Yeah @slaw, the 5,000 numbered copies sold out in about 6 hours! Faster than any previous Rhino Hi-Fi title. Another 5,000 are available in un-numbered copies, and there will be a regular non-Hi-Fi version (mastered by Chris Bellman instead of Bernie Grundman), retailing for $25.
I saw Lindsey and Stevie live in 1968, when they were in a local (South Bay area) Garage Band named The Fritz Rabyne Memorial Band (later shortened to just Fritz). They were the opening act at an outdoor concert at The Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, with The Electric Flag and The Doors closing the show. I don’t have any recollection of what they sounded like.
About ten years ago on the internet I saw a pic of Stevie and Lindsey on stage at Mother Butler (in 1967 iirc), a Catholic girls school in San Jose. Mother Butler required all bands to dress in accordance with the school’s dress code, and in the pic Stevie is attired in a formal gown.
I have an 8 x 10 of myself on the Mother Butler stage, looking stiff in a short-sleeve white shirt and black tie. I was 15 years old, playing in a band of college guys (I took the place of Gary Andrijasevich, who left the Group to join The Chocolate Watchband, seen in the Roger Corman movie Riot On Sunset Strip. Gary played snare drum in the Cupertino High School orchestra and marching band. Some weeks I would see him marching at afternoon football games, and on stage at a San Jose music venue that night. He now lives in Santa Cruz, playing in Jazz bands).
San Jose was a real hotbed in the 1960’s. Rock historian Greg Shaw (founder of Bomp! Magazine and Record label) christened San Jose ground zero of American Garage Bands. The Syndicate Of Sound ("Hey Little Girl") played at my High School Graduation All Night Party in 1968, then called it quits. The next band to emerge from San Jose was The Doobie Brothers.