Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
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Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah was an American rock group from the early 1970s.
This Chicago (Actually from West Allis, Wisconsin) trio was originally comprised of bassist Mitch Aliotta, drummer Ted Aliotta and guitarist Skip Haynes. Ted left after their debut album to be replaced by pianist John Jeremiah. They scored a popular regional hit (Chicago area) in 1971 with the single and album "Lake Shore Drive," an homage to the famed lakefront highway in Chicago and (some believe) also to LSD, a hallucinogen.
- Well there ain't no road just like it, anywhere I've found,
- Runnin' south on Lake Shore Drive, headin' into town.
- Just slippin' on by on L.S.D., Friday night trouble bound.
The album was re-released on compact disc in 1996 for its 25th Anniversary, along with some of their other songs on a 2-CD set. [Note: The single 1992 Quicksilver "Lake Shore Drive" CD is missing 2 of the songs from the Original 1971 Big Foot release: "Leaving Chicago" & "Long Time Gone" - aka "Long Time Coming".]
The initials "L.S.D." are a popular abbreviation for Lake Shore Drive, but outside of the Chicago area, the initials are known only as the name of the drug. The group also wrote other songs about drugs (such as "The Snow Queen", referencing the up and down sides of cocaine usage and "Uppers & Downers"), so L.S.D. as used in this song can be taken as an obvious double-entendre, considering the times in which it was issued.
[edit] Discography
- Aliotta Haynes Music (LP) (Ampex 10108) 1970
- Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah & Watson (LP) (Ampex 10119) 1970
- Lake Shore Drive (LP) (Big Foot 714) 1971
- Slippin' Away (LP) (Little Foot 711) 1977
- Lake Shore Drive (CD) (Quicksilver QSCD-1019) 1992 "Rodney Watson"
- Songs (CD) (Quicksilver QSCD-1025) 1994
- Lake Shore Drive At 25 (2-CDs) (Quicksilver QSCD-1033) 1996
