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Doug McKechnie and the label get a nice shoutout in Jesse Jarnow's Grateful Deadcast regarding Doug and the Moog's work on the band's Aoxomoxoa LP (the ep focuses on former Dead keyboard player Tom Constanten). Doug and VG+ pop up around the 42-minute mark.

T.C. T.C. The Deadcast is honored to welcome Tom Constanten to discuss his remarkable tenure as Grateful Dead keyboardist from late 1968 through early 1970, his work on 3 classic albums, & his adventures before & after the Dead, including his current band Dose Hermanos. Guests: Tom Constanten, Bo...

The first "single" for Doug McKechnie's San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol. 2 is out on streaming platforms now. "Searching for an Honest Man," like all the tracks, was improvised live, and finds Doug combining a melodic etude with an essential rhythmic pulse. The album and CD are available for preorder and release on March 17.

Search for an Honest Man Doug McKechnie · Single · 2023 · 1 songs.

There are two color editions of Doug McKechnie’s forthcoming San Francisco Moog: an aqua pressing exclusive to this first run and a very limited (100 copies) bundle of a white-vinyl pressing that comes with a digital print of the psychedelic mandala art by Richard Winn Taylor. Those are Bandcamp-only and are going pretty fast so don’t delay. BTW, this is one of the rare surviving color images of Doug with the Moog inside SF Radical Labs.

The preorder for Doug McKechnie’s San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol. 2 is now live. The LP features the rest of the groundbreaking unreleased recordings Doug improvised live on the Moog he hauled from gig to gig around the Bay Area and beyond. Another chapter in the rewritten history of electronic music has arrived. The album releases on Feb. 14 and is also available in special limited color-vinyl versions.

San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol. 2, by VG+ Records 8 track album

At long last, after many, many delays, the repress of Doug McKechnie’s San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 is in my hands, going out in the mail, and, thanks to our distro pals, hitting the bins at fine stores all over.

Susan Alcorn blowing the roof off of Union Pool with Patrick Holmes and Pedernal bandmember Ryan Sawyer!

Susan Alcorn, Patrick Holmes, Ryan Sawyer @ Union Pool 3-20-22* *alternate audio

Great news for heads in Europe: Thanks to our friends at Morr Music, VG+ titles will be more readily available on the other side of the Atlantic without insane shipping prices. The pre-order for the repress of Doug McKechnie's San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol. 1 is now live, for a release date of late February. Check it out and spread the word.

San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol. 1 – Doug McKechnie – ANOST San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 documents a missing link in the history of electronic music, as well as the little-known moment when psychedelic music went electronic.

Coming on VG+ in 2022: the Sound Mechanic soundtrack album.

SOUND MECHANIC documentary trailer https://www.facebook.com/soundmechanicfilm SOUND MECHANIC is a feature length documentary about Neil Feather, an artist/musician/performer/sound mechanic who invents…