THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
890) Cranberry Moustache — “Far from Home”
A haunting and hypnotic ’70 A-side from a totally obscure group from Dayton, Ohio called Cranberry Mustache. The Stache was pretty much Bob Steele. A Dayton newspaper from December ’69 had a column by Dan Geringer called “Squaresville” — “a continuing group of stories . . . to explain young people to older people.” Geringer had this to say:
[Before Bob Steele’s senior year at Kiser High School, h]e grew his red hair long, put out a literary magazine, began writing poems nonstop, and discovered that he could come out from behind the masks and that it was OK. . . . He returned to school and had to get a haircut and “felt naked without my long-hair Linus blanket” . . . . [Steele dropped out of high school needing only two courses for graduation but planned to return.] He has been drifting around Dayton for the past few months, writing poems, playing electric guitar. [Steele said] “The bands would fall together, fall apart, so fast I can’t remember. I was in one called Animated Toothbrush and, later, in one called Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and some had no names. We did three-chord jive, but none of it lasted long.”
http://buckeyebeat.com/cranber.html
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