WHEN THE CASSETTE WAS KING

  

     

01  mr.groove - one way
02 double dutch bus - frankie smith
03  you're the one for me - d-train
04  funk'in for jamaica = tom brown
05  flashlight - parliment
06  five minutes of funk - whodini
07 atomic dog = george clinton
08  be thankful for what you got -arthur lee & love
09  cutie pie - one way
10  it takes two - ron base
11  sugar freak - rick james
12  friends - whodini
13  you dropped the bomb - gap band
14  let it whip = dazz band
15  brick housr - commordores
16  car wash - rose royce
17 i'd rather be with you - bootsy collins
18  the cisco kid - war
19  jungle love - morris day & the tyme
20  she's a bad mama jama - carl calrton
21  juicy lucie   mtune
22 I want to take you higher - sly & the family stone
23  all night long - mary jane girls
24 i wanna get next to you - rose royce

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WARNER'S ARTIFACTS

 

            There is no download for this one I have this one on vinyl but currently the turntable is packed away for our";sometime" soon move back to St.Louis  If your an avid cut and paste person you can track the tunes and  make your own. Hopefully I will get s chance to run the vinyl  to complete this one 

One of the crowning achievements in classic oldies compilations was Warner Special Products' Wild Thing, a double album (don't think it ever came out on CD) concocted for the the TV marketing company LakeShore Music.

The collection compiled the crude recordings of America's favorite garage bands (or protopunks), primitive groups who, 15 years before the English and New York punk explosions, nurtured a raw sound built upon only three chords.  (And what chords they were!)

These bands were not concerned with nihilism. Their revolution was a simple one--turn the amps up loud and blow mom and dad away!

The greatest example of this, of course, is the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie," which is punk incarnate, a drunken brawl with bodies and cymbals crashing. The record is so sloppy that, after the guitar break, the vocalist interrupts too early, nearly throwing everybody off the beat into a tumbling heap. This instant of brash carelessness defined American garage-punk rock.

The punk of the '60s is the most impudent style in rock history. As the Standells' "Dirty Water" fades out, the lead singer proclaims that he's the Boston Strangler. Or, consider the vehemence of the fuzztone on rabid classics such as the Leaves' "Hey Joe," Music Machine's "Talk Talk," and Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction."

Wild Thing contained 30 of these chaotic tunes--from frat-house romps like the Swingin' Medallions' "Double Shot" to psycho stomps like Balloon Farm's "A Question of Temperature. The only collection that can compete with this one in establishing the positive energy of the much-maligned punk genre was 1972's Nuggets--Original Artifacts from the First Psychedelic Era.

Track listing

    A1 The Troggs - Wild Thing
    A2 Love - My Little Red Book
    A3 The Knickerbockers - Lies
    A4 The Guess Who - Shakin' All Over
    A5 The Castaways - Liar, Liar
    A6 The Leaves - Hey Joe
    A7 Paul Revere & The Raiders - Kicks
    B1 The Kingsmen - Louie Louie
    B2 The Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
    B3 Sir Douglas Quintet - She's About a Mover
    B4 The Fireballs - Bottle of Wine
    B5 The Strangeloves - I Want Candy
    B6 The Music Explosion - Little Bit of Soul
    B7 Syndicate of Sound - Little Girl
    C1 The Music Machine - Talk Talk
    C2 The Gentrys - Keep on Dancing
    C3 The Swinging Blue Jeans - Hippy Hippy Shake
    C4 Los Bravos - Black is Black
    C5 The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law
    C6 Dino, Desi and Billy - I'm a Fool
    C7 The Rascals - Come On Up
    C8 The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me
    D1 Question Mark and The Mysterians - 96 Tears
    D2 The Five Americans - I See the Light
    D3 The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
    D4 The Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature
    D5 Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
    D6 The Standells - Dirty Water
    D7 The Shadows of Knight - Gloria
    D8 Count Five - Psychotic Reaction


 Various Artists– Wild Thing
Label:
Warner Special Products ?– OP 2521, Lakeshore Music ?– OP 2521
Format:
2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country:
US
Released:
1980
Genre:
Rock, Pop
Style:
Beat, Garage Rock, Pop Rock

THE GOLDEN AGE OF UNDERGROUND RADIO

B. Mitchel Reed was born Burton Mitchel Goldberg in Brooklyn on June 10, 1926. After graduating from Boy's High School in 1944, he became a navigator on a B-17 in Europe during the last year of World War II. He entered radio following a decision at the University of Illinois to forgo a career teaching political-science "for the boogie and the glamour of broadcasting." In 1956, he landed the all-night "Birdland Jazz Show" at WOR New York. In 1957, Mitch moved his "Boy On A Couch" show to KFWB Los Angeles and there became one of the original "Seven Swingin' Gentlemen" at the launch of Top 40 "Color Radio" in 1958. "The fastest tongue in the West" hosted a #1 rated 6PM-9PM high energy show using horns, bells and buzzers until February 20, 1963 when he was wooed back to his hometown as one of "The Good Guys" at WMCA New York: "I'm not talking too fast, you're listening too slow." Again rated #1, "Your Leader" spent time in London developing contacts with Brian Epstein, Derek Taylor and The Beatles which led to exclusive interviews and advance record pressings that helped break The Beatles in New York. After his final WMCA show on March 25, 1965 he was cheered by thousands at the airport, a scene that was repeated when he landed in L.A. for his return to KFWB with "The Wide Wide Weird World of BMR" where he became a voice for the counterculture. He recognized a music explosion was beginning, and he turned the evening hours into album-oriented rock programming after he met with Tom Donahue at the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and discovered their common frustration with radio music restrictions. Donahue was PD of pioneer underground rocker KMPX-FM San Francisco and was looking for an L.A. outlet. He found KPPC-FM in the basement of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church. After the KMPX/KPPC Strike ended in June 1968, Reed and Donahue each supplied KMET-FM with four hours of taped album rock while BMR programmed the rest of KMET, one of the first 24 hour automated music stations. "The Beamer" gained validity for "Underground Radio" from the ad agencies with his afternoon drive show that finally went live in Summer 1969. He was responsible for introducing to the public many of the most influential rock musicians ever, including Joni Mitchell. He underwent successful coronary bypass surgery in 1978 and left KMET for KLOS-FM. B. Mitchel Reed "kept his mind open and his spirit free" until his death from a lingering heart condition at the age of 56 on March 16, 1983.


                                                                       

Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue (May 21, 1928 – April 28, 1975), was a pioneering rock and roll radio disc jockey.

Donahue's career started in 1949 on the east coast of the U.S. at WTIP in South Carolina and contined at WIBG in Philadelphia and WINX in Maryland. He moved to San Francisco in 1961 after the payola scandal involving Alan Freed and Dick Clark.
Donahue re-invented himself, first as a disc jockey at Top Forty station KYA (now KOIT) in San Francisco, and then to run a record label (he discovered, produced, recorded, and managed The Beau Brummels on his Autumn Records label, later selling the act to Warner Brothers). He also opened a psychedelic nightclub, and produced concerts at the Cow Palace and Candlestick Park with his partner, fellow KYA disc jockey Bobby Mitchell (also known as Bobby Tripp; real name Michael Guerra, d. 1968).
Donahue wrote a 1967 Rolling Stone article titled "AM Radio Is Dead and Its Rotting Corpse Is Stinking Up the Airwaves" which also lambasted the Top Forty format. He subsequently revamped the foreign-language station KMPX into what is considered to be America's first alternative "free-form" radio station on the largely ignored FM band, playing non-commercial music by album-oriented bands. In 1969 he managed Leigh Stephens, Micky Waller, and Pete Sears in the band Silver Metre, and Stoneground in 1970. In 1972 he moved to the role of general manager at KSAN, where he encouraged playlists of music from different eras and genres interspersed with political commentary.
A typical example of KSAN radio featuring Tom Donahue can be found on the album The Golden Age Of Underground Radio.
Donahue, and his DJ wife Raechel, formed further free-form radio stations KMET and KPPC-FM in Los Angeles.
He died from a heart attack in 1975. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a non-performer, one of only three disc jockeys to receive that honor

.Original Posting January 2010



                                                                   

HEY WHATS THAT SOUND

                                            You just can't keep a good instro down.... can you. ?                                                                                 

01  borderline - spirit

02  orange blossom special - fairport convention

03  golden ear-rings - hunters

04  boog a dunk - loading zone

05  toktela - absolute elsewhere

06  hall of the mountain grill - hawkwind

07  voyages of past travelers - captain beyond

08  the stumble -  henry vestine

09  caught at the plate - babe ruth

10  pian_della_tortilla - bambiband_e_melodie

11  terry's tune - raiders

12  daddy long legs - tiki tonrd

13  lsd boogie - henry vestine

14  rumble 68 - kasenetz -katz singing orchestral circus

15  space race - billy preston

16  the premium bond theme - roy wood

17  blue guitar - fraternity of man

18  honky fonk - p.f.flyer

19  thanks - new phoenix

20  bongo,bongo,bongo - preston epps

21  manhattan rumble ( 49th street massacre)

22  waltz for a pig - graham bond

23  lugars groove = spooky tooth

24  baby' please don't go - baptism of uzi

NUGGETS REVISITED

I was reading an article the other day about Lenny Kaye's original Nuggets LP.In the United Kingdom the LP was supposedly  released (originally) with some extra or different  songs. I do not know if this is indeed true but it did get me to thinking about compiling another "lost" version of the classic LP  Let me know what you think!  Same musicians> different tunes. Once again it was fun trying to track down some of these selections

01 get me to the world on time - electric prunes

02 why pick on me - standells

03 cara-lin - strangeloves

04 one track mind - knickerbockers

05 i can't make a friend - vagrants

06 maid of sugar,maid of spice - mouse & the traps

07 i can't keep from crying - blues project

08 i'm gonna make you mine - shadows of knight

09 out of the question - seeds

10 are you a boy or are you a girl - barbarians

11 heart - remains

12 lady fingers - magicians

13 goodbye babe - castaways

14 everbody needs somebody to love - 13th floor elevators

15 they're gonna get you - count five

16 flashback( that rhythm thing) - leaves

17 in the midnight hour - micheal & the messengers

18 ben franklin's almanac - cryan' shames

19 migration - amboy dukes

20 gloria - blues magoos

21 i ain't no miracle worker - chocolate watchband

22 me about you - mojo men

23 the shape of things to come - third rail

24 another time - sagittarius

25 under the ice - nazz

26 get on this plane - premiers

27 let the rain be me - magic mushrooms

BALLROOM BLITZ

Since we are on this wave of West Coast Boots we might as well throw in one last one. Here's a set of the SF bands live released on a boot called High Times In Frisco in 1996, If you get the 3 California LP's, and the  KSAN Vault series and The San Francisco Nights series you could say you have collected some great music from a great time.

1. The Other Side of This Life - Jefferson Airplane (Fillmore West; October 14, 1967)
2. It's Alright - Jefferson Airplane (Fillmore West; October 14, 1967)
3. Jam - Jefferson Airplane (Fillmore West; October 14, 1967)
4. Susie Q. - Quicksilver Messenger Service (Fillmore West; November 6, 1966)
5. Mona - Quicksilver Messenger Service (Fillmore West; November 6, 1966)
6. Dark Magic - Moby Grape (Avalon Ballroom; December 31, 1966)
7. Flying High - Country Joe and the Fish (Fillmore West, 1967)
8. Ball and Chain - Big Brother and the Holding Company (Matrix, 1967)
9. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - The Daily Flash (Matrix, 1966)
10. Going to Mexico - Steve Miller Band (Matrix, January 1967)

WEST COAST BOOT

      GATHERING OF THE TRIBES aka CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS ALBUM:   (Penguin Records)
(2 LP Set. Rare live recording LP, released in 1981 in a limited run. Very rare double LP set limited edition 500 copies from 1981. I found no artwork with this one so I created my own.
 
    A1 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Got My Mojo Working 4:00
    A2 Quicksilver Messenger Service - The Fool (Eastern Style) 9:05
    A3 The Charlatans - Number One 3:50
    A4 The Charlatans - Jack O'Diamonds 4:30
    B1 Jefferson Airplane - Kansas City 8:00
    B2 Jefferson Airplane - Fat Angel 5:45
    B3 Jefferson Airplane - Levi's Commercial #1 0:50
    B4 Jefferson Airplane - Levi's Commercial #2 0:50
    B5 Jefferson Airplane - Levi's Commercial #3 0:45
    B6 Steve Miller Band - Miller's Blues 6:20
    C1 Moby Grape - Dark Magic 17:25
    C2 Country Joe & The Fish - Death Sound Blues 5:00
    D1 Grateful Dead with Janis Joplin - Turn On Your Lovelight 15:05
    D2 The Byrds - Renaissance Fair 1:50
    D3 The Byrds - Lady Friend 2:15
    D4 The Byrds - Have You Seen Her Face 2:10

DAYS OF WINE AND ACID

 

I recently acquired a download from another blog (Solidboy)of the California Easter Album.Thank You! I know that were 3 "california" bootlegs out there so that one completed the trilogy for me. If there is any interest I could also post the Xmas/ Human Be-In for you. Visit http://solidboymusicblog.blogspot.com/

to get the Easter Bootleg.

  CALIFORNIA ACID FOLK: “S/T” (Penguin Records)

 Seriously rare double LP set limited edition 500   Total mesmerizing compilation containing  The Byrds - LIVE on Swedish Radio Baines. One LP side each for a Byrds 1967 Swedish radio broadcast (in perfect sound), Kaleidoscope live at the 1967 Berkeley folk festival (although the fidelity is subpar), and unreleased light harmony psych demos from Country Weather. The fourth side is an assortment of rarities from the International Submarine Band, Mystery Trend, Dino Valente, and early sides by groups that featured Lowell George, Arthur Lee, and Bob Mosley before any of those musicians had become famous in biggest acts. The record cover comes from a Rick Griffin poster for a Quicksilver concert at the Avalon. Track listing is as follows:

Side One:

 1. Byrds - Hey Joe

 2. Byrds - My Back Pages

3. Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man

 4. Byrds - He Was A Friend Of Mine

 5. Byrds - So You Want To Be A Rock and Roll Star

 6. Byrds - Roll Over Beethoven

 Side Two:

 1. Country Weather - Time Is Leaving Me Behind

2. Country Weather - New York City Blues

 3. Country Weather - Carry A Spare

 4. Country Weather - Fly To New York

Side Three:

 1. Kaleidoscope - Oh Death

 2. Kaleidoscope – Taxim

3. Kaleidoscope - Egyptian Gardens

 Side Four:

 1. The Factory - No Place I'd Rather Be

2. The Factory - Smile, Let Your Life Begin

 3. The Mystery Trend - Johnny Was A Good Boy

/ 4. Dino Valenti – Birdses

5. International Submarine Band - Sum Up Broke

6. The Misfits - The Uncle Willie

 7. Vibra-Sonics - Thunder Storm 

8. American Four -Lucy Baines

SOWING THE SEEDS

The first disc of this interesting compilation. Please give me feedback on the post.
The set is a mixture of rarities, unreleased tracks and live recordings. There are contributions from more established acts, such as The Small Faces, The Kinks, Soft Machine and The Nice, and an absolute wealth of material from lesser known artists. Ramases & Selket, The Orange Bicycle, Our Plastic Dream, Fat Mattress, Harmony Grass… Just looking at the names on the back of the elongated slipcase this treasure trove is housed in, is enough to send any psych, acid, or early prog enthusiasts bandy with excitement.

Each of the four discs on Real Life Permanent Dreams sports its own title, reflecting the chronological categorising of sound, as opposed to date, into which the five years have been divided. So it starts with Sowing the Seeds before moving onto Plant a Flower Child Today, then HappyDaysToyTown, and finishing on Circus Days Are Here Again. Any one of these discs, if sent out into the cruel world to fend for itself, would prove a formidable force to reckon with. When combined, like Dai-X on Star Fleet, they become both the unstoppable force and the immovable object that, if ever were to meet, would spell the end of the world.

Sowing the Seeds largely covers the raw, infant sound of psychedelia – though some tracks are as late as 1968 – with early, acid-laced examples from Donovan (‘Sunny Goodge Street’), John’s Children (‘The Lilac Hand of Menthol Dan’), Lord Sutch (‘The Cheat’) and future Quo, The Traffic Jam (‘I Don’t Want You’).

1. My Friend Jack: The Smoke
2. No More You And Me: The Tornados
3. Cheat: Lord Sutch
4. Doctor Doctor: Frame
5. Day And Night: The Drag Set
6. Fancy: The Kinks
7. I Don't Want You: Traffic Jam
8. Breaking Up Scene: Honeybus
9. Snow White: Winston's Fumbs
10. I Like It - Christian:Neil & The Crusaders
11. Black Sheep RIP: The Australian Playboys
12. Circles: Fleur De Lys
13. Lilac Hand Of Menthol Dan: Marc Bolan & John's Children
14. You're Holding Me Down: Buzz
15. I Take It That We're Through: The Riot Squad
16. Come On Back: Paul & Ritchie (aka The Cryin' Shames)
17. It's A Crime: Kirkbys
18. Love Me 'Til The Sun Shines: The Kinks
19. Hippy Gumbo: Marc Bolan
20. Gently Tender: The Incredible String Band
21. Sunny Goodge Street: Donovan
22. Linda Loves Linda: Floribunda Rose
23. Up On The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire: The Small Faces
24. Rubber Monkey: Santa Barbara Machine Head
25. You've Got To Hold On: The Deviants
26. Season Of The Witch: Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger & The Trinity

UK ACID

IT CRAWLED OUT OF THE VAULTS

                                             The complete 6 disc set for this requested bootleg.

A GO GO

A couple of years back Rhino released another of it's Nuggets series. This one focused on the Los Angeles music scene of the early to late 60's. It was a four disc set with alot of well known artists as well as to bring back some really unknown tracks. All very much relevant to the LA scene at that time. In starting a look back at the music from that area and time I have put together a small comp with assorted tracks to go along with the original. I highly recommend that set. It is a vital piece of the Nuggets and a bookend piece to the San Francisco Nuggets from a bit earlier. I hope to touch on some of artists from the Sunset Strip days and get into the Topanga - Laurel Canyon artists who indeed rivaled the San Francisco acts in ceativity to the point that eventually both musical scenes merged together to provide some of musics most memorable works. A lot of music enthusiasts claim that the music coming out of LA during those times was far better than their upstate friends. I am very partial to the SF artists who to me were there to play the music and took a lot longer to be commercialized compared to the LA artists. Indeed the Laurel Canyon musicians in the later 60's did create some great music but none can rival the creativity of the SF bands in OMO

The Tracks

01 Unka Tinka Ty - Music Machine
02 Don't lose Your Cool - Chambers Brothers
03 Tommorow's Gonna Be Another Day - Sons Of Adam
04 Love Special Delivery - Fire Escape
05 Dark On You Now - Peanut Butter Conspiracy
06 Let The Cold Winds Blow - Turtles
07 Softly To Me - Love
08 Hello I Love You - Doors
09 My Color Song - Don & The Goodtimes
10 There's Always Tomorrow - Paul Revere & The Raiders
11 Oh Death - Kalidoscope
12 Get Away From Her - Standells
13 Come To The Sunshine - Harper's Bizarre
14 Mo-Jo woman - Enemys
15 Every Little Prayer - Ashes
16 This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
17 That's When Happiness Began - Grains Of Sand
18 I Do Believe - Dewey Martin & Medicine Ball
19 Excuse, Excuse - Seeds
20 The Girl With No Name - Byrds
21 Apricot Brandy - Rhinocerous
22 The Time Is Now - Twin Engine
23 Surfer Joe - Surfaris
24 Love Minus Zero - Leaves