It was summertime in Michigan 1974, Pat Dawdy and Pete Trappen principal songwriters for the band Buzz Walker, had a chance to record some tunes at a friends house on his Sony 2x4 Reel to Reel. This one was written by Pat Dawdy. 
c) 1974 P. Dawdy

Shadows

It was summertime in Michigan 1974, Pat Dawdy and Pete Trappen principal songwriters for the band Buzz Walker, had a chance to record some tunes at a friends house on his Sony 2x4 Reel to Reel. This one was written by Pete Trappen. 
c) 1974 P. Trappen

Coming Back

It was summertime in Michigan 1974, Pat Dawdy and Pete Trappen, principal songwriters for the band Buzz Walker, had a chance to record some tunes at a friends house on his Sony 2x4 Reel to Reel. This one was written by Gary Cassel with music by Dawdy-Trappen. 
c) 1974 G. Cassel, P. Dawdy, P. Trappen

Will You Be My Love

Portland Star

This was Live in a Gym somewhere in 1971 or 72 - Buzz Walker had just recruited Pat Malloy to play lead guitar.  A Bob Dylan classic.  Pat Dawdy on lead Vox; Pat Malloy on lead Guitar; Pete Trappen on rhythm guitar and harmony vox; Tim Babbitt on B3 organ; Ed Bailey on Bass guitar; Tim  Quinn on drums

I Shall Be Released

It was 1973 ... Buzz Walker had reformed after losing 3 key members to various events.  With the addition of Pete Kittle on Bass and Dick Agostini on drums we took on a bit of a "jazzy" feel.  We also enacted a communal style of managing the band in order to save some money for promotion/recording.  The recording session at a small 8 track studio in Potterville was the result of that effort.  6 songs in total were recorded that day and mixed in one manic afternoon.  

c) 1973 P. Trappen

Play Upon The Sands

Written after a night at a rock festival - quite possibly Clintonia Fields.  Lead Vox and Rhythm Guitar - Peter Trappen; Lead Guitar - Pat Malloy; B-3 Organ - Tim Babbitt; Bass Guitar - Pete Kittle; Drums - Dick Agostini. It was 1973 ... Buzz Walker had reformed after losing 3 key members to various events.  With the addition of Pete Kittle on Bass and Dick Agostini on drums we took on a bit of a "jazzy" feel.  We also enacted a communal style of managing the band in order to save some money for promotion/recording.  The recording session at a small 8 track studio in Potterville was the result of that effort.  6 songs in total were recorded that day and mixed in one manic afternoon.  

c) 1973 P. Trappen

Song For Dawn

Written and recorded long before Leonard Nimoy did his TV series.  Lead Vox and 2nd Leand & Rhythm Guitar - Peter Trappen; Lead Guitar - Pat Malloy; B-3 Organ - Tim Babbitt; Bass Guitar - Pete Kittle; Drums - Dick Agostini. It was 1973 ... Buzz Walker had reformed after losing 3 key members to various events.  With the addition of Pete Kittle on Bass and Dick Agostini on drums we took on a bit of a "jazzy" feel.  We also enacted a communal style of managing the band in order to save some money for promotion/recording.  The recording session at a small 8 track studio in Potterville was the result of that effort.  6 songs in total were recorded that day and mixed in one manic afternoon.  
c) 1973 P. Trappen

In Search Of God

"Rock and Roll music's gonna take away my blues baby"
Lead Vox and Rhythm & 2nd Lead Guitar - Peter Trappen; Lead Guitar - Pat Malloy; B-3 Organ - Tim Babbitt; Bass Guitar - Pete Kittle; Drums - Dick Agostini. It was 1973 ... Buzz Walker had reformed after losing 3 key members to various events.  With the addition of Pete Kittle on Bass and Dick Agostini on drums we took on a bit of a "jazzy" feel.  We also enacted a communal style of managing the band in order to save some money for promotion/recording.  The recording session at a small 8 track studio in Potterville was the result of that effort.  6 songs in total were recorded that day and mixed in one manic afternoon.  
c)1973 P. Trappen

A Rock & Roll Tune

(Pardon the "thee's", I thought it was so poetic back then.)  My young voice ... we'd never recorded in a real studio before.  They claimed to have recorded Chuck Berry at one point.  We were all so excited, doing these songs in 1 take sometimes 2 - time was going so fast.  I think this song got faster as we went along =) 6 songs in total were recorded that day and mixed in one manic afternoon. Lead Vox and 2nd Lead & Rhythm Guitar - Peter Trappen; Lead Guitar - Pat Malloy; B-3 Organ - Tim Babbitt; Bass Guitar - Pete Kittle; Drums - Dick Agostini.

Arrangement by: Buzz Walker 

what shall I say on such a dreary day
what shall i find in my mind
what shall i be with thee by my side

what shall we see too helpless be
atop of it all without standing tall
what shall we be in the night

what calls down to the meadows we've found
to run with the fawn and the dawn
what shall we feel without thee giving flight

c) 1973 P. Trappen

Mother Freedom

6 songs in total were recorded that day and mixed in one manic afternoon. Lead Vox and 2nd Lead & Rhythm Guitar - Peter Trappen; Lead Guitar - Pat Malloy; B-3 Organ - Tim Babbitt; Bass Guitar - Pete Kittle; Drums - Dick Agostini.
LYRICS:
Blade of Grass, blowin' in the wind
Dirt on my ass, that's the way I'll spend
My life waiting for my turn to die
I don't know when and I don't know why (but listen now)
It must be I know that it can't be changed
but I'm a gonna be free, not trapped in your cages
Oh no, Oh no not trapped in your cage
I've got just one life - one life to live
and it's going to be in peace
If I can't have it my way 
My life, might just as well cease! 
yeah
SOLO
for without peace there is pain
and in pain there is no love
and without love there is hate
and hate killed the snow white dove
oh yeah, oh yeah it killed the dove
Blade of Grass, blowin, God she's blowin in the wind
Dirt got that dirt on my ass, that's the way I'll spend
hey hey hey hey yeah

c) 1973 P. Trappen


Blade Of Grass

Michigan based touring rock band from the early 1970s

Buzz Walker

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