Note: the following text has been taken directly from the back cover of the “ALL OUR OWN” record...

Potsdam. Most people don’t even know where Potsdam is. But one of this small college town in northern New York have come some of the finest bands that rock music has to offer. Only graduation and their eventual disbanding keeps them from going on as professionals.

This album is an experiment. It is the result of a brainstorm conceived over a chicken salad sandwhich at the Vernon one Saturday noon. Wally Siebel and Mal Parker, two perpetual college students, have seen many talented bands come and go throughout the course of their peaceful sojurn in Potsdam. Hence, the idea to produce a record album presering a small segment of this era.
This album was not recorded under grueling studio conditions, but rather in an informal, relaxing atmosphere. Space was cleared on the floor of Bronen’s Music Company after hours on three different dates. The bands set up and the tape rolled. If you listen closely you might even hear trucks passing by on Main Street or people who dropped in from across the street to eat their subs.
The talent of these musicians is in no way fabricated by technical gimmicks. No dubbing, splicing, over-dubbing, or electronic effects were used. What you hear is the excitement generated by the pure spontaneity of this recording.

You’ve listened and danced to these bands at Frank’s, the Warehouse, and the “R”; fraternity and sorority weekends and beerblasts. Now you can listen to them in your own room--long after you graduate. Or flunk out.

Yes, Potsdam, you are more than a frozen wasteland...

RECORDING ENGINEER......MALLORY PARKER
ASSISTED BY.......................JOEL SILVERMAN
EDITED BY.....................................MAGIC MAL
PROMOTION...........................WALTER SIEBEL
PRODUCED BY...................MALLORY PARKER
and WALTER SIEBEL (sick dudes...)
COVER TITLE BY ALEX
COVER PHOTOT BY MAL
LAUGHTER BY CHRISTY

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Equipment used in the making of this album includes; Sony TC-630D Tape Deck, Shure PE-54, PE-56, and PE-585 Microphones, 2 Shure Mixers, and the Parker Stereoplex Customix.

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM

Side One
1. AMERCIAN LYFE (R. Chistianson)
2. ONE CAN NEVER TELL
(R. Chrisitanson--arr. G. Burke)
3. LOOK AT ME NOW
(G.Burke/R. Christianson)
TIN PENNY
From the rock oratorio “CYCLES” by Tin Penny
All arrangements by Tin Penny
4. WHEN I WALK ALONE (G. Hodges)
SAGE

Side Two
1. WILDFLOWERS
(T. Hobin Words: Ellen Adams)
SAGE
2. EYES WHERE FUTURE NEVER LIES
(J. Mahoney)
3. LOOK AROUND (J. Mahoney)
TEA
4. EIGHT THOSAND DAYS
(P. Thomsen/A. Vangellow--arr.The Walkers)
5. WHAT DO YOU DO?
(R. Zolner--arr. Double Axel)
6. COME BACK JOE (A. Vangellow)
DOUBLE AXEL

ALL SELECTIONS ON THIS ALBUM ARE
COPYRIGHTED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPOSERS. ILLEGAL USE OF MATERIAL WITOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE COMPOSER WILL CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE COPYRIGHT LAW. THEREFORE, DON’T STEAL ANY OF THESE CHARTS OR YOU’LL BE
BEATEN TO A PULP...........................REALLY

Recorded March 17, 27, and 28, 1971 at Bronen’s Studios, Potsdam, New York