West Coast Revelation People Places and Things Dion & the Belmonts, Frankie Lymon, Ricky Nelson, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles, Duane Eddy, Chet Atkins, Night Riders, Johnny Maestro, The Crests, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Bido Lido's, Arthur Lee & Love, Ciro's, The Trip, Chuck Berry, The Whisky, The Byrds, The Mamas & The Papas, Sir Douglas Quintet, Mac Rebennack, Johnny Rivers, South America, Café Wha, Japan and Mexico, Fast Eddie Hoh, San Francisco, Lightin' Hopkins, Spencer Dryden, Charlie Chaplin, Chris Darrow, Patrick Brayer, Little Richard, Claremont, Flying Burrito Brothers, Italy, Everly Brothers, Mr. Carradine, Dylan, NYC, Cork, Ireland, Beatles, Kerouac, The Berlin Wall, Roland Kirk, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Tokyo, Osaka, The UK and Europe, USA, Tomorrow, Today and Yesterday
Sounds Like
West Coast Revelation is or could be…
Angel dreams, brides, rubber steel and driving wheels,
Holes in the sky, ice fields, Planet Earth judgment day
1946, silver tones and saxophones,
zen poetry, bad drugs, Sundays in the park
fake ID's, ladies of the sun in a neon wonderland,
canyons of our minds, laughter and tears, living in mountains and sleeping in cars
golden highways and silver wings, pink cement under rainbows
bumpy rides, bad haircuts and early death, liberation and danger in Big Blue Boats
highways sad and lonely, graveyards and flying cars,
ipods, silicon and the internet
old dogs young and vital
purity and strength of burning bridges
the beauty of clouds is an eternity
sayonara
John York is the last pure voice of the Silver Sixties to make it through… intact to the first decade of the 21st Century.
John was a member of the Byrds, post-Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons, from 1968 throughout the Easy Rider Era until right before "Chestnut Mare."
John York's Musical Travels
Mr. York was also in the Touring Band for the ENTIRE career of the original Mamas & Papas. John played bass for Johnny Rivers in South America and other pop hotspots. He found time to be a touring member of the Sir Douglas Quintet when Doug Sahm was at his most dynamic experimental and creative, and John York has played on stage with legends like Lightin Hopkins, Rick Danko and Spencer Dryden.
Sure, there's more musical adventures for John to tell and re-tell.
John York's New Music
West Coast Revelation is John's first digital download album.
West Coast Revelation contains 22 separate song performances. Half of the selections pick up where the Byrds and Eagles have left off…. part folk-rock, part Triple A country, part Back Porch.
The other half of this album's worth of songs is a Talking Book (with musical accompaniment).
John takes you on a Time Machine Journey back to post-World War 2 America into the Doo-Wop Era, early Rock n Roll, the first singer/songwriter days and nights of Greenwich Village in NYC….West Coast Revelation puts you right into Laurel Canyon, Malibu and the Sunset Strip… the love-ins, the drug culture, San Francisco's Haight Ashbury and Golden Gate Park.
John revisits a different NYC and reveals a musical life in Claremont, often referred to as the Austin, TX of the Inland Empire.
John York plays over 30 instruments. John has played all around Japan and in recent years, made recordings especially for the German market.
West Coast Revelation addresses contemporary world issues such as Global Warming, Spirituality, Ecology, Technology, Eternal Life and what the Future turned out to be.
Behind the Scenes of West Coast Revelation
West Coast Revelation is co-produced by John York and Kim Fowley.
All songs were co-written and co-published by John and Kim and were recorded in their entirety in Claremont, Redlands and Loma Linda California.
For the album, John & Kim enlisted Richard Rogers on drums & percussion, and Eddie Cunningham and Andrea Beemer on backing vocals.
Byrds completists already know John's writing and co-writing credits: "Candy" with Roger McGuinn on Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde, and "Fido," John's composition from The Ballad of Easy Rider. Additionally, Byrds completists will recognize Kim as the co-writer of five albums worth of songs with Skip Battin (John's Byrds replacement) that appeared on Untitled, Byrdmaniax, and Father Along.Kim Fowley's co-written songs also appear on the Byrds Greatest Hits Volume 2 and The Best of the Byrds during the 70s.
Kim co-wrote with Roger McGuinn and Skip on "Hungry Planet." Roger also sang Kim's lyrics on "Precious Kate," a tribute to James Taylor's sister, Kate.
Kim has had his co-written songs recorded by New Riders of the Purple Sage, Flying Burrito Bros., Leo Kottke, The Seekers, Rose Garden, The Sir Douglas Quintet and Kris Kristofferson.
Kim sang/co-wrote "Walls of Redwing" with Bob Dylan at a Hollywood party, 1965… the same night that Dylan played "Mr Tambourine Man" with the Byrds at Ciro's. The on-stage photo of that infamous night appears as the back cover photo of the first Byrds album on Columbia Records.
In recent months John York has appeared on various BBC radio documentaries in the UK. Kim can be heard each weekend on Sirius Satellite Radio - Underground Garage 25. He's been on the air for Little Steven's channel since May 04.
John York's West Coast Revelation is the first Planet Earth Worldwide release on Crimson Dirt Machine, a digital download music & movie company.
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Thanks!!! Dr. Byrds and Easy Rider are two of my favorite Byrds albums.... ( Way Beyond The Sun should have been on the ORIGINAL release ). Your new music sounds awesome. Thanks again.
John - Greetings from England. Enjoy listening to Claremont Dragon (an ebay purchase)and Ballad Of Easy Rider is a fine album I often return to. The new stuff sounds really good too. Nice to be able to say cheers, direct to a former Byrd! I'm a fan of the Battin/Fowley songs both with the Byrds and New Riders so good luck with the songwriting partnership. Best regards Steve
