*SEPTEMBER 2, 2010* The City of Berwyn will dedicate Home Avenue between Riverside Drive and Cermak Road Ides Of March Way Sunday, September 12, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. Honorary Guest Speakers include Berwyn Mayor Robert J Lovero and Dick Biondi from WLS Radio. Most likely, The Ides will play a song or two...
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*AUGUST 23, 2010* "Bigger, better and more colorful! After the huge success of the first edition from 2006, the Acid Archives book has been long out-of-print. Used copies have sold for as high as $200, and there are many inquiries about new runs from around the world. Instead of just a new printing, here is a brand-new edition -- completely revised, massively expanded, and attractively re-designed. The Acid Archives, The Second Edition will delight any lover of rare and great underground music from the 1960s-1970s. All the elements that made the first edition such a hit are here. The A-Z section has been expanded with 90 new pages, detailing many hundreds of previously-unknown LPs. Just as exciting is a brand-new section of special features, where leading experts present the best and rarest albums within exotica, lounge, '70s funk & soul, southern rock, new age, custom labels and tax scam records. In answer to requests from fans of the first book, the Acid Archives has been fully re-designed and is now printed entirely in color. The 400 pages in the second edition (100 pages more than the old version) are loaded with color images of obscure and trippy album sleeves, posters and band photos, many of which have never been published before. 400 pages, all entirely in color, in a perfect-bound softcover quarto." By Patrick Lundborg (with Aaron Milenski and Ron Moore) and due out before the end of the month...
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*AUGUST 18, 2010* Fred Cantor notified us that "The 9th annual Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon is taking place all day tomorrow and Friday but many of the auctions will continue through September. We're posting The Remains auction on eBay later today and it will run for one week.
Red Sox fans will have the opportunity to bid to have their family photo included in the music video of the new Red Sox song, 'Monbo Time,' by the legendary sixties Boston rock band, The Remains.
'Monbo Time' is a tribute, in part, to the Red Sox Hall of Famer, Bill Monbouquette, and was written in support of his battle against leukemia. As described by the Phoenix, the song "oughta resonate with all Sox fans." 100% of the proceeds from the auction are going to the Jimmy Fund.
The winning bidder's family photo will be incorporated in the video portion of the song that features the lyrics: 'Today we're three generations, Our kids have been to Fenway too.'
The winning bidder will also receive a 1968 Red Sox Scorecard and a 2004 Program from the New York Fringe Festival World Premiere of the stage musical about The Remains, All Good Things; both items will be autographed by all four members of The Remains."
On an unrelated note, 'Let Me Through,' the song The Remains performed on The Ed Sullivan Show but that was never released as a record, is now available on iTunes (where the song 'Monbo Time' is also available; The Remains are donating 50% of all royalties from sales of 'Monbo Time' to cancer research).
*AUGUST 17, 2010* Greg Russo contacted us to inform us that he "will be completely restoring and remastering All-American albums as I get permission from each artist. The first one that has been completed is Birmingham Sunday's album. It sounds really, really good -- about 1,000 times better than the Italian CD! It will also have five bonus tracks, two of which are recent reunion tracks. The other bonuses will be singles mixes of 'Prevalent Visionaries' and 'Egocentric Solitude,' plus the group backing The Buff Organization on Version 8 of 'Studio 'A'.'
When I get all the material from the (other) bands, a PDF of the album covers, notes, lyrics and memorabilia will be sold on the Crossfire Publications website along with the entire album in WAV format. In the meantime, the remaster of Birmingham Sunday's album will be available on iTunes and the other companies within a week or two."
Check back here for updates...
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*AUGUST 12, 2010* Hot on the heels of their Human Expression and Human Zoo releases (both now ready for ordering), Cicadelic Records has announced Open Up Your Mind: The Pop Psych World Of Rembrandt Records: Open Up Your Mind covers the first two incredible years of Rembrandt Records, a Chicago-based label. The first release in March 1966 was a bluesy garage-band novelty record titled 'Boots Are Made For Talkin.' It was a parody of Nancy Sinatra’s smash hit at the time, 'These Boots Are Made For Walking.' When the single failed to chart, Rembrandt Records’ owner Reggie Weiss moved in a different direction, merging pop with psychedelic music, for the next single,'Open Up Your Mind.' He wrote the song based on a LSD trip and response to the single was positive. Soon other psych-pop singles were issued featuring The Circus, The Nickel Bag, and Monday’s Children.
Cash Box began plugging Rembrandt Records during the fall of 1966. However, Weiss was unable to secure solid distribution and could not compete with the larger Chicago based record labels such as Dunwich, USA, and Destination. By 1967, Weiss devoted all of his time promoting a high-school band called The Lemon Drops. He wrote another LSD inspired song titled 'I Live In The Springtime' for the band. Unfortunately, the single was unable to chart, even regionally. Over the ensuing decades though, the reputation of The Lemon Drops, The Nuchez, The Nite-Owls and other Rembrandt artists have grown immeasurably. This compilation contains all the singles issued on Rembrandt Records from 1966-1967, plus many previously unreleased versions and mixes that are appearing for the first time ever. The twenty-one recordings on this album make it apparent that Rembrandt Records was way ahead of its time when these treasures from the psychedelic '60s were recorded!"
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*AUGUST 11, 2010* Available now from Presence Productions is a collection of 45s, demos and unreleased recordings by New England band The American Dream (aka Benefit Street). The CD is available via the band's excellent and detailed website as well as via CDBaby. The America Dream 45, 'Love Is A Beautiful Thing' b/w 'Jug Band Music' was a Top 10 hit in Rhode Island in 1967.
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*AUGUST 10, 2010* The Mid America Music Hall of Fame Induction Award Show is scheduled for September 16th-18th at the Sheraton Bloomington in Southwest Minneapolis. The list of inductees and/or performers is very impressive and includes The Accents, Haze, The Deacons, Stillroven, The Sleepers, Poor Boys, T.C. Jammers, Nite Train, Joker's Wild and The Electras! Visit the link provided to view the entire line-up and obtain more information...
*AUGUST 5, 2010* Thank to John Berg for providing the heads up on a new 4-CD set of live Jefferson Airplane concerts being released by Collector's Choice Music on October 26:
"The argument rages on, but for many music fans in the '60s, the best live band from the Bay Area was Jefferson Airplane. Formed during the summer of 1965 in San Francisco, the group triumphed in 1967 with Surrealistic Pillow, one of the key recordings of the Summer of Love, containing the hits 'Somebody to Love,' 'White Rabbit' and 'Today.' The Airplane featured three master instrumentalists (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and Spencer Dryden) and three vocalists: Grace Slick (replacing original singer Signe Anderson in 1966), Marty Balin and Paul Kantner. The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductees made a total of eight studio albums and released a smattering of live albums including 1969's Bless Its Pointed Little Head.
But what most fans don't know is that there are vast reserves of never-released live material by Jefferson Airplane capturing key moments in their history. On October 26, 2010, Collectors' Choice Music Live will release four previously unreleased live albums: Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/15/66 Late Show — Signe's Farewell, Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/16/66 Early & Late Shows — Grace's Debut, Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 11/25/66 & 11/27/66 — We Have Ignition, and Return to the Matrix 2/1/68.
The first three releases document the astonishing growth of the band, and follow the near-seamless absorption of Grace Slick's voice and material into the Airplane's sound just as they were entering the studio to record Surrealistic Pillow. The fourth release captures the group triumphantly returning to their home turf at Marty Balin's club The Matrix for a relaxed, exploratory set in an intimate setting, performing material from their first four albums, including Crown of Creation, seven months before its release. Taken together, the four releases confirm that at its best, when Jorma was soaring, Jack rumbling and the three voices joining in ecstatic melisma, no other band could ascend to the heights attained by the Airplane. Hand-picked by a team of devotees, annotated by frequent Airplane flyer Craig Fenton (author of the book Take Me To A Circus Tent: The Jefferson Airplane Flight Manual), and featuring rare photos inside handsome digi-packs, these concerts distill and express the dream and promise of the Haight-Ashbury scene."
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*AUGUST 5, 2010* Many of the top '60s bands from Maine are runiting next weekend, August 14th for a PAL Hop concert. Featured bands are The Royal Knights, Terry & The Telstars, Rockin' Recons, Travelers, Moondawgs and The Innskeepers. Organizer Bill Maroldo is also currently preparing a documentary of the original scene featuring interviews with many of the participants along with vintage 8mm footage of several of the combos. We'll keep you posted on the documentary; for more information on the PAL Hop Rocks Again Reunion 2010, please visit here.
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*AUGUST 4, 2010* Press Release:
A Night at the Family Dog:
An Evening of Rare Audio and Video from the Bay Area's 1960's Rock 'N' Roll Heyday
Wednesday, August 25th, 7:00 p.m.
(San Francisco) The Museum of Performance & Design’s (MPD) critically acclaimed exhibition Somethin’s Happening Here: Bay Area Rock ‘n’ Roll 1963-1973 marks the end of its run with a very special program that focuses on the sounds of the era it celebrates. In a treat for casual fans and aficionados alike, the Museum hosts an evening of rare audio and video recorded during the 1960s in San Francisco. Big Brother & The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sly & The Family Stone, The Sons Of Champlin and The Beau Brummels are among the many local acts to be featured in an unprecedented evening of sound and vision.
In his capacity as a GRAMMY-nominated reissue producer, Somethin’s Happening Here co-curator Alec Palao has spent the best part of the last two decades combing tape vaults in the Bay Area and beyond, in search of audio gems from San Francisco’s rock 'n' roll heyday. On this evening he shares some of his finds, with the rare opportunity to hear excerpts from his own and various other private collections, including some from the KSAN archive which now resides in MPD’s permanent collection. Also to be shown is some of the rare footage that Palao and co-curator Melissa Leventon gathered during their research for Somethin’s Happening Here. Each example is commercially unavailable, and many will be unknown even to the most hardcore collectors of San Francisco rock arcana.
The second half of the presentation will be devoted to a legendary San Francisco venue, the Avalon Ballroom, and will consist of previously unheard vintage recordings made by Bob Cohen. Cohen ran the Avalon and its legendary production company The Family Dog in partnership with Chet Helms, and among many other duties was responsible for the sound system at the venue, the quality of which made him a pioneer in the field of in-concert sound presentation. These dynamic and illuminating clips were all taped at the Avalon’s original location at Sutter and Van Ness during the mid to late 1960s, and together make up a priceless audio-verite document, showcasing many of the leading lights of the era.
Bob Cohen will be on hand to discuss his recordings, as will several of the musicians heard and seen in the presentation. Please note that audio or video recording devices are strictly prohibited.
A Night at the Family Dog
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 7:00 p.m.
Museum of Performance & Design, 401 Van Ness Avenue, Veterans Building, 4th Floor
San Francisco
For more information, visit the official website.
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*AUGUST 2, 2010* Tentatively planned for the spring 2011 is a Las Vegas Rock & Roll Hall of Fame event: "This proposed event, including a benefit reunion concert for charity, tentatively scheduled for Spring, 2011, would induct local rock bands and pay tribute to concert promoters who produced shows at the LV Convention Center, Ice Palace and UNLV during the 1960's and 1970's. Keep apprised of updates via the event's Facebook page...and we'll provide more information here as it becomes available.
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*JULY 31, 2010* For collectors and completists...Volumes 15, 16 and 17 of Paul Buff's download-only collection are now available at CD Baby, featuring songs by Giant Crab, Hunger!, Music Machine, Big Brother Featuring Ernie Joseph, Hollwood Persuaders, Thee Sixpence, Shapes of Sound and many more...three songs recorded in 1967 by Detroit's Wilson Mower Pursuit are also available as downloads-only via CD Baby...Tom Zagryn of The Squires/Rogues is offering a CD single (along with a cool autographed mini-photo) of 'It's The Same All Over The World' b/w 'Oh No!' (originally on the Peyton label) via eBay...
*JULY 28, 2010* Press Release:
"The San Francisco Giants are stepping up big time on Monday, August 9th, and joining Dead Heads everywhere as they pay homage to the 15th anniversary of Jerry's passing and face the Chicago Cubs at AT&T Park. All fans attending that night's game will be treated to pre-game performances from Grateful Dead cover bands, a very special home plate ceremony, video tributes and plenty of other surprises.
Annabelle Garcia is set to throw out the game's traditional first pitch, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Jeff Pehrson will perform the National Anthem, and Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann will attempt to set an official Guinness World Record for the world's largest kazoo ensemble, by leading some 9,000 kazoo-playing fans in 'Take Me Out To The Ball Game.' Truly a celebration not-to-be missed!"
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*JULY 22, 2010* Here's an archival release from 1968 by Drag City that we know little-to-nothing about. Spur: Spur Of The Moments is available as an LP, or as mp3 or Flac downloads. Here is the Press Release:
Doncha just hate it when a majorly-touted obscurity or “major find” fancy reissue finally makes it into your hands, and it turns out to be nothing but sub-Hendrix acid-rawk jams, tuneless loner plink, some horn-addled overblown studio pomp, or simply just obscure-for-a-very-good reason? Or worse yet, it’s an album you’ve already heard, but you buy it again for a bunch of “bonus material,” which is nothing but lame garage rock covers? Well folks, relax — you are in no such danger with the major unveiling of the soon-to-be-seminal Belleville, Illinois outfit Spur. Little did we all know that still lurking in southern Illinois (near St. Louis actually), was one of the most amazing secret bands that could’ve given any 60s “Sunset Strip” band a serious run for its money. Even more shocking was the amount of beyond-spectacular unreleased tracks lingering in their vaults...stuff that will truly spin heads around. So we cherry-picked only the best material from their insanely rare micropressed LP Spur of the Moment to make room for the plethora of new-found bounty.
For '60s “psych” enthusiasts, or really just fans of anything essentially rock n roll, there is a grove of treasures on this lone LP (boy was it hard to edit it all down to 40 minutes). The earliest Spur days, back when they were known (or really unknown) as The Unknowns, finds them in absolutely heartbreaking folk-garage mode, recalling the best of the Blue Things, The Choir, Beau Brummels or even ye olden Beatles. They evolved quickly into full-tilt west coaststyle psychedelia, pouring on the fuzz with a laid-back tunefulness that certainly gives outfits like Quicksilver Messenger Service, Relatively Clean Rivers and Thee Dead some competition (indeed Spur opened for Jerry n crew in the day — as well as Cream!). By the '70s Spur had expanded even further, at last answering the age-old question, “What if Buffalo Springfield had hung in there and totally kicked ass by 1971?” Gorgeous harmonies soaring above utterly driving guitars, amid heady studio trickery paints a picture not unlike the sainted pop of your Big Stars or Badfinger. So yeah, if you’re a fan of bands that seemlessly and viscerally integrated country, rock, psychedelia, folk and really everything grand in R n R, a la the Byrds, Moby Grape or even the Flying Burrito Brothers, prepare to have your doors blown off by a band that will soon be regarded as esteemed contemporaries of all of them.
Packaged as close as we could to the original beautiful LP, Spur of the Moments also will have an insert of sweet unreleased photos and ephemera.
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*JULY 22, 2010* Coming next month from Cicadelic Records:
Human Expression: Love at Psychedelic Velocity - In 1966, four high school students from the Los Angeles suburbs formed The Human Expression; by January 1967, their first single, 'Love At Psychedelic Velocity' b/w 'Every Night,' was released to an unsuspecting public. It was a dazzling, driving, opus of mind-bending sounds, and a harbinger of things to come. Their second single, 'Optical Sound' b/w 'Calm Me Down', released in the "Summer Of Love," was a two-sided tour de force, with brooding introspective lyrics by lead singer, Jim Quarles. The Human Expression's edgy bad boy image was the antithesis of the "flower-children" image so prevalent for groups in 1967. The band's third single was 'Sweet Child Of Nothingness,' written by Mars Bonfire, who also offered the band his other new song, 'Born To Be Wild.' Quarles thought the lyrics trite, and since he was the lead singer, the band rejected the song, which is how Steppenwolf came to record it. OK, so The Human Expression screwed up on that decision; nevertheless, the three singles that they did release during their short-lived career would burnish their reputation as one of the finest bands to emerge from the mid-60s Los Angeles music scene. Compiled on this CD are all surviving demos and tapes of The Human Expression--16 tracks in total including five unreleased tracks--which include demos by Quarles from 1965 (recorded just before The Human Expression). Booklet has the story of the band, along with photos of rare band memorabilia.
Human Zoo: Human Zoo - For the first time since its original release in 1970, an exact re-issue of the Human Zoo album, taken from the original master tapes, with all album artwork faithfully replicated! As was the case with label-mates The Human Expression, The Human Zoo were also from the Los Angeles suburbs of Westminster and were also signed to Accent Records. (In fact, the connection between the two bands is greater still, as the Human Zoo were managed by Jim Foster of The Human Expression). The Human Zoo were originally called The Circus; they changed their name to the hipper sounding Human Zoo in 1969. Their album from the following year was pressed in limited numbers and has become a mega-rare collectors item, selling in the $900 range on eBay. Why? Difficult to explain. The Human Zoo album is a quirky and unexpected blend of psychedelic, garage, and funky music. We've seen it savaged over the years by people expecting... well, expecting The Human Expression... Years have passed, and the musical diversity, once the cause of most people's griping, is the record's greatest asset in this age of one song downloadable wonderment.
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*JULY 18, 2010* Upcoming on Ace/Big Beat, courtesy Alec Palao:
• The Rationals’ Fan Club Album is legendary in collector circles as one of the rarest '60s garage artyfacts – only three test pressing copies are confirmed to exist. Consisting of outtakes from the bands earliest sessions in 1965 and 1966, the record was intended as a farewell “thank you” to the groups loyal fanbase from the bands producer and mentor Jeep Holland, when he parted ways with the Rationals in late 1968. This new Big Beat vinyl reissue reproduces the albums original tracklist and running order, replacing only the single version of 'Feelin' Lost' with a rare instrumental outtake of the same.
• Also from Big Beat comes Out On The Floor, which is analogous to the long-player the Rationals would have - should have - released in 1967, in the wake of their local hit 'Respect.' Consisting of material recorded in 1967 and 1968, it showcases the punchy blue-eyed garage soul that was the Rats stock-in-trade, with most cuts making their debut on vinyl.
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*JULY 16, 2010* Press Release:
From the Quatro Sisters’ archives comes the emergence of their never released, original music from an era of sheer raw, driving energy that exploded out of Detroit in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The 2-CD anthology will be a look backwards, starting with the May release of the Cradle EP. Following this release, their musical evolution will take you backwards in time to their roots, in the pop '60s, with the second Quatro sisters product--the release of the Pleasure Seekers EP. Cradle was the early 1970’s female rock group, evolving out of The Pleasure Seekers, who had a reputation in the '60s as the best and earliest all-female garage rock band. Starting on a dare, The Pleasure Seekers had singles out by the time they were in their mid teens, and were the youngest female rock musicians to be signed to a national label. With the multi-talented sisters Patti, Suzi, Nancy, and Arlene Quatro, these teenagers dared to go where women had not gone before, against all odds, stomping their way into a male dominated heavy rock scene.
In 1969, morphing into Cradle, the sisters continued in a much harder direction, contributing relevant lyrics, creative harmonies, and heavy original music with attitude. Cradle rocked the house, paving the way for many female musicians to be taken seriously as hard rockers. Touring the country extensively, Cradle played many concert halls and large pop festivals with the legends of the day. Though they were gaining momentum, and much respect from their peer male musicians, Cradle's ride was cut short with the hard struggle women had to find credibility with the record companies, finally ending in 1973. This is Part I of their one-time release...Be part of "the history"...ROCK the CRADLE.
The Quatro Sisters will be on reputationlabel.com this Sunday, July 18 at 9 p.m. (U.K. time) for a live interview. Or, for more information, visit here.
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*JULY 7, 2010* Coming next month on Grapefruit: When Lenny Kayes original, life-affirming Nuggets anthology of mid-60s U.S. garage bands appeared out of nowhere in 1972, it sent a worldwide army of enthusiasts scurrying off to track down the complete recorded works of the featured groups. It took a while for them to discover that many acts had summoned up whatever artless teenage genius they possessed solely for the duration of one unfeasibly perfect three-chord, two-minute blast. The Knickerbockers, however, were the exception that proved the rule. Represented on Nuggets by their uncanny Beatles soundalike single 'Lies,' the group had actually cut a whole stack of bona fide garage pop gems including follow-up singles 'One Track Mind' and the controversial, psychedelically-oriented 'High On Love' - during a relatively lengthy career that also saw them dabble with varying degrees of success in big production MOR pop, Four Seasons-style harmony outings and Righteous Brothers-influenced blue-eyed soul. One Track Mind: The Garage Pop Sound of The Knickerbockers does exactly what it says on the tin, eschewing the groups more anodyne work to concentrate on showcasing The Knickerbockers doing what they did best: hook-laden, garage-oriented teen pop that was heavily influenced by the British Invasion. Here, then, is the definitive, all-killer-no-filler compilation of thirty original Knickerbockers artyfacts from the first psychedelic era."
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*JULY 5, 2010* Norton Records has recently announced some very interesting titles, among them:
"Mega major thrill is an upcoming Norton release of never-issued 1966 recordings from guitar snarler James Williamson... and his pre-Stooges teen band, The Coba Seas... Our favorite 16-year old guitar blaster ignites a teenage rampage at an upstate juvie facility with pals Michael Adams, Andy Yood, and Michael Rosen.. The Coba Seas gore local zit-poppers with instro-mental anthemic shellackings of ‘Louie Louie’, ‘Heart Of Stone’, ‘Gloria’, and ‘It's My Life,’ among others... Our posh fall package will coincide with the year end issue of Ugly Things, which will feature a massive bio-story on the group...Ugly Things genius Mike Stax is tapped to scribble liners for the Norton album, as well…"
"Norton’s multi-volume El Paso Rock series continues now, after three volumes of early Bobby Fuller... Scores of rare and unreleased 1958-66 West Texas recordings from the vaults of Yucca, Suemi, Exeter, Eastwood, Frog Death and other local labels... We recently pacted a deal to issue over a dozen incredible 1963 raw, rockin’ sides by Terry Manning and The Wild Ones – Killer stuff... Terry is known for his 1970 cult album Home Sweet Home and his work with Big Star, the Stax family of artists and his engineering work for Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top… but he got his start diggin' Bobby Fuller back in El Paso, Texas... one of Bobby's very earliest... and most ardent... disciples..."
Also on tap is:
I Fought The Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller 1942-1966
By Miriam Linna and Randell Fuller
In the works now is I Fought The Law, the authorized biography of ill-fated 1960’s Texas music legend Bobby Fuller. Fuller biographer Miriam Linna, whose lengthy 1988 Kicks magazine biography sought to unravel persistent misinformation that had plagued the music history of The Bobby Fuller Four, has teamed up with Bobby’s brother Randy to write the definitive Bobby Fuller bio. Randy opens up for the first time to tell of growing up with Bobby--from their idyllic childhood days in Texas, New Mexico, and Utah, to their teen-age years in the burgeoning El Paso music scene, to the Hollywood helter skelter that would claim Bobby’s life at the age of twenty-three. His death remains a mystery, with much conjecture spawned by media zealots.
Bobby Fuller was mad about all aspects of music—writing, performing, recording, marketing. He first appeared on record in 1958, at the age of fifteen. The experience fueled his ambitions; while he was still in his teens, he started his own band with his brother Randy, built a home studio, and started his own record company. By the time he was 21, he had his own teen club in El Paso, with his band, The Fanatics as the house band. The club closed in ’64, and the decision was made to make a go with the band in Los Angeles. They were soon recording for the Mustang label as The Bobby Fuller Four. Enormously popular locally, the group was to land two singles in the Billboard charts: ‘Let Her Dance’ in 1965, and the iconic ‘I Fought The Law’ in 1966.
I Fought The Law will uncover the many factors that lead to Bobby’s shocking death on July 18, 1966, detailing and dispelling the myths that have surrounded that event.
In an effort to leave no stone unturned, the authors ask anyone with additional information regarding the final American tour of The Bobby Fuller Four, business and professional dealings with Bobby, or with information or documents of any sort, to contact the authors at their editorial email number below.
From a Texas music perspective, the authors would also like to hear from artists and musicians who worked for and with Bobby during the El Paso days, who may not yet been interviewed. Confidentiality is a given.
Miriam Linna has written extensively about Bobby Fuller, particularly for several collections of his recordings, which appear on New York’s Norton Records label. She is co-founder, with her husband Billy Miller, of Kicks magazine and Norton Records. Miriam collects and catalogs true crime magazines, books and pulps, and edits Bad Seed, a compendium of teen-age crime in pop culture, 1949-1959. She has written about music and crime since 1975. Her articles have appeared in several publications including Crime Beat, The Guardian, Spin, Seventeen, and most recently, Loops Journal.
Randy Fuller is Bobby Fuller’s brother and band mate. Only two years apart in age, they were often mistaken for twins as young children. As bass player for The Bobby Fuller Four, and the El Paso Fanatics before that, Randy and Bobby were inseparable. The gruesome death of his brother sent Randy into a tailspin from which it would take him years to recover. He has rarely given interviews, and only now opens up to reveal the true story of the short life and strange death of Bobby Fuller.
Contact the authors:
Miriam’s email: nortonrec@aol.com
Bio blog: http://www.bobbyfullerbio.blogspot.com
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*JUNE 26, 2010* The CD version of Break-A-Way's excellent but previously vinyl-only release United Travel Service: Wind and Stone is now available, complete with tracks not available on the LP. "Dateline 1966 – the Pacific Northwest of the USA – a hotbed for numerous local and regional bands following the tradition of the renowned Northwest frat rock of The Kingsmen or the uncompromising rock & roll of The Sonics and Wailers. Not so The United Travel Service. They were sadly overlooked at the time but are now revered for their two brilliant, killer folkadelic 45 releases ‘Wind And Stone’ b/w ‘Drummer Of Your Mind’ and ‘Gypsy Eyes’ b/w ‘Echo Of You.’ The UTS were mainly influenced by the San Francisco scene, garage rock and The Byrds. Their high-quality repertoire written by guitarist Ben Hoff and produced by New Tweedy Brothers producer Rick Keefer would have made a classic local psychedelic album if released back then. But it was not to be.
Break-A-Way presents for the first time a collection of the band’s rare 45s, along with four more, until now unreleased studio recordings, plus five home demos, of which four were not part of the LP version. Additionally there is an excellent 2009 re-recording of an old track capturing again the old magic and authenticity of the group. The CD comes with a 12-page booklet including a detailed history of the band with photos from the member’s scrapbook. At last, here is the long overdue legacy of one of the Northwest’s finest psychedelic bands.
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*JUNE 23, 2010* Barry Stacks of The Grifs ('Catch A Ride' and 'Keep Dreamin'') has parlayed his career as a successful songwriter into that of novelist. In addition to All in Vein, a vampire series, he has written The House On Marchant Street, where's he's incorprated some of his '60s rock experiences into a "concept" novel. For more information on Barry and the book, click here for our exclusive interview...
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*JUNE 21, 2010* Available early July: "Summer’s here and the time is right for… Ugly Things #30. Our landmark 30th issue is a Kinks special featuring an extensive, no holds barred interview with Ray Davies by Kinks biographer Jon Savage, along with various sidebar articles and a host of rare and previously unpublished photos, all focused on the band’s 1964-68 heyday.
Also in this issue: The Masters Apprentices, Ollie Halsall and Patto, ‘60s garage punks The Hysterics, girl garage rockers The Bittersweet, Dutch beat icons Q65, ‘70s Texas punks The Nervebreakers, a rundown of the greatest ‘60s Punk Compilations by Johan Kugelberg, Cromagnon, Perth County Conspiracy, The New Nadir, and lots more, including, as always, our extensive review sections covering all the latest reissues, rock‘n’roll books and DVDs."
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*JUNE 3, 2010* Press Release:
The Finchley Boys...Are Back!
For one unprecedented performance, after 40 years, you can see the one and only Finchley Boys in Champaign, IL! That's right, this JULY 10th, 2010 at 8:00pm on the Walnut Stage, The Finchley Boys will return for one rockin' show at the Champaign Music Festival.
In the mid 1960s Champaign became the epicenter of a regional music explosion and a Mecca for professional musicians. In March of 1968 the Finchley Boys lineup was established that led the way in blues-oriented and original progressive music. George Faber, Larry Tabeling, J. Michael Powers, and Garrett Oostdyk took their innovative sounds and dynamic stage show to new fans in virtually every college campus, concert hall, and teen center in Illinois. Other Midwestern states followed – Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri and Ohio – and then on to New York, Toronto and San Francisco. One of their most highly-acclaimed shows, reported on the front page of the Chicago Tribune as the concerts breakout performance, was as one of the top acts at the Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival. Joining them were Canned Heat, B.B. King, Delaney and Bonnie, and other music legends on that Memorial Day weekend in 1970.
Known for their great live shows and theatrical antics – including a live boa constrictor five years before Alice Cooper made it famous – the Finchley Boys were considered ahead of their time. They started recording in the fall of 1968 and throughout 1969. Those songs would not be heard until 1972 with the release of Everlasting Tributes. By 1983, already a top collector’s item, the album would be bootlegged on vinyl and then CD. Several songs were culled from the recordings and added to various compilation albums and CDs. The popular album was bootlegged again on CD twice in 2004.
Over the years, there have been several legitimate requests to re-release Everlasting Tributes and this year the band has agreed to allow a re-mastered vinyl release on ANAZITISI Records in Europe and a CD by Parasol Records in the U.S. These new releases, along with lots of buzz on the Internet, created a passion to put the band back together. No one could think of a better venue to bring back the Everlasting Tributes line up, for the first time since 1970, than the place they started – Champaign, Illinois.
*JUNE 3, 2010* Slated for July release on Now Sounds is Book A Trip Psych Sounds: "Now Sounds raids the Capitol Records vaults in Hollywood for late-'60s Psychedelic Pop/Soft Pop obscurities and unearths a treasure trove of first-time-on-CD gems. Productions by the likes of David Axelrod collide with arrangements by Leon Russell and compositions by David Gates, Neil Young, and many others, proving why Capitol Records was the undisputed leader of pop during this pivotal era. ALL original Capitol singles, circa 1966-1969, are sourced from Original Master Tapes. Some are presented here in Stereo for the first time. The 24-page, full-colour booklet also includes rare, unpublished photos and extensive track-by-track liner notes that feature the participation of many original band members, arrangers, and producers." Featured artists include Sidewalk Skipper Band, Tuneful Trolley, This Side Up, Stained Glass, The Exception, Moorpark Intersection, Act of Creation and more...
*MAY 25, 2010* A couple of articles of interest to keep an eye out for: Susan Hvistendahl has written a story about The Night Crawlers which will appear in the June issue of the Northfield Entertainment Guide. We'll post more information closer to publication. And Rich Tupica has written an article for the City Pulse, a Lansing weekly, about the area's '60s rock bands, including Tonto & The Renegades, Plain Brown Wrapper, The Ones and others. You can read it here.
*MAY 24 2010* Press Release:
Timbaland Settles Over 'Spazz' Copyright Sampling Infringment
In lieu of a copyright lawsuit over the song 'Throw It On Me' from his Shock Value album, Timothy (Timbaland) Mosely and David Cortopassi, the composer of 'Spazz,' which was originally recorded by The Elastik Band and released thru ATCO/Atlantic and EMI have reached a settlement agreement.
'Spazz,' noted as being "one of the most tasteless records ever made," was initially banned by radio stations and even pulled mid-stream while on air when first released in 1967. At the time, the deejay even apologized to his listeners for playing the record. Since then it has become a popular cult favorite of garage band enthusiasts worldwide, which led to its CD re-release in 1998 by Rhino Records on their Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 box set.
'Throw It On Me,' recorded by Timbaland in collaboration with Randy Fitzsimmons of The Hives and Timothy Clayton (a.k.a. rapper Attitude) did well on the charts selling well over one million units. Justin Francis directed a DVD music video of Timbaland’s recording that premiered during WWE Raw featuring the World Wrestling Entertainment Divas. The recording was also used as theme music for Verizon’s Voyager Phone commercial.
Terms of the settlement are undisclosed.
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*MAY 4, 2010* Now available for pre-order at Amazon and other online resources: "Visionary, innovator, enigma, genius, poet, megalomaniac, excon, recluse, instigator, integrator; Arthur Lee was all these and more. His music continues to resonate and inspire generations of fans old and new.
Lee has been honoured with a Grammy Hall of Fame award and fêted by the British House of Commons, which declared his psychedelic masterpiece Forever Changes the greatest album of all time. The Los Angeles Times dubbed the seminal 1967 album 'perhaps the most quintessentially Los Angeles record there ever is, it will always retain certain immutable qualities that Love's music captures.'
Ensconced in a gothic mansion known as The Castle, and fronting the first fully racially integrated rock band, Love, Lee emerged from the nascent L.A. folkrock scene in 1965. Love's first two albums were groundbreaking, infusing folkrock, garagepunk, jazz, blues, flamenco and classical music elements. But with their third, Forever Changes, Lee and Love achieved immortality.
Though he continued to record for the better part of the next 30 years, Lee was never able to top this crowning glory. Spiraling into excess and increasingly bizarre behavior, Lee ultimately bottomed out after being sentenced to 12 years in a California state prison for weapons offences. His release after 5½ years launched one of rock music's greatest redemption stories, as Lee mounted the widely acclaimed Forever Changes tours to ecstatic audiences who despaired of ever hearing Lee perform his masterwork with an orchestra.
Arthur Lee died of leukemia in a Memphis hospital August 3, 2006 just days after a starstudded tribute concert headed by one of his greatest admirers, Robert Plant. The music world mourned the loss of one of rock music's most charismatic and enigmatic geniuses.
Written with the support and cooperation of the Arthur Lee Estate, Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love boasts unprecedented access to its subject. It draws on exclusive interviews with those closest to Lee, in addition to Lee's own voice, drawn from his personal journals, diaries and an unpublished autobiography.
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*MAY 1, 2010* Here's information on the next related Big Beat release, courtesy Alec Palao: An expanded reissue of the excellent A Pot Of Flowers LP...
• Originally issued in late 1967, the album was ostensibly a cash-in by Mainstream Records upon the growing fascination with all things San Francisco. In the year prior, label boss Bob Shad had issued several unsuccessful singles by Bay Area groups, and by collecting them together on LP he unwittingly created one of the more satisfying surveys of the scene at the time.
• The groups included on A Pot Of Flowers were The Wildflower, pioneering folk-rockers who were an early fixture at the Fillmore and Avalon; San Jose’s popular garage band The Otherside; legendary East Bay punks The Harbinger Complex; and, from southern California, the idiosyncratic Euphoria, whose pathfinding, off-beat take on psychedelia has given the group a cult reputation.
• Doubling the albums original tracklist, Big Beat adds a swathe of rare material, including folk-rock and proto-psych sides by associated West Coast acts such as The New Dawn, Word, Ariel and Unusuals, and several stellar unissued garage rockers from The Ban and Montells. Detailed liner notes provide context with both the group’s individual histories and an overview of Mainstream’s activities on the West Coast.
• Watch for an exhaustive Mainstream pop-psych anthology forthcoming on Big Beat later this year!
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*APRIL 29, 2010* Press Release:
Remembering Okoboji's Roof Garden Ballroom: The Rock & Roll Years (First Edition)
By Tom Tourville & Rebecca Peters
The book that everyone has been asking for. The FIRST definitive rock & roll guide to Okoboji's lengendary Roof Garden Ballroom!
* Over 1,100 bands and artists listings. Who played when!
* 800+ rock dances over 31 years.
* Over 300 rare band/artists photos, posters, ads, dance cards, incredible signed contracts, autographs and more...
* Stories on such bands as The Fabulous Flippers, The Rumbles, Pete Klint Quintet and many more.
* Take the Roof Garden quiz. Can you pass it?
Available this summer of 2010. Reserve and pre-order your copy now! Email us with how many you'd like: rememberngtheroof@gmail.com.
A portion of all sales of the book will be given to the Iowa Rock & Roll Music Association.
*April 29, 2010* As far as wew can tell, this upcoming June release on Charly Records features never-before-heard live recordings as well as never-before-seen video appearance of Big Brother & The Holding Company from 1967: "A 2-CD set in Mediabook with enhanced video tracks. This limited edition CD set comprises audio and audio-visual recordings made by the band at the height of their creativity. The 2-CD set features recordings of San Francisco concerts heard here in pristine sound, having being sanctioned and 24-bit re-mastered for this release by the group themselves. The twelve tracks making up disc 1 are all previously unreleased, having only recently been discovered by surviving band members, and were recorded in January 1967 at The Matrix. Those on disc 2 were recorded in July 1966 at California Hall and have previously only been available as poor quality bootlegs. Disc 2 also contains two enhanced videos filmed at the studios of KQED TV in April 1967, just weeks before the group’s legendary Monterey Festival appearance, and is also previously unreleased with excellent sound and picture quality for the era. This release is housed in a hard back media book and includes notes from two of the original band members as well as additional detailed notes about the group and the actual recordings."
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| Regenerator Records has announced the release of The Chessmen 1964-1966 CD Featuring Terry Jacks (before The Poppy Family and 'Seasons in the Sun', etc). It's avaliable via http://www.regeneratorrecords.com. |
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*APRIL 25, 2010* Some interesting download-only titles are being offered via CDBaby, among them many items from Paul Buff's personal archive, including rarities by The Buff Organization (Paul and wife Allison), The Bongo Teens and The Hollywood Persuaders. Also available is a 1970 Live at Grimslade Coffeehouse recording by Delaware group Martha Lidd, and the song 'Monbo Time' by The Remains: "The Remains are donating 50% of the revenue they receive from this song to cancer research and treatment. Rock legends, The Remains, are back again with 'Monbo Time,' a new single dedicated to 1960’s Red Sox pitching ace, Bill Monbouquette, and 3 generations of Red Sox fans. Based on The Remains’ song, 'Time Keeps Movin’ On,' with new lyrics by Fred Cantor and David Levin, this new single was co-produced by bandmates Vern Miller and Barry Tashian with editing and mixing by Vern. An up-tempo, fun song that captures The Remains’ musical magic , tells a great story and helps sponsor a great cause."
*APRIL 25, 2010* In an event that apparently received little to no advance publicity, The Rascals reunited and performed last night. According to Phil Gallo of the LiveDaily, "The original lineup of The Rascals will reunite Saturday (4/24) for a fund-raising concert in New York. Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere, Gene Cornish and Dino Danelli will perform at Robert DeNiro's restaurant Tribeca Grill to benefit the Kristen Ann Carr Fund that supports programs designed to help teenagers and young adults with cancer and other serious illnesses. It will be the first time the blue-eyed soul legends have performed together since their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Steven Van Zandt, who along with his wife Maureen is being honored at the annual fundraiser, gave The Rascals’ induction speech at the Hall. He has been trying since 1980 to get the group to reunite.
'I speak on behalf of the band when I say all the money offers in the world could not entice The Rascals to reunite,' guitarist Gene Cornish said in a statement. 'But four phone calls from Stevie and without hesitation we enthusiastically and immediately agreed to both support this wonderful cause and honor Stevie and Maureen.'
The Kristen Ann Carr Fund was founded in 1993 by Bruce Springsteen's co-manager Barbara Carr and her husband, writer Dave Marsh, after Sarcoma claimed the life of their 21-year-old daughter Kristen. The fund has established a comprehensive sarcoma laboratory at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and provides sarcoma fellowships in both surgery and oncology at MSKCC."
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*APRIL 22, 2010* Coming next month from Wounded Bird Records: "The Clefs Of Lavender Hill was more than just a one hit wonder. Yes, they did have a classic sixties song with 'Stop! Get A Ticket.' But ever since that dynamite track was released on Date Records in 1966, rumors have circulated throughout the music world that there was a long lost unreleased album in the vaults. Well lo & behold there was! And we found it! Now for the first time anywhere in the world and after over 40 years, fans can finally hear this great music! Added to the complete unreleased album are 4 bonus tracks, including both the mono & stereo single versions of 'Stop! Get A Ticket,' thus giving fans three different versions of this beloved song!"
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*APRIL 16, 2010* Rock Con, The National Rock & Roll Celebrity Show is shaping up nicely for fans of '60's garage rock. Taking place in East Rutherford, New Jersey the weekend of July 30th, some of the bands (or band members) set to appear include The Fifth Estate, Blues Magoos, Spanky & Our Gang, Human Beinz, Vanilla Fudge, and The Nazz, while The Hollies, Tommy James & The Shondells, Jay & The Americans, Jefferson Airplane, Animals, Yardbirds and more are also slated. For a complete line-up and additional information, visit the official Web site.
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*APRIL 15, 2010* Apparently this started in late 2009, but Dairy Queen has been using a great 1967 photo of Hope, Arkansas garage band The Zonks to help promote it's history. In fact, the band is even prominently featured on the DQ Web site. Could this also be the start of Zonkmania? Some guy inspired by the photo even decided to write a fictionalized account of the band in book entitled, We Were The zOnks. Original Zonk Buzz Andrews has his own MySpace page, and we've reached out to him. If we receive a response, we'll print it here...
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*APRIL 12, 2010* Press Release:
Spring 2010
For Immediate Release
NEW BOOK PUBLISHED ON HAWAII 50'S-80'S ROCK/POP MUSIC RECORDING SCENE
HAWAII A GO-GO
Midwest Publications announces the publication of Hawaii A Go-Go: The '50s- '80s Rock, Pop, & Contemporary Hawaiian Singles/45 Record Discography by Tom Tourville.
The book covers the 45 single garage, funk, soul, rock, pop, and contemporary record releases from Hawaii for over a thirty year period.
The 116-page book includes over 1,300 individual record releases and features over 300 photos, graphics and vintage music and artist appearance ads.
The foreward for the book is written by Robin Kimura, an Oahu native and leader of one of the islands most popular soul and funk groups, Greenwood. The cover was designed by well known graphic designer, Danielle Clouse.
Featured sections of the book include: island based 45 releases, exotica single releases, TV and movie theme releases, a section titled Club Land, featuring record releases by some of the finest mainland and Far East club bands and artists who appeared in Hawaii, and a section on Maori artists and bands.
In addition, there are four feature stories written for the book by Tourville, including stories on: The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Masako/Darlene Yoshimoto, Bob Bertram & Bertram Records Story, and Dick 'The Giant' Jensen.
The book is priced at $16.99 and will be available nationally now. Books can be ordered on line at amazon.com and myspace.com (search Tom Tourville).
Tourville pioneered the what is known as the "local record discographies" with his first book, Minnesota Rocked!! The 1960's in 1978. Since then he was written fifteen 14 discographies on Midwest garage rock and one book on rare Midwest garage band posters. This will be his sixteenth book published.
Tourville is a well known mainland music researcher and his new book has been called "simply amazing" by the Hawaii music press. He has had a life long love of Hawaii's rock and pop music and has been working on Hawaii A Go-Go for over a decade. Plans call for a second edition on this book by 2012-2013 as well as a book covering Hawaii's rock, pop, and contemporary Hawaii LP/album releases.
This book covers many different music style than just garage music, including soul and funk music that is so popular in Hawaii.
For more information contact Midwest Publications at P. O. Box 404, Spirit Lake, Iowa 51360 or contact Tom Tourville directly at tourvillea@aol.com.
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*APRIL 9, 2010* For those that can't wait for next month's DVD release, the Doors documentary film When You're Strange, narrated by Johnny Depp and directed by Tom DiCillo, receives a limited theatrical release today. The film includes interviews and never-before-seen footage of the group.
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*APRIL 5, 2010* Coming from Rhino Handmade:
Four-Disc Boxed Set Spotlights Vanilla Fudge Live And In The Studio With An Extensive Collection Of Album Tracks And Rare Singles, Along With An Unreleased 1969 Concert Recorded At The Fillmore West And Unissued Studio Jams
For a brief moment in 1967, Vanilla Fudge stood at the swirling center of the pop-music universe, satisfying fans searching for transformative musical experiences with its symphonic psychedelic rock. Sweetened by intricate vocal harmonies and classical flourishes, The Fudge’s innovative mix of rhythm and blues shone brightly as a new era of heavy music was dawning at the start of the 1970s.
Organist Mark Stein, bassist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist Vince Martell, and drummer Carmine Appice recorded five albums in two years. They toured relentlessly, winning converts with radical reworkings of hits like The Supremes’ ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’ while “raising” the bar for after-show escapades. Rhino Handmade devotes equal time to The Fudge’s influential studio and live legacies with a four-disc boxed set that combines album tracks and rare singles with unreleased recordings. Presented in an elaborately designed, foil wrapped package, the set also comes with an 11x17 replica Family Dog poster from one of the band’s shows.
The first two discs flow mostly in chronological order, beginning with Vanilla Fudge’s earliest recordings, including the band’s first single with Atco, ‘Take Me For A Little While.’ It continues with selections from the group’s self-titled debut, The Beat Goes On (1968), Renaissance (1968), Near The Beginning (1969) and Rock And Roll (1969), plus two songs from Mystery, the band’s brief 1984 reunion. Along with gathering a number of singles, the collection also marks the debut of the previously unreleased ‘Heartache Jam,’ originally recorded in 1969.
The final two discs spotlight Vanilla Fudge on stage in its prime with an unreleased recording of the band welcoming the arrival of 1969 with a New Year’s concert at the Fillmore West. Recorded shortly before the quartet’s fourth album was released, the show draws on The Fudge’s early days for ‘People Get Ready’ and ‘Ticket To Ride’ as well as its forthcoming album Near The Beginning with ‘Shotgun’ and an epic version – more than 20 minutes – of ‘Break Song.’
The collection concludes with ‘Love Jam,’ ‘Movin’On’ and ‘VF Studio Jam,’ a trio of previously unreleased tracks recorded in New York at Atlantic Recording Studio just months before the original quartet splintered.
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*APRIL 5, 2010* Coming from Rhino Handmade:
Four-Disc Boxed Set Spotlights Vanilla Fudge Live And In The Studio With An Extensive Collection Of Album Tracks And Rare Singles, Along With An Unreleased 1969 Concert Recorded At The Fillmore West And Unissued Studio Jams
For a brief moment in 1967, Vanilla Fudge stood at the swirling center of the pop-music universe, satisfying fans searching for transformative musical experiences with its symphonic psychedelic rock. Sweetened by intricate vocal harmonies and classical flourishes, The Fudge’s innovative mix of rhythm and blues shone brightly as a new era of heavy music was dawning at the start of the 1970s.
Organist Mark Stein, bassist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist Vince Martell, and drummer Carmine Appice recorded five albums in two years. They toured relentlessly, winning converts with radical reworkings of hits like The Supremes’ ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’ while “raising” the bar for after-show escapades. Rhino Handmade devotes equal time to The Fudge’s influential studio and live legacies with a four-disc boxed set that combines album tracks and rare singles with unreleased recordings. Presented in an elaborately designed, foil wrapped package, the set also comes with an 11x17 replica Family Dog poster from one of the band’s shows.
The first two discs flow mostly in chronological order, beginning with Vanilla Fudge’s earliest recordings, including the band’s first single with Atco, ‘Take Me For A Little While.’ It continues with selections from the group’s self-titled debut, The Beat Goes On (1968), Renaissance (1968), Near The Beginning (1969) and Rock And Roll (1969), plus two songs from Mystery, the band’s brief 1984 reunion. Along with gathering a number of singles, the collection also marks the debut of the previously unreleased ‘Heartache Jam,’ originally recorded in 1969.
The final two discs spotlight Vanilla Fudge on stage in its prime with an unreleased recording of the band welcoming the arrival of 1969 with a New Year’s concert at the Fillmore West. Recorded shortly before the quartet’s fourth album was released, the show draws on The Fudge’s early days for ‘People Get Ready’ and ‘Ticket To Ride’ as well as its forthcoming album Near The Beginning with ‘Shotgun’ and an epic version – more than 20 minutes – of ‘Break Song.’
The collection concludes with ‘Love Jam,’ ‘Movin’On’ and ‘VF Studio Jam,’ a trio of previously unreleased tracks recorded in New York at Atlantic Recording Studio just months before the original quartet splintered.
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| Merrell Fankhauser & Friends (including our good buddy, Dick Lee) will be performing on June 4th. Plans are to also film the concert for eventual broadcast on HD TV. |
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*MARCH 31, 2010* From Collector's Choice Music: "This is the first of a number of releases we're planning that will demonstrate that Cameo Parkway (actually, these records came out on its Lucky Eleven subsidiary) recorded much more than the pop-rock and R&B it's best known for. Terry Knight & The Pack were a garage band out of Flint, Michigan that had a number of regional Midwestern hits but never broke nationally, and would probably be destined for eternal if undeserved obscurity but for one thing: this is the band that gave Mark Farner and Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad their start! Liner note writer Jeff Tamarkin tells the story while you dig the fuzz-laced sounds...The complete 1966 and 1967 releases!"
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*MARCH 24, 2010* Hot on the heels of their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, The Stooges find themselves being similarly honored by Rhino Handmade: "Rhino taps into the untamable sonic assault of The Stooges' self-titled debut for our next Handmade exclusive. Issued in a 7"x 7" hardbound booklet, The Stooges Collectors' Edition features 26 tracks, including original John Cale mixes, alternate takes and six previously unreleased tracks. The 2-CD set also includes a 7" single of the previously unreleased, long sought-after track 'Asthma Attack.' Originally released in 1969, the newly minted Hall Of Famers' eponymous album prefaced the punk movement with its high-powered, uncompromising and experimental fury. The now-classic release has inspired countless covers of 'No Fun' and original singles 'I Wanna Be Your Dog' and '1969' - Iggy's swaggering vocals often imitated, yet never duplicated. The Collector's Edition delivers all the bravado of the original, amped up by alternate takes and previously unreleased versions of 'We Will Fall,' 'Real Cool Time,' 'Little Doll,' 'Ann' and a mono single version of 'I Wanna Be Your Dog.'
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*MARCH 20, 2010* Press Release:
Who: The Glass Prism
What: An Evening With The Glass Prism
Where: The Mellow Theater
501 Vine Street/ Corner of Washington Avenue
Scranton, PA
When: Sunday, May 2nd 2010
Time: 7PM Screening of the Documentary
8 PM Live Reunion Concert
Following the concert will be a "meet and greet."
Gallery of Sound Locations at
Fashion Mall Dickson City and Monday Street Wilkes-Barre Mellow Theater
570-961-7874 877-346-3552
For more information call 570-829-3603 or 800-836-1691
Ticket Price: $25.50 Reserved Seating
They're back for one night only debuting their documentary On Joy And Sorrow: The Glass Prism Story, it's Northeastern Pennsylvania's rock 'n roll legends, RCA recording artists The Glass Prism. The Glass Prism, the originators of progressive concept based rock will be performing at The Mellow Theater in Scranton, PA, Sunday May 2nd in their second appearance since the 1970s. You don't want to miss the screening of this documentary that chronicles the journey of The Glass Prism's rise to fame followed by a live performance where you can hear all your favorite songs including 'The Raven,' 'El Dorado', 'Conquer Worm' and classic rock hits. Don't miss it! One night only, Sunday May 2nd at the Mellow Center. It's the screening of The Glass Prism documentary followed by a live performance from RCA recoding artist The Glass Prism. Make sure to hand out after the concert for a meet and greet with The Glass Prism. You don't want to miss it! All seats reserved. Tickets can be purchased on line at www.etix.com, The Glallery of Sound and The Mellow Theater Box office. This is a Magnum Productions and Gallery of Sound Presentation.
www.myspace.com/glassprism*MARCH 19, 2010* Daniel Coston contacted us with a request: "I am currently co-authoring a book on the North Carolina rock scene in the 1960s. Many of the book's interviews to date have been with Charlotte musicians, but I would love to talk to any musicians throughout the state. If you played in a band in North Carolina during the '60s, played in North Carolina itself during that time (even if you were an out-of-state band, or have photos or fliers from that area), please email me at danielcoston@aol.com. I'd love to hear from you."
*MARCH 18, 2010* Press Release:
From Domenic Priore
How much would any of you like to see a proper SUNSET STRIP MUSEUM on the actual "Sunset Strip," something properly put together by myself with a collection of the top local L.A. historians? (As documented in my book Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood, Jim Heimann's Out With the Stars and Rhino Records' new release Where the Action Is: L.A. Nuggets 1965-1968). Something that could show the class that was GARDEN OF ALLAH, CHEATEAU MARMONT, THE TROCADERO, THE MOCAMBO, CIRO'S, PRESTON STURGES' PLAYERS, SCHWAB'S DRUG STORE, GOOGIE'S, THE RENAISSANCE, THE CRESCENDO, DINO'S LODGE, THE UNICORN, PANDORA'S BOX, THE SEA WITCH, (The original version of) WHISKY A GO GO, IT'S BOSS, THE TRIP, STRATFORD ON SUNSET, THE LONDON FOG, THE GALAXY, GAZZARI'S ON THE STRIP, THE FIFTH ESTATE COFFEEHOUSE, FRED C. DOBBS' COFFEEHOUSE, THE PLAYBOY CLUB, JAY WARD STUDIOS (w/ Rocky & Bullwinkle statue), BEN FRANK'S, CYRANO, deVOSS, WIL WRIGHT'S ICE CREAM PARLOR ... and the rest! Hell, we'll even throw in Santa Monica Boulevard for P.J.'S, THE ACTION, BARNEY'S BEANERY, THE TROUBADOUR and THE STARWOOD to boot!
WELL dig this! Three years ago I created the Historical Context Statement for the City of West Hollywood to preserve the original TOWER RECORDS location as a Historical Landmark, and hopefully, the future site of a Sunset Strip Museum that'll give the place a little class, being as it is already right across the street from the incredible and forever valuable BOOK SOUP store, thee best place in L.A. for book signing events, oh yeah. But there are some squares that would rather the original Tower Records site be some body buddies deal ... echh! No, this is the perfect historical location for a SUNSET STRIP MUSEUM.
SO help out a bit here, a note from YOU can take you from five to ten minutes to pull together, cost you nothing, and it will really help this Preservation effort. Doing this will help bring some kind of lasting artistic integrity to a Sunset Strip gone incredibly commercial in recent years. -- Domenic Priore Send emails to:
Planning Dept.
John Keho and Adrian Gallo to:
jheho@weho.org, agallo@weho.org
City Council:
John Duran, Jeff Prang,
Abbe Land, John Heilman, Lindsey Horvath to:
Send hard copy letters by U.S. Mail to:
John Keho and Adrian Gallo, Planning Dept.
West Hollywood City Hall
8300 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
City Council members:
John Duran, Jeff Prang, Abbe Land, John Heilman, Lindsey Horvath to:
City Hall
8300 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood CA 90069
Or call if you can: (323) 848-6460
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*MARCH 16, 2010* Gray Newell from Tune In Records provided the scoop on the upcoming NGC-4594 collection:
- TUNE IN is a new Cherry Red label devoted to the U.S. Psychedelic scene of the late sixties
- NGC 4594 was an obscure quintet who issued just one single, ‘Skipping Through The Night’ on Smash Records in 1967
- The band were formed in 1966, named after the catalogue number of the Sombrero Galaxy, thought to be the location of the nearest black hole to Earth!
- Alongside their sole 45, this CD for the very first time offers a dozen recordings from a "lost album" the band made during 1967
- NGC 4594 formed in Storrs, Connecticut, but swiftly relocated to NYC before eventually disbanding in late 1968
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*MARCH 14, 2010* Update:
Scheduled for May release is The Human Expresson: Love at Psychedelic Velocity, consisting of 20 tracks. The release provides the closest idea of how the band sounded live...and they sound great. Two other unreleased tracks are 'Judgement Of Rejection' and 'Return Nevermore' done by Jim Quarles and guitarist Russ Hanson (who wrote 'Readin' Your Will' with Quarles) and recorded in 1965. The release contains an eight-page CD booklet full of rare pics and detailed information on the group. The track list:
1. Calm Me Down
2. Every Night
3. Readin' Your Will
4. Love At Psychedelic Velocity
5. Optical Sound
6. Calm Me Down
7. Sweet Child Of Nothingness
8. I Don’t Need Nobody
9. Every Night
10. Optical Sound (early version)
11. Room Of Shadows (Your Mind Works In Reverse)
12. I Told Her
13. Return Nevermore (previously unreleased)
14. Strange Love
15. Out Of Her Tree
16. World Of Wonderful
17. Judgment Of Rejection (previously unreleased)
18. Outside Of It All
19. Following Me
20. Calm Me Down
The Human Expression rehearsal tape was provided by Jim Quarles to Cicadelic Records in the late '90s. Unbeknown to hardly anyone, Jim Quarles passed away on October 31, 2007. If not for Jim, none of the Human Expresson material would ever have been issued correctly. Additional updates can be found on the Cicadelic Web site.
*MARCH 9, 2010* Press Release:
"Sundazed Music is proud to present a genuine psychedelic landmark: Live by Moby Grape, the first official collection of concert recordings by the legendary San Francisco band at its blazing late-sixties peak. At that time, in rock’s hippest city, there was no other band like the original Grape: Jerry Miller, Skip Spence, Bob Mosley, Peter Lewis and Don Stevenson. Their Columbia debut LP, Moby Grape, issued in June 1967, is still acclaimed as one of the greatest rock albums ever — a thrilling union of blues, soul, country, surf twang and day-glo garage rock, packed into original killer-pop songwriting. Even as extreme Columbia hype, devastating business hassles and Spence’s tragic mental collapse threatened to blow up the band, the Grape continued to make immortal albums, including 1968’s Wow and the magnificent Moby Grape ’69.
But the records told only half of the tale. Moby Grape, in their prime, were also one of the Bay Area’s — and America’s — best stage bands, like The Beatles and Rolling Stones in one, with a breathtaking triple-guitar attack and stunning vocal harmonies. Live is the long-awaited proof. It features more than an hour of dynamite performances from soundboard and broadcast tapes, including tracks from the Avalon Ballroom in 1967 and the band’s complete long-lost set at the Monterey Pop Festival, just a week after Moby Grape came out. There are live versions of the great rare Grape songs 'Rounder' and 'Looper' and five tracks from a famous Dutch radio show featuring the hard-charging ’69 lineup of Miller, Mosley, Lewis and Stevenson.
And Live climaxes with the historic first-ever release of Spence’s acid-guitar masterpiece 'Dark Magic' — never recorded in the studio by the original band but presented here in an epic 17-minute performance at the Avalon, on New Year’s Eve 1966. Moby Grape were the hottest band in town that night, with the whole rock & roll world ahead of them. And they sound like it.
These four-decade-old recordings have been spectacularly mastered, in you-are-there fidelity, and this album comes with sumptuous packaging and rare photos, in true Sundazed style, plus liner notes by Rolling Stone writer and Moby Grape authority David Fricke. Live presents, at last, the untold part of Moby Grape’s incredible story. It is San Francisco psychedelia at its zenith and the best historical rock release of the year."
Sundazed is also releasing a 7" single of unreleased Moby Grape recordings: 'Rounder,' recorded at the Avalon in 1967 and also on the Live CD/LP set, and 'Sitting By The Window,' recorded in the Netherlands in 1969 and available only on this single. Both the single and the CD/LP set will be available for ordering in April.
*MARCH 8, 2010* The 2010 South Dakota Rock & Roll Music Association’s second annual Hall of Fame Induction/Concert is scheduled for April 24th at the Ramkota Exhibit Hall in Sioux Falls. In-state bands to be inducted include Marlys Roe & The Talismen, Dale Gregory & The Shouters, Larry Bell & The Continentals, Fabulous Apostles, Fabulous Trippers and The Cavaliers. Out of state bands headed for induction include The Fabulous Flippers and Roarin’ Red Dogs from Kansas and The Castaways from Minnesota. Click here to see a complete list of nominees…
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*MARCH 5, 2010* Dick Stewart of The Lance Monthly/Lance Records (and formerly of The Knights) has written a book entitled Eleven Unsung Heroes of Early Rock & Roll. Scheduled for a May release, the featured artists are Jack Ely (lead vocalist of The original Kingsmen), Larry Knechtel (lengendary studio musician ), Carl Bunch (drummer for Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly), Sonny Curtis (Crickets’ guitarist songwriter), Jimmy Torres (The String-A-Longs), George Tomsco (The Fireballs), Clyde Hankins, Keith McCormack, Robert Kelly, Davie Allan and Sonny West. Published by Mexia Enterpreises, Inc., the book is available for pre-order here.
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*MARCH 3, 2010* How is this for a KILLER line-up?
Continental Club
(1315 S Congress Ave) (21+)
Texas Monthly's "Texas Garage Bands"
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
Diagonals 8:00 p.m. Austin, TX
Christopher and The Souls 8:40 p.m. McAllen, TX
The Novas 9:20 p.m. Dallas, TX
The Ugly Beats 10:00 p.m. Austin, TX
Chris Gerniottis (Zakary Thaks) 10:40 p.m. Corpus Christi, TX
Green Fuz 11:20 p.m. Bridgeport, TX
Shapes Have Fangs 12:00 a.m. Austin, TX
Kenny and The Kasuals 12:40 a.m. Dallas, TX
Mouse and The Traps 1:20 a.m. Tyler, TX
We'll print more info as it becomes available...
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*MARCH 1, 2010* Patti Quatro Ericson of The Pleasure Seekers contacted 60sgaragebands.com to inform us that "The Quatro sisters are releasing an anthology of our music when we played together from 1964-1973. The groups were The Pleasure Seekers and Cradle...earliest girl rockers fighting hard for our place to play kick ass music in an era that no women were doing so. The CDs will work backwards to our roots in the rocking motor city with our homeboys: Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Seger, MC5...the list goes on and on. Interesting stories from women interacting as musicians with the legends of the day, and the drama and humor all that entailed. The CD music has been rescued from a two-track reel-to-reel...live performances...original, unreleased material from the Quatro girls (ages 15--we were 17 when we started with our first Hideout record). The music is alive with the feel of the era. There will be two CDs and digital downloads...Cradle first, then The Pleasure Seekers." We hope to have more information soon, but until then visit here, here, here, and here.
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*FEBRUARY 28, 2010* Cicadelic Records has announced a limited edition (600 copies) yellow vinyl-only Lemon Drops release with never-before-heard versions of 'Flowers On The Hillside' and 'Dream.' Neither version appeared on the Sunshower Flower Power double CD. In addition, side one songs 1 to 4 and song 6; and side two song 1 have not appeared previously in the included versions on vinyl. The scheduled release date is just in time for the springtime (i.e., first week of April). The title is Sunshower Flower Power (Cic-984LP), and the tracklisting is:
Side One
1. I Live In The Springtime
2. It Happens Everyday
3. Sometime Ago (raga version)
4. Theater Of Your Eyes
5. Popsicle Girl
6. Paperplane Flyer
7. Love Is A Word
Side Two
1. Sometime Ago (early version)
2. Flower Child Eyes and Arms
3. Saturday Be-In
4. Flower Pure (stereo version)
5. FLowers On The Hillside
6. Dream
7. Theater Of Your Eyes (acoustic)
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*FEBRUARY 28, 2010* Currently in the planning stages at JV's Restaurant and set for August 20th is "The Giants Of Georgetown" a performance by members of the greatest Georgetown Bands of the 1960's including The British Walkers, The Eye, Roy Buchanan and The 4most, The Madhatters, The Fallen Angels, and Jimmy Eller & The Little People. For updates, visit here.
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*FEBRUARY 25, 2010* More cool Big Beat news, again courtesy Alec Palao: "Big Beat's contribution to International Record Store Day on April 17 is Rationalism! by soulful Michigan garage legends The Rationals. This limited edition 7" EP contains 'I Gotta Go Now' and 'Poor Dog,' the two most dancefloor-friendly cuts from the recent Big Beat CD anthology of their A-Square years, Think Rational!, along with an astounding, recently uncovered seven minute Yardbirds-like studio rave on 'Wang Dang Doodle,' full of mangled guitar and honking harp. Further vinyl Rats releases planned for later this year include a reproduction of their hideously rare Fan Club album."
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| *FEBRUARY 20, 2010* Alec Palao has informed us that, "Beau Brummels collectors may be interested in Listen To The Voices: Sly Stone In The Studio 1965-70, a productions anthology I have assembled that includes two unreleased 1965 Brummels recordings, one of which ('Underdog') is about as 'punk' as that band ever got. There's some more info here." The other Beau Brummels song is entitled 'Are You Sure.' The CD is scheduled to be released by Ace Records in March.
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*FEBRUARY 20, 2010* 60sgaragebands.com is pleased to be able to share the debut video by Mike & The Ravens, 'Roller, Roller, Rollerland.' Enjoy!
*FEBRUARY 17, 2010* David Lott of The Souls informed us over a month ago we interviewed him that the March issue of Texas Monthly was going to feature an article about '60s garage bands from the state of Texas. The magazine has just posted a 13+ minute video that wraps things up nicely (and includes the super cool performance footage of Zakary Thaks). There is also an article preview available here.
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*FEBRUARY 10, 2010* Dean Kohler of The Electrical Banana has written a new book (Rock 'N' Roll Soldier: A Memoir) about his Vietnam experiences and the formation of his band. It's available via his Web site. Be sure to check out the site for some great videos of the era as well.
"It was 1966. I was a year out of high school and had three things on my mind. Girls. Cars. And, especially, my rock band, The Satellites. We'd just landed a recording contract. Soon, the whole world would be listening to my songs on the radio. And then my draft notice arrived.
Before I knew it, I was saying goodbye to family and friends and boarding a train bound for basic training. I became part of a brand new military police unit, the Army's 127th MP Company, created especially for duty in wartorn Vietnam.
It was the beginning of a journey that would take me to places I never could have fathomed, to see and do things I never could have imagined.
But even in 'Nam, I couldn't give up my rock star dreams. I improvised some instruments and equipment, taught a few fellow MPs to play, and formed my own touring rock band right there in the combat zone – all without missing a single patrol.
What started as a lark, though, ultimately became a lifeline for me and the band, as well as the thousands of combat-weary troops we played for.
One moment we were going toe to toe with the Vietcong. The next we were crossing the deadly An Khe Pass to play 'We Gotta Get Outta This Place' for a crowd of cheering GIs.If you can believe it, we even cut a record there in the jungle, crafting a makeshift sound studio on a war-zone mountainside.By forming the band – we called it The Electrical Banana, after a line in a Donovan song – the guys and I created our own bit of order out of the chaos of Vietnam, bringing some sense of normalcy to the surreal hell of war.
Rock 'N' Roll Soldier is our true story."
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*FEBRUARY 2, 2010* Cherry Red has a new label specializing in the reissue of U.S. '60s psych albums. Co-founded by Gray Newell, the label's name is Tune-In, and their first releases are reissues of the two Beacon Street Union LPs:
Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union - "The Beacon Street Union were a highly acclaimed Boston band who recorded two long-out-of-print albums for MGM. They were part of what became labelled the Boss Town Sound along with bands like Ultimate Spinach and Orpheus. This is their highly collectable £50-rated debut album which has long been regarded as a classic of the genre. Produced by New York veteran Wes Farrell, The Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union sold well enough at the time in the States to reach the Top 75 in May 1968. The Beacon Street Union’s diverse, dynamic sound was influenced by such bands as The Yardbirds and The Remains."
The Clown Died In marvin Gardens - "This is their highly collectable second album which has long been regarded as a classic of the genre. The Clown Died In Marvin Gardens was issued in late 1968, promoted by a single release of their cover of the rock ‘n’ roll classic 'Blue Suede Shoes.'"
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*JANUARY 22, 2010* Press Release:
South Florida's Ultimate '60's Rock And Roll Band Reunion
This concert is an encore to the highly successful show we organized in August 2008. It is a reunion of four of the most popular South Florida rock and roll bands of the 1960’s and will be hosted by legendary DJ, Rick Shaw.
South Florida was a mecca for rock and roll bands in the '60s and for this concert we will feature four of the best of the day.
▪ Pawns
▪ Queens Kids
▪ Peach
▪ Kollektion featuring Richie and Angel w/ an appearance by Joe Lala
These bands, like so many others, played at all the popular teen venues back in the day like The Place, The World, PAL, The North Miami Armory, The War Memorial Auditorium and so many more. They could also be heard poolside at the hotels on the beach, fraternity parties, popular dance clubs and just about any place where young people gathered to dance and listen to music.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7:00 P.M. – Doors open at 6:00 P.M.
Mahi Shriners Auditorium At The Civic Center, 1480 N.W. North River Drive, Miami, Florida 33125
Like all of our concerts, all profits after expenses will be donated to The Majic Children's Fund, a non-profit, charitable organization formed for the purpose of raising funds and services for distribution to South Florida charities that benefit children in need. Radio personality Rick Shaw is the Director and has dedicated his personal time, leadership and guidance reaching out into the community on it's behalf.
For this upcoming event we have formed an alliance with the Mahi Shriners of Miami. They are providing their auditorium for the event and for their generosity The Majic Children's Fund will provide a share of the funds received to The Shriners Childrens Hospitals.
Shriners Hospitals for Children is an international health care system dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing high quality pediatric specialty care, innovative research and outstanding teaching programs. Children up to the age of 18 receive all care in a family-centered environment with no financial obligation to patients or families.
*JANUARY 21, 2010* When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors, the Tom DiCillo film narrated by Johnny Depp and presented under PBS’ prestige American Masters banner, will make its television debut on May 26. An earlier version was shown at last year’s Sundance Film Festival.
*JANUARY 5, 2010* We received the below email from Richard Hayner: "It's taken awhile for me to update you, and I apologize for the neglect. I had hoped to have the book ready for publishing in time for the fourtieth anniversary, but health problems got in the way, so I'm making it my goal to do it this year. As you will soon see, I have a special reason for wanting to get it done by the 2010 anniversary.
This fall, I applied for a Texas State Historical Marker to go near the site of the Texas International Pop Festival! Is that cool, or what? And get this, the Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) has granted permission to place the marker at their Hebron Station, a depot now under construction for the A-train light rail that will soon be running. Hebron Station is just across the field from where the main stage for the festival stood. The station will provide us with lots of bored foot-traffic just standing around, waiting for a train. That means lots of people reading the plaque. In addition to the official state marker, I hope to purchase a plaque with a reproduction of the great Lance Bragg poster from the festival.
As sponsor of the marker, I have to come up with the $1,500 for the marker by the beginning of February; then, if we can get the additional plaque, I'll need to pay for that, too. In order to raise the money, the Flying Pig Roadhouse, in Lake Dallas, has offered to hold a benefit where we will get the door (money paid as cover charge). We've come up with a date, Sunday, January 31, and time, 1:30 - 8:00 p.m. That's the Sunday before the Superbowl. We've got a pretty nice list of bands who have agreed to donate their time for the cause. We'll also be giving away some door prizes and have a raffle for CDs and other memorabilia, some autographed. In addtion, the Texas Pop Festival hippie bus will be there for folks to walk through and admire. Here is a list of the bands and their scheduled playing time (which could change):
1:30 - 2:30 - Piece of My Heart (to do a tribute to Janis Joplin)
3:15 - 4:15 - Soul Sacrifice (Santana tribute band)
4:45 - 6:00 - Swan Song (Led Zeppelin tribute band)
6:30 - 8:00 - Johnny Nitzinger (legendary guitarist)
(Drawings for prizes will be held between sets, and you must be present to win.)
The Flying Pig is located right on the I-35e service road at 5008 E. Stemmons Frwy. (I-35e), Lake Dallas, TX. Admission is $10 and all proceeds will go toward the historical marker. Anything left after that will go toward the plaque.
If you're not too far away, I really hope you'll come out to see us. I'd love to meet with you and have a chat. If you can't come out, keep in mind that I will accept donations. They can either be sent to me in the form of a check or money order or by Paypal to this email address (peace@texaspopfestival.com). Checks can be made out to Richard Hayner and sent to me at 1112 Bayfield Dr., Denton, TX 76209. But begging for money wasn't my intention of writing. So...
Once the historical marker has been granted (and I feel really confident it will), it takes several months for them to make it. When it is put up, it's customary to hold a dedication ceremony. Meanwhile, Hebron Station is set to open in August. With all that in mind, I think it would be fantastic if we could have a huge dedication ceremony with live bands and who knows what else on the 41st anniversary. My hope is to get the city of Lewisville and DCTA involved as well as the County and State, which are already involved through their historical commissions. Perhaps it can be a joint marker dedication and grand opening for the station. We'll see, and I'll keep you posted.
This will be great, not only for the memory of the Texas Pop Festival, but for Texas music history. If you know anyone who was at the festival or would be interested, please forward this email to them."
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