Malden wall gets some sky spirit

By adamg on Sat, 08/17/2019 - 9:41pm

Spirit in the Sky mural on Exchange Street in Malden

A roving UHub photographer captured the work on Exchange Street in Malden to create a mural of a hand releasing a rainbow into the sky, in honor of the release of "Spirit in the Sky." by Malden's own Norman Greenbaum, 50 years ago.

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Learned something

By perruptor on Sun, 08/18/2019 - 12:12pm.

I didn't know he also played with the Kweskin Jug Band.

Kweskin

By anon on Sun, 08/18/2019 - 1:42pm.

The Kweskin Jug Band also had an interesting history with the Mel Lyman Fort Hill cult.

I knew

By perruptor on Mon, 08/19/2019 - 8:11am.

that Lyman played in the band (banjo & harmonica), but I don't know whether any of the other band members got involved in his cult.

Kweskin and Fort Hill Community

By Irma la Douce on Mon, 08/19/2019 - 11:13am.

Kweskin was part of the community beginning in the 1960s, later helped found their construction company (now based in LA) and was listed as a VP on the company website in 2016 (all info from Wikipedia, the only current site for the construction company seems to be a Wordpress blog without much info.)

I'm pretty sure this is the first music video I ever saw

By Don't Panic on Mon, 08/19/2019 - 1:03am.

I remember "Uncle Dale" Dorman used to have a video show way back then on Channel 56. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the show.
Any help?