Mount Rushmore (heavy blues rock / USA)

Mount Rushmore was a rock band in the late 1960s from San Francisco, California that played a heavy blues rock style with psychedelic elements.
The band formed in late 1966 at 1915 Oak Street, a large Victorian rooming house in the Haight-Ashbury district. In June and July 1967 they were featured on posters for shows at the Avalon Ballroom with other bands including the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company. After some members including Phillips left for the band Phoenix in 1968, new members were added and the group made two albums.








Members on the Recordings:

Mike Bolan — "Bull" — guitar
Glenn Smith — "Smitty" — vocals, guitar
Travis Fullerton — drums, percussion
Terry Kimball — bass

Warren B. Phillips was the former lead singer for the band and wrote a few songs that were recorded by the band after he left.
Fullerton continued a career as a drummer. Mike Bolan and Glenn Smith were previously members of The Fabulous Shadows, a band from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 1963-1968. Mike Bolan rejoined them later and they have been performing in Idaho on through 2005. Terry Kimball (deceased) was a member of the band Tony Vance and The Progress Hornsby 4, from Spokane, Washington, 1967 - 1968


Albums:

High on Mount Rushmore:

produced by Ray Ruff, 1969, DOT Records DLP 25898 (there is a DJ only monophonic pressing, DOT 3898)

- Stone Free (Jimi Hendrix) 3:57
- Without No Smog (Glenn Smith, Mike Bolan) 5:27
- Ocean (Warren B. Phillips) 4:07
- I Don't Believe in Statues (Warren B. Phillips) 4:08
- Looking Back (Glenn Smith, Mike Bolan, T. Fullerton, T. Kimball) 9:40
- ('Cause) She's So Good to Me (Bobby Womack) 3:35
- Medley: 7:23:
     Fannie Mae (B. Brown, M. Robinson)
     Dope Song (Glenn Smith)

Album dedicated to: "The Love Burger Lady of Haight Street"



Mount Rushmore '69:

produced by Ray Ruff, 1969, DOT Records DLP 25934

- It's Just the Way I Feel (Glenn Smith) 4:35
- 10:09 Blues (Glenn Smith) 5:53
- Toe Jam (Kimball, Fullerton, Bolan) 5:45
- V-8 Ford Blues (Willie Lowe) 2:35
- Love is the Reason (Dotzler, Phillips, Bolan, Levin, Esterlie) 3:55
- I'm Comin' Home (Glenn Smith, Mike Bolan) 7:35
- King of Earrings (Warren B. Phillips) 4:00
- Somebody's Else's Games (Glenn Smith) 4:35


High On / '69:

In 2002, a European CD was released by Lizard that combined the two albums, with the songs from the '69 album first.


Single:

- Stone Free / ('Cause) She's So Good to Me, 1968, DOT 17158 


 I don't Believe in Statues:

Love is the Reason:

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore_(band)