The Artistics – Soft Touch – License To Drive

This page contains recordings that primarily had three members in the group: Gary Rose (my cousin), Jim Wilson (my brother) and myself. The Artistics was our first group which we started sometime around 1967. Soft Touch was our group when we lived in Dickenson, Texas and License To Drive was two different groups…the first one while we lived in Houston, Texas and the second when we lived in Albuquerque, NM but toured throughout the midwest and Rocky Mountain states.

RR408 The Artistics – Eldorado High School Performance

RR408 The Artistics – Matheson Park Elementary School Performance

RR401 was a tape I had that contained these 5 recordings…different takes of “All We Really Need” and “May You Remember”. “All We Really Need” was a song that Jim Collins and I decided to see what we could come up with in an hour. Jim wrote the lyrics and as he was writing them down, I composed the music. That’s probably why it’s all over the place. It has spiritual overtones but mostly about how amazing the world is and that we’re a part of it. These recordings were made all in the same evening at the La Mesa Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque, NM. Not sure of the date but sometime around 1972. The recordings of “May You Remember” were made at the same time but again, not sure of the exact date…or where.

RR401 The Artistics – All We Really Need – 1

RR401 The Artistics – All We Really Need – 2

RR401 The Artistics – All We Really Need – 3

RR401 The Artistics – May You Remember – Original version – practice 1

RR401 The Artistics – May You Remember – Original version – practice 2

RR404 License To Drive – A demo we made for agents. Recorded in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Each song is a separate track although they were in order on a cassette tape
“Don’t Rock the Jukebox”