tons of music as the original band but by now all of the masters had deteriorated beyond listenability. So this guy, John McKindle, an original member of the band and the main songwriter decides he can’t live with the situation and re-records everything! To make a long story a little shorter, I started working on mastering and sequencing the tracks I loved the most and the result is “1967” - an album that, by all rights, shouldn’t exist. But here it is. Take one grossly ignored artist, add a lot of dedication and talent, along with a never-give-up attitude and what you get is this phoenix of music that so rightly deserves to exist. I love it and I hope you do too. PYEWACKET: a psychedelic cat: Pyewacket was formed in January 1967, the original members being: Bill Lombardo drums and vocals Steve Simone Norstrom lead guitar John Scott Cady bass Shannon Myhill lead vocals John McKindle guitar, vocals, and provider of songs Drake Dawson Manager We met each other at the College of Marin, except for Shannon (she's my sister). Bill, Scott and Steve were in a band called The Next Step at the time, with Kyle Hunter and Jim Brewer. I had just moved up to Marin from Southern California the previous October. We started rehearsing in February, and by May we were doing gigs around the Bay Area. Jim Brewer actually came up with the name Pyewacket, a witches familiar from the movie Bell Book and Candle. We didn't want to be The whatevers, we wanted to be something less tangible and more all encompassing. Pyewacket was perfect. In the summer of 1967 we recorded a demo album at Dick Vance studios in Oakland that even got some airplay on a few of the local FM stations though we weren't yet signed. It was going pretty well until Steve and Shannon became a thing, and the thing was with child. Anyroad, Shannon left the band, as did Scott, and things were never quite the same. Steve moved to bass, and we added Mark Moulin, an absolute guitar wiz. The sound got heavier, still melodic, but that's a story for a different set of songs. The band continued until sometime in 1969 in many different forms, but it's the beginning that we all remember the most, a true bonding of souls, real love, and it showed in the music. The recordings we made have become unplayable, or at least impossible to listen to, that along with the passing of our manager, Drake Dawson in 2008, prompted me to re-record the songs. I played and sang all the parts as close to the original way we had done them as I could. Bill, Scott and Steve were the real players, and Shannon has "THE" Voice. I mostly wrote, arranged and sang. These recordings don't have quite the vibe of the originals, but if you like them, just imagine what they would sound like with all of us playing together. I began recording this album in December 2010. A bit more rocky, still a lot of Byrds and Beatles influence, but with some Who and Buffalo Springfield thrown in just to keep you guessing. Hope you enjoy these songs, they are selections from the first 25 or so I ever wrote. The really weird thing is, the songs I write now aren't all that different a bit more introspective, but still about the people I know and love. Thanks for listening, John McKindle |