From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #77 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Friday, 30 August 1996 Volume 96 : Number 077 In this issue: electric jug Re: Bomp V96 #76 Re: electric jug Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones Re: Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones Re: Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones Re: Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Donald G. Smith" Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:20:08 -0400 Subject: electric jug I can't say perfectly how it was done, but a friend replicated the electric jug sound by mic-ing and muffling the sound of a bongo drum- and it sounds very jug-like Don ------------------------------ From: dothepop@ix.netcom.com (Lisa Lindstrom) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:56:29 -0700 Subject: Re: Bomp V96 #76 >While on the subject of Mellotrons, Theremins, etc. Does anyone know what >makes that wierd "saw-wobble" noise on 13th Floor Elevators records? > >Garrett302 > >It's Tommy Hall (if I remember correctly) maniacally playing a jug! > ......a hookah !!!!! They had a series of hookahs with differnt quantities >of pot in each one of them. They had the pot boiling , making the famous >"bubbling" sound... > George No, it was not a hookah, but that's a good guess. It is, indeed a jug, that was filled with water and had a pick-up attached to it. Tommy blew into it to ceate certain noises, and also used a stick thing to tap out percussive beats. If you can find a copy of "Psychedelic Microdots" CD on Sundazed, or the "Fire in my Bones" LP on Texas Archives, there's an interview done bvetween songs on the Sump'n Else TV show (only the audio portion remains!), the interviewer talks to Tommy about the jug. BTW: any one know of other bands using the "electric jug" idea? I can think of a couple: The Gorehounds used one and I think the Dark Cellars might have as well. Alan W. ------------------------------ From: Brian Phillips Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 11:12:32 -0400 Subject: Re: electric jug What Tommy Hall did was amplify the jug, blow into it and sang "dooka-dooka-dooka" into it. Brian Phillips MindSpring Techinical Support 404-815-9111 800-719-4660 ------------------------------ From: TweeKid@aol.com Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:07:37 -0400 Subject: Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones Along the same lines as my post regarding the Powder Puffs last week, the other day one of my clients mentioned that the reason he joined a band (The Turnaround) was because father had been in a top ten band and that he wanted to follow it pops foot steps. I'm always one to take the bite so..."What band was he in?" "Well", says young Jim Denton of Spartenburg, South Carolina, "Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones of course!" Today in the mail I just recieved a tape with not only their top ten single "Black Slacks" but 19 other Rockabilly shouters that will be screaming from my tape deck on this long weekend. Does anybody know if this stuff ever got rereleased on disc? Matthew Kaplan the tape includes the following: Black Slacks Penny Loafers & Bobby Soxs Boppin Rock Boogie\Cotton Pickin Rocker Rocket I Dig You Baby Bayou Rock What the Heck Are You From Dixie Little Turtle We've Had It Do The Stop A Late Again Boys Do Cry Number One on My List Let's Go Rock & Roll Maybe Baby Late Again Beautiful One ------------------------------ From: Squishy@aol.com Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 14:38:54 -0400 Subject: Re: Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones If memory serves there was an album of all their stuff on some 50s collector label a decade or two back. Wish I had it. ------------------------------ From: Brian Phillips Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 21:27:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones I think there wasa compilation on Solid Smoke some time back and then MCA horned in on the act, issuing an album, with fewer tracks. I believe moving(deeply moving?) footage exists of the band, excerpted in "It Came From Hollywood" Brian Phillips MindSpring Techinical Support 404-815-9111 800-719-4660 ------------------------------ From: Ed Rothstein Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 00:06:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Joe Bennett & The Sparkletones On Fri, 30 Aug 1996 Squishy@aol.com wrote: > If memory serves there was an album of all their stuff on some 50s collector > label a decade or two back. Wish I had it. > It was. I don't think it has made it to cd yet though. great album though. ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #77 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. For subscription requests, send a message to majordomo@bolis.com containing "subscribe Bomp-digest" or "unsubscribe Bomp-digest"