Top: Joe Cox, Scott Barbee, Mark Gallagher, Chris Stevens
Bottom: Joe Pompeo, Mark Booth
Blue Mountain Eagle
Oregon ~ Washington ~ California
1969 ~ 1977
Members
Scott Barbee ~ Keyboards, Bass
Mark Booth ~ Elec. Violin, Keyboards
Doug Casady ~ Vocals, Bass
Gary Church ~ Bass
Robb Clarke ~ Vocals, Harp
Joe Cox ~ Bass
Randy Fuller ~ Bass, Guitar
Mark Gallagher ~ Vocals
Chip Hayes ~ Drums
Bill Hornibrook ~ Vocals, Keys
Bob "B.J." Jones ~ Guitar
Gordie Kjellberg, Vocals, Lead Guitar
Vern Kjellberg (aka Joey Newman) ~ Guitar, Keyboards
John Morris ~ Guitar
Jim Pompeo ~ Drums
Don Poncher ~ Drums
David Price ~ Guitar
Bob Salterelli ~ Guitar and Saxophone
Chris Stevens ~ Guitar
Eddy Young ~ Drums
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BLUE MOUNTAIN EAGLE
Personnel:
RANDY FULLER bs, gtr, vcls A
BOB "B.J." JONES ld gtr, vcls A
JOEY NEWMAN ld gtr, keyb'ds, vcls A
DON PONCHER drms, vcls A
DAVID PRICE gtr, vcls A
ALBUM:
1(A) BLUE MOUNTAIN EAGLE (Atco SD 33-324) 1970 R1
NB: (1) also released in France (Atco 503 048) 1970.
45:
1 Yellow's Dream/Marianne (Atco 6770) 1970
NB: Marianne is a non-LP cut.
A short-lived Californian band who came into existence in July 1969, when Dewey Martin left New Buffalo. The remaining band members were left with a recording deal struck on the strength of Martin's previous connections with Buffalo Springfield, so all that was needed was a simple name change and to recruit a Joey Newman (ex- Don and The Goodtimes / Touch) as a replacement.
Produced by Bill Halverson and recorded in L.A. in August and December 1969, the album will interest guitar lovers. The highlight and opening track, Love Is Here, is a memorable guitar-driven heavy rocker and others like Feel Like A Bandit, Loveless Lives and the more mellow Yellow's Dream feature more good guitar work. Others exhibit more than a touch of country influence and the album becomes a bit flat in places on Side Two. All the songs were written by group members, except Trivial Sum, a Terry Furlong/Richard Bowen composition.
In 1970 Blue Mountain Eagle played on bills with Love, Eric Burdon and War, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix. Fuller left in May 1970 to join Dewey Martin's Medicine Ball and the band split in late 1970 after Poncher left to (briefly) join Love.
Randy Fuller was Bobby Fuller's brother and later had his own band. David Price, Bob Jones and Don Poncher went on to work with Augie Meyer (Sir Douglas Quintet) for his Western Head Music album in 1973. Don Poncher became a successful session man, working with Bobby Whitlock, Jim Price, Chris Jagger, Joe Cocker and also Arthur Lee (on his Vindicator album, 1972).
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