From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V99 #27 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send e-mail to majordomo@xnet2.com with "unsubscribe bomp-digest" in the body X-Bomp-web-site: http://www.bomp.com X-BompList-Administrator: efd@interport.net bomp-digest Tuesday, January 19 1999 Volume 99 : Number 027 It's another issue of bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail with the words "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com or use the form at . The following subjects are included in this digest: Thee Michelle Gun Elephant boldface@easynet.co.uk Italian Beat Resurrection Rmerchandz@aol.com mo' weird covers laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com Re: the inmates HayHuggins@aol.com Re: Re: Looking for a Farfisa? Hundred Dollar Limo Inmates and Dirty Water "Erin Truscott" Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Rmerchandz@aol.com Mondo Topless will soon need bass SSamSS@aol.com Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks HayHuggins@aol.com Re: bomp-digest V99 #25 Lukas Ljungdahl Re: bomp-digest V99 #25 Lukas Ljungdahl Re: Security Victor Re: Vile Vynil danman76@juno.com Re: Danman!! danman76@juno.com Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Frank Uhle Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Glynis & Richard Ward Soma Records "Joseph E. Vine, Jr." Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks HayHuggins@aol.com Re: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks ARei160287@aol.com Re: Swinging Blue Jeans dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Re: Looking for a Farfisa? dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Re: American Revolution dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) VH-1 Teen Idols week... dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Re: (Seriously) Warped Records :) dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Re: VH-1 Teen Idols week... Glynis & Richard Ward Re: VH-1 Teen Idols week... Evan Davies unsubscribe "David R. Lusk" Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Frank Uhle Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Glynis & Richard Ward change of address Richard Ward Re: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks ARei160287@aol.com Re: Psych-Out! playlist/Hunger! Constantine Mekios ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:44:16 +0000 From: boldface@easynet.co.uk Subject: Thee Michelle Gun Elephant Just received the latest Michelle Gun Elephant album "Gear Blues" and the single "Smokin' Billy" in the post this week - from their Tokyo based fan club, the President of which enjoyed herself so much in London that she insists on sending me gifts all the time! Anyway, it totally rocks! And it's a shame their records aren't getting more distribution outside of Japan. Why is it so hard to find their records??? - PJ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:11:52 EST From: Rmerchandz@aol.com Subject: Italian Beat Resurrection Anyone know who carries the Italian Beat Resurrection besides Get Hip or Midnight? I've also heard that there is a legit series of original master tapes Italian Beat/Garage CDs available on import. Anyone out there crazy enough to blow the dough on this stuff? Baskerville Rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:18:40 -0500 From: laura.taylor@us.pwcglobal.com Subject: mo' weird covers I have not heard this, but have read about Barbara Striesand's cover of LIFE ON MARS? The truth is out there...has anyone heard this monstrosity? Tina Turner's 1984 is abysmal, too! ;^P-Jane Fondle - ---------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:27:13 EST From: HayHuggins@aol.com Subject: Re: the inmates In a message dated 1/18/99 6:26:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, felinefrenzy@mindspring.com writes: << Sean: Agreed. I love the Inmates only for doing this song. It's weird, in the 80's a lot of pop bands did one garage song in their rep. The Inmates version of Dirty Water is really quite good! And the album appears in every used record store in America, usually in the $1-$3 record bin! >> They also did a Music Machine song (I think) on another LP that we have, also bought cheap at a used record store. Methinks 'twas "Talk Talk"..... Richard ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:37:30 -0500 (EST) From: Hundred Dollar Limo Subject: Re: Re: Looking for a Farfisa? On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 ARei160287@aol.com wrote: > > I'm looking for a Vox Continental or Jaguar in good condition-anyone selling > one???? Ari, There are two Vox Jaguars for sale on Ebay.com. Check 'em out before they're gone! And a friend of mine in Chapel Hill NC has one in near mint condition for sale, if you can promise it's going to a good home. Tom Walls Gainesville, Fla Visit the Claude Pepper Blues Explosion, Sick Dick and the Volkswagens, Allstar 69 and Mimi's "Dans le Garage" radio show at: http://www.afn.org/~afn62971 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:14:05 PST From: "Erin Truscott" Subject: Inmates and Dirty Water The Inmates did a couple more cool covers which completely escape my memory right now, but the best was seeing them in London in the summer of '94, (yeah, they looked pretty old but not as old as some amazing bands I've seen in the past coupla years!), they took one look at the few girls wearing miniskirts and go-go boots, and went right into "Dirty Water". It was great! Actually, seeing them live at that time they sounded way more 60s garage than their records did. (Maybe it was the few girls hangin' round in their miniskirts and go-go boots....hmmm) Erin ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:14:44 EST From: Rmerchandz@aol.com Subject: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Jane Fondle will remember the days when I used to buy the "Current Hits" records from the sixties. These featured a Nashville band recording copycat versions of the hits of Louis Armstrong, Dave Clark 5, Beatles, Jan & Dean, Lulu, and more. Some are slightly off and many are dreadful. I like the fact that 50 year old session dudes are trying to hit the high notes in "A Hard Days Night." They seem relieved when it was all over. "Give me my Be-Bop records and an Ovaltine!" Baskerville Rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:58:13 EST From: SSamSS@aol.com Subject: Mondo Topless will soon need bass Yes, it's happening again. Please, no Jeff Connolly cracks from the peanut gallery, OK? At least we were able to keep this incarnation together for 2+ years. Scott's gotta leave, so we need a new bass player. He's sticking it out with us 'till we find a replacement ('cause that's the kinda guy he is, dammit!). We have a new CD/LP on Dionysus (and apparently it's selling well, too!), we do bits of regional touring (weekenders, etc. - East Coast, Midwest, South), lots of loud, fast and stupid fuzz-drenched and organ-soaked songs, and we jump around a lot. Anyhoo, any bass-playing garage-niks in the general vicinity of Philadelphia, please get in touch with me. Sam :) Mondo Topless web site: http://users.aol.com/mtopless/mtopless.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:59:38 EST From: HayHuggins@aol.com Subject: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks In a message dated 1/19/99 10:26:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, Rmerchandz@aol.com writes: << Jane Fondle will remember the days when I used to buy the "Current Hits" records from the sixties. These featured a Nashville band recording copycat versions of the hits of Louis Armstrong, Dave Clark 5, Beatles, Jan & Dean, Lulu, and more. Some are slightly off and many are dreadful. I like the fact that 50 year old session dudes are trying to hit the high notes in "A Hard Days Night." They seem relieved when it was all over. "Give me my Be-Bop records and an Ovaltine!" >> In that vein, there are innumerable weird versions on Hit Records, but some of them are actually really great! My fave Hit Records: The Jalopy V - doing any Stones song. I have only ever encountered one other person that collects JV records - Deke Dickerson! I remember reading an interview where he answered a question about the last record he bought and he replied, "The Jalopy V album!" WOW! The Music City Five (MC5!) - Wipeout! Mummys - Tell Her No Unfortunately, the rest that I've heard is dreck, or just not very interesting (to these ears), but I'm still a sucker for anything on that label. I liken it to the soft spot I have for HBR...... Richard ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:18:06 +0100 From: Lukas Ljungdahl Subject: Re: bomp-digest V99 #25 Wow! They're on P3 live! That's cool. I'm definitely going to record it. Thank's for the information! Lukas Ljungdahl, Sweden > >The Strollers is also working on their full-legnth album called "Falling > >Right Down". Schedule for >release late march on Low Impact Records! > >They also having a 7" out on Estrus! > >Listen to the Strollers & the Roadrunners live on P3 Live 4th feb. 21.03 > > sylvain / Switzerland ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:32:06 +0100 From: Lukas Ljungdahl Subject: Re: bomp-digest V99 #25 You probably shouldn't pick it up. There's probably only about five or so good rock songs on it, the rest is probably pretty lame covers and pop stuff (in my opinion). If it's very cheap, it's worth the money, but not otherwise. Lukas > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:11:59 EST > From: Planckzoo@aol.com > Subject: The Swinging Blue Jeans > > A local store has a couple of copies of a 24 song Swinging Blue Jeans > anthology,for a good price. My question, is it worth buying? I know only > Hippie Hippie Shake,and nothing else by them. My tastes run to the Raw, > punkier side of things rather then the Pop side of things. > > Thanks, Eric > > ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:45:40 -0500 From: Victor Subject: Re: Security > > > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:46:26 +1100 > From: "MARKMAN, PETER" > Subject: RE: Security > > > > It's a pretty decent LP, mostly covers but quite rockin'. I think (not > certain) that there was recently a reissue of the Pleazers album on CD, but > I haven't been able to track one down. Raven put out a compilation of their > tracks in the 80s, although it might be difficult to find this now. Several > of their best tracks (along with other unbelievable NZ stuff) are on Wild > Things which should still be available (vinyl or CD). Actually I saw an ad and a review in the most recent Ugly Things. There is a reissue of the Pleazers album on Zero Records (The same people that do the wild things comps...BTW which volume are they up to now? ) I tried e-mailing them a few times but didn't get any response. Does anybody distribute their stuff in America? I admit I can understand the slow response: It's Kiwi fest down there and everybody's drunk on Kiwi wine (To drink Foster's or Australian Chardonnay is a faux pas). They also have Kiwi tossing competitions (altough the Kiwi Frutane Society is still fighting to have this event banned) ciao! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:10:15 -0500 From: danman76@juno.com Subject: Re: Vile Vynil Message-ID: <19990119.111017.3966.4.danman76@juno.com> References: <199901190244.UAA14907@screamer.xnet2.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-5,11-14 References: <199901190244.UAA14907@screamer.xnet2.com> X-Status: Unsent >how are these comps? >Evan I have vol. 1, and it's up your alley, meaning it's all garage and nothing but. In this way it plays like a Back From The Grave comp, meaning there are a few killer cuts mixed with a lot of 3-chord pounding (not much in the melodic dept, and a little less pounding than a BFTG), but worth getting if that's your thing. The best track, "I Caught You Red Handed", has appeared on other comps. Great cover art (a bit more vile than the contents inside). Dan ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:00:15 -0500 From: danman76@juno.com Subject: Re: Danman!! >Hey, it was cool to finally meet you at that Bent Scepters show in St. Louis this weekend. Sorry I was confused and thought you were from Alabama. Have a good, fun, and safe rest of your trip! kopper< Good to meet you too, and some of the other Bompers I met along the way! It's good to know that Bompers are not all green skinned with dilated pupils and calloused fingers, but normal (within reason), music-minded folk. Here I am in the mountains of New Mexico, hangin' out with hippies and soaking up sun. No cool record stores, though. Dan ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:59:32 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Uhle Subject: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Here's a great thread! I don't have very many of those "hits of the 60s" soundalikes-as-recorded- by-anonymous-studio-hacks which are any good, but it is always interesting to pick up weird ones. The Hit label seemed to have packed up by ca. '68, but there are a handful of hippy ones out there. I have a cover of "Somebody To Love" (forget the "artist")... did things like "Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida" make it to Hit? In Canada there were a whole series of lps with covers of the hits of the day ca. the mid-60s, last night I pulled one out and listened to the cuts to see if anything (Batman, Sha-la-la-la-lee, etc.) was palatable, but unfortunately they weren't. I have heard that some have great stuff on them, though. Also, I have heard that well-known people sometimes cut these at low points in their careers, or before they made it. Are there any Hit experts who can point these out? (Including other such labels of the era as well here...). I know the Seeburg jukebox company in Chicago put out a ton of eps (with no artists credited) that had covers on them, and The Del-Vetts did several cuts for these pre-Dunwich. Actually these eps have a fair number of decent, energetic versions of good songs on them. Frank ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:13:53 -0500 From: Glynis & Richard Ward Subject: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Frank: >In Canada there were a whole series of lps with covers of the hits of the >day ca. the mid-60s, last night I pulled one out and listened to the cuts >to see if anything (Batman, Sha-la-la-la-lee, etc.) was palatable, but >unfortunately they weren't. I have heard that some have great stuff on >them, though. You are so right! I have a very fine collection of these records, and it's my obsession to discover who is actually on these records! Most often it was some pretty cool garage kids either earning extra money, or as part of their contracts. Many of the cheesy record labels from Canada where actually subsideraries of REAL record companies. They'd put their own talent on these $1.98 jobs!!! Strange. The Canadian records have some of the best graphics and lettering I've ever seen.The London A-Go-Go records are some of my faves! Between us, I think Erin & I have the whole run! Glynis Ward http://www.mindspring.com/~felinefrenzy Feline Frenzy Teen 'Zine Scene http://www.mindspring.com/~fuzzfest Fuzzfest '98 http://www.mindspring.com/~felinefrenzy/canadian.html Canadian 60's Garage Band Page ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:21:33 PST From: "Joseph E. Vine, Jr." Subject: Soma Records http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1306/soma.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Heilicher's hit `Surfin' Bird' catches another wave on CD >Star Tribune; Minneapolis, Minn.; Oct 16, 1998 >Jon Bream; Staff Writer; > > >Amos Heilicher, godfather of the Twin Cities record business, has a habit of >hanging on to things. > >He's had the same assistant for 42 years (she's retiring today). He still >has extra copies of a 22-year-old magazine featuring his former business. >And, in the front of a red-leather scrapbook, he has the original test copy >of "Surfin' Bird," the biggest record in his storied career. > >On its plain sleeve is a handwritten note from his then-partner in a >Minneapolis recording studio and a record-pressing plant, Vern Bank: >"The Bird" is the worst I've ever heard. Must be a hit. Call me if you're interested. Vern. > >Heilicher trusted his partner's taste and never listened to that audition >recording by the Trashmen. But at every dance the group played, they'd tell >teens to look for the song on Heilicher's Soma Records. After inquiries >started coming into record shops, he finally decided to distribute "Surfin' >Bird." > >Founder of the Musicland chain and one of the most influential U.S. record >distributors in the '60s and '70s, Heilicher touted the single to his >distributor friends around the country: "I said, `It's the worst record in >the world, but we've got a hit in Minneapolis. See what you can do,' " he >recalled this week. It became a hit nationwide, peaking at No. 4 on >Billboard in 1964. > >"I laugh every time I hear it," Heilicher said with a chuckle. "It's that >bad." > >The million-selling "Surfin' Bird" is one of 48 songs on the new double-CD >"Big Hits of Mid-America: The Soma Records Story 1963-67." And on Saturday, >the Trashmen will join the Del Counts, Castaways and the High Spirits in >concert to celebrate the release on CD of these mostly regional hits. > >"To this day, I get calls for these songs," said Heilicher, 80. Even though >he's been out of the record business for 20 years, he still thinks like a >guy who's trying to sell records. "I didn't know what they planned to do >when I turned over some of the old tapes," he said of the reissue >compilation. "When I saw it, I was kind of shocked; it's one of the nicest >looking packages I've ever seen on a CD." > >From Dylan to Castaways > >Sitting in his Golden Valley office, he reminisced about Soma (that's Amos >spelled backwards) with his son, Ira Heilicher, 52. While Ira was still in >high school, he co-owned a band booking agency, and he'd pitch acts to Soma. >"Ira was more hep than I am," said his father, who, in the late 1950s, once >kicked out a barefoot high-schooler named Bobby Zimmerman (whom his daughter >had met at summer camp) for banging on the piano in the Heilicher home. That >pianist went on to sell a few records under the name Bob Dylan. > >Being the boss' son didn't mean carte blanche for Ira at Soma. A committee >consisting of the buying, sales and promotion staffs as well as Heilicher >voted on which acts the label would take on. > >Ira got particularly excited about a band who invited him to their recording >session even though he'd never seen them perform. He stayed in the studio >with the Castaways until 4 a.m., offering ad-hoc advice on the recording and >money to cover the session. "I was standing at {Amos'} door at 6, going `You >gotta listen to this,' " Ira recalled. "He didn't say `Yes' right away, and >he brought it in to the group and they listened to it." > >Soma put out the song, "Liar Liar," which went to No. 12 on Billboard in >1965. Every once in a while, Ira will hear the tune on an oldies station, >turn up the volume and get excited all over again. > >Soma virtually disappeared in 1967 when Heilicher Bros. merged with Pickwick >International. Simitar Entertainment, run by some former K-tel International >executives, put together the current reissue - named after the two volumes >of "Big Hits of Mid-America" that Soma issued on LP in the '60s - as a >tribute to the Twin Cities' first indie label. > >"Some younger people know `Big Hits of Mid-America Vol. 3' that Twin/Tone >put out {in the late '70s} but don't know about the first two volumes," said >Steve Wilson, executive producer of the reissue, which also includes songs >from other local labels. > >Amos Heilicher may not be hep to the punkier bands on Volume 3, but he >remains loyal to his Soma groups. Three years ago, when he owned a suburban >bar called the Country House, he booked the Castaways and the Del Counts. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:21:56 EST From: HayHuggins@aol.com Subject: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks I know Glynis will mention ARC in Canada has having put out some BOSS "wall" records (so named cuz the covers are usually better'n the music, and thus are put to better use on the wall instead of on the turntable!). The Quiet Jungle (45s on Yorktown/Yorkville) were the house band and are behind many of these. We have an ARC Xmas LP that actually credits the Quiet Jungle!! Unfortunately, the cuts are just OK rock and roll versions of standard Xmas songs. Not bad, but nothing even close to as good as "Everything." Alas, I am no Hit records expert....... Richard ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:19:01 EST From: ARei160287@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks I have a great version of "Who Do You Love" on Seeburg-no artist credit given. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:18:02 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: Re: Swinging Blue Jeans >I think it's safe to say that you probably wouldn't like them. They're >more like Freddie and the Dreamers or Herman's Hermits - very tame and >"poppy" Ouch, that hurts. While the SWB didn't always do foot-stomping rock and roll ravers, they weren't exactly emasculated teenybopper pleasers. Yes, they were pop, but not quite as cutesy as Freddie and the Dreamers (who once recorded an LP of nothing but Disney film songs) or Herman's Hermits. I don't know who I would compare the Swinging Blue Jeans to, maybe the Beatles, but they certainly stood their own as well as any band of the period. Objectively speaking though, I can only think of a few songs on the disc that would appeal to the original poster's tastes, and those are the earlier tracks. And near the end of their hitmaking career, they did go the sacharine pop route, covering Herman's Hermits' "Don't Go Out Into The Rain" in 1967. Their main drawback was that they stuck with the Merseybeat formula even in the face of changing styles. But the majority of the SWB's material, while no contenders for inclusion on a "Pebbles" compilation, was _great_ British pop music. BTW, speaking of Freddie and the Dreamers, I have a videotape of the 1964 NME Pollwinner's Concert, and I can rarely stand to make it through Freddie's whole set without hitting the fast-forward button. He did do some fairly-good rockers, mostly obscure EP tracks like covers of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," "I'm A Hog For You Baby," "Money," and a fairly good upbeat original called "Feel So Blue." And many of Herman's Hermits' b-sides were atypical of their schoolboy sound... Dave || "Every new beginning comes from another beginning's end..." || || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Pursuer of various trivial pursuits || ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:18:17 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: Re: Looking for a Farfisa? I was in a local pawnshop the other day, and I saw a large flat case on a stand displayed over near the non-stringed instruments. I didn't see a Vox logo on the case, so I knew it wasn't one of those, but I'm not too up on keyboards and didn't identify it outright. Excited at the prospect, I lifted up the lid, and alas, it was a Rhodes "Electronic Piano," late-70s vintage. No better than a primitive version of a Casio for all I know. Dave || "Every new beginning comes from another beginning's end..." || || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Pursuer of various trivial pursuits || ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:18:10 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: Re: American Revolution >Two bands are featured in the film, "THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION," who >perform "Love Has Got Me Down," and "THE ORPHAN EGG," who perform "In >Big Letters." Were there more than one recorded American Revolution? There was a group called the American Revolution here in Ohio, who appeared a couple times on Jerry Rasor's "Dance Party" on WCMH-TV Columbus. From what I hear, they at least early on did the Raiders costume thing and may have made their stage entrances in a sort of military formation. They date from about the same year as this movie. Same group perhaps? Dave || "Every new beginning comes from another beginning's end..." || || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Pursuer of various trivial pursuits || ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:18:24 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: VH-1 Teen Idols week... The latest "Behind The Music" documentary I've seen was the installment about Rick Springfield. He reminds me of everything I've hated about the '80s, but I was surprised to find that he was a member of a popular teen power-pop Australian band in the late '60s called Zoot. This was before he struck out on his own in 1970 and had his first hit, the Jesus-rock tune "Speak To The Sky." There was even some very nice sound/video of the group playing live, ca. 1969. They looked like Led Zeppelin, but sounded like early Badfinger or later Raspberries. This hints to me that occasionally VH-1 does show some pretty cool stuff -- not just the Ed Sullivan clips, but little surprises like this, or the promo film footage of Billy Joel with the Hassles in '67. Of course, you have to wade through some pretty deep crap sometimes. I wonder if there will ever be a "Behind The Music" about the Bay City Rollers or the Raspberries? That would be cool... Dave || "Every new beginning comes from another beginning's end..." || || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Pursuer of various trivial pursuits || ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:18:32 -0500 (EST) From: dcoyle@bright.net (David J. Coyle) Subject: Re: (Seriously) Warped Records :) >I had this Kinks record that was very scratched. So I left it half >sitting on >the top of the oven when it was on. Two hours later after it >cooled it was a >'right angle'. So I put it on the bookshelf, swooping >over the facade as a >type of Dali piece. Back in the '80s, my mother read in some household hints column about putting a vinyl record on top of a 3-lb. coffee can and sticking it in the oven until the disc melted over the can. It made for a pretty attractive flowerpot, candy dish or knick-knack holder, with fluted sides. Unfortunately, I ruined a well-played, much-loved copy of "KISS Alive II" this way. Around the same time, my Sunday School class got into an anti-rock and roll kick, studying tapes of backmasked rock to prove just how Satanic it was. We were encouraged one morning to bring in our evil rock records for disposal. I ended up bringing in some pretty, black flower pots with Casablanca labels. At least now my KISS records had been rendered functional, and more importantly, unplayable, so they were the only ones that weren't relegated to the church bonfire... :) If they ever try to get their hands on my CD copy, though.... Dave || "Every new beginning comes from another beginning's end..." || || David J. Coyle // E-Mail: dcoyle@bright.net || || Chillicothe, OH // Pursuer of various trivial pursuits || ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:30:28 -0500 From: Glynis & Richard Ward Subject: Re: VH-1 Teen Idols week... >There was even some very nice sound/video of the group playing live, ca. >1969. They looked like Led Zeppelin, but sounded like early Badfinger or >later Raspberries. This hints to me that occasionally VH-1 does show some >pretty cool stuff -- not just the Ed Sullivan clips, but little surprises >like this, or the promo film footage of Billy Joel with the Hassles in '67. >Of course, you have to wade through some pretty deep crap sometimes. Yeah, I sort of liked Zoot when I was in highschool. My friend just liked the current teeny stuff Rick was doing. So we went to a concert and of course I was yelling for Zoot material. He was a bit suprised!!! Glynis Ward http://www.mindspring.com/~felinefrenzy Feline Frenzy Teen 'Zine Scene http://www.mindspring.com/~fuzzfest Fuzzfest '98 http://www.mindspring.com/~felinefrenzy/canadian.html Canadian 60's Garage Band Page ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:51:52 -0500 From: Evan Davies Subject: Re: VH-1 Teen Idols week... >power-pop Australian band in the late '60s called Zoot. This was before he >struck out on his own in 1970 and had his first hit, the Jesus-rock tune >"Speak To The Sky." I don't know that (or Zoot, for that matter), but I have a Rick Springfield solo LP from the mid-70s that has some decent power-pop songs on it. The one I remember is "Take A Hand," which I think was at least a regional hit on Boston radio at the time; not sure how it fared elsewhere. I think there were one or two other songs on the LP that weren't bad. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:15:30 -0600 From: "David R. Lusk" Subject: unsubscribe unsubscribe bomp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:14:00 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Uhle Subject: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Glynis & Richard Ward wrote: > these $1.98 jobs!!! Strange. The Canadian records have some of the best > graphics and lettering I've ever seen.The London A-Go-Go records are > some of my faves! Between us, I think Erin & I have the whole run! I was trying to remember that name... "London A-Go-Go"! Yep, those have great graphics. I only have a couple of these, but when I got them (late '80s), junking in Canada, they seemed to be pretty easy to find. By comparison, their U.S. counterparts were pretty tepid affairs. I have one on Compatible, if I remember right (a Nashville-based label), which is about as sexy as a prescription label to look at. It has a pretty funny version of "8 Days a Week" on it, which sounds _exactly_ like a bunch of bored Southern studio musicians who had 15 minutes to kill after a day of cutting radio jingles. They don't even TRY to affect English accents. Pickwick/Design, though they tried harder to come up with appealing album covers (at least they used color, and photographs, compared to Compatible), went even cheaper than the others, by writing fake music for the genres they were trying to copy, rather than forking out the royalties for real "hits." Of course, they did employ Lou Reed for a while, so we got the great "Cycle Annie" by The Beachnuts and "You're Driving Me Insane" by The Roughnecks out of the deal, not to mention the Primitives' "Ostrich" 45. Frank ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:34:04 -0500 From: Glynis & Richard Ward Subject: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks >I was trying to remember that name... "London A-Go-Go"! Yep, those have >great graphics. I only have a couple of these, but when I got them (late >'80s) I think there were 9 volumes. At least that's where I think Erin and I stop! Another excellent Canadian record is the fab 12 Top Hits A Go-Go on ZONK! records which, believe it or not was a subsidery of the "well known" IRC or International Records Corp at 1244 Dufferin St. (building three!)....It's got this massively cool groovy guy 'n go-go girl opy-popy cover and some way groovy covers of "Kicks", "Satisfaction", and "These Boots Where made For Walkin"!!! On the ARC records, many of the CTV after four go-go girls were used as female vocalists!! ARC Records Canada was spectacular and most frequently featured Yorkville/Yorktown recording artists!!! Glynis Ward http://www.mindspring.com/~felinefrenzy Feline Frenzy Teen 'Zine Scene http://www.mindspring.com/~fuzzfest Fuzzfest '98 http://www.mindspring.com/~felinefrenzy/canadian.html Canadian 60's Garage Band Page ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:02:09 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Ward Subject: change of address Just wanted to let everyone know that my AoL account will cease to exist is a week or so. Anyone that normally corresponds with me via hayhuggins@aol.com can now reach me at this Yahoo! address. Richard Ward _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:01:06 EST From: ARei160287@aol.com Subject: Re: Re: Current Hits - 60's covered by Nashville whacks Speaking of Seeburg hit cover versions and Lou Reed, anyone ever hear of the Lp "The Liverpool Beats"? It's supposed to be Lou Reed with some other guys who may have been the Primitives. They do shitty versions of I Saw Her Standing There andI Want To Hold Your Hand, as well as alot of originals. Does anyone have any idea how much this LP is worth? It's in excellent condition. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 19:39:12 -0500 (EST) From: Constantine Mekios Subject: Re: Psych-Out! playlist/Hunger! On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Jeffery Hess wrote: > Hunger-Colors Great pick! Has anyone on the list listened to the killer version of Colors on the up to today unreleased version of the first album by Hunger? I just picked up this record last weekend, and although I can't compare it with the released version "Strictly from Hunger", which I haven't listened to, it sounds amazing! Do the two versions sound as different as claimed on the liner notes of this "new" Hunger LP? From what I read in the liner notes, "Strictly from Hunger", for contractual reasons, was released devoid of the contributions of a member of the Strawberry Alarm Clock (don't recall the name) who had recorded with Hunger and had helped to the mixing of the material. Void records uncovered one test pressing of the original mix of the LP and issued it a few months ago (at quite a steep price, something which forced me to keep postponing to get the record for some time...). In any case, a really great record! Jeff, which version of "Colors" did you play at the show? Dinos ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V99 #27 ************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com