Who's your favorite obscure 60's band?

[robertpaulsen]

I'm talking about groups that had no hit records but had a fantastic sound you can't get out of your mind. Garage, psychedelic, whatever you think is groovy.

My favorite is the Charlatans. They were the very first San Francisco underground rock band to help usher in the psychedelic era in Haight Ashbury. Formed in 1964, they created a following with their LSD fueled performances at the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada which founder George Hunter promoted by creating the first psychedelic rock poster. Dressed as Old West characters with a sound that often complemented their image, they were true originals.

In 1965 they signed with Kama Sutra. They recorded a 9 track demo, however the label got cold feet when the Charlatans wanted to release Codine Blues, a song about drug addiction, as a single. So the album was never released and many original members departed. They finally released an album in 1969 with new members, then officially disbanded.

If you're a fan of 60's rock, I highly recommend buying The Amazing Charlatans on the Big Beat label. It has 23 tracks, most from the original members. They had a unique sound that matched their Old West outlaw image.

[GOPisEvil]

1. The 13th Floor Elevators!

Roky Erickson! :thumbsup:

[Fenris]

7. They played at my mom's high school

Port Neches-Groves.

[DemExpat]

13. They played at my highschool!

Spring Branch, Houston.....late 60s..

:hi:

DemEx

[Fenris]

17. Coolness!

I'm from the Woodlands!
:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

19. Wow!

I'm glad Roky is back from his troubles. He's even making personal appearances now, but not singing yet. The Elevators play, but Roky's brother sings. :-)

[last_texas_dem]

176. Cool

PN-G! I'm an LC-M graduate myself (Orange) but it's just always neat to see a local place referenced on the Internet. :hi:

I just know one 13th Floor Elevators song myself (from the Nuggets box) but they definitely have a good sound.

[buddhamama]

26. omg !

i didn't know you were a fan on the Elevators.

They were going to be my choice. I listen to them at least once a week. LOVE the Elevators!!!

You got great taste in Music!

[GOPisEvil]

39. I actually got turned on to them by a garage band I used to listen to.

They used to cover "You're Going to Miss Me" and another tune I can't remember the name of. The Elevators were cool! :D

[buddhamama]

72. "You're Going To Miss Me"

is a fave of mine. along with
"Slip Inside This House" hypnotic and dreamy, rockin' beat.
going now to put some on. :thumbsup:

[madrchsod]

75. 13 rules!!!!

i acually had a "red crayola" album but i gave it to someone and never got it back

[flamingyouth]

109. I always loved that story about the Elevators on Bandstand

Where Dick Clark (supposedly) asked, "Who's the head of this band?" And Roky said, "We're all heads!" Sadly, I recently heard that that story is but an urban myth. But it's very funny nonetheless.

[MrBenchley]

2. Bonzo Dog DooDah Band

Hilarious bunch that could play just about anything...

[PragMantisT]

27. Right on

I am the Urban spaceman
And here's the twist
I don't exist

Righteous

[robertpaulsen]

32. I love em too!

I'm sure you know they were in Magical Mystery Tour. Neil Innes then went on to form The Rutles, somewhat less obscure.

[DancingBear]

80. "The Intro And The Outro"

'digging General DeGaulle on accordion! Thank you, General"

great stuff.

[mac56]

90. McCartney wrote "I'm The Urban Spaceman" for them.

Under the name Apollo C. Vermouth.

I always loved "In The Canyons Of Your Mind" and "Hello Mabel".

[non sociopath skin]

164. Yeah, I was a big Bonzos fan too ...

.. especially the late album, "Keynsham," which was the nearest a British band ever got to Zappa and the Mothers.

The Skin

[On the Road]

3. The United States of America

with Joseph Byrd and Dorothy Moskowitz.

[XNASA]

22. How cool.

When I was a wee lad, my parents owned a house that had a small apartment upstairs. One of the renters had a great collection of albums and one day he just kinda disappeared. I'm not sure what happened to him.

But he left his record collection behind and I kinda inherited it. One of the albums was the USA disc. I listened to it over and over.

To this day, nobody I know had ever heard of it.

Until I read your post.

[On the Road]

38. A Few Years Ago

I was having lunch with a group of people at work. I started talking with my boss's boss, and found we liked a lot of the same music. I remember saying "Here's a long shot -- The United States of America." His face lit up and he started quoting from The American Metaphysical Circus. Everyone stopped and stared at us.

[darkstar]

48. Another fan of both albums

via USA and the Field Hippies


"Meet Harry the swinger...."

[Whitacre D_WI]

44. It's hard-coming love!

Cuuuuhhhhmiiiiing... luuuuhve....

[quispquake]

60. If you like the USA album...

Check out the 50 foot hose reference I made here somewhere...the music was in the same realm (if anything trippier though), but the band was a psych band with electronics & a woman singer...similarities abound!!!!

[BrewerJohn]

144. I got my copy of that album

from a cutout bin for 47 cents, back in '73 or '74.
And I also never knew anyone else who had heard of it.
My vote for Best Unknown Record Ever.

[blackcat77]

4. The Flock

Like BS&T or Chicago only legitimate instead of just commercial.

[bif]

74. With Jerry Goodman

who went on to play wiwth McGaughlin in the Mahavishmu Orchestra

[NNadir]

102. What's Jerry Doing?

I had a solo album he did on Vinyl, but I haven't heard from him in a while.

[Sgt. Peppers]

5. David Peal and the Lower East Side

Oink-Oink

[Whitacre D_WI]

47. Have a Marijuana!

[BlueEyedSon]

6. The James Gang

slightly ahead of Country Joe and the Fish

[BurtWorm]

8. The Beatles

Wicked cool blokes from Liverpool. Catchy tunes. Great boots.

[Fenris]

9. Never 'eard 'em!

[mac56]

10. Barry and the Remains.

Check 'em out.

Honorable mention: The Swingin' Blue Jeans, for no other reason than "The Hippy Hippy Shake".

And don't forget The Wonders!

[NightTrain]

78. Re: The Hippy Hippy Shake

The 1959 original by Chan Romero blows the Swingin' Bluejeans right out of the water, baby!!! :nuke:

[mac56]

84. I'll check it out.

For goodness' sake...!"

[Fenris]

11. Moby Grape

Their epymonous album is perhaps one of the finest to come out of the San Fransisco psych/punk scene. And it's on CD now!

[LuLu550]

24. wasn't that "Grape"?

I remember them

[LuLu550]

28. Pearls Before Swine

They had a great album

[DancingBear]

82. They had a bunch of them

But "Balaklava" was my favorite

[Fenris]

31. LOL. Misspell.

[DancingBear]

81. Some Grape trivia

1) The original LP cover photo had Skip Spence giving the finger (his hand was resting against a washboard) - later copies had it air brushed off

2) The "best of" LP "Great Grape" had a cover that when you scratched it smelled like grape

30 "Omaha" is a fabulous song

[robertpaulsen]

173. Minor correction

I'm looking at the original LP cover photo. It's actually Don Stevenson giving the finger on the washboard. Skip Spence is slouching casually in the background looking stoned immaculate. Grape was actually the second SanFran psych group he was in. He's the drummer on "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off" and he wrote "My Best Friend" which appeared on Airplane's second album "Surrealistic Pillow". Brilliant lunatic.

[NNadir]

101. Loved 'em. n/t

[bif]

12. I'll bet no one's ever hear of "Savage Grace" or the SRC

n/t

[DancingBear]

83. Sure I have

Savage grace was a Detroit band, yes?

[bobthedrummer]

103. I heard SRC-remember "Capture the Mountain"?

Another obscure band from 1969-70 would be Milwaukee's tragic band Clockwork Orange. I was their drummer.

Then there's Touch.

[THUNDER HANDS]

14. Herman's Hermits

I don't know if they had any hits, but my dad likes them and they're kinda catchy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Just a few ...

Collectively, Herman's Hermits sold nearly 10 million records in America alone by the end of 1965, a figure exceeded only by the Beatles.
http://www.geocities.com/fabgear6366/hermanshermits.htm

[bif]

23. But not obscure.

They were huge in the early 60s.

[BOSSHOG]

15. The Herd - Peter Frampton's first group - circa 1966

Honorable mention and a hats off to Northwest Arkansas -

THE CATE BROTHER'S - Fayetteville, Dickson Street, 1971.

[saltpoint]

16. The Grass Roots had a limited --

-- musical range, but their tunes were contagious. "Temptation Eyes" was terrific.

Also, The Montanas released one album with a tune on it called "You've Gotta Be Loved," which I have jammed deep into my brain for all time. Great hit single.

[LuLu550]

18. The Children of Progress

That was MY band! hahaha! We only played a couple of high school dances. We rocked.

[teach1st]

20. Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies

All of the above bands are great! I still dig The Field Hippies album, "American Metaphysical Circus," with "You Can't Ever Come Down" and "Patriot's Lullabye."

Joe Byrd was a student of "serious" music who dropped out of UCLA in the mid-'60s to organize "happenings." With the Field Hippies, he released The American Metaphysical Circus (Columbia, 1969), an album that fused rock with experimental electronic music. By the mid-'70s, Byrd had degenerated into a proto-New Age synth player, who released synthesizer versions of Christmas carols and folk songs on various albums for Takoma.

[On the Road]

42. Hey -- Funny You Should Mention Joe Byrd

(see post above on "The United States of America.")

I had not idea what else he had done with himself. Will have to dig the Field Hippies up.

[Whitacre D_WI]

51. Great album, but the USA was better.

[BOSSHOG]

25. The Tremeloes!

[Fenris]

29. Mouse & the Traps

From Tyler, TX, I believe. Had a great song, "A Public Execution."

[quispquake]

30. Fifty Foot Hose

REleased one album on Limelight...amazing psychedelic record with lots of electronic instruments...they re-released it on their own label a few years back...I HIGHLY recommend it for those of you that love psychedelic music...

[Fenris]

33. The Swingin' Medallions

I have a 45rpm of "Double Shot of My Baby's Love."

[Fenris]

34. Here's one that blew my mind, when I first heard it.

The Amboy Dukes. Featuring a guitarist named Ted Nugent.

No shit.

[bif]

41. "Scottish Tea" by the Amboy Dukes was an excellent song

Saw them play a couple of times.

[Fenris]

46. "Journey To The Center Of The Mind"is also noteworthy

[Whitacre D_WI]

50. Take the time to journey to the center of your mind.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

154. I saw the Amboy Dukes live on stage

I bought tickets for both the afternoon and evening performances in Atlanta back in the summer of 1968. Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes were there and opened the concert. Following him were the Vanilla Fudge, the Soft Machine, and last but not least the man himself, Jimi Hendrix. I was just barely a beginning guitarist at the time and I was impressed with Nugent...that is... until Jimi took the stage. Hendrix just blew any thoughts of Nugent right out of my mind. Although a competent guitar player, Nugent was not even in the same galaxy as Hendrix, who really played with great passion and technical brilliance in those two performances.

[guitar man]

35. New Riders of the Purple Sage <nt>

[LuLu550]

56. They are still around

I saw them only a couple of years ago in upstate NY at an apple festival, of all places!

[guitar man]

58. cool

I hope they come to Oklahoma,I would love to see them.

[arwalden]

36. Ventures

[XNASA]

37. The Count Five

I feel so lonely night and day
I can't get your love, I must stay away
I need you girl, by my side
Uh-oh, little girl, would you like to take a ride, now
I can't get your love, I can't get satisfaction
Uh-oh, little girl, psychotic reaction

[Fenris]

43. Electric Prunes

Last night your shadow fell upon my lonely room
I touched your golden hair and tasted your perfume
Your eyes were filled with love the way they used to be
Your gentle hand reached out to comfort me
Then came the dawn
And you were gone
You were gone, gone, gone
I had too much to dream last night

[On the Road]

63. I Loved the Electric Prunes' "Mass in F Minor"

[robertpaulsen]

100. Kyrie Eleison!

First heard Electric Prunes watching Easy Rider. Lots of great 60's rock in that film, including another fun obscure group, The Holy Modal Rounders with "If You Want to be a Bird".

[Fenris]

40. Arthur Lee and LOVE

Not totally obscure, but "7 and 7 is" deserves its own honorable mention, as does their really dirty version of "Hey Joe."

[Whitacre D_WI]

55. Love was NOT obscure.

EVERYBODY (who is not a dumb-ass) knows that "Forever Changes" is the greatest album ever.

[robertpaulsen]

57. Forever Changes is one of the best albums of 1967

Which pretty much makes it one of the best albums of all time. I didn't think of them as obscure because "7 and 7 is" did make the Top 40. But Love is one of my all time favorite bands to listen to. Extra points to Arthur Lee in seeing what a genius Jim Morrison was, having The Doors open for Love and introducing them to Jac Holtzman at Electra. Fantastic group!

[Fenris]

61. I still consider them obscure, because over half of the population under

30 has no clue who they were.

[Whitacre D_WI]

64. Remember, dear Fenris:

Over half of the population under 30 is comprised of addle-brained jackasses.

[Fenris]

66. I am under 30, and I know that better than anyone

:DUnder 25!

[Whitacre D_WI]

67. I am also under thirty, but not as young as you...

...you Gen-Y whippersnapper!

[Fenris]

73. Ha! It's Old Man Whitacre!

X-er!

[Whitacre D_WI]

86. When I was your age,

I had to WALK the two blocks from my dorm to classes! Uphill, both ways! I had to buy alcohol with a "false identification" card, or a "slimmy," as they were called in those days.

I was only able to have sexual relations with four women at the same time; but you youngsters with your "threenises" get to have all the fun.

I think of all the sacrifices that your father and I have made for you, and THIS is how you repay us; with the highlighted hair, and the anchor tattoo, and the "Prince Albert." Where did I go wrong? :cry:

[Fenris]

89. ROFLMAO! Prince Albert, Threenises, highlighted hair

From God's brain through your mouth, Whitacre.:)

[Whitacre D_WI]

91. You mean from His mouth, right:

[Fenris]

93. Sir, whenever I sayeth God, I mean the Our Lord and Savior Rick Astley

In the name of Rick Springfield, Rick Astley, and Rick James. Amen.

[robertpaulsen]

69. Too bad Stone didn't create a subplot about them...

in The Doors. Keep spreading the word about them, they deserve all the attention they can get.

[starroute]

45. Kaleidoscope

One of the great eclectic bands of all time.

Also, though they weren't a band, folk-rock duo Jim and Jean was a high points of the late 60's. We kept picking up bargain-bin copies of their albums all through the 70's and giving them to friends.

[mac56]

49. Does anyone remember a pop song from the 60s..

called "You Didn't Listen To Me"? May have been a regional Midwestern hit, from about 1966 or 1967. Great harmonies, and haunts me to this day. Can't remember who recorded it.

[Spirochete]

124. I remember it

it was done by the Ides of March, in about 1967

[mac56]

125. Ides of March?

I couldn't be more surprised. The only thing I've ever heard by them was "Vehicle".

[Spirochete]

128. Vehicle was their big one

but they did do the other one, too. I remember I had the 45 single. Someone gave it to me.

[darkstar]

52. I loves me some Gong

especially the Flying Reapot trilogy years

[bif]

54. Isn't Gong more 70s? I saw them live in 75!

Their first album "Magick Brother" was relesed in 1970. Sorry to be a spoiler.

[darkstar]

62. Why you....

I thought the tilogy went roughly 71-73, but that they'd made at least 2 before that. Sorry I tried to sneak them in. Apologies to all...

:toast:

[bif]

70. Close

1973   The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 1)
1973   Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt.)  
1974   You (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 3)

[Loki]

53. The Shaggs

They made extremely horrible music an art form. "Where is Foot Foot?" What can I say.

[On the Road]

59. Another Candidate: The Incredible String Band

Very odd, but very interesting and sometimes very catchy. Scottish band. Don't think they ever had a hit in the states. I loved some of their material on The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion such as:

2. No Sleep Blues
3. Painting Box
4. Mad Hatter's Song
7. Blues for the Muse
9. First Girl I Loved

[quispquake]

65. I love ISB!!!

Their influence is still happening...there's a great grassroots folk/psych movement happening right now, and the Incredible String Band is the main influence...

[teach1st]

71. In my top three all time, but...

ISB obscure? No way!

[NightTrain]

68. The Remains from Boston

:thumbsup:

[mac56]

76. Hey NightTrain, see #10 above.

GMTA!

[last_texas_dem]

177. I love "Don't Look Back"

This may sound cheesy, but that song always makes me feel empowered whenever I feel disgusted with the state of the world.

[madrchsod]

77. "rainy daze"

who sang the best song of the 60`s-"That Acapulco Gold"
"sopwith camel"

[DancingBear]

79. I believe Dan Hicks (of Hot Licks fame) was in that band n/t

[robertpaulsen]

85. Yeah! Believe it or not, he was their drummer!

I like Hot Licks, but the version of "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away" that he did with the Charlatans is better. I believe Dan Hicks quit the group in 1967, but wrote a lot of great songs for them.

[Mr.Green93]

87. Exile

[Ricdude]

88. Aphrodite's Child

You may recognize the keyboard player, though not his last name: Vangelis Papathanassiou.

As you can see at http://www.progressiverock.com/band.asp?sLink_Name=aphroditeschild , they had one album, "666: The Apocalypse of St. John", details at http://www.progressiverock.com/album.asp?sAlbum_ID=377 .

It's hard to miss at, say a used record store in the $0.50 bin. Now if they'd only remaster it for a CD release...

[darkstar]

94. And when the man

opened the first door(key?), he sawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. . . .

Taking me back, Ricdude!

[Ricdude]

170. And when the lamb opened the second seal...

Babylon is a cool song off that album, too. Fun to jam along to.

I didn't come across it until 1988 or so. Thank deities for used record stores, and their bargain bins!

[TrogL]

92. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

[Whitacre D_WI]

95. The Barbarians

Moulty!

[Kat45]

108. "Are You a Boy, or Are You a Girl?"

..with your long, long hair
you look like a girl
yeah, you look like a girl
you may be a boy - hey
you look like a girl

[Whitacre D_WI]

123. I like Supercharger's version!

[retread]

96. The Nightcrawlers from Daytona Beach, Florida. Had one

song that hit big locally "The Little Black Egg". It was banned in several places due to rumour that it was about interracial love.

I don't care what they say,
I'm gonna keep it anyway.
I won't let them stretch their necks,
To see my little black egg with the little white specks.
I found it in a tree just the other day,
Now it's mine all mine, they can't take it away.
There comes Mary, there comes Lee :
I'll bet what they want to see.
I won't let them stretch their necks
To see my little black egg with the little white specks.
I found it in a tree just the other day,
Now it's mine all mine, they can't take it away.
Oh my, what can I do ? Little black agg's gonna tell on you.
I won't let them stretch their necks
To see my little black egg with the little white specks

[Whitacre D_WI]

98. I LOVE Creeper Ohio's cover of "Little Black Egg."

The Nightcrawlers had another song I really like, but I don't remember it! :(

Help me out?

[retread]

119. That's the only one I remember that got any airtime. n/t

[Norbert]

160. I still have "The Lttle Black Egg single

by the Nightcrawlers. It was a top five hit in Cincinnati and I believe Dayton too. I guess Cincinnati didn't get the memo about the song.

[UrbScotty]

97. The Beatles. Ever heardf of them?

As far as actually obscure bands, I can't think of any.

[Whitacre D_WI]

99. Yeah, but they kinda suck.

Crappy guitar; the bassist could play, but he wrote wussy songs.


They had a good drummer, though.

[CanuckAmok]

104. The Sonics

Great garage punk sound. They had a minor hit called "Psycho", which has been on a few soundtracks (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, among them).

I don't know much about them, but I have their LP, "BOOM!". It's great.

[Whitacre D_WI]

106. "The Witch" was actually a bigger hit than "Psycho."

Both are great songs.

I suppose the Sonics would qualify as obscure, but that's a gross miscarriage of justice.

[flamingyouth]

110. They lived not far from where my dad grew up

And my parents saw them several times. Last I heard, Gerry had become a born-again Christian and wanted nothing to do with that music anymore. He was painting houses in Gig Harbor around that time - I think it was in 1995 when my friend tracked him down.

[Whitacre D_WI]

111. Gerry Roslie is a house-painting born-again?

Sheesh, my band in college played a nasty-ass version of "Strychnine."

[flamingyouth]

136. It's one of the classics

My fave by them is "He's Waitin." Can't be any better songs about Satan out there, IMHO.

[TacticalPeek]

105. The Hot Nuts

party band

[DancingBear]

113. the one and only!

You of course mean the immortal Doug Clark And His Hot Nuts, owners of that musical masterpiece "Baby Let Me Bang Your Box" - right?

[TacticalPeek]

114. That be the one! Long time no hear.

They could get a tight-ass, white boy frat party bouncing off the walls.

The days.

[flamingyouth]

107. Elektras from Minnesota

I also like just about everything on the early Pebbles compilations, especially Vol. 3. If my husband saw this thread, he'd be posting all night - he is the king of obscure '60s bands! :hi:

[mlawson]

112. Ultimate Spinach. c. 1968

Psychedelic. Spooky. Wonderful.

[greendog]

115. The Electric Flag

Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Miles, Nick Gravenites

[robertpaulsen]

117. Great choice!

They did all the music for a great 60's cult film The Trip written by Jack Nicholson. I think they were listed as The American Music Band.

[retread]

120. My favorite band from that time and place along with Linda Tillery

and the Loading Zone.

[VOX]

116. The Leaves, an L.A. band. Their cover of "Hey Joe" was only one in Top 40.

http://www.tsimon.com/heyjoe.htm
This song was a 60s nugget that no one could keep their hands off of -- Johnny Rivers, the Standells, the Music Machine, Billy Preston, Cher, Wilson Pickett, Bad Company, Deep Purple, Surfaris, the Byrds, Hendrix, Love, Tim Rose, the Shadows of Knight, and probably many others.

Only the Leaves version got into the Top 40 -- to number 31 in 1966 in fact.

The Leaves were a part of a very strong 1960s L.A. rock scene, that included such influential groups as Love, the Byrds, the United States of America, the Doors, Captain Beefheart, the Mothers of Invention, the Grass Roots, the Black Sheep, etc.

[robertpaulsen]

121. Thanks for the link!

Sundazed put out a great Leaves CD: The Leaves Are Happening! Has the entire Hey Joe album plus singles and outtakes. Great stuff if you dig the 60's L.A. rock scene.

[VOX]

167. The Leaves' first single of Hey Joe (1965) on Mira...

was a rip-snorter -- not nearly as polished as their second version (1966) that went up the charts.

Thanks for the heads-up on the Sundazed CD.

:toast:

[DBoon]

139. Zappa did a parody of this

on "We're Only in it for the Money". Forget what its was titled, went like:

Hey pop where you going with that flower in your hand
I'm going to the love-in ......

[VOX]

166. I remember this!!!

:toast:

[EstimatedProphet]

118. Quicksilver Messenger Service

Their take on Who Do You Love ROCKED!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

122. Wild!!!

I heard that song in the supermarket (of all places) yesterday. Didn't know who it was until you mentioned it above and then it clicked.

[EstimatedProphet]

129. Cool!

who would expect that?

[DoYouEverWonder]

126. The Collectors

They did What Is Love and Howard Christman's Older. Both got a lot of airplay in NYC in the 60's. It was one of Allison Steele's(sp?) few saving graces.

A couple of others:

2. Fever Tree
3. McKendree Spring

[jpgray]

127. Soft Machine and Caravan--great bands. (nt)

[DBoon]

130. Bubble Puppy

"Hot Smoke and Sassafrass"

[DBoon]

131. Sweetwater

"What's Wrong" and "Motherless Child"

[mitchum]

132. Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick, and Tich

gotta love that name

[Kat45]

141. Bend It.

I think I have that 45.

[IconoclastIlene]

133. Spirit/Randy California

I got a line on you....

[DBoon]

138. 1984

Dang I was going to post them too

[scarlet_owl]

134. The Jarmels

They were a one hit wonder with "A Little Bit of Soap". I love that song!

[holeinboatoutatsea]

135. Royal Guardsmen

The Return of the Red Baron

I loved that record as a kid. Any idea where I can get it now?

[Kat45]

142. I have that 45. n/t

[DBoon]

147. Kazaa?

seriously. I've found all kinds of this stuff on the file sharing networks.

Another good source for oldies was Rhino Records. They did a compilation called "Nuggets" that had all kinds of this stuff. Rhino has since been bought by Warner and is losing some of its ideosyncratic eclecticism.

[Norbert]

161. Baby Let's Wait a great RG song

This song shoed them to be an excellent garage band.

[DBoon]

137. Blodwyn Pig

Early Tull sound-alike

[Zomby Woof]

146. Ahead Rings Out!

Well, they were fronted by Mick Abrahams, who played guitar for Tull on their debut album, "This Was". Blodwyn Pig was great.

[Norbert]

159. Was this the band

comic Soupy Sales son was in?

[GumboYaYa]

140. The Meters...

George Porter, Jr., Leo Nocentelli, Art Neville, and Zigaboo Modeliste, these guys are the epitome of funk. They may be the most sampled band out there. Every time I hear a rap tune, I hear a Meters bass line.

Cissy Strut is the coolest funk tune that there is IMO.

[Gildor Inglorion]

143. ? and the Mysterions

One-hit wonders, 1967

[DBoon]

145. Another good one

"96 tears"

A more contemporary group, Clinic, does a song "Walking with Thee" that sounds surprisingly like it.

[IconoclastIlene]

149. Blues Magoos, Colosseum/The Grass is Greener; The Pretty Things

Oh yeah!!!!

[Kat45]

152. The Pretty Things 'came back' in the nineties

I did an interview and a story on them, and their publicist sent me their entire catalog on CD. Also saw them live, and they were pretty good, although they sure did look like a bunch of old geezers. :-)

[IconoclastIlene]

172. Ill bet they did.....

no one is getting any younger but they are a 60's original....

SF Sorrow is Gone etc..one of my favorite, almost unheard of by many groups.

As the saying used to be...would you want your daughter to marry a Rolling Stone, BUT, would you want your daughter to come within ten feet of a Pretty Thing? They were very avante garde back then.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

162. Saw them on stage in 1967 in Savannah Georgia with the Seeds and

the Shadows of Knight.

[Zomby Woof]

148. 1%

Hailed from Jacksonville, FL, and recorded a great single on a local label called Shade Tree Recordings under their next name in 1968... any trivia takers?

[DBoon]

150. The Fugs

n/t

[Zinfandel]

151. Daily Flash, Blue Cheer, Chocolate Watchband, PG&E, Moby Grape,

Oxford Circle, Lee Michaels, Siegal Schwall, AB Sky, Allmen Joys, The Loading Zone...

Want more?

[Kat45]

153. At the time, Blue Cheer was the loudest band there was.

Their version of "Summertime Blues" is my favorite version of the song. I think I might have that 45.

[Zinfandel]

157. I think until Grand Funk Railroad...and then when The Who kicked it up

a few disciple's!

[IconoclastIlene]

171. Yup, Marshall Amps Galore

Very Loud, very proud, well Lord Im gonna raise a fuss and Lord, Im gonna raise a hollar....great 45, great times except for viet nam war.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

155. Anyone remember the "NICE"?

I saw them live on TV in Europe. They were a British band with a very young Keith Emerson on keyboards. He would throw knives across the stage at his keyboard and make sounds. On this particular program they played a fantastic tune, a rock version of "America" (as in the West Side Story song "Everything's Free in America").

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

156. Music Machine, Beau Brummels, Easybeats

Although these don't really apply since each one of these groups had at least one monster hit. Music Machine was extremely innovative and ahead of its time, with tunes like "Talk Talk" and "Come On In".

[Norbert]

158. The Teardrops

An all girl band from Cincinnati.

They did a song that was somewhat pet soundish called "Tears Come Tumbling" that was an absolute masterpiece. They actually opened for the Beach Boys around 1967 in the tri-state area.

The lead singer still sang in local bands in Cincinnati (Most notably the Menus) as late as 2002. Sadly she passed away last year.

[Norbert]

163. The Choir

An upstate Ohio band that Gary Wright was in before he joined Spooky Tooth.

They did a song called "It's Cold Outside" that is pure garage band at its best. I still think the song didn't quite catch on because Roulette Racords released the song in May of 1967. No teen-age kid in a cold climate waiting for summer wanted to hear about it being cold outside.

[cryfordawn]

165. Big Wheelie and the hubcaps.

[VOX]

168. The Rising Sons.

Featured a couple of guys by the names of Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal. They performed blues, folk, and rock all rolled up into one.

They released a single on Columbia in 1965: "Candy Man" b/w "Devil got My Woman."

Much of their material was released on Columbia CD a few years ago -- there never was a vinyl album ever released, as far as I know.

[Dees]

169. Dick Dale and the Deltones

[robertpaulsen]

174. Any fans of H.P. Lovecraft?

Just keeping the thread alive for any fans of this great psychedelic 60's band. "At the Mountains of Madness" is a great song to trip to.

[eeyore]

175. The underappreciated Zombies!

Their album Odyssey and Oracle has to be one of the best of the late 60's. I picked it up within the past year, and it blew me away. They broke up directly after recording it, and then "Time of the Season" became and unexpected hit. The record company sent out imposter Zombie groups to tour because the band refused to get back together.

[last_texas_dem]

178. The Lollipop Shoppe

I base this on the one song I know by them: "You Must be a Witch" which totally rocks.

I also love the song "Shape of Things to Come" by Max Frost and the Troopers although I think they may be an essentially non-existent studio band.

I love the Boston band Orpheus based on the one LP I've found by them.

There is much more to the Ohio Express than their bubblegum hits indicate.

A vastly underrated pop band, in my opinion, is the Poppy Family; much better than their sole biggie "Which Way You Goin' Billy" indicates. Ditto the early seventies rock group The Buoys who put out a really good album, beyond their big hit about cannibalism "Timothy"; "Tell Me Heaven Is Here" is one of my favorite songs of all time.

I also give props to the poster above who suggested the Grass Roots; they put out great stuff in all eras of their career.

Just a few off the top of my head...

[robertpaulsen]

179. Canterbury Fair

Another Northern California nugget, this time from Fresno 1968. Absolutely dreamy psychedelic keyboard.