Cleveland Wrecking Company

Dino and Carlo’s was a bar and music club located in San Francisco’s North Beach from 1965-1968. Featuring brand new bands, poets and artists, the performers were not paid and some, like Creedence Clearwater Revival, who had a regular weekly gig at D & C’s, could barely fit on the tiny stage.

With the success of the San Francisco establishment, Dino and Carlo expanded and booked time at the Muir Beach Lodge at Muir Beach in Marin County. They renamed the Lodge to, "DinoCarlo Naval Base" and many of the same bands played both locations. The bar later added nude dancing which outraged the local residents of Muir Beach and eventually the residents had the Lodge condemned and a public park placed at that location.

Creedence Clearwater Revival (frequently misspelled with one “e,” had just changed their name in January from “The Golliwogs,” and were making a name for themselves with songs like “Suzie Q.” The Cleveland Wrecking Company were formed in San Francisco in 1965. Their members came from jazz, flamenco and R&B backgrounds, but together their psychedelic brew verged on Blue Cheer heaviness. As perennial local favorites, they gigged at every stage in the area and their vocalist and bass player was Jim Moscoso, the younger brother of Big Five poster artist Victor Moscoso!

Country Weather was a band formed in 1967 in Walnut Creek CA. Originally called The Virtues, they were encouraged to change their name and also start writing their own songs by Chet Helms, promoter at The Avalon Ballroom. Soon they were opening for the various psychedeic bands of the day including Santana and the Grateful Dead but they never made an album.....until 2003 (and 2005) when they released some early recordings, live cuts and new stuff.

Little is known about "Womb," also on this bill, but they were a 6-person psychedelic/jazz band that cut an eponymous album in 1969. Less is known about Marble Farm (ie, nothing), but these were part of the everchanging stable of "try-out" bands presented at Dina and Carlo's.