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Michael Lanning: Vocals, Guitars and Bass. http://michaellanning.com/ Tommy Hilton: Bass, Guitars and Vocals. www.tommyvague.com Michael (Reedo) Reed: Drums,Percussion and Backup Vocals. www.myspace.com/reedoreed Jack Reed: Percussion, Backup Vocals and Personal management... Other members include: Patric Pearsal: Guitars and Vocals/ Still Life and more grace... Steve Haulter: Keyboards and Vocals/Still Life and more grace... James Strauss: Bass and Vocals/ Jiva and By his grace... Guest players were: Garry Fish: Still life back up vocals Garry Wright: Keyboards/ Jiva Alan & Carol Thomas: backup vocals Still life Judy Jacobs: Backup vocals Still Life and more grace *********************************************
Set list from the Donova tour, 1976. Donovan with Jiva
at Royal Oak Theatre, Michigan
USA 7-15-1976
1. Cosmic Wheels
2. Sunshine Superman
3. Season of the Witch
4. Atlantis
5. Lady of the Stars
6. Lalena
7. Happiness Runs
8. Catch The Wind
9. The Intergalactic Laxative
10. Colours
11. Children of the World
12. A Well Known Has Been
13. Black Widow
Total 67:53 mins
Good concert with lots of electricity in the air
audience recording, I guess. Cover arts comes with.
very good audio quality
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Michael Lanning, who plays Dozer, has appeared at Southern California Civic Light Opera. He has recorded and/or toured with such musical greats as Donovan, Fleetwood Mac, Rockpile, Larry Gatlin, Mike Post, and George Harrison. Michael’s band, Jiva, was the first American band signed to the Harrison label, Dark Horse Records, with George serving as their executive producer. This production marks Michael’s debut at the Playhouse.
Welcome to the Jiva site, I'm Reedo, and no, I'm not the Singer. Michael Lanning sings most of the songs and I played drums on all the tracks. I hope you enjoy our past and I'll try and keep you posted on who's doing what, where, and with who..... We..ll try and give accounts of our travels from Tolbekin in High school through Randolph Scott band and The Michael Lanning Band. This is from a site I found run by Tom Brennan.............. Jiva was the first American act signed to Dark Horse Records. According to Geoffrey Giuliano's George Harrison biography, Harrison signed Jiva because they were followers of the young Indian Guru Maharaji, to whom he had been introduced by his future 2nd wife Olivia....... Jiva played soulful white funk rock music. They only released one LP and one single on Dark Horse Records which both failed to chart...... History: Jack Reed (manager): I managed the core of the Jiva crew (Lanning, Hilton & Reed) from the time they were a high school group called Tolbekin. I moved them to Los Angeles as Tolbekin, but the bass player soon left to take a full scholarship at Stanford and after that the band began a series of metamorphoses and playing lots of Los Angeles clubs before becoming Jiva. At one point it was an eight piece band with keyboards, two trumpets and a sax player and was called Titan. Of the eight players, five were named Michael, so only Michael Lanning as the lead singer got to keep his own name... all the others had to adopt nicknames. I personally nurtured them through several 'salad years' before we met George (Harrison) and also served as a recording engineer and mixer on the road. Jiva failed to attain 'star' status. We did, however, have a fantastic journey through the world of Rock & Roll. We got to hang out with half of The Beatles, George & Ringo, both of whom were very open of spirit and generous with their time and hospitality. Of course, it didn't hurt that one of our close friends, Olivia, married George and that her sister, Linda, handled most of the Harrison affairs when George and Livvy (Olivia) were in England. On top of that, we got to tour with Fleetwood Mac and Donovan and we got to meet & party with all sorts of musical greats........................ Michael Lanning (guitarist and vocalist): "George (Harrison) was deeply involved in not only signing us, but the making of our record as well. He served as executive producer and was there quite a lot of the recording time. He even helped in the demo sessions, picking out what tunes would be on the record and even playing piano on one of the demo tracks.".......................... Jiva split from Dark Horse Records in Late 1976. They returned in 1978 with an album on Polydor Records titled "Still Life" which was of about the same musical quality as their Dark Horse LP.............................. Jack Reed (manager): "We had lots of feedback that our whole future may have turned as much on the fact that Dark Horse was never really run as a serious label in that they never did any of the kinds of promotion (for any of their artists) that would get radio stations to stick with our releases. We got some great airplay in some key regions, but when the programming managers don't see good follow-up from the label, they tend to drop the songs. When we were touring with Fleetwood Mac, we got fantastic audience response. On more than one occassion, I can recall John McVie telling us that he thought we had a better rapport with the audience on a given night than the Mac did. (McVie was always an incredibly gracious person and never treated us as "just the opening act" - nor did any of the rest of the Mac - we remained friends with them for years after our tour). George (Harrison) admitted that some poor choices were made in the management team of Dark Horse Records, which was proven out by the fact that he let the whole thing drop as soon as he left A&M Records." Thank you Tom Brennan Band Incarnations: Lanning, Hilton and the Natural Kats: Acoustic guitars, bass and drums. Titan: 10 piece horn band. Randolph Scott band: Mikie, Reedo and Patric. We wanted bass and drums to fit like Mick Fleetwood and John McVie and we used middle names, Randolph Reed and Scott Lanning. Jim Hilton and Kasey Alsbury were invited to join. I was unable to go with the changes other members wanted to make and I took flight once again. They brought in Brion Lavitsky on bass and Tobias on drums. For my birthday I booked the Blue Lagoon Saloon and Tobias and I got to play together and it rocked. We were a good team and when Ronnie Mac came along that was Kool too ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peace Sunday, June 5, 1982, Rose Bowl, no nukes - nuclear disarmament - stop nuclear madness concert - NYC - Central Park - June 12, 1982, 1,000,000 person march and rally for Nuclear Freeze. Photography and presentation by Curtis Rainbow. 'Give Peace a Chance' music by Achim Schultz. Inspiration by Yoko Ono. Dedicated to John Lennon.
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Yes...Pacific High School Pirates!...Purple and White. You guys were the heros of course, and the envy of most musicians. My friend Brad Goodman (friends...Brad) was in L.A. back in those A&M days, now in Kona. Brad's Uncle was one of the VP'S @ A&M Records. As far back as I can remember.....it was the classof "71". I had a class with Mike L. even though he got out in "70". I was thinking it was "Reedo" running this page?? right?....Aloha, Don Savicky
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