Skydog Just Want To Make You Happy 1974 USA, Psychedelic , Progressive Rock

Skydog – Just Want To Make You Happy (1974 us, sublime rural jamming rock with southern scent) All the music created by the band for this album took place in and around the Skydog house in Sandy Springs, Georgia between the summer 1973 and the winter 1974. I think it was not the playing but the living with the band that tells the best story. Michael Sweat and I met at Dekalb Junior College in the fall of 1972. Michael introduced me to Gary and the three of us got together at my parent’s house for some jam sessions with my brother Johnny who was still going to high school at that time. Jimi came along later. It did not take long for us to get moved out of the neighborhoods. Michael’s parents put up with us for as while too. Leasing that spooky 50-year old house, which was comfortably away from traffic on about 4 acres of property, was the catalyst for some great music and crazy times. And without the Skydog house there could not have been a band. We were all coming of age in the ‘70’s and the