About a month ago I was contacted by Dennis Swanson who was the drummer for the band Children of the Mushroom. They recorded two great psychedelic songs in 1968 called You Can't Erase A Mirror and August Mademoiselle. I had these songs in rotation on my internet radio station when Dennis did a search for his old band's music and saw I was playing his music and he contacted me to tell me he couldn't believe his songs were being played.

I have been in touch with Dennis and asked if he would be interested in joining us here at the forum and he said he would like to join in on our lively discussions. I will be e-mailing him a link to the forum shorty and I hope we will hear from Dennis soon. It should be interesting hearing his perspective on the 60's music scene.

Peace...MilesMingus

Yeah, that would be very cool... We had had a few others from that era join us here and I found the insight truly interesting... I know I would have several questions for him...


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No word from Dennis yet. I hope he joins up. I'll give him another day and I'll e-mail him again.

That would be great if he joined us.

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Hi, everyone! Just want to thank all of our faithful fans for listening to our record made way back in 1967. I was the Drummer and lived through it all. I am very glad to be here..... Dennis Christensen Swanson, Children of The Mushroom, circa 1967



This photo circa 1969 after name change to The Mushroom

Awesome! Welcome to the forum.

I'll have to see if I can't get some of your music to check it out. 1967 was THE golden year of music in my opinion.

Hi Dennis. Great to see you made it to the forum. Feel free to jump in on any thread that interests you. I'm sure as more members log on they'll have some interesting questions for you. Once again Welcome!

Children Of The Mushroom was a cool band. I'm glad you made it here.

Glad to have you it's always cool to have former bands to post on RM, it gives us some insight.

So Dennis, did your band play any gigs with other 60's psychedelic artists (known or unknown)???

Did you have any clue that there would still be a following of fans 30+ years later for the type of music you recorded way back when???

Are you still in the music business in any way? If not, what have you been doing since you recorded back in the 60's??

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