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Chet Powers

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Chester William "Chet" Powers, Jr. (October 7, 1937 – November 16, 1994) was an American singer-songwriter, and the lead singer of the rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service. [1]

70 relations: Acid rock, Arteriovenous malformation, Autumn Records, Big Sur, Billy Roberts, Blues, Bob Dylan, Cafe Wha?, Cannabis (drug), CBS, Coffeehouse, Danbury, Connecticut, David Crosby, David Freiberg, Drug-related crime, Epic Records, Folk music, Folk rock, Folsom State Prison, Fred Neil, Fresh Air (song), Gary Duncan, Get Together (The Youngbloods song), Great American Music Hall, Greenwich Village, Greg Elmore, H. P. Lovecraft (band), Happy Trails (album), Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Jim Murray (musician), John Cipollina, Josh White, Just for Love, Karen Dalton, Len Chandler, Los Angeles, Louis Gossett Jr., Marin County, California, Michael Clarke (musician), Music publisher (popular music), New York City Cabaret Card, Nicky Hopkins, North Beach, San Francisco, Paul Stookey, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Pseudonym, Psychedelic rock, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Recording Industry Association of America, ..., Richie Havens, Rock music, Roger McGuinn, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Rosa, California, Shady Grove (Quicksilver Messenger Service album), Singer-songwriter, Stage name, Substituted amphetamine, The Bitter End, The Byrds, The Dave Clark Five, The Kingston Trio, The Youngbloods, Tompkins Square Records, United States, United States Air Force, We Five, What About Me (Quicksilver Messenger Service album). Expand index (20 more) »

Acid rock

Acid rock is a loosely defined type of rock music that evolved out of the mid-1960s garage punk movement and helped launch the psychedelic subculture.

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Arteriovenous malformation

Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is an abnormal connection between arteries and veins, bypassing the capillary system.

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Autumn Records

Autumn Records was a 1960s San Francisco-based pop record label.

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Big Sur

Big Sur is a rugged section of California's Central Coast between Carmel Highlands and San Simeon, where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean, that is frequently praised for its dramatic views.

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Billy Roberts

William Moses "Billy" Roberts Jr. (born August 16, 1936, Greenville, South Carolina) is an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe" (of which the best-known version is the hit by The Jimi Hendrix Experience).

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Cafe Wha?

Cafe Wha? is a club at the corner of MacDougal Street and Minetta Lane in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City that has presented numerous musicians and comedians.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Coffeehouse

A coffeehouse, coffee shop or café (sometimes spelt cafe) is an establishment which primarily serves hot coffee, related coffee beverages (café latte, cappuccino, espresso), tea, and other hot beverages.

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Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City, making it part of the New York metropolitan area.

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David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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David Freiberg

David Freiberg (pronounced FRY-BERG) (born August 24, 1938) is an American musician best known for contributing vocals, keyboards, electric bass, rhythm guitar, viola and percussion as a member of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.

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Drug-related crime

In the United States, illegal drugs are related to crime in multiple ways.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Folsom State Prison

Folsom State Prison (FSP) is a California State Prison in Folsom, California, U.S., approximately northeast of the state capital of Sacramento.

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Fred Neil

Frederick Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Fresh Air (song)

"Fresh Air" is a 1970 song written by Jesse Oris Farrow, the nom de plume of Chester William "Chet" Powers, Jr., who also used the stage name of Dino Valenti.

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Gary Duncan

Gary Duncan (born Gary Ray Grubb, September 4, 1946, San Diego, California) is an American musician, once guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay between himself and fellow-guitarist John Cipollina did much to define the unique sound of that San Francisco based band.

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Get Together (The Youngbloods song)

"Get Together", also known as "Let's Get Together", is a song written in the mid-1960s by American singer-songwriter Chet Powers, also known as Dino Valenti.

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Great American Music Hall

The Great American Music Hall is a concert hall in San Francisco, California.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Greg Elmore

Gregory Dale Elmore (born September 4, 1946, in the Coronado Naval Air Station, California) is an American drummer, formerly with The Brogues and the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

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H. P. Lovecraft (band)

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Happy Trails (album)

Happy Trails is the second album of the American band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane, a rock band based in San Francisco, California, was one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California that evolved out of the group Jefferson Airplane following the departure of bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.

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Jim Murray (musician)

Jim Murray (May 30, 1942 – March 1, 2013) was a guitarist and harmonica player for the psychedelic blues rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

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John Cipollina

John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

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Josh White

Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist.

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Just for Love

Just for Love is the fourth album by American psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

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Karen Dalton

Karen J. Dalton (born Karen J. Cariker; July 19, 1937 – March 19, 1993) was a Cherokee folk blues singer, guitarist, and banjo player.

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Len Chandler

Leonard Hunt Chandler, Jr. (born May 27, 1935), better known as Len Chandler, is a folk musician from Akron, Ohio.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louis Gossett Jr.

Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. (born May 27, 1936) is an American actor.

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Marin County, California

Marin County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Michael Clarke (musician)

Michael Clarke (born Michael James Dick; June 3, 1946 – December 19, 1993) was an American musician, best known as the drummer for the 1960s rock group the Byrds from 1964 to 1967.

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Music publisher (popular music)

In the music industry, a music publisher (or publishing company) is responsible for ensuring the songwriters and composers receive payment when their compositions are used commercially.

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New York City Cabaret Card

The New York City Cabaret Identification Card was a permit required of all workers, including performers, in nightclubs in New York City from Prohibition to 1967.

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Nicky Hopkins

Nicholas Christian Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist.

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North Beach, San Francisco

North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to Chinatown, the Financial District, and Russian Hill.

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Paul Stookey

Noel Paul Stookey (born December 30, 1937) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Provincetown, Massachusetts

Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service (sometimes credited as simply Quicksilver) is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Richie Havens

Richard Pierce "Richie" Havens (January 21, 1941 – April 22, 2013) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942), known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American musician.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (lit. Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Shady Grove (Quicksilver Messenger Service album)

Shady Grove is a 1969 studio album by Quicksilver Messenger Service.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Stage name

A stage name is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers, such as actors, comedians, singers and musicians.

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Substituted amphetamine

Substituted amphetamines are a class of compounds based upon the amphetamine structure; it includes all derivative compounds which are formed by replacing, or substituting, one or more hydrogen atoms in the amphetamine core structure with substituents.

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The Bitter End

The Bitter End is a 230-person capacity nightclub, coffeehouse and folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Dave Clark Five

The Dave Clark Five were an English pop rock band formed in Tottenham in 1957.

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The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s.

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The Youngbloods

The Youngbloods were an American rock band consisting of Jesse Colin Young (vocals, bass), Jerry Corbitt (guitar), Lowell Levinger, nicknamed "Banana" (guitar and electric piano), and Joe Bauer (drums).

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Tompkins Square Records

Tompkins Square Records is an independent record label producing archival releases of gospel, blues, jazz, and country music.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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We Five

We Five was a 1960s folk rock musical group based in San Francisco, California.

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What About Me (Quicksilver Messenger Service album)

What About Me is the fifth album by American psychedelic rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Powers

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