Rhinoceros "Apricot Brandy" 2009

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

Always loved this song. I think I still have the cassette. I played it a lot (I bought it with my church money one Sunday at a Thrifty Drugs in San Diego). How is that for an old memory from almost 55 years ago.

[@mashmakhanzpua]

THANK YOU ! GREAT ! FOR THE FIRST TIME I'VE HEARD THIS TUNE AS A JINGLE ON RADIO WAY BACK IN 1969...

[@GaryBombard]

I saw them in a club in the Village, NY around 68. I sat near Billy Munday the drummer. I was impressed with his style and it was a great influence on my playing. This drummer recreates that style very well. Our band did about 3 of their songs including this one.

[@roccovaselino]

I haven't seen Alan Gerber in 42 years. I did some recording with him in Chicago, and we were good friends in high school. He had a great Thelonious Monk jazz style that was awkward, angular, dissonant, and wonderful. I only wish I had played jazz with him and not just the pop rock we were doing at the time.

[@musicofourheart]

They played my high school prom in June 1969! Love this song!

[@dave10524]

Met Fonfara about 10 years ago, he was playing with Jack de Keyser here in southern Ontario, knew the name cause I played the crap out of my copy of Apricot Brandy on the Rhinoceros album along with Bloomfield's Electric Flag album in the late 60's which he played on as well.

[@majorzonk1]

..Fantastic to hear this song again after so many years. I could never remember the name of the band because I was High so much of the time....good memories of skippin' school and boosting records out of the corner store. Drinkin' beer underage and fights at the food stand. Girls in garages..naked ,out to get liquor and six packs of beer.

[@SweetHaley]

Thats my Step dad in the dark red shirt........Goooooo Danny GOOOOO Yaaaaaaa!!!!!

[@kevinheffernan6729]

Danny Weis??!! He's the greatest guitar player Lou Reed ever hired! And Michael was the bandleader at that time -- Totally awesome!

[@maddanmusic]

holy crap these rocked me out when i was young lad free concert in central park in the old bandshell on the mall...wow great days ya got up early on saturday morning to see a live band for free playing great music for you..and they are still around...the good stuff last..yup

[@zhenjiu]

In 1970 I was on the concert committee of a small state college in NJ. We booked Rhinoceros for our spring concert, but the protests we staged following the incidents at Kent State and Jackson State put a halt to all campus activities. They still sound AWESOME!!

[@spongetone]

I am so excited about finding this! I had no idea that this band played together as recently as 2009. This is a very important band for me and my early days. The two records that I have by them are perfection. I’m so delighted to find this!

[@285209]

i read through the comments and I am gratified. pity the group did not garner this degree of support back in the day when they were dying for it. still...small graces. how fortunate are we to hear them banging it out one more time. what a talented collection of musicians they were/ARE. in those halcyon daze I had 'never' seen anyone dance like Jon & Lee before them, let alone how magnificent were the vocals.

[@8052U]

Saw them in a hall in Greenwich, Conn. in 1969. My first rock concert! Couldn't have picked a better 1st band to see.

[@neek49]

I filmed it at the Kitchener Blues Fest on August 7, 2009. Follow the link provided in the description...

[@Nucc3]

The BEST Toronto band of the 60's

[@yoshi-anime-guy4101]

Great band..............Jon Finley was part of this. Did a great job on "Let Me Serenade You"!

[@thekopys3094]

Saw them open up for Iron Butterfly at Convention Center in Asbury Park NJ 1971...Was the first concert I ever went to, and was with my best friend Joe Chis....though my memory of it is dim, I've since worked there a number of times as a stagehand, and no matter how lousy the gig was, I could always look up to where we sat, and it put a smile on my face....Joe, hope all is well with you!!!

[@GaryJones2012]

This band came out of Jon and Lee and the Checkmates, my very first fan band. I watched them for hours at the Pepsi dances at the CNE. I was lucky enough to have Michael sit in on one of our band practices because our keyboard player's mother taught him. It was a thrill.

[@stellaercolani3810]

What a fantastic find friend! I remember these guys♡

[@richardmcduffie9922]

They can still do it. Great.

[@georgeyelliott]

Mundi is the BEST saw him w/ the mothers AND Rhino!!

[@arnoldfaber]

yes, yes, YES!

[@PadreMDB]

yeah!

[@CamillusUSA]

These guys were great and still are - Thanks for playing again!!!!

[@noahperez185]

Underrated psych rock of the 60s!

[@JWirtel]

Danny's a legend...plays any and all styles at a world class level...Michael Monarch of Steppenwolf turned me on to him and he's dynamite..Plays within a band context...

[@basspepper]

Awesome! I have been lucky enough to do session work with Fonfara as well as a handful of gigs... Weiss also sat in at the sessions we did in Toronto. I heard some great stories!!!

[@bkoehler548]

they played at our high school in 1970..kicked ass!!

[@DAUPHIN708]

Saw them at University of Hartford,maybe 1969. Concerts were in the gym, I think. Saw a lot of bands there that went on to the big time

[@maryquant1967]

I saw them at the University of Hartford, not sure what year....68 or 69!!

[@supernova7754]

Awesome! Never thought they were togther again. Thank you for this!!!

[@runway27r]

Song still kicks ass

[@foutupourfoutu]

They were on Elektra ;)

[@goldielocks591]

I love this band.

[@tkmceo51]

Rhinoceros played at my Cranford High School Prom in 1969! ! !

[@frankstallone4778]

I opened for them at the Electric Factory in 1970 in Philadelphia .

[@maryquant1967]

@InnocenceDestroyed Are you referring to in a gadda da vida? The members when In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was recorded were Doug Ingle (keyboards and vocals), Lee Dorman (bass guitar), Ron Bushy (drums), and 17-year-old Erik Brann.

[@davesuiter]

When I first heard this song I thought it was "Love on Draught" by David Cooley. But then I remembered, Cooley wrote LoD in 1999. Apricot Brandy was circa late 60s.

[@GoldenSealDrums]

wow ,one of the instrumental songs I loved as a young kid , I wasn't expecting to see original band , were they on ATCO records?

[@lamper2]

basspepper i want to hear those stories

[@joepasquarello1273]

Groovy

[@kmsmith49]

Joe Walsh has cited this band as a big influence on his playing. You can hear it.

[@IamDancingStar]

wow from another life...I saw them and T Rex at The Boston Tea Party. I thought the names together were ironic.

[@foutupourfoutu]

@SweetHaley Do you know if he happens to have any live recording or outtakes of every kind of the original line up somewhere? Any price!

[@BMWLDRider]

Holy shit....these guys came over to my house to crash back in 69 or 70.

[@foutupourfoutu]

Can somebody transcribe the lyrics for When You Say You're Sorry? I'm not english, so I have trouve figuring out every line (I want to make a cover of this song in fact). So if somebody is kind enough to take the moment to write me the lyrics for this song (or any other song from the 1st album in fact, they're the best and obviously they're impossible to find on the internet...) this would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks again.

[@supernova7754]

No way, they opened up for Chicago in 1969...how the hell? I have friends who went to school there in '69, I have to ask them.

[@agyvonne]

i have a brown suede cowboy hat from michael fonfara, the drummer

[@BradJohnson34]

Entourage

[@soundspresent]

anyone know where this performance is from?

[@clairekeesey1285]

shock city. I saw these guys play circa 1969-70 at the University of Hartford. yes, Gary Guiliano I am talking about you.

[@philslade8135]

The Youngbloods opened that U of H show. Followed by a set by Manchester's own Ouiet Ones. Great 3 band concert.

[@clairekeesey1285]

Phil Slade are you sure this was the same show? because when I met Guiliano it was at a Quiet Ones concert in Bushnell Park.

[@philslade8135]

claire keesey It's possible Rhinoceros played U of H more than once during that time period and that you were at a different show. But the concert I attended was the lineup I described in my earlier reply. I'm still in contact with a few of the Quiet Ones members and have gone back to CT the last few years and jammed with both the bass player and one of the guitarists of the Quiet Ones. Chances are we met way back since was/ still am a good friend of the Quiet Ones members and Gary and attended most of their concerts including those in Bushnell Park.

[@clairekeesey1285]

Phil Slade wait a minute. wait a minute. Phil, did you by chance have blonde hair in 1969?

[@philslade8135]

Phil Slade Hair was light brown but the sun would bleach it close to blonde.

[@wasagabeach69]

Is that Kevin Bacon on Guitar, just kidding, Fab musicians.... Beautiiii....