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Los Shains - El Monstruo(1966)
Lima, Peru, on lp "El Ritmo De Los Shains": Odeon Del Peru LD 1483

The Aardvarks - I'm Higher Than I'm Down(1966)
Muskegon, Mitchigan, USA, Vark 2058

The Alarm Clocks - Yeah(1966)
Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Awake 107

Attila - When(196?)

Bad Roads - Blue Girl(1967)
Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA, Jin 210

Word D. - Keep On Walking(Previously Unreleased)
Dallas, Texas

The Wrong Numbers - I'm Gonna Go Now(1967)
Mount Dora, Florida, Paris Tower 111

The Sparkles - No Friends Of Mine(1967)
Lubbock, Texas, Hickory 1443

Savoys - Can It Be(1965)
Chicago, Illinois, USA, Summit 403

The Rockin' Ramrods - She Lied(196?)
Boston, Massachutes, USA, Bon-Bon 1315

The Barons - Don't Burn It(1966)
Forth Worth, Texas, Brownfield 1035

The Eyes - When The Night Falls(1966)
London, UK, Mercury MF 881

The Fanatics - I Will Not Be Lonely(1965)
Houston, Texas, Gina 1118

Five Canadians - Writing On The Wall(1966)
San Antonio, Texas, Domar 1120

Illusions - City Of People(1966)
St. Clair Shores, Michigan, USA, Michelle 001-XX

The Mach V - If I Could(1967)
Savannah, Georgia, USA, Associated Artists 102

The Modds - Leave My House(Previously Unreleased)
Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Recorded 1966

The Best - You Mean Nothing To Me(1966)
New Jersey, USA, RPC 96

The Oxford Circle - Foolish Woman(1966)
Sacramento, California, USA, World United 002

Something Wild - Trippin Out(1967)
Santa Maria, California, USA, Psychedelic 1691

Love - 7 And 7 Ls(1966)
Elektra EK 45605


The Stoics - Hate(1967)
San Antonio, Texas, Brams 101

T.C. Atlantic - Faces(1966)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Turtle t-1103

Things To Come - I'm Not Talkin'(1966)
Chicago, Illinois, USA; Dunwich 124

The Uncalled For - Do Like Me(1967)
Rhode Island, USA, Laurie 3394/Dollie 509

The Beachnuts - Iconoclastic Life

Iconoclastic Life(1967)

Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, USA, Showcase 9902

Re-released on vinyl on the compilations "I Was A Teenage Caveman" and "What A Way To Die". And on cd on "Hang It Out To Dry".

The band has nothing to do with Lou Reed and his band from his Pickwick Records days with the same name.

This killer song is starting with an intro almost identical The Who's "Can't Explain, while continuing more or less with those same chords, making a very simple rhythm witch is changing in intensity. To add to the rhythm & blues flavour there is also a simple train-simulating harmonica going through the verses. 

Here is the extremely passionate tale about the too common theme, love. However the execution is the key here, as the singer makes it no doubt how much he is longing for his girl. It's not about what he says, it's about how he says it.

First there is an aggressive opening were the vocals are screamed, then there's an excellent middle part. The mood calms down, and the voice is begging: "Girl... I'm going crazy without you, girl... you're driving me mad...understand...hold my hand..", until there's the demanding and manically screaming of: "I'm your man, I'm your man", before the rustiest and loudest scream ever put on tape are howled.

Then desperation sets in with... "don't leave me girl.. I need your love now".

While the song end with a screaming rage: "I'll cry I'll cry I'll cry, cry, cry cry...".

There's no metaphors, or quotes to clever philosophers or literature here, just adolescent lust. That guy sure loved this girl.

Might as well put a link to an interview with bass player Clyde Snyder here. Definitively worth a read.

Brian and The Rolling Stones

A scene from Clockwork Orange? Or the nastiest band in the UK?

Known as the most outrageous band in the world in the 60's, the Rolling Stones came to be known as the anti-Beatles, and in the early parts of the decade, little likely to become the pride of the British invasion. Before Andrew Oldham would manage the band, the guitarist and harmonica player Brian Jones would be the front-man and manager of the promising rhythm & blues band.

"We piss anywhere man"

Stoned was the b-side of Stones 2'nd single "I Wanna Be Your Man"(Decca 7-7052) , released in 1963. The first song credited to Nanker Phelge, as they would after the session inform their room-mate James Phelge(the guy who spit at neighbours, naked with his underwear on his head) at their home in Edith Grove with big cheeky grins.

The infamous nanker grimace aka the Innsmouth Look.

Brian and Mick back in their union days, making sure Jimmy Hoffa was never to be found.

Jack Tar Harrison Hotel, Clearwater, Florida 1965, where Keith and Mick would write Satisfaction, after Keith wake up after dreaming about the riff.


The Rolling Stones reveals their new vocalist. Brian: "He's good but he ain't no Mick Jagger".

From a photo session of the unreleased album "Could You Walk On The  Water?", that was later to be called Aftermath having a different set of songs.

Track list meant for "Could You Walk On The Water". Never made a release because of the controversial title, except on bootlegs:

"19th Nervous Breakdown"
"Sad Day"
"Take It Or Leave It"
"Think"
"Mother's Little Helper"

"Goin' Home"
"Sitting On A Fence"
"Doncha Bother Me"
"Ride On Baby"
"Looking Tired"

 

My favorite interview on the Stones. Not thanks to some of the ridiculous questions asked.

Bored to death

Bored to death, part 2

Brian: "I like the queen, she make a good toothpick."

To be continued.....

The Keggs - Girl(1967)

The Keggs - Girl(1967) 
Detroit, Michigan, Orbit 20959/60

The song "Girl" is some kind of work. It's the b-side of "To Find Out", released in 1967. Re-released on the garage compilation "Back From The Grave Volume 6". The liner notes tells the story of a band from Detroit which was so unpopular that before each gig they had to change their name, otherwise nobody would come. Not more than 75 copies were pressed. All of them was given away to family and friends.

The playing is sloppy. The guitar is not tuned. But who cares? The primitive rawness is this songs strength, easier evidently for those into the garage or punk genre. The vocals are quite good, and mix with the out of tune band in an awesome way.

 

They sound somewhat like how a teenage Rolling Stones or Kinks would do after going on a months drunken bender, recording a demo, and not caring with the oh so dull thought that ruined the 70's: "what would the general public think about this?". Wish more bands could have had this mindset.

Iggy And The Stooges - Live At Whisky A Go Go, 1973

 Guitar-god and Star Trek extra, James Williamson

This tape with a complete gig from Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles, 16th September 1973, is worth a listen if not only for the long version of "Open Up And Bleed"(ending up into a freak-out, with a chaos of feedback, not unlike how The Stooges' 1971 material was presented) alone. A firework of a gig helped by a brilliant performance of the entire band. Especially by Ron Asheton, who here make an example of how to play the bass in a punk group.

There are several records with variations of the Whisky gigs from 1973. Believe the band played a total of 18 gigs at the Whisky that year.
Releases on Revenge("Live At The Whiskey A Go-Go") and Snapper("Live In La 73") is also supposed to be from 16th September as the tape is. The choice of songs and the order of them(the tape have the right order on the songs) is a little different, the mixing is different, and it's much more communication with the audience on the tape-version. The tape have medium-much hiss.



Songs:
Raw Power
Head On
Gimme Danger
Search And Destroy
I Need Somebody
Heavy Liquid
Open Up & Bleed.


Part 1
Part 2
Part 3


Most of the tape-hiss is in the left channel. Here is the right channel only:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

"Open Up And Bleed" is no doubt a loss on the Revenge release(which is mixed by none other than Ron Asheton himself, and therefore have the bass in the loud, in front of the mix), but it's replace by a if possible just as strong version of "She Creatures Of The Hollywood Hills" that is together with "Open Up And Bleed" the strongest track The Stooges have never released officially. "She Creatures.." is probably picked from another Whisky gig.
The "Snapper" version have both songs, and a little different mix. A bootleg single "Whisky A GoGo 1973" also had the same version of "Open Up And Bleed", where the song is slitted over both sides.

The versions of most of the songs(among others "Head On") on the mentioned records is as good as it gets, even this was a time where the band was supposed to be struggling, and already had been fired by Elektra, Main Man and Columbia Records.

Iggy And The Stooges - St. Louis American Theatre 18.08.73

St. Louis American Theatre 18.08.73, 2'nd concert. From a tape with medium to much tape-hiss.

Songs:

Raw Power
Head On
Gimme Danger
Cock In My Pocket
Search & Destroy
I Need Somebody
Heavy Liquid


Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Radio interview, St. Louis 17.08.73


11 minutes video recording from St. Louis(as long as the link lasts, as this video might be the property of Ivan Kral).

The Spiders

Vincent Furnier(Alice Cooper) - Vocals
Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
Michael Bruce - Rhythm guitar
Dennis Dunaway - Bass
John Speer - Drums

Vincent is by now a rather well known Detroit'er, while the rest of the Spiders came from Phoenix, Arizona where also the band was located around 1965.
That year the original version of "Don't Blow Your Mind" was recorded for the Mascot label(Santa Cruz SCR 10,003) and pressed in a run of 500 copies, with the swinging "No Price Tag" as a b-side.

The a-side is some of the crudest fuzz-punk tracks ever recorded in 1965(released later in 1966), with Vincent spitting out the lyrics with a voice sounding like it's had razorblades for breakfast, and a guitar with a fuzz-pedal stepped to the max for a extra primitive and rough effect.

The single has become a rather sought after collectors item, probably because the band used to toss copies to the audience from the stage, with the result often being that the now so rare copies would be stamped in pieces. How many copies that is left by now is still unclear.

 

 

 

An alternative version of "Don't Blow Your Mind" was recorded in 1966, and released for the first time on a 7" from Sundazed records. 

 

A bootleg EP "Battle Of The Bands" with "No Price Tag" and "Don't Blow Your Mind" by "The Spiders" on the a-side, and the great psychedelic tracks "Wonder Who's Loving Her Now"(a-side, released 1967) and "Lay Down And Die, Goodbye"(b-side) by The Nazz on b-side was released, probably in the 80's.

The Nazz kept the same line-up as The Spiders, except for Neil Smith taking over the drums for John Speer. The band would also re-localize to Los Angeles. Later  The Nazz would be known as The Alice Cooper band.  

 

A version of "Don't Blow Your Mind" was performed live in Toronto, 1969, by Alice Cooper, with new lyrics, better known as "Freak Out Song" on several bootlegs.

 

Little Toy Soldier

 In december 1966 David Bowie was gifted a test-pressing of The Velvet Underground & Nico by his then manager Ken Pitt who in turn had received it from Andy Warhol during a visit to The Factory in New York.

The Riot Squad. From Up Lef. Del Roll, David Bowie, Butch Davis, Rod Davis, Bob Flag, Croke Prebble.

Just after The Velvet Underground had released their first album The Velvet Underground & Nico(whitch would take almost a year from it's initial recording in April 1966), David Bowie (vocals) with The Riot Squad (Bob Evans - sax, flute / Croke Prebble - bass, vocals / Rod Davies - guitar / Derek Roll - drums / George Butcher - keyboard) would go into Decca Studios on 5th april 1967 to record some demos.

 With Gus Dudgeon as engineer the songs "Little Toy Soldier", a cover of VU's "I'm Waiting For The Man" and an instrumental of "Silly Boy Blue"(here is another version, most likely recorded with The Lower Third) were recorded. 

Little Toy Soldier borrows much from The Velvet Underground's excellent "Venus In Furs", the chorus is partially copied from the original. The song is a mix between Anthony Newley style children’s cartoon-pop and snarling vocals with a S&M theme in great Lou Reed style.

Gus Dudgeon is responsible for sound effects and gnome-laugh, something that lifts the song to the most bizarre work Bowie has ever done. Originally the song ends with "..and he beat her to death", but Gus would later add a long part of sound effects to create a chaotic climax at the end of the song.

The first of a long line of recordings of VU's "I'm Waiting For The Man".

Little Toy Soldier(Albino Records AL 7153, 1983) is the name of the first known  bootleg containing the songs "Little Toy Soldier" and "I'm Waiting For The Man" from this session. In addition there is an early version of "Space Oddity", the first demo of "The Supermen"(whitch is going to end the album The Man Who Sold The World in 1970), "Right On Mother" and "He Was Alright"(early version of "Lady Stardust"). 

A copy of the original master tape with 7 versions of "Silly Boy Blue", 4 of "Little Toy Soldier" and 3 of "I'm Waiting For The Man" was in the early 80's given by Gus Dudgeon to a buddy of his. It would not be long before this bootleg would "mysteriously" appear in 1983.

Jimmie Logdson

Jimmie Logdson(no room for his rocket)

Back in 1948 a gentleman named Jimmie Logdson from Panther, Kentucky, started playing his guitar on WLOU radio, in Louisville. He was a big Hank Williams fan, and so would hire a guitarist and fiddler for playing some hillbilly music at the local clubs.

In 1951 he cut his first single named "It All Over But The Shouting", while he in 1952 got to open for his idol Hank Williams. Some more records where cut until 1955, before he took to the bottle.

Sobering up 2 years later, in 1957, he cut 2 singles, one more noteworthy than the others. Instead of the usual hillbilly style out of the slender man came a hard and sleazy rocker named "I Got A Rocket In My Pocket"(released in 1958 under the name Jimmy Lloyd), which probably could have given Iggy Pop and James Williamson of the Stooges something to think of, just about 15 years later(Stooges toured with "I Got A Cock in My Pocket" in 1973/1974). This was the first and only time Jimmie would record anything like this.

Story more or less stolen from "Unsung Heroes Of Rock'n'Roll" by Nick Tosches. The book is recommended to anyone!

Maya Deren

With a background of an interrest in psychology, dance and voodoo Maya Deren wrote surreal short films that would make a huge impact on today's wacky and brilliant film-makers such as David Lynch. 

Meshes in the Afternoon(1943) is a world seen through one awake/dream perspective, with enough symbolism to make adherents of Mulholland Dr.(2001) jump for joy.  

 

Ritual in transfigured time(1946)

Richard Pash & The Back Door Society

Richard Pash & The Back Door Society from Avon Lake, Ohio, USA, with the song "I'm The Kind". Released in 1967.