{"id":16885,"date":"2022-03-22T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=16885"},"modified":"2022-03-22T20:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:33:03","slug":"jack-casadys-recordings-with-svt-set-for-vinyl-reissue-june-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/jack-casadys-recordings-with-svt-set-for-vinyl-reissue-june-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Casady’s recordings with SVT set for vinyl reissue June 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The recordings of the San Francisco rock group SVT are set to be reissued on vinyl for the first time in the modern era. The band’s lineup included bassist\u00a0Jack Casady<\/a>, a 1996 inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with Jefferson Airplane, and a founding member of Hot Tuna.\u00a0Always Comes Back: The Authorized Recordings<\/em>\u00a0by SVT is released as a double-vinyl LP by\u00a0Liberation Hall<\/a>\u00a0on June 3.\u00a0
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“The late 1970s and early 1980s were an explosive and exciting period for music and the San Francisco scene was no exception,” recalls Casady in the liner notes for\u00a0Always Comes Back<\/em>. “I had been playing constantly from 1965-’72 as Jefferson Airplane, continuing on as Hot Tuna through 1977. Hot Tuna took a bit of a break and\u00a0SVT<\/a>\u00a0was born of this period.”\u00a0
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Originally gigging in 1978 as the Jack Casady Band, Casady alongside guitarist\/vocalist\u00a0Brian Marnell<\/a>, keyboardist\u00a0Nick Buck<\/a>\u00a0(also of Hot Tuna), and drummer\u00a0Bill Gibson<\/a>\u00a0(Huey Lewis & the News) rebranded themselves as SVT the following year. The name came from Casady’s bass rig, the Ampeg Super Vaccum Tube. A self-released debut single, “New Year”\/”Wanna See You Cry,” arrived on red vinyl in January 1979.
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Additional studio time was booked to record more material. A demo cassette featuring the group’s “Heart of Stone” caught the attention of a pair of radio deejays on local station KSAN-FM. “When I was in college,” recalls Howie Klein, “I booked the Jefferson Airplane to play a concert at Stony Brook and got to know Jack way back then. Fast forward a dozen years or so and Chris Knab brought this cassette with the song ‘Heart of Stone’ to our late-night radio show. I remember that we played it three times in one night.”\u00a0
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