This Oneness
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This Oneness, aka "Goldstreet", from the August 1974 "Insider" Twin Cities music newspaper.
Bernie Pershey: Percussion
Douglas Nelson: Bass
Dale Strength: Guitar, Vocal
Cat
Greg Inhofer: Piano, Guitar, Vocal
Robyn Lee: Woodwinds, Keyboards, Vocal
Yancy: Road-Man / Driver / Mime
These color images are from 1973 at Rudolph's (The "Home Bar" in the 1970s) on Lyndale Street and Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis. On the December 21, 2010 winter solstice and total lunar eclipse, a rare cosmic event that hasn't occurred in centuries, the band published into the public domain a 55 minute 125 megabyte MP3 of "This Oneness Goes to Town - 11/18/1975" live studio performance broadcast by KQRS, available at http://db.tt/JiMY39c. You can right-mouse click on the link and "Save As" the file to your hard-drive for a personal copy if you wish. Inexplicably it was realized there was also a total lunar eclipse on the evening of the 11/18/1975 "Goes To Town" performance as well. The band also published into the public domain the 150 megabyte 1 hour 5 minute 44.1Khz, 320Kbps MP3 live performance of "Goldstreet @ The Home Bar 1973" at http://db.tt/MGA9426 which you can also download for a personal copy. If you are using the Firefox or Chrome browser and have fast internet, you can also stream the file to your speakers (but a one-time download is probably a better choice)
The Minnesota based Jazz-Fusion-Rock "This Oneness" musicians consisted of Gregg Inhofer, Dale Strength (both from the band Pepper Fog (In the 1960s and 1970s, "pepper fog" was an aerial spray dispersed from helicopters over anti-war demonstrations that would make you eyes water, and I presume that is the inspiration for that bands name)), and Robyn Lee, Doug Nelson, and Bernie Pershey at YouTube as well as at his website. Bernie was also in one of the several iterations of White Lightning in the Minneapolis area. John Ebert was Sound Engineer with his owner-operator tri-amped "Phase Linear 400" "Wall of Sound" equipment. John's first show with the band was in Fort Dodge, Iowa National Guard Armory. This Oneness musical styles covered Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire and Chick Corea's "Return To Forever" Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy album (and was the opening act for Chick on the east coast once). This Oneness group also backed Olivia-Newton-John on her road tours in America from May 1974 through 1975, also appearing on the NBC Mar. 7th 1975 "Midnite Special" broadcast. The May 1974 midwestern colleges tour managed by Variety Theater International were Olivia's first American stage appearances. These very enthusiastic audience turnouts convinced everyone to go forward with her future musical endeavors in America. These early tours included one show at the 1975 Minnesota State Fair Grandstand racetrack stage to a record audience. The group played Harrah's South Shore Room at Lake Tahoe Nov. 6, 1975. While in town, William B. Harrah had the group out for a day trip on the lake in his 33 foot Chris Craft run-about outfitted with two 12 cylinder aircraft engines capable of a peak speed of 55 mph. In 1976 This Oneness desired to return their focus to writing and producing their "Surprize" album and work on promotion of the group once again. The group has enough unpublished studio work from the era for 2 "albums" recorded on tape that may one day be digitized, mastered, and published.
Doug Nelson (wearing the round glasses in the group photo) died unexpectedly in 2000 near McGregor, Minnesota and is missed by all who knew him. Dale, Gregg, and Robyn are in the Twin Cities area performing, Bernie is kicking the kit in various places around the U.S.A.
Gregg Inhofer of This Oneness (with "Cat" on his shoulder in group photo) once said during a performance that "You're just as much a part of it as, you know, with ah, with your feelings as anyone else, so...what can you say, you don't play to empty tables and chairs, right? Tables and chairs don't give off any emotion. I'd like to thank everybody for coming and donating their energy, um, cuz, you know, everybody can sense it, so....Thank-You".
Discography
This Oneness has produced a self-published album, "Surprize", which is out of print and a rare collectors item. The last asking price for one was $75 on Ebay in 2004.
Audio
On December 21, 2010, the band released into the public domain a 150 megabyte 1 hour 5 minute 44.1Khz, 320Kbps MP3 live performance of "Goldstreet @ The Home Bar 1973" at http://db.tt/MGA9426. You can also do a right-mouse click on the link and "Save As" the file to your hard-drive for a personal copy. In addition, the band is also entering into the public domain the 55 minute 125 megabyte MP3 of "This Oneness Goes to Town - 11/18/1975" live studio performance broadcast by KQRS at http://db.tt/JiMY39c which you can also download for a personal copy. If you are using the Firefox or Chrome browser and have fast internet, you can also stream the file to your speakers (but a one-time download is probably a better choice)
There are 9 songs on the live tape, your typical rough live recording but it captures the bands flavor:
1) Jazz style (unidentified title at this time)
2) Jazz style (unidentified title at this time)
3) "Bitches Crystal" lyrics by Emerson, Lake & Palmer "Tarkus" album (1971)
4) A piece predominately for flute (unidentified title at this time)
5) A King Crimson song (unidentified title at this time)
6) "Birds of Fire" (1973) from Mahavishnu Orchestra's second studio album by the same name
7) "Time is Just A Word" (1974) from This Oneness "Surprise" Album
8) "Tarkus" from British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer second album by the same name (1971)
9) "Go In Peace"
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The "lost" tambourine, found and recovered 33 years later, using Google search
