NGC 4594: The Band
Subject: NGC 4594 and tribe
Hey Bear, Long Time no see. This is Cove writing. I'm still in Santa Fe, New Mexico but I'll be in Connecticut April 28 thru May 9 . . The reason I contacting you is to give you a link to check out.
and to tell you I did digital minor remaster of the NGC 4594 tapes on to CD. I will send you a copy if you send me your address. I would like to issued it commerically. I have some photos and some film as well as the "marshmellow movie" from that time. I would like to do a web story or site and I sorta dream of a tribe or band "reunion." I have some Chas stuff on tape and I thought I had some Muffy and Chas music that I can't find for moment. I also have to detail each of the NGC songs; writer, title, copyrights, ect. NGC is on a couple of "psychedellic" compilations. anyway my Nephew Caleb is doing a little arty documentary call "My Hippies" and I would think he needs permission to use the music. I know with a little promotion a release of authenic, recently uncovered,
psyhedellic "The Band That Almost Made It" will work because people who heard it now, like it.
Email me back and tell what you think. Love Cove
P.S. I tried to email this a couple of weeks ago and I'm now trying again. In the mean time I launched 2 blogs
NGC4594band.blogspot.com
fatbillandme.blogspot.com
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Hey Cove,
You really blew my mind yesterday. "Is this Bear?" Nobody's called to ask that in decades! Well, yes it is, I guess. You really are a maniac -- an NGC revival with new recordings? Well, yeah, OK, I'm in. Call me silly, but what the hell. I can't believe what that band and that group of wild folks did to all of us in such a relatively short period of time! Muffy (aka Annie Addington) called me a few hours after you to tell me she'd just talked to you and I said so did I. I didn't get that you want to do a reunion on the shoreline in September. I thought you meant a New York reunion with recording etc. September would be great. Muff is psyched for it and so am I. We had a great time with Jack when he was here a couple of years ago. Remember Bill Gould? He and his wife came down too. You've probably seen the film Jack shot of us on the beach. This never stops, does it??
So ... I'd really love to get a copy of the "marshmallow" film, as well as any stuff you shot re NGC in New York. Do you really have film of Danny spray painting the top of that building on 23rd St?? That's precious beyond measure.
This all sounds really crazy after all these years, you gotta know that, but that's just a phenomenon of us growing a little older I think, plus the incredible impact that period had on us. If refuses to go away. That has to tell you something -- just what, I'm not sure!
So, the universe turns and comes around to us again. Great balls of fire! See you in September, I hope. Let me know how the new NGC project is progressing, at least in your febril imagination.
"There is no you or me."
Steve aka Bear
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Subject: Ms. Muff here
Cov!! Oh boyohboy ohboy...I feel very young at this moment!!
www.gigmasters.com/jazz/AnnieAddington (Bliss's fault--he played Monk and Coltrane for me when I was 17) picture's from Berlin...old. like me. I'll let you know but next week the Brazilian stuff should be on it...I'll be remixing in June to finish my record, which of course you will get one of. Can't wait. Can't wait. xxxxxxxxx also to Jack...Annie
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I knew it!~!!
I saw the John "Cove" Coventry and I knew it was you.
So ... you're not deead after all.
I'm old, and fat. Kinda like that Jerry Garcia guy. Only not quote dead. Hey
this is amazing. I'll contact you later in the week
Dan
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NGC 4594: The 60’s Band that should have made it.
I found the tapes in my garage attic. I knew they were there. The music is authentic and fresh even 40 years later. The kid digitalizing the music for me thought it was cool with weird harmonies.
For lack of a better description, the 60’s psychedelic rock band NGC 4594 was born of a group of Connecticut hippies. They just called themselves…“The Tribe.”
I started to think of all the names of tribe associate people from the time.
Tribers, as they might be called now, included (in no order except I’m always stone when I think about them): Buddy, Buzzy, Jack, Earlene, Suzy, Hoopie , Steve, Ellen, Nancy, …I will continue this list and email people with the password for this site. Anybody can access the site and make comments. But the password will allow people to post right on the site. I hope Bear will write the liner notes for the NGC 4594's first CD.
.
Anyway I’ll post again tomorrow and hope people email me with ways of contacting NGC 4594 band members or Tribers.
Danny Shanok –Bass
David Bliss –keyboard (electric piano)
Steve Starger -organ
Chas Mersky –guitar
Minty Collins -- flute
Bob Devoe --- drums
Title Music written by lyric by vocals
1. Colors 4:20 Mersky Bliss(19sixty six?) Mersky Devoe
2. Dimensional floater bliss/ shanok shanok/devoe/bliss
4:39
3.Imagination Dead Imagine Bliss Bliss Devoe/Shanok/Bliss
5:59
4. Nova Express
4:50
5. Out to Play
6. ?
Hey Bear, Long Time no see. This is Cove writing. I'm still in Santa Fe, New Mexico but I'll be in Connecticut April 28 thru May 9 . . The reason I contacting you is to give you a link to check out.
and to tell you I did digital minor remaster of the NGC 4594 tapes on to CD. I will send you a copy if you send me your address. I would like to issued it commerically. I have some photos and some film as well as the "marshmellow movie" from that time. I would like to do a web story or site and I sorta dream of a tribe or band "reunion." I have some Chas stuff on tape and I thought I had some Muffy and Chas music that I can't find for moment. I also have to detail each of the NGC songs; writer, title, copyrights, ect. NGC is on a couple of "psychedellic" compilations. anyway my Nephew Caleb is doing a little arty documentary call "My Hippies" and I would think he needs permission to use the music. I know with a little promotion a release of authenic, recently uncovered,
psyhedellic "The Band That Almost Made It" will work because people who heard it now, like it.
Email me back and tell what you think. Love Cove
P.S. I tried to email this a couple of weeks ago and I'm now trying again. In the mean time I launched 2 blogs
NGC4594band.blogspot.com
fatbillandme.blogspot.com
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Hey Cove,
You really blew my mind yesterday. "Is this Bear?" Nobody's called to ask that in decades! Well, yes it is, I guess. You really are a maniac -- an NGC revival with new recordings? Well, yeah, OK, I'm in. Call me silly, but what the hell. I can't believe what that band and that group of wild folks did to all of us in such a relatively short period of time! Muffy (aka Annie Addington) called me a few hours after you to tell me she'd just talked to you and I said so did I. I didn't get that you want to do a reunion on the shoreline in September. I thought you meant a New York reunion with recording etc. September would be great. Muff is psyched for it and so am I. We had a great time with Jack when he was here a couple of years ago. Remember Bill Gould? He and his wife came down too. You've probably seen the film Jack shot of us on the beach. This never stops, does it??
So ... I'd really love to get a copy of the "marshmallow" film, as well as any stuff you shot re NGC in New York. Do you really have film of Danny spray painting the top of that building on 23rd St?? That's precious beyond measure.
This all sounds really crazy after all these years, you gotta know that, but that's just a phenomenon of us growing a little older I think, plus the incredible impact that period had on us. If refuses to go away. That has to tell you something -- just what, I'm not sure!
So, the universe turns and comes around to us again. Great balls of fire! See you in September, I hope. Let me know how the new NGC project is progressing, at least in your febril imagination.
"There is no you or me."
Steve aka Bear
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Subject: Ms. Muff here
Cov!! Oh boyohboy ohboy...I feel very young at this moment!!
www.gigmasters.com/jazz/AnnieAddington (Bliss's fault--he played Monk and Coltrane for me when I was 17) picture's from Berlin...old. like me. I'll let you know but next week the Brazilian stuff should be on it...I'll be remixing in June to finish my record, which of course you will get one of. Can't wait. Can't wait. xxxxxxxxx also to Jack...Annie
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I knew it!~!!
I saw the John "Cove" Coventry and I knew it was you.
So ... you're not deead after all.
I'm old, and fat. Kinda like that Jerry Garcia guy. Only not quote dead. Hey
this is amazing. I'll contact you later in the week
Dan
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NGC 4594: The 60’s Band that should have made it.
I found the tapes in my garage attic. I knew they were there. The music is authentic and fresh even 40 years later. The kid digitalizing the music for me thought it was cool with weird harmonies.
For lack of a better description, the 60’s psychedelic rock band NGC 4594 was born of a group of Connecticut hippies. They just called themselves…“The Tribe.”
I started to think of all the names of tribe associate people from the time.
Tribers, as they might be called now, included (in no order except I’m always stone when I think about them): Buddy, Buzzy, Jack, Earlene, Suzy, Hoopie , Steve, Ellen, Nancy, …I will continue this list and email people with the password for this site. Anybody can access the site and make comments. But the password will allow people to post right on the site. I hope Bear will write the liner notes for the NGC 4594's first CD.
.
Anyway I’ll post again tomorrow and hope people email me with ways of contacting NGC 4594 band members or Tribers.
Danny Shanok –Bass
David Bliss –keyboard (electric piano)
Steve Starger -organ
Chas Mersky –guitar
Minty Collins -- flute
Bob Devoe --- drums
Title Music written by lyric by vocals
1. Colors 4:20 Mersky Bliss(19sixty six?) Mersky Devoe
2. Dimensional floater bliss/ shanok shanok/devoe/bliss
4:39
3.Imagination Dead Imagine Bliss Bliss Devoe/Shanok/Bliss
5:59
4. Nova Express
4:50
5. Out to Play
6. ?
posted by Danny Cabeza de Calabazo at 1:20 PM
4 Comments:
I survived!!!!
How did we do it? That summer...the blow-up...the aftermath...the reconstruction...a few more orbits...re-entered...re/created. So long ago, and still so fresh in my mind. I would like to talk with any other survivor.
"Cam you imagine a dream?" I used to be Bob DeVos. 770 331-0076
So as a '60s music fan who only recently came upon this particular blogsite, can you bring us up to date on where the NGC4594 CD release project now stands? Did you get one out? If so, how can I procure my copy? I've been involved in numerous CD and vinyl projects over the years, the one I'm most proud of being an album of previously unissued tracks by some ex-members of the Irish group "Them" who found themselves in Chicago from 1969-'71 where they played as "TRUTH". They cut a bunch of demos, signed to Epic, thought they were going to record a proper LP in London, then the bottom fell out as heads rolled at CBS-Epic including those who had signed TRUTH. Fortunately the bass player kept all the reels and acetates of those demos, and around 1990 I connected with him and finally in 1994 we released a CD , more recently a double vinyl LP, of all this music. Anyway, I'm keen to hear NGC4594 to tell me more. johntberg@gmail.com
Hi Sky/David,
Here's another coincidence for you. My name is John Reed and I, too, live in Brighton, England (Hove, actually). And I work for a record company who'd like to talk with NGC 4594 about a possible CD. My e-mail address is john.greedo@ntlworld.com. Already been in touch with Steve but perhaps I can grab a coffee with your old man?!
All the best,
John
I'm a Dj who plays only Flower Power Fuzz & Psychedelic rock from the sixties & seventies,...and i found this amazing song on youtube with that Marbling video ,....i love that song ,...and imagening that it would be perfect with my liquid lightshow that i use in my shows,.....could i buy please a copy of your digitalised cd
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