Too Cool Not To Write About!

Former Whitsuntide Singers base player Frank Petricca with the band Pacific Gas & Electric

A couple blog-posts ago I wrote about finding The Whitsuntide Singers base player Frank Petricca on Facebook.  Well, I've come to learn that after Frank left the group he went on to play for the 70's rock band Pacific Gas & Electric!  I guess he had bigger fish to fry.


PG&E recorded several albums and had a hit single in 1970 "Are You Ready".  The band had former members from both Canned Heat (Frank Cook) and The James Gang (Allan Schwartz)! Now even this old folkie knows who they were.  According to Wikipedia they made movie history when they appeared in, and provided music to, the Otto Preminger film Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, starring Liza Minnelli. Their song "Staggolee" was also featured in the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof.  More can be learned about PG&E at: http://www.pacific-gas-electric.com/


 The Whitsuntide Singers are planning a reunion of the group in the Spring.  I can't wait...