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See that old guy there! says one pointing at me. He played with Soft Machine and Gong and played with Jimmi Hendrix. And you know what? He's got a 20 year old girlfriend! They grinned broadly and high fived. Yeah man he's my mentor.

A brilliant and pretty obscure look at the flip side of swinging sixties London. Narrated by a rather sardonic and sometimes scathing James Mason, we are taken on a tour of the underbelly of London. The film is artfully edited and offers straight factual history with real life characters/street performers/vendors who seem very unaware of the camera. The documentary has extremely surreal and quite tragic scenes by turn and encapsulates a London undocumented in the media of the time.

Our story is about the return of the Little John band to the place of its birth, the San Francisco Bay Area, with fresh ideas, fresh material and a host of different personalities who came together to work on our recording project.

From the '50s to the '80s there was one sound that was undeniably romantic, undeniably danceable and undeniably American. SOUL! It's roots grow deep in the church, but it's fruit bares none of the guilt. Joyful, exuberant, sometimes slow and passionate this 5-CD gives you 101 tunes from great artists such as Ben E. King, Aretha Franklin, the Drifters, Luther Vandross, Gladys Knight, Al Green, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and many, many more!

"Contacted by phone at his home just south of San Francisco, Chester Thompson is quick in his response to a question about a record he made in three hours on a Sunday afternoon fifty years ago, Powerhouse. 'I was a young man, and it was an opportunity to show people that I could play a Hammond B-3 organ.