Results for Marty Balin

  • The Golden Road: A Report on San Francisco

    by Paul WilliamsFebruary 27, 2008Comments (5)

    But San Francisco—the Fillmore, the Avalon, the Trips Festivals, the Diggers, Owsley’s acid, Haight Street and Ashbury and Masonic and Golden Gate Park, the Straight Theater, Herb Caen, the Barb, the communication company—these have been and are and will be the environment (read more)

  • Alexander “Skip” Spence: Oar

    by Anthony FirestineOctober 17, 2007Comments (11)

    Alexander Lee “Skip” Spence found himself in the Bay Area after spending the first part of his life in Ontario, Canada. After a brief stint as a folk singer, he joined San Francisco psych pioneers Quicksilver Messenger Service as a guitarist. QMS started playing gigs (read more)

  • Good Riddance to the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love

    by Andrew LauSeptember 12, 2007Comments (7)

    There’s always a clamor on Haight Street, even now at night: neon lights, blinking lights, colored lights, and people standing outside yakety-yaking their current affairs on cell phones. Music spills out of doorways and thumps through walls, with shouts and laughs added in to concoct the sound of good times. (read more)