Patrick Joseph Cowley came to San Francisco shortly after the 1967 Summer of Love to study music at City College of San Francisco, focusing primarily on the synthesizer. Within several years, he ...
It doesn’t take much of an imagination to picture sweaty, half-naked men exploring the bounds of their bodies while Patrick Cowley’s 1981 track “Menergy” blasts from the speakers. Mostly because ...
Better than: It's hard to compare, honestly. The “golden age of San Francisco dance music” is how writer and musician David Diebold refers to the brief window of time between 1978 and 1983 in his ...