...After a stint as drummer for the Mighty Caesars with Chatham’s very own Renaissance man Billy Childish, Graham Day was re-joined by his old partner in 1989, along with ex-Daggerman Wolf Howard on drums, and formed the Prime Movers. Allan and Wolf had been part of the original line-up of the James Taylor Quartet (formed after the Prisoners split), but were now free agents. The Prime Movers recorded the raw and unpolished ‘Sins of the Fourfathers’ as a three piece, and were soon joined by Fay Hallam (ex Makin’ Time) on organ. Two subsequent albums followed but the band called it a day in 1993. 
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...Maybe they were a little too ambitious. Just like their colleague Bruce Dickinson, Irom Maiden's lead singer, they set their sights on competing in the Olympic sword fighting event. And when the Krontjong Devils get an idea in their head, you can't stop them.
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"liner notes: "BUG OUT! Not just a phrase or the latest dance craze, but a way of life! Whether at school, home, or in the car, by yourself or with a group, the time is always right to BUG OUT!"
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is unbearable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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Murry Wilson promoted this Southern California Surf band after the Beach Boys (with his 3 sons Brian, Carl, and Dennis) went thier own road, and were able to produce, write, and perform music the way that they wanted. Murry, although he helped get them in the door of the music business, wanted more controll on the group than they wanted.
...The range of musical and guitar playing styles presented here is astonishing. Maphis and his disciple Larry Collins flat pick up a storm in "Hurricane." Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West duel with guitar and steel on "The Night Rider." Earl "Joaquin" Murphey provides swinging steel in Spade Cooley’s big-band. Merle Travis shows off his acoustic fingerpicking talents (as opposed to the honky-tonk he’s more commonly known for) on "Cannon Ball Stomp," and Chet Atkins (backed by Homer and Jethro) shows off his variation of Travis’ style on "Galloping on the Guitar." Leon McAuliffe (of Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys) and Leon Rhodes (of Ernest Tubb’s Texas Troubadours) shine on a pair of instrumentals.
Holland's Krontjong Devils belt out low fidelity ultra reverb garage surf, pummeling parties and frat houses across the land. This CD is a collection of wild imprecisely documented performances of boundless energy, including several vocals. - Phil Dirt
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17 rarities from the 1950' and early 1960's, including a bunch of tracks comped for the first time. All in great sound. Guaranteed Rural Hick Hayseed Shit Kickin’ Rockabilly and Hillbilly Bop. Excellent!
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is unbearable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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...Most of their Beat Group brethren (the Beatles, the Stones, the Hollies, the Animals) started out performing and recording covers of American hits (from the likes of Chuck Berry, Chicago blues artists, the Girl Groups, etc.) before teams of songwriters began to emerge from within their ranks. But the same cannot be said for Peter Noone’s gang. This made them ever reliant on the songs of others. Like many, they mined the American R’n’R songbook but then they took a more decided English turn, calling on some British writers as well as older English music hall songs in an attempt to play up their Manchester identity for a growing American audience. Towards the end of their successful run, they tapped into songwriters who would write songs expressly for them (Graham Gouldman, P.F. Sloan) but the records they chose to re-make give us some idea about what their own musical sensibility might have been like. HERMAN’S HERMITS Record Collection focuses on their catalog of singles.
Many will only be familiar with the hit "Happy Talk", which is not the best track on this album. The tunes are all strong, and though generally lighthearted and fun there is the odd serious subject and several different musical styles thrown in to add variety. And it works -- Women And Captains First is an enjoyable listen throughout. Oh, and the Capt.(Ray Burns, technically) gets some help from Robyn Hitchcock, who not only plays some guitar but also co-wrote a couple of songs. Try to guess which ones without peeking at the credits. Hitchcock also was involved with Sensible's follow-up. His wife Rachel also chimed in with her 3-woman band Dolly Mixture on back-up vocals. New Musik fans are sure to love this as Tony Mansfield contributes much of his considerable talents, not just with his distinctive production. Sadly this excellent album has never been released on CD. - by Sounds great
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Three years ago I drove up north to the old city of Groningen to look at a group of young performers, who were presenting their debut EP at the club where the action is, the VERA teenclub. While entering the club the band was already playing on front of a crowd of swinging teenagers.
I’ve been a fan of the Oetsound! since I was knee high to a tulip. And for my guilders, the best purveyors of the stuff are the Krontjong Devils. - Riff Ryan, KEWB, 6-9 a.m. Oakland, Calif.
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14 rarities from the 1950' and early 1960's, including a bunch of tracks comped for the first time. All in great sound. Guaranteed Rural Hick Hayseed Shit Kickin’ Rockabilly and Hillbilly Bop. Excellent!
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is unbearable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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...Perhaps you haven't heard of it yet, or perhaps you've just heard of Don & Dewey -- a pair of high school friends who started performing as a duo after playing in the Squires together -- who recorded many sides for Specialty Records in the late 50s. They never had hits on their own, but they wrote and recorded songs that others brought to the charts, including the Sonny Bono-penned "Koko Joe," and the originals "Big Boy Pete," "Jungle Hop," and the perennial garage rock classic "Farmer John." That alone suggests that they were first-rate songwriters, but their talents run deep; these may be the standouts, but their other singles and the songs not issued until this 1991 collection are uniformly excellent. And that's just one side of the group. Just as importantly, they were dynamite musicians, rocking hard (Dewey Terry played a mean guitar, and Don "Sugarcane" Harris wasn't a slouch himself on the instrument, though his violin talents weren't fully appreciated here.) Supported by the Specialty house band (the same band that played on Little Richard's records) and singing delirious tag-team vocals make this sound insanely alive with life. There isn't a bad track here; and even if they didn't have hits and are still a cult item, they left behind a hell of a legacy, as evidenced by this necessary disc.
I purchased Steady the Buffs by Billy Childish and the Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association (wheee...) after reading an interview with Billy in MOJO.
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The Torquays capture the sight, sound, drive and excitement of Instrumental Music at its peak with Steve Soest and Armin Brown on electric guitar, Don Parra on bass guitar and Duff Paulsen on drums, marimba and electric guitar. With their matching outfits and matching guitars and amps, The Torquays take the audience to a musical era that is as fresh today as it was in the days of Hot Rods, Hodads, Greasers and Gremmies. - amazon
16 rarities from the 1950' and early 1960's, including a bunch of tracks comped for the first time. All in great sound. Guaranteed Rural Hick Hayseed Shit Kickin’ Rockabilly and Hillbilly Bop. Excellent!
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is unbearable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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...They could sing gorgeous heartache ballads, rollicking up-tempo rhythm tunes, creditable period-piece novelty numbers, wonderful pop covers or shattering originals. This two-disc set contains 44 outstanding numbers, with every major Moonglows anthem and several others that weren't big hits but deserved to be, such as "Penny Arcade" and "Love Is a River." This collection updates and expands the Greatest Sides single LP release briefly available when Sugar Hill had the Chess catalog in the 1970s. It wisely restricts material to the era when they were at their best, the 1950s, and includes an excellent booklet.(Ron Wynn, Allmusic)
Lorette Velvette's third solo full-length, Lost Part of Me, further defines her as an artist capable of effortlessly gliding from deliciously ugly, disturbing, gender-bending garage/glam/Southern punk rock to luscious, beautiful balladry to backwoods porch stomps with an ease and grace all her own. Predating Jack White's explorations of the similarities between garage and traditional folk by nearly six years (really, the two are cut from the same cloth), Velvette is more of an experimenter, at least on record, leaving plenty of room for dissonant, psychedelic freakouts with textural guitars and an unyielding edge akin to Sonic Youth's glorious moments. Sequenced like an excellent mixtape, Lost Part of Me opens psychedelic and loud as Velvette and her band wash beauty and fearsome ugliness with each other and smoothly flows into Delta blues, call-and-response gospel stomp, and back around to bawdy experimentalism. The album is a roller coaster of style and, at times, generally weird, but Velvette is always fascinating and brilliant here. ~ Gregory McIntosh, All Music Guide
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The Torquays capture the sight, sound, drive and excitement of Instrumental Music at its peak with Steve Soest and Armin Brown on electric guitar, Don Parra on bass guitar and Duff Paulsen on drums, marimba and electric guitar. With their matching outfits and matching guitars and amps, The Torquays take the audience to a musical era that is as fresh today as it was in the days of Hot Rods, Hodads, Greasers and Gremmies.
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14 rarities from the 1950' and early 1960's, including a bunch of tracks comped for the first time. All in great sound. Guaranteed Rural Hick Hayseed Shit Kickin’ Rockabilly and Hillbilly Bop. Excellent!
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It's just me having fun with my 45's and whatever random record I pull out of the boxes. I will try to give both sides of the 45 unless one side is unbearable. I hope you enjoy. (Gyro1966)
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In the early 80s the Medway sound was born with a flurry of records from The Milkshakes and The Prisoners. The Prisoners produced a tough version of the sound of the 60s played with great enthusiasm and lots of GoGo. The Prisoners are the definitive psychedelic garage band, clearly influenced by the likes of the Small Faces, and cited as an influence for The Charlatans and -although not cited so openly- the entire brit pop and acid jazz scenes. Sixties/Garage/Psychedelic/Punk music with equally loud and up front guitar and keyboard sounds bursting with rawness. The band broke up in the late 80s after an ill-starred deal with Stiff Records. Drummer Johnny left the music business, guitarist Graham Day and bass player Allan Crockford had success with the mod band The Prime Movers, and the organist, JAMES TAYLOR formed his own ensemble and has enjoyed fame and success since then with his amazing THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET. This album was originally released on CD by Big Beat Records in 1990 and is a re-release of the 1983 vinyl album of the same name plus 7 bonus tracks recorded by the group and released on singles/compelations around 1984. TheWiserMiserDemelza (1983), which makes up the bulk of this double 10², was produced by one time Radiator, and ex-Pogue, Phillip Chevron. The ³plus 7² consists of the non-album flip of the single from the album alongside the 4 cuts from the 'Electric Fit' E.P., 'Reaching My Head' from the 'Four On 4' E.P. (a compilation from the T.V. programme The Tube), the rare song 'Coming Home' and a third 'Go Go' piece. Of the original album stuff, the track that leaps out and hits you where you get most pleasure is "Hurricane". "Unbeliever" is also great, and oh don't you just wish "Go Go" would get the full 3 minute treatment - Ah well!! Bonus tracks "Melanie", "Coming Home" and "Reaching My Head" are much treasured additions for the dedicated fan. Ted Kessler/Roger Sargent, NME (7 June '97): "The toughest and coolest platoon to ever emerge from this isle's only true punk outpost". "If you're a fan of either The Charlatans or Kula Shaker, then you owe your allegiance to these bands to The Prisoners because they invented them".
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Well this was my 'fave band' of the 80's and probably of all time, this was the start for Graham Day and he went on to such brilliant outfits as The Prime Movers, Solarflares and recently The Gaolers.
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The Torquays capture the sight, sound, drive and excitement of Instrumental Music at its peak with Steve Soest and Armin Brown on electric guitar, Don Parra on bass guitar and Duff Paulsen on drums, marimba and electric guitar. With their matching outfits and matching guitars and amps, The Torquays take the audience to a musical era that is as fresh today as it was in the days of Hot Rods, Hodads, Greasers and Gremmies. Reviewer Robert Kinsler wrote about the group, "The Torquays sound is at once graceful, powerful and haunting. Like the surfers who make wave riding the largest of waves look effortless, The Torquays have found a similarly magic way of riding sonic waves." - from: http://www.guitar9.com/
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