*MAY 20, 2013* Hot on the heels of the vinyl LP + EP release comes The Horde: Press Buttons Firmly CD from Break-A-Way Records:
Undoubtedly the most exciting mid sixties garage album to be recently discovered in the genre is that by The Horde from North Carolina. The existence of this self-produced album came to collectors' ears and eyes only about a year ago. It was recorded more or less accidently in early 1967, released in a micro quantity of only 25 copies and among the local U.S. garage albums of the decade it is one of the few eclectic examples with all the ingredients that makes it outstanding compared with the usual prep-school albums of the time. It contains a blend of exciting originals and well chosen, inspired covers, played in a raw, crude and frantic style. If ever it were true that the over-used assertion that a band's cover versions measured up to the originals, then it is true of The Horde. Why? These five 19-20 year old students from all over the United States did not only blaze a trail for '60s rock in then conservative North Carolina, they also had a general attitude that finds its origins in the young people's mindset of the mid-sixties that put them outside of the local mainstream and gained them a sort of regional underground popularity. Break-A-Way has now reissued this original sought after LP with four bonus tracks taken from an unreleased 1967 EP along with a detailed twelve-page booklet which gives the complete history of the band and loads of rare pictures. "Press Buttons Firmly" to find out why the Horde LP is not only rare, but also deserves to be called, "one of the sharpest local garage punk albums of the sixties".
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*MAY 20, 2013* Short Nuggets: Michael Rummans of The Sloths informed us, "The Sloths are looking to record for the first time since 1965. We have been working on new songs, obscure covers and now we are about to began a collaborative effort with Mick Collins from the Gories producing (and possibly writing some new songs for us as well). We'd like to at least have a new single out by the time we play the Ponderosa Stomp in October...The Remains are set to play The Bell House in Brooklyn on June 7. It's one show only so get your tickets now...Houston's Dave Starky V reunited in March and recorded a handful of their "classic rock and roll arrangements". The songs, along with two original recordings from 1965 ('Hey Everybody' and 'Stand There') are now available on a CD via CD Baby...The Little Rock Film Festival awarded 45RPM "Best Feature" and named Liza Burns "Best Actress"...Accordinng to Larry Tamblyn, "We just finished recording and mixing the final song on the new Standells album (we felt we needed to add one more song). This one was also recorded in the Standells' garage studio. We can't give you all the title yet--but it's a killer! The album should be released in late June"...
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*MAY 11, 2013* Dan Nowicki kindly informed us about two new CD collections of interest to fans of Phoenix's '60s scene. Both of these have release dates of May 31 and will be available through CD Baby, Amazon, eBay and Zia Records in Phoenix.
The Mascot/Jack Curtis Story (Mascot 1002) chronicles Phoenix producer and club owner Jack Curtis' Mascot Records label, featuring 32 tracks from 1959 to 1973. The CD spans the musical spectrum, from rockabilly, R&B and teen-idol sounds to garage rock, psychedelia and sunshine pop. The collection includes both sides of The Spiders' debut single, as well as an alternate take of 'Why Don't You Love Me,' and cuts from The Playthings, P-Nut Butter, Motion and The George Washington Bridge (also known as GWB). Includes extensive liner notes chronicling the ups and downs of Curtis and his teen hot spots Stage 7 and the V.I.P. Club and many rare photos.
This new Condello & Company collection (SewSiouxMee 411) includes a mostly unreleased satirical 1968 album from Phoenix guitarist Mike Condello, who in the 1960s was musical director of the Wallace and Ladmo TV kids show. The humor is very much in the "Wallace and Ladmo" vein (the wacky Pebbles favorite 'Soggy Cereal' is included; it subsequently came out on an EP by Commodore Condello's Salt River Navy Band), making this release a great companion to the Mike Condello Presents Wallace & Ladmo's Greatest Hits CD that first came out in the 1990s. Condello and his combo recorded under various names during the '60s (Hub Kapp and The Wheels and Commodore Condello are probably the best known to collectors) and rounding out this disc are rare Condello-related 45 tracks by Last Friday's Fire, The Skallywags, Heckle and Jeckle, The Morgan-Condello Combo and more.
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Chargers: Four By The Chargers - This newly reissued 7-inch single features The Chargers' garage band classic 'Taxi,' main side from the ultra rare single originally released by Julian Records out of Wenatchee, WA. Includes three other Julian tracks unheard since their 1968 recording. Reissued from the original masters.
The Blue And The Gray: 'Don't Send Me No Flowers'/'Wine, Wine, Wine' - Southern members of the Zay-Dee studio band and a Northern Arkansas college student pulled together to form The Blue and the Gray. This Archive Series classic contains two remastered tracks from a single 1966 recording session in Batesville, AK. Only two copies of the original 45 are known to exist!
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*MAY 10, 2013* Kristian Lin of The Ft. Worth Weekly has an excellent article about the Cellar, a local music club that is being profiled in Giles McCrary's upcoming documentary, You Must Be Weird Or You Wouldn't Be Here:
"With the Cellar, what’s legend and what’s real" … said Giles McCrary, trailing off, implying that they’re hard to tell apart. He's made it his job to figure that out, though.
The genial, bearded 60-year-old wasn't referring to the bar that currently operates near TCU. Instead, he was talking about the coffee shop/nightclub that flourished in downtown Fort Worth in the 1960s and was home (in some cases, literally) to some of the biggest names in Texas music, along with legendary nightlife and a colorful owner..."
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*MAY 8, 2013* There Was A Time: Rock & Roll in the 1960s in Charlotte, and North Carolina by Daniel Coston and Jacob "Jake" Berger is now available for ordering: "The first ever book on the Garage Rock and Psychedelic Rock & Roll scene in North Carolina during the 1960s. Interviews with many of the top musicians in North Carolina, and details on the singles, and albums that came from North Carolina during that decade. The book details the Charlotte scene, while also covering that was going on throughout the state." Look for it on Amazon and in stores next week...
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*MAY 4, 2013* The expanded reissue of the Seeds' first album, The Seeds, is available domestically here in the U.S. via Neil Norman's GNP Crescendo website. Neil is also producing the eagerly anticipated documentary on The Seeds and informed 60sgaragebands.com, "The movie is over two hours! Great fun.The music is riveting! It is a great responsibility, but Jan Savage and Daryl Hooper both said I was the man for the job after seeing a rough cut." We'll continue to post updates as they become available.
• Los Angeles legends The Seeds stand prominent amongst the handful of mid-60s garage bands whose influence is palpable in rock to this day. Led by charismatic frontman Sky Saxon, their unique brand of exciting, minimalist rock’n’roll has remained forever contemporary. The minor chart statistic of the groups two original hit singles 'Can't Seem To Make You Mine' and 'Pushin' Too Hard' belies the fact that the Seeds' music is known and beloved the world over.
• Yet, The Seeds recorded catalog has been in major need of an overhaul for decades, and now with this spectacular repackage of their debut album, the campaign to reinstate the Seeds long-players to their rightful glory begins. 1966's The Seeds is quite firmly a fan favourite, featuring as it does both of the aforementioned hits, and sundry other staples of their repertoire such as 'No Escape', 'Girl I Want You' and 'Nobody Spoil My Fun'. The record still represents the band at their edgiest and most focused.
• GNP Crescendo's deluxe reissue of The Seeds boasts the superlative, punchy mono mix, along with ten bonus tracks – eight of which are previously unissued - that double the length of the original album. These include the full length, unedited take of 'Evil Hoodoo', the unreleased song 'Deaming Of Your Love' and early versions of their classic B-sides 'Daisy Mae' and 'Out Of The Question'. Presented in a tri-fold digipak, the 36-page, heavily-illustrated booklet examines the Seeds' early career in unprecedented detail, based on fresh research and interviews with many of the participants.
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*MAY 1, 2013* Short Nuggets: With one month left in the 2013 vote, the leading artists for induction into the Michigan Rock & Roll Legends Hall of Fame are: Five Emprees, Riot Squad, Frijid Pink, Cherry Slush, Anita Baker, Joey Day & The Dares, and Parliament/Funkadelic...45 RPM is premiering at the 2013 Little Rock Film Festival. The film "follows Charlie, a struggling city artist who seeks a connection between her artwork and her estranged father's music. She teams up with Louie, an obsessive record collector from Memphis, and begins an exhaustive search for a rare 45 recording from the 1960s Arkansas garage rock scene that takes them both on a journey across the seldom-explored landscape of the new Old South"...Bud Buschardt's book on the '60s Texas teen/music TV show Sump'N Else should be published this year...Modelo Beer is featuring the Sonics' 'Have Love Will Travel' in a current TV campaign...The Electric Prunes' James Lowe discusses how the group landed a song in The Name Of The Game Is Thrill in a commentary found in the movie's DVD extras...
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*APRIL 29, 2013* From Richard Morton Jack: Flashback #3 will be available as of mid-May. Mighty Baby are on the cover, and the accompanying feature includes full interviews with all their members, as well as several other figures close to them. Also inside are features on Syd Barrett, Tripsichord Music Box, The Common People, Sandy Roberton's folk-rock stable, the rock memoir industry, mono v. stereo, Ottilie Patterson, Nick Drake, Graham Bond, The Beatles and much more. As ever, there's masses of new research and rare images, as well as vintage music paper reprints. And did I mention the list of overlooked singer-songwriters?
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*APRIL 22, 2013* Daniel Coston contacted 60sgaragebands.com to provide an update on his book, There Was A Time: Rock & Roll in the 1960s in Charlotte, and North Carolina:
"I'm proud to announce that we'll be holding a release party on June 28th for There Was A Time: Rock & Roll in the 1960s in Charlotte, and North Carolina, which I co-authored and edited. The location is Neighborhood Theatre, in Charlotte, on June 28th. Doors will be at 7p.m., and show will start at 8 p.m. The bands will be Good Bad & The Ugly (first Charlotte show since 1994), Young Ages, Abbadons (first show since 1967), Bobby Donaldson & The Ravens/Premiers reunion revue, and The Mannish Boys (featuring book co-author Jacob "Jake" Berger). The show will be emceed by yours truly, Daniel Coston. Tickets will be $15, and copies of the book will be available for purchase at the show. You can get info about the show at www.neighborhoodtheatre.com.
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• Big Beat's Seeds reissue series continues with an expanded edition of their third and most controversial album, 1967’s idiosyncratic Future. At the time of its recording, the band and their enigmatic frontman Sky Saxon were hugely popular in their native Los Angeles, and seemed poised for major stardom on the heels of the national hit 'Pushin' Too Hard.'
• Encouraged by their new manager, "Lord Tim" Hudson, the album was Saxon's psychedelic missive to the world; an outrageous gesture with copious overdubs on a selection of material that espoused the singer's new-found "flower power" philosophy. Nevertheless, Future contains many fan favourites such as 'Painted Doll,' 'Flower Lady,' 'Two Fingers' and 'A Thousand Shadows.'
• Our deluxe 2CD edition features the remastered stereo album, along with a selection of period mono mixes, including several that are previously unissued, as well as the rarity 'The Navy Swings'. A second disc, Contact High: The Future Sessions, is a fascinating rundown of the album's creation, utilizing outtakes, alternate mixes and previously unheard versions to demonstrate that, beneath all the overdubs and florid platitudes, on Future, the Seeds' collective rock'n'roll heart beat as strongly as ever. This also adds the final "studio" sessions by the original Seeds line-up, including a rocking early version of the classic 'Satisfy You.'
• As with our previous Seeds remasters, Future comes as a foldout digipak with a jam-packed 40-page booklet full of revelatory details and eye-popping pictorial, to accompany this definitive edition of Sky and the Seeds' psychedelic opus.
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*APRIL 17, 2013* Look out world! Unbelievable, unreal, uninhibited, unreleased Ty Wagner tracks heading your way. Two killers, recorded in 1967, but unreleased until now, will be available on 7" vinyl in late May on UT Records. 'Misery Train' is a dark and moody thriller with a killer string-bending guitar riff—imagine the Seeds jamming with Link Wray. The flipside, 'Soul Exercise,' is a sexy, hard-grooved dance number with a dynamic lead vocal and lots of atmospheric percussion—destined to fill the floor at hip happenings from this point forth.
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| The Boys From Houston by Vicki Welch Ayo and Margaret Jackson Graeff is scheduled for August publication. We'll provide updates as they become available. |
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*APRIL 10, 2013* Jack Curtis Presents has announced an upcoming Mascot Records Story CD compiled by Dwayne Witten and John Dixon:
Alice Cooper found its first venture into recording on the '60s Phoenix label Mascot Records. They recorded as The Spiders and were one of the headline bands at The VlP Club on 7th Street during that time period. The sides were 'Why Don't You Love Me?' and 'Hitch Hike.'
And now folks like Dwayne Witten in collaboration with Arizona music historian John Dixon, will bring alive again some of the groups that made their way to the airwaves via their wax offerings. That would be bands like P-Nut Butter, plus single acts such as Frank Fafara, Roosevelt Nettles and Jim Boyd. All had Top 5 records in the Phoenix market during 1965-1966. They performed their Phoenix hits at the 7th St. teenage dance spot.
Witten and Dixon plan to release (under the same label) a special CD of some of the Mascot material. The CD, with no set release date, will also carry info on the history of Mascot and the performers who helped make up the roster. The label had about 22 releases during the '60s time period. Many were leased to major labels. There were none released since.
Witten, leader of The George Washington Bridge group in the '60s, thought that the label deserved some new attention because of their impact on the Phoenix entertainment scene and this is one way of doing it.
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*APRIL 10, 2013* Mike Stax has posted the contents for Ugly Things #35: Ugly Things #35 is scheduled for the end of April. We have a bunch of stupendously cool and intriguing stories lined up for this issue, including a revealing interview with Stewkey of The Nazz, and Ty Wagner of 'I'm A No Count' fame. There's an exclusive lowdown at the upcoming Seeds documentary, and articles on The Sons of Fred, The Paragons ('Abba'), The Focal Point, The Radiators From Space, Sands, Sundragon, Thunder & Roses, The Suzannes, and a profusely illustrated history of Ann Arbor, Michigan's fabled teen club, the Fifth Dimension. Plus: Cyril Jordan's '60s memoir continues with his rundown of the year 1965, and Greg Prevost takes a look at New York Dolls collectibles with a running commentary from Johnny Thunders himself. We'll also take a look back over 30 years of publishing Ugly Things. All this and our extensive review sections covering all the latest reissues, rock'n'roll books and DVDs.
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*APRIL 4, 2013* Harold Ott has amazingly turned up another group of unreleased 1960's recordings, and they're now available on CD on Lost Souls Volume 4: Unreleleased 1960s Garage & Psychedelic Rock From Arkansas: "Lost Souls Volume 4 features ALL unreleased tracks from the heyday of garage and psychedelic rock in Arkansas from 1965-1968. Lost Souls Volume 4 mines unknown and rare gems from even deeper into the vault of Arkansas. 90% originals and 100% uncomped. You have NEVER heard these tunes before, which have been hidden on acetates and tapes on the brink of extinction. Lost Souls Volume 4 features acetate contributions by Joey D, Mark Taylor, and Barry Wickham in addtion to discoveries by Harold Ott for Psych of the South Records. A 16-page booklet provides info and pictures to check out while you listen to the 22 undiscovered songs gathered here." Bands include The Federal Union, The Stepin' Stones, The Vipers, The Coachmen, The Barons, Steppendog, The Villigers, The Loved Ones, Tuesday Blues, Sons Of Soul, Barnsley & Bradley and an unknown group. Scoop this one up before it's gone!
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*APRIL 3, 2013* Reelin' In The Years Productions (RITY), the world's largest music footage library, has announced an agreement to exclusively represent for licensing all of the music footage from the classic television program The Red Skelton Hour, which aired on CBS from 1962-1971. This footage is unique in that the music performances haven't been seen since the program was originally broadcast.
Red Skelton is widely considered to be one of the greatest entertainers of all time, and his television program, The Red Skelton Hour, is acknowledged as one of America's finest TV variety shows. Throughout the program's ten year history, many of the top musical artists of the day appeared, including The Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, The Animals, The Kinks, The Fifth Dimension, Jan & Dean and Dionne Warwick. Reelin' In The Years Productions will be bringing its vast experience in the field of licensing to market the music footage from the show. The company has already begun the process of meticulously cataloging the library, and has started making footage available for clips to be used in various documentary productions.
The Red Skelton Hour archive contains a "who's who" of notable guests including some of the greatest musical icons of the era. The Rolling Stones made one of their earliest national TV appearances on the program -- two months before their first time on The Ed Sullivan Show -- performing three songs including their first American single, 'Tell Me.' The Beach Boys appeared twice on the show: once in 1963 (their second time ever on national TV, and with original member David Marks still in the band) and, again, in 1964 performing 'In My Room' and 'I Get Around.' Other gems in the archive include Three Dog Night performing their smash hit 'Easy To Be Hard,' The Four Seasons singing their #1 hit 'Sherry,' three appearances by Johnny Rivers including renditions of 'Secret Agent Man,' 'Memphis,' and his chart-topping hit 'Poor Side Of Town' and The Association performing their #1 hit 'Windy.' Possibly the rarest musical guest on the show was Iron Butterfly, who performed their classic 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.'
One of the greatest strengths of The Red Skelton Hour archive is the exceptional collection of British Invasion performances; virtually every major UK act, save the Beatles, appeared on the program. In addition to The Rolling Stones, other artists include The Kinks, The Animals, The Hollies, Manfred Mann, The Searchers, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Dusty Springfield, Peter & Gordon, The Honeycombs, Chad & Jeremy, and Freddie & The Dreamers.
Commenting on the The Red Skelton Hour archive, Reelin' In The Years founder and president David Peck stated, "Representing the performances and interviews from the musical guests on The Red Skelton Hour is truly a great honor. The holdings are incredible, featuring many unique and one-of-a-kind performances. In addition, since the music performances haven’t been utilized in any form since the early 1970's, it's the rediscovery of a great American treasure."
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*APRIL 1, 2013* Two new must-have 45 reissues from Feathered Apple Records:
Evil – I'm Movin' On / I Know I'll Die (Florida Archive Recordings/Limestone Records FAR/LS 6602)
This is how it should have been -- how it was meant to be, back in 1966: One of the wildest, most all-out garage punkers ever, paired with one of the most brutally honest, tear-your-heart-out moody garage ballads. These two songs were normal flip-sides to one another -- the yin and yang -- and originally appeared back to back on a one-of-a-kind acetate. But until now, you couldn’t hear the magic of these two powerful songs as an A-side and B-side, on a record you could hold in your hands.
'I'm Movin' On' and 'I Know I'll Die' by the Miami band Evil were recorded in a single afternoon along with 'Always Runnin' Around', 'From A Curbstone', and 'Short Life'. How 'I'm Movin' On' managed to stay unreleased for so many years is a mystery for the ages. It was good enough to be ranked #23 in TeenBeat Mayhem's Top 100 Garage Songs from the USA list -- by far the top-ranked acetate in all of garagedom. It certainly deserves the ranking, and then some. Play it loud, and play it often.
Jeff Lemlich, author of the book Savage Lost - Florida Garage Bands of the 1960s.The Evil 45 retails for at EUR 6.65 (plus EUR 4 for shipping) from Feathered Apple Records (home of Florida Archive Recordings). Order by email from featheredapplerecords@balcab.ch.The Outspoken Blues – Not Right Now/Mister You’re A Better Man Than I (Orlyn Records ORL-66821)Official reissue of The Outspoken Blues ultra rare '66 fuzz garage doubledecker from the Chicago-based Orlyn label. Most of you will be familiar to the monster crude organ-guitar garage-punk grinder 'Not Right Now' from the Back From The Grave series. The flipside includes one killer cover version of The Yardbirds' 'Mister You're A Better Man Than I') that contains the same loud monster fuzz guitar-organ sound, and was played in same crude garage-punk style as the A-side, too! Two copies of the ultra rare original 45 have sold for at $5,000 each.
The reissue was made by Feathered Apple Records in an edition of 500 copies only. It retails for at EURO 6.65 (plus EURO 4.00 for shipping). Order by email from: featheredapplerecords@balcab.ch.
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*MARCH 26, 2013* "The latest release from 13 O' Clock Records has arrived! The reissue of the Jimmy C. and The Chelsea Five - 'Play with Fire' b/w' Leave Me Alone' 45 is now available! This is the lone release from this Dallas, Texas group, originally released on Zero Records in 1967. Special release to celebrate release number 13, presented the way it was meant to be heard, as a 45 rpm single!"
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*MARCH 17, 2013* The current issue of Shindig provides some great information from Harvey Kubernik on the upcoming Seeds documentary: Pushin' Too Hard, directed by Neil Norman for the Crescendo Production Company and boasting Ace Records' Alec Palao as producer, is now in post-production and scheduled for theatrical and DVD release sometime this year. Norman has filmed and collected interviews with all the original Seeds members: drummer Rick Andridge, guitarist Jan Savage, keyboard player Daryl Hooper, and singer/lyricist Sky Saxon from a variety of film, video and audio sources, as well as gaining recollections from Mark Weitz of The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Johnny Echols of Love, producer Kim Fowley, and Richard France, a roadie from the Seeds' heyday." Saxon's brother and sister Robert and Mary Ann Marsh also provide recollections, and the documentary will include several vintage film clips and photographs. We'll provide more updates as they become available.
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*MARCH 16, 2013* We've been online for over 10 years now...so it's about time we took the plunge and started a Facebook page. We'll be posting interview/page updates, additions to our YouTube Vault, and anything considered newsworthy (beyond the News & Nuggets updates found on the website). In the meantime...please spread the word.
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*MARCH 16, 2013* Short Nuggets: Some new download and CD releases of interest...CD Baby is offering a download only new Faine Jade/Rustics compilation: It Ain't True - On The Road To Introspection Faine Jade and Nick Manzi Early Works, Studio and Garage Recordings 1966-1967 - plus five bonus tracks not on the vinyl LP...Also available on CD Baby, In 2011 Ron Elliott, songwriter, guitarist and the man who put together The Beau Brummels was approached by producer Lou Dorren about a new Brummels CD. Elliott pulled together a large quantity of songs and chose 15 of them for the CD. Unfortunately, John Petersen passed away in 2008. Dorren still wanted to have all of The Beau Brummels on this CD. After obtaining three drum tracks that Petersen had recorded in 1965, Elliott and Dorren together chose one of the tracks that Petersen had done and Elliott wrote a song to go along with this track. That song is the lead song of the new Continuum CD and is titled 'She Is'. This performance has all of the original Beau Brummels performing. Included with the CD is a 36-page booklet. In the booklet are many great photos from the '60s to now as well as The Beau Brummels history. All the songs lyrics are also included in this booklet...Super Oldies is offering download-only releases for Kurt & Noah (13 tracks) and The Rest Of Franklin Records (23 tracks)...The recently released Light In The Attic 45 box set titled Lee Hazlewood: You Turned My Head Around, has reportedly sold out. Included were 45 reissues by The Kitchen Cinq, Last Friday's Fire, Woodchucks and Hamilton Streetcar. Expect further similar excavations from Light In The Attic this year...
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*MARCH 15, 2013* Shindig #32 is shipping second week in April:
Broadcast
Cinematic adventures in sound: How Delia Derbyshire and The United States Of America shaped a generation
Sandie Shaw
The '60s songbird talks about growing up and covering the Stones and Led Zep
Sweet
Their pre-glam early years
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Giallo Movies • Marsupilami • Kim Fowley
Children's Film Foundation • David Wiffen • Emerald Web
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*MARCH 12, 2013* Short Nuggets: Gonn will be performing in Peoria, IL (at Younger Than Yesterday) for the first time in 47 years in conjunction with a new Record Store Day exclusive Gonn Established 1966 release. More info here...The Ugly Things 30 Year Anniversary Event set for Memorial Day weekend in San Diego includes Glenn Campbell of The Misunderstood, Johnny Echols of LOVE, Ebbot Lundberg of The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Cyril Jordan of The Flamin Groovies, The Nashville Ramblers, Kim Fowley, The Sloths, Freddy Fortune & Michael Maltese, and many more...The Sloths are also slated for Ponderosa Stomp (October 3-5), headlined by The Standells. The Guanga Dyns and Ty Wagner, among many others, are also performing...Fall Church, Virginia's The Apollos ('Target Love', 'It's A Monster', 'That's The Breaks') have reunited and are planning to record all-new songs in additon to remakes of their '60s classics...
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*MARCH 9, 2013* Mick Orton (The Contents Are: and Silver Laughter) provided information on the recent discovery of live and unreleased songs by The Contents Are::
"When my mom passed away, we cleaned out the house in Davenport, Iowa and brought everything to California. My sister found a box which had been stored there which contained several albums of both Silver Laughter recordings still in shrink wrap as well as some 45s. A manila envelope contained pictures of all the band I was in as well as some memorabilia. Also in the box were three reel-to-reel tapes with questionable markings.
I have a guy in Ohio who does transfers for me to digital media. He pulled off what was on the tape and sent me the CDs so we could decide what to do with the recordings, if anything. To my surprise there were five outtakes from the Silver Laughter 'Sailing On Fantasies' sessions (ca. 1977) along with live recordings of 14 original songs by The Contents Are: in concert and four studio cuts The Contents Are: did at Columbia Studios in Chicago (ca. 1969). Two of those songs were previously on the Through You album released in 1968 but were redone by the band with a little more (and better) production. The hope was to get a record contract, but nothing came of it.
We have not decided what to do with these recordings, if anything. The quality of the live stuff is okay but is not the highest quality recording. However, all of the songs are originals and were written by members of the band. Craig Hute wrote most of them, but Dave Neumann, the lead guitarist and vocalist, wrote three, I wrote one and collaborated with Craig on another. The last track, 'Hoe Down' was something the entire band wrote as a lark for drummer Paul Staack to sing. The four studio cuts are excellent quality and have survived nicely. One of them, 'Recurring Changes' has been posted on the Silver Laughter website for people to enjoy."
To read more about Mick and The Contents Are:, click here.
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*MARCH 9, 2013* Out this week from Cat King Cole Records: "Before he became Heavy Metal's legendary frontman, Ronnie Dio trained his craft as the lead of The Red Caps and later The Prophets, two early garage/doo wop styled rock bands. This release collects the rarest and the best of Dio's output from those early years, featuring 28 tracks, four previously unreleased. Hear where one of the most recognizable voices in rock n' roll history began."
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*MARCH 8, 2013* Due at the end of May on Ace/Big Beat, courtesy Alec Palao:
• Country Joe & The Fish's Electric Music For The Mind And Body was the first genuine psychedelic long player to emerge from the San Francisco Bay Area rock scene – the first time that the actual sound in the grooves matched the new frontier philosophies of the 1960s generation.
• Berkeley-based Country Joe McDonald's itinerant band of ex-folkies and rock neophytes merged an unsurpassed blend of black humour and socio-political insight with some of the most poignant and pathfinding sounds of the era. Their April 1967 debut Electric Music is thus widely acknowledged as one of the most influential records of its day.
• This remastered two CD edition contains the original mono and stereo mixes of the album, neither of which have been available since initial release in the spring of 1967 (all CD reissues use a remixed version from the 1980s). The deluxe 40-page booklet is stuffed with rare photos and memorabilia (such as the unused original album art shown left below), and features in-depth liner notes by compiler Alec Palao, based on fresh interviews with all the band members, manager Ed Denson and producer Sam Charters.
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*MARCH 6, 2013* Short Nuggets: Groovie Records is planning 7" vinyl reissues by The Skeptics (EPs) and The Esquires (in a never-before-seen picture sleeve)..."The new documentary Family Band: The Cowsills Story, premiering on Showtime, opens with a compelling scene showing musician Bob Cowsill setting up single-handed for another thankless gig in the corner of a restaurant-bar of an Indian casino. As patrons chat, eat and drink, barely paying attention, he says, 'I had four hit records between the ages of 17 and 21... I did!'" For more...Austin's legendary Sweetarts are performing during SXSW this year, Wednesday, March 13, as part of the South Austin Popular Culture Center Presents Texas Psych & Beat Show at Tom's Tabooley Showroom, 2928 Guadalupe (next to Antone's Record Shop), Austin. This is a non-SXSW free day show. This is the original band performing their hits 'So many Times' (1966) and 'Picture Of Me' (1967) and other original material live! Don’t miss it! It may be another 45 years before they perform again! 5:00 p.m. All ages...We'll have news (hopefully shortly) on two upcoming comps covering some great bands from Arizona and Montana...
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| From Crypt: Utterly SICK 25-year-on UPDATE of Grave 7 - EVERY track re-recorded, de-noised most gently, re-mastered, liners & fotos updated, inna swank new gatefold PLUS inner sleeve liner-note continuation - 2 tracks dropped to keep sides at 20 mins tops fer MAXIMUM SCORCH! Out in 5 weeks! |
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| New from The Brymers: "This is a new release that can be described as The Kinks meeting The Byrds. The album reflects The Brymers hard driving sounds of melodic harmonies, a fuzz guitar, wailing harp, and sax. All songs have that '60s retro sound." |
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*FEBRUARY 25, 2013* Out in mid-April: If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 No. 1 smash hit 'Happy Together,' his place in rock-and-roll history would still be secure. But that recording, named in 1999 by BMI as one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, with over five million radio plays, is only the tip of a rather eye-opening iceberg. For nearly five decades, Howard Kaylan has been a player in the rock-and-roll revolution. In addition to his years with the Turtles, Kaylan was a core member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and the dynamic duo Flo & Eddie, and part of glam rock history with Marc Bolan and T. Rex. He's also given street cred and harmonies to everyone from John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Alice Cooper to the Ramones and Duran Duran, to name just a few. Howard Kaylan's life has been a dangerous ride that he is only too happy to report on, naming names and shedding shocking tales of sex, drugs and creative excess. Shell Shocked will stand alone as not only one of the best-told music-biz memoirs, but one with a truly candid and unmatchable story of rock-and-roll insanity and success from a man who glories in it all.
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*FEBRUARY 24, 2013* Next from Break-A-Way: The Horde - Press Buttons Firmly & Bonus 7" EPVinyl LP - Break 032 LPUndoubtedly the most exciting mid-sixties garage album to be recently discovered in the genre is that by The Horde from North Carolina. The existence of this self produced album came to collectors' ears and eyes only about a year ago. It was recorded more or less accidently in early 1967, released in a micro quantity of only 25 copies and among the local U.S. garage albums of the decade it is one of the few eclectic examples with all the ingredients that makes it outstanding compared with the usual prep-school albums of the time. It contains a blend of exciting originals and well chosen, inspired covers, played in a raw, crude and frantic style. On the "original side" are the folk rocking 'Troubles', and the more punky-'Gloria'-riffing 'Cuttin' Out Time'. A manic organ garager titled 'Press Buttons Firmly', the only group original at the time. The rest of the LP was material the band played successfully at their live shows. Authentic covers by The Love '7&7 Is'/'My Flash On You', Blues Project's 'Steve's Song', a real punky rendition of the old classic 'I Can't Keep From Cryin'' with top notch snarling vocals, a damned garage workout of 'Smokestack Lightning', and as a tribute to The Rolling Stones, the often covered 'Tell Me'. The LP closes with an over three-minute long wild high-energy 'Gloria' version that elevates the all-time garage classic into a new category. If ever it were true that the over-used assertion that a band's cover versions measured up to the originals, then it is true of The Horde. Why? These five 19-20 year old students from all over the United States did not only blaze a trail for '60s rock in then conservative North Carolina, they also had a general attitude that finds its origins in the young people's mindset of the mid-sixties that put them outside of the local mainstream and gained them a sort of regional underground popularity.
Break-A-Way is going to reissue the original sought after LP with the band's 1967 unreleased bonus four-track EP with four more group originals in one package. A four-page insert contains the band's detailed history with loads of rare pictures and rounds up an album which is not only extremely rare, but also is, and deserves to be called, "one of the sharpest local garage punk albums of the sixties".
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*FEBRUARY 23, 2013* Available now (on CD-RP?) via CD Baby: The Poor Boys Pride began in 1966 and soon were a number one band in West Michigan. As time went on they covered Michigan before getting a booking agent and a promotion company. They were booked around the country and getting ready for a three month multiple city tour opening for top bands at the time. Then two members got drafted -- The End. In 1967 and 1968 The Poor Boy Pride released two records (45s) recorded at Fenton Records. These records had some airplay in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. They did some TV shows and had several other recordings to be released in the future. They still play music together and have recorded several songs over the years and will be releasing more songs later. The Poor Boys Pride are Rick Clark - drums and vocals, Jim Crowell - guitar and vocals, Ken Saum - guitar and vocals, Floyd Walker - bass and vocals, Lowell Webster - keyboards, horns, and vocals. There were never any other members at any time.
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*FEBRUARY 22, 2013* Courtesy Mark Kennedy of The Huffington Post:
NEW YORK — The band that gave us "Good Lovin,'" "People Got To Be Free" and "I've Been Lonely Too Long" are grooving their way to Broadway.
The original members of the 1960s-era blue-eyed soul quartet – singer Eddie Brigati, keyboardist Felix Cavaliere, guitarist Gene Cornish and drummer Dino Danelli – will reunite for what producers call "a hybrid of a rock `n' roll concert and a Broadway show."
Performances of The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream will begin April 15 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre and will last only 15 performances, ending May 5. The show made its debut in late 2012 in Port Chester, N.Y.
It will showcase their hits, which also include "It's a Beautiful Morning," "How Can I Be Sure" and "Groovin,'" and tell their history through archival footage, narration and dramatic film segments.
Steven Van Zandt, a founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is producing the show. Van Zandt inducted the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
"The Rascals created music that inspired a generation - and that feeling has lived on through their original fans and the legions of new fans that have discovered their music over the years," Van Zandt said in a statement.
Tickets go on sale Friday.
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*FEBRUARY 20, 2013* Short Nuggets: The upcoming Stephen Stills box set, Carry On, includes a completely unreleased Buffalo Springfield song titled 'Everydays'...Speaking of Stills, he provided bass on Jimi Hendrix' 'Somewhere', the new single from the forthcoming Hendrix album People, Hell and Angels which has reportedly hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Singles Sales Chart...The PBS Hullabaloo special, hosted by T.J. Lubinsky and Peter Noone and airing in March, will also be offered as a DVD (a separate CD will also be available) with footage not seen in the program, including never-before-seen performances by The Supremes...Sundazed is preparing a vinyl release by the Quatro sisters' '60s group, The Pleasure Seekers...Vicki Ayo's book Boys From Houston, documenting the top bands in 1960's Houston, should be available this summer. More info will be posted as it becomes available...Also in Houston, The Groove Record Shop is sponsoring a "meet and greet '60s musicians party." The Surf Knights, Neal Ford (of Neal Ford & The Fanatics), Scott Chambers from The Glass Kans and more will attend. It will be held at Birraporetti's in downtown Houston, most likely on a Monday in April...
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*FEBRUARY 18, 2013* The Bayou: D.C.'s Killer Joint documentary debuts Monday, February 25 at 9:00 p.m. ET on Maryland Public TV and will air on up to 20 public TV stations/networks across the country later this spring/summer. The film is also part of The Richmond International Film Festival, showing at The Camel on Saturday, March 2 at 5:30 p.m. Stay on top of upcoming airdates and possible film festival showings at www.bayoudoc.com.
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| Sundazed's Beat Rocket label has reissued the Mourning Reign LP with a new cover... |
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*FEBRUARY 15, 2013* New info on Big Beat's Mouse & The Traps LP, courtesy Alec Palao:
• Mouse & The Traps are Texas '60s legends known principally for the classic garage and folk-rock of 'A Public Execution', 'Maid Of Sugar' and 'Lie, Beg, Borrow & Steal.' Based in the eastern city of Tyler and evolving from a group of pickers who populated Robin Hood Brians' recording studio there, Mouse (Ronnie Weiss) and his band ruled the region in the latter half of the decade.
• The Traps made a name for themselves throughout the south, not only with some incendiary performances, but also several regional hits, with the Dylan cop 'Execution' making the national charts in 1966. Signed to the venerable Cincinnati indie label Fraternity, with a dozen singles under their belt, for years rumours abounded amongst collectors that a Mouse & The Traps LP existed.
• There never was, but now Big Beat has decided to condense the contents of their well-received Mouse & The Traps CD anthology The Fraternity Years into one all-killer 16-track vinyl edition. It's the kind of power-packed disc fans would have hoped for back in the day. As a special bonus, the album includes a previously unissed alternate version of the act's beloved 1968 single 'Sometimes You Just Can't Win.'
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*FEBRUARY 15, 2013* Danny Faragher contacted us with news about his and brother Jimmy's appearance on an upcoming radio program titled Cold Cuts:
On Sunday, February 17, 2013, Danny and Jimmy Faragher will be appearing live on Santa Barbara’s KCSB Radio 91.9 FM on DJ Tibo "Tibonious Funk" Cuellar on the Cold Cuts program.
The brothers, who have played together in a variety of bands over the years, including The Mark V, The Peppermint Trolley Company, Bones and The Faragher Brothers, will be talking about everything from their musical history to their upcoming projects, telling stories and taking calls from listeners. Danny and Jimmy are also expected to give an acoustic performance, as well as play some of their classic tracks and a few cuts of their upcoming albums.
There will be a Meet and Greet after the show ends where Danny and Jimmy will be signing autographs and answering questions, outside the radio station on the UCSB campus. Check the Facebook promotion page for up-to-the date information on the interview and the Meet and Great event.
Sunday, February 17th, listen to the live webcast or set your dial to 91.9 FM if you’re in the Santa Barbara area. Otherwise, check back in to this page at a later date as a podcast will be available.
WEBCAST: http://www.kcsb.org/
FM DIAL: KCSB 91.9 (Santa Barbara)
REQUEST LINE: 1-805-893-2424
Feel free to call in!
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*FEBRUARY 13, 2013* Available directly from the author is David M. Luckie's new book, The Malibu's: The Story of a Teenage Garage Band 1964-1968. As a special to 60sgaragebands.com readers, orders mentioning our site will receive a discounted price of $17.50 (including shipping) off the $25.00 cover price. You can read a detailed history of the group David provided here.
"The Malibu's: The Story of a Teenage Garage Band captures the essence of what being in a local rock band in the 1960s was all about. This book offers an insight into the young men who picked up guitars, drums, and keyboards, who then ready or not, hit the road. Fortified with more energy and enthusiasm than most of their elders could muster in a lifetime, they played every teen club, frat party, beach club, church dance, concert hall, roller rink, and birthday party that would have them."
The Malibu's should be well known to regular visitors to this site as the genuises behind 'I've Gotta Go'/'I Want You To Know' (PJ 1044, 1966). The book includes information on their multiple recording sessions (although only one 45 release) and is jam-packed with photos throughout, including a great Photo Album to close out the show. This is a hard bound, over 200-page book that upon first glance (we haven't read it yet) is very impressive. Retail price is $22.95. Contact David here.
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*FEBRUARY 11, 2013* Thanks to Gray Newell for news on the latest release from Tune In Records:
Kim Fowley is one of pop's great characters, a Svengali-like, larger-than-life personality who popped up throughout the '60s and '70s like some rock'n'roll Zelig.
Fowley's credits as a producer/songwriter/singer (take your pick) are littered across records by the likes The Runaways, Frank Zappa, Cat Stevens, Slade, The Modern Lovers, Kiss, Alice Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, Helen Reddy, Warren Zevon, Gene Vincent, The Byrds, Soft Machine, Teenage Fanclub and The BMX Bandits. He also created novelty hits by acts like B. Bumble & The Stingers and The Hollywood Argyles.
Wildfire assembles all three of the maverick visionary's late sixties Imperial albums: Born To Be Wild, Outrageous and Good Clean Fun, for the very first time on this double CD set. None are currently available on CD.
Includes such legendary recordings as "Bubble Gum" (as covered by Sonic Youth), "Wildfire", and "Animal Man". Outrageous even graced the U.S. Billboard 200 back in 1969.
Featuring a host of musical luminaries, including members of Steppenwolf (the inimitable Mars Bonfire), The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and Three Dog Night, and a special guest appearance from the 'Mayor of Sunset Strip' Rodney Bingenheimer.
Taken from the original Imperial master tapes! Booklet complete with comprehensive liner notes and illustrated with rare images, boasting an interview with Kim himself.
...and on a related note, the first installment of Fowley's biography, Lord Of Garbage, is available this week from Norton Records: "Hollywood's esteemed music master turns out to be a Man of Letters! Kim Fowley offers up thirty years of torment and tears in Lord Of Garbage (Volume One), the first of a three book series about the life and times of a two-bit music biz hustler— a twisted music genius with a heart of gold. First of three volumes!"
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*FEBRUARY 7, 2013* Merrell Fankhauser relayed some news about some of the upcoming projects he's currently involved with, as well as an interesting story about his relationship with The Seeds' Sky Saxon. You read more here...
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*FEBRUARY 7, 2013* Coming from Gear Fab Records: The Ones: Volume One - Yes, this great Connecticut group rocked the Boston area in the mid to late '60s playing many of their finest and most popular venues. Under the direction of Clay Pitts, they produced this landmark and ultra-rare album that even made the original artists stand up and listen to the fine renditions of the days popular hits!
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*FEBRUARY 3, 2013* Short Nuggets: The PBS Hullabaloo special is slated to air on local stations between March 2 and March 9...Entertainment Weekly reports that "Director Ken Kwapis (He's Just Not That Into You) and writer Joy Gregory (Switched at Birth) have announced they are developing a movie version of the latter's stage musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, which details the strange story of the titular, all-girl '60s rock band"...An upcoming CDR release by Terry Lee will feature previously unheard radio sessions by The Fantastic Deejays...Shadoks Music has announced they've signed a contract for a CD/LP compilation of Minneapolis' Joker's Wild...
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*JANUARY 31, 2013* Now available for ordering.
In August 1965, The Beatles came to The Sam Houston Coliseum and changed Texas music forever. During that musical revolution, five young Texas musicians came together and formed one of the top 10 bands in Texas during the '60s…The Surf Knights.
Gaston Robau, lead guitarist/vocals became the musical heart of the band. Tommy George, rhythm guitarist/vocals was arranger and producer. Dean Cook, bass guitarist/vocals was the band's songwriter, Paul Torres was drummer and percussionist, and Richard Wyatt, vocalist, were the original members of what was to be one of Texas' top bands. The band's business was managed by George Cook and Tom George that ensured an avenue of success for these young men.
Over the course of the next three years, The Surf Knights opened for international well known bands and performers like The Who, The Byrds, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Neil Diamond, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, The Left Banke, Bobby Vinton and many more. They were mainstays on all of the KILT "back to school" spectaculars.
In 1966, The Surf Knights recorded their first record, 'Broken Hearts' and 'You Lied', written by Dean Cook and recorded at Andrus Studios in Houston, Texas. Over the course of that year, they also recorded 'Midnight Surf' written by Tommy George and 'In the Summer' and 'Stains of Love', also written by Dean Cook.
In late 1966 drummer Paul Torres left the band and was replaced by Steve Hibler, former drummer for Neal Ford & The Fanatics. The Surf Knights continued their success in 1967 and included on this CD is a recorded interview that was done in May 1967 at KNUZ Radio in Houston.
With their foundation of success they signed a contract with Decca Records and released a song 'Houdini' which became international cult hit and was listed on the Billboard charts. When the band signed with Decca, their name was changed to The Dream Machine. At that time, Gaston Robau and Steve Hibler left the band and were replaced by Dickie Malone on lead guitar and James Morton on drums.
It is our sincere wish that you enjoy this historic music by one of the great bands in Texas' music history.
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*JANUARY 22, 2013* Thanks to Oktay Gurbuz for informing us that Terry Lee has released a newly expanded CD of Disco Sucks by The Swamp Rats (with five bonus tracks). He's also released Rat Tracks, "Band Tracks and Studio Conversations PLUS Four Unreleased Songs!" The website's ordering process appears to be a bit difficult...so be careful...but these look like two fantastic releases.
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*JANUARY 21, 2013* Break-A-Way's next cool obscure release is due in mid-February: Full Circle With The Redondos is a limited, vinyl-only release for collectors and connoisseurs of vintage garage music and offers a valuable insight into the history of one of the most exciting Pacific Northwest psychedelic bands, The United Travel Service. Founded in Portland, Oregon, three members of United Travel Service took their first musical steps in The Redondos. Like their successors, the band left a large number of unreleased recordings dating from 1965. Influenced by early sixties surf and inspired by the British Invasion, The Redondos created a unique sound belting out an amazing mix of storming surf tunes, rock 'n' roll standards, and moody originals, written by lead guitarist Ben Hoff. The innocent charm of their Beau Brummels-type edgy folkbeat already reflects the magic and authenticity of the later United Travel Service material and sets The Redondos apart from the typical mid-sixties regional Northwest sound of the time. The Redondos never released any records, but after a serious run through their musical legacy, we have sorted out and remastered their best tracks to a great blend of enjoyable covers and stand-out originals. For the group, these recordings reflect a special moment in time after a gap of nearly fifty years. Take your chance and share this unforgettable moment on this true labour-of-love release and come "Full Circle with The Redondos".
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It all started innocently enough ... one of our readers sent in an email asking about the group ? and the Mysterians and, during the course of her letter, mentioned that, thanks to their #1 Hit '96 Tears', they had to be the greatest garage group of all time. After we published her letter, we started to get a ton of responses ... "What are you, crazy?! The greatest garage group of all time has to be The Kingsmen ... there is NO greater garage song than 'Louie Louie'!" ... which, in turn, prompted, "What about The Standells and 'Dirty Water'?" and "How can you even talk about garage bands and leave out The Shadows Of Knight? 'Gloria' is the ULTIMATE Garage Band song." More letters followed, nominating artists and tracks like 'Surfin' Bird' by The Trashmen, 'Wild Thing' by The Troggs and 'Wooly Bully' by Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs.
Suddenly, we knew we were on to something here ... so, in 2012, we decided to poll our readers in order to determine, once and for all, who are The Greatest Garage Bands of All-Time! Just over 9,000 votes came in (9,008 to be exact!) and, with THAT kind of response, I think we've been able to assemble the definitive list.
We counted down The Top 20 in Forgotten Hits (with 13 Runners Up ... we felt that any band that earned more than 100 votes deserved at least SOME sort of recognition!) and, during the course of the series mentioned that the band who WOULD have come in next (with 98 votes) would have been The Ides Of March, thanks to their 1966 Hit 'You Wouldn't Listen'.
We partnered with Mike Dugo of the excellent website 60sgaragebands.com and wrote brief bios on each of the finalists ... and then decided to expand the list to include The Top 50 so that we could permanently post something on the website. And that's what you're reading here today ... the results of our Forgotten Hits Survey to determine The Greatest Garage Bands Of All Time". Click here to continue reading...
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*JANUARY 10, 2013* Short Nuggets: PBS will be airing the first-ever retrospective of NBC's Hullabaloo (1965-1966). Hosted by Peter Noone, the special debuts in March. We'll provide updates as they become available...One of Sundazed's exclusive Record Day releases in April is a 45 reissue of Adrian Lloyd's 'Lorna'...IMV Blueline has announced a DVD release for Turn Turn Turn: A Musical Documentary, a reported 1965 film on The Byrds...Sutro Park Records is reissuing the Electric Prunes Stockholm '67 album on vinyl next week...
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*JANUARY 7, 2013* Super Oldies is proud to offer another new release of Barry Allen recordings…albeit a complete surprise.
Just when we thought we had issued this material from the best possible sources, 4-track session tapes that were not known to exist were recently discovered in the Norman Petty Studios vaults enabling these tracks to be mixed in stereo for the very first time.
These are the same multi-track tapes Norman Petty used to mix the songs down to their mono form over 45 years ago.
A new energy and excitement is charged into every track on this collection. Be prepared to experience Barry Allen along with Wes Dakus & The Rebels like you have never heard them before!
- 22 tracks, all previously unreleased in stereo
- Barry's original 1966 debut LP + 10 bonus tracks, 3 unreleased
- Packaged in a full color, 4-panel digipack with original album artwork
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*JANUARY 2, 2013* Shindig #31 is due mid-February:
Shocking Blue
Long and lonesome road: The Dutch pop machine that ate the world
The Rolling Stones
Into the dark heart of their satanic majesties request
Iain Matthews
From Fairport to Southern Comfort and beyond
Jellyfish
Short-lived saviors of retro pop with a sting in the tail
The Choir & Cyrus Erie
Back to the mod roots of The Raspberries
Plus:
Richard Thompson • The Association • The Mynah Birds • Jefferson Airplane
And much more!
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*JANUARY 1, 2013* Here's the official announcement for A Web Of Sound, the second installment of Big Beat's comprehensive overhaul of the Seeds' catalog, courtesy Alec Palao:
• Big Beat's second installment in its much-anticipated upgrade of the catalogue of garage legends The Seeds continues with their second album, A Web Of Sound, released in October 1966 just as their classic 'Pushin' Too Hard' began to ascend the U.S. hit parade.
• Written and recorded during the band's legendary residencies at Hollywood's underground haven Bido Litos alongside Love and the embryonic Doors in the summer of 1966, A Web Of Sound showcased a more mature, developing Seeds sound. The record was notorious at the time for the 14-minute showstopper 'Up In Her Room,' but it also includes some of the group's signature tunes including 'Mr Farmer', 'Tripmaker' and 'A Faded Picture.'
• The entire contents of this deluxe two-disc set are new to compact disc, including the original stereo mix of Web, which has not been available since the 1960s. Also featured is the album's mono incarnation, as well as an unused mono mix of the stop-gap 1967 LP A Full Spoon Of Seedy Blues, made at the time of its recording in late 1966. A selection of previously unreleased outtakes rounds out the package, including an unheard early arrangement of the classic 'Wind Blows Your Hair'.
• As with all our Seeds reissues, A Web Of Sound comes as a trifold digipak with extensive illustrations and fresh commentary from assorted participants on both its contents and the career of these garage rock avatars. Forthcoming in 2012 with be similarly loaded double-disc editions of the albums Future and Raw & Alive, as well as a Seeds Singles Anthology 1965-1970 that will include their entire run of A and B sides for GNP Crescendo and MGM as well as other rarities.
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