Loading Zone was playing a form of jazz rock funk free fusion and was unfortunately greatly overlooked by the generally unsophisticated audiences at that time. This album was recorded in 1969 before fusion got fused and the word had a completely different meaning. The audiences were mostly very stoned (I know because I was there) and the music of The Airplane was closer to their hearts. Not that the Airplane was bad, just unsophisticated. But listening to this album in 2005 is very interesting in that it doesn’t sound so strange at all….
Regulars on the Sixties San Francisco live circuit The Loading Zone were essentially a Rhythm & Blues band with a horn section. Whilst gaining a regular local following the band never ventured far from their home town and never made a national breakthrough. They remained relatively unknown to the outside world. Their two albums are in the Blues/Jazz style and never troubled the charts. Their most distinctive feature was the grating vocal style of Linda Tillery. Following their split in 1970 Tillery joined Cesar a San Francisco based Jazz Fusion outfit who's career was brief before embarking on a solo career. Patrick O'Hara later worked with Boz Scaggs. Paul Fauerso went on to make music with Beach Boy Mike Love as well as becoming active in the transcendental meditation movement.
Regulars on the Sixties San Francisco live circuit The Loading Zone were essentially a Rhythm & Blues band with a horn section. Whilst gaining a regular local following the band never ventured far from their home town and never made a national breakthrough. They remained relatively unknown to the outside world. Their two albums are in the Blues/Jazz style and never troubled the charts. Their most distinctive feature was the grating vocal style of Linda Tillery. Following their split in 1970 Tillery joined Cesar a San Francisco based Jazz Fusion outfit who's career was brief before embarking on a solo career. Patrick O'Hara later worked with Boz Scaggs. Paul Fauerso went on to make music with Beach Boy Mike Love as well as becoming active in the transcendental meditation movement.
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