tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44972094603624063062024-03-14T09:33:57.921-07:00ON THE FLIP-SIDEOn The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.comBlogger846125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-79265632672445207472015-08-03T13:28:00.001-07:002015-08-03T13:46:06.582-07:00The Top Three Greatest North American Garage Singles Ever Are...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You know the story by now. If not, it goes something like this. Back in October of 2014, On The Flip-Side innocently undertook a region by region Battle of the Garage Band singles. At that moment we failed to understand the scope of our endeavor.<br />
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Twelve regions in all. Generally 10 singles per region (more in So Cal, less in Canada). That means that roughly 120 singles got a digital spin on the turntable. Then each region winner went head to head with another region winner. A panel of 7 judges - from the Rockies to the PNW, to So Cal to NorCal to the South - each weighed in on the final 12 singles as they went into a bracket system against each other. The final votes have been tallied by On The Flip-Side's San Francisco accounting office and we can now announce the Top Three Podium winners of the North American Battle of the Garage Bands.<br />
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Coming in at No. 1 is The Chocolate Watchband's swan song of a single, <i>Are You Gonna Be There</i> on the A-side and <i>No Way Out</i> on the Flip-Side. The single was released in October of 1967 on the Tower Records label. The Chocolate Watchband represented the Northern California Region in the battle on their way to the Gold Medal.<br />
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Coming in at the number 2 spot is the winner of the hard fought Texas region, The 13th Floor Elevators. Their debut single, recorded in '65 and released in '66 for IA Records, of <i>You're Gonna Miss Me</i> on the A-side and <i>Tried To Hide</i> on the Flip-side was a very close 2nd. A slightly stronger flip probably would have put them at the number one spot overall. But the Silver Medal is not so shabby folks. </div>
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-11857021379331226362015-07-30T12:52:00.000-07:002015-07-30T12:56:11.637-07:00The Finals of the Battle of the Garage Bands<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So here we are. After 10 months of 12 regional battle of the garage bands, we are down to only three singles. These three singles bested nine other kick-booty singles to become the 7" regional champions. Then they went head to head with the other regional winners in two rounds of cut-throat bracketeering (not a real word) to stand here on the stage with a little tiara precariously perched high atop their spindle hole. The image you see above shows their progression through these final rounds. They are listed in this final round in random order, not final order. That will happen today. At the bottom of this post are images which show the top five of their respective bracket.<br />
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When we started this bracket process back in October of 2014 we had very little understanding of how long this would take and how it would reform our understanding of these records. When scrutinized closely, when compared competitively next to another record from the same region, some records were, to be blunt, not as great as we may have once thought they were. Some had one wonderful side, but fell flat on the other side. Some are great rockers, but really didn't elevate to another level like their competition did. Some had youthful exuberance but didn't go much beyond that. And some records elevated to levels much higher than we had expected. Take, for example, The Bad Roads out of Louisiana. The South was a very competitive and unique region and The Bad Roads had to beat out records from We The People and The Tasmanians and Dr. Specs Optical Illusions. But when they were put head to head with these bands, and one really considered both sides of the record, it was very clear that their tiny production run of a record was the best of the region. In fact, one of the best of the whole genre.<br />
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And then we had the regions. In the image below you can see how the regions were mapped out. With two notable exceptions. California was split into two because of the wealth of music coming out of that state. We couldn't show that on our map. And, secondly, Canada, and that country's winner, The Ugly Ducklings, is not shown on the map. Sorry.<br />
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As we did this we really got a feel for how the different regions had different sounds and differing levels of intensity. The Pacific Northwest was very unique. In the early 60s, when rock-n-roll was being polished to a point that it no longer resembled rock-n-roll, The PNW held on to the pounding, keyboard heavy tradition started by Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. Screaming vocals from The Sonics, youthful exuberance from The Talsimen and, of course, the template set by The Kingsmen. As a result, when The Beatles came, The PNW bands had already established a sound and they held on to that uniqueness. Texas is legendary. Everyone knows that. But when stacking the records up it was evident that the bands in Texas were having an identity crisis. With a few notable exceptions, such as The Stoics, most bands had one killer side and one very lame side. Making for half a great record. The Great Lakes region put out a ton of great records thanks in large part to two labels, Dunwich and Fenton. The Rocky Mountain Region was definitely behind the others when it came to putting out great records. Denver and Phoenix had a few, but the lightly populated time zone didn't quite stack up. As a result, they were our only region with less than 10 entrants. Southern California on the other hand had something like 16 entrants. And we could have done more. Los Angeles, we would argue, was clearly the most prolific area in the United States between '64 and '67, the key garage years. Northern California was clearly a San Jose scene. The top records from the top part of the state seem to have all come out of that fine town.<br />
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So now we have three records. 21 inches of love to give you. Flip-sides and A-sides. We will spin all six sides of the three records and we will ask our hard working, celebrity judges to weigh in and rank each record from one through three. Then our San Francisco accounting office will secretly tally the results and we will crown, in order, the top three garage records ever.<br />
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Will it be The Misunderstood? The Southern California band that had to travel to the UK (and add a Brit member) to finally record a few of their own songs? Will they be able to take their 1966 recording of <i>Children Of The Sun/I Unseen</i> and bring it back to the US as the champ? A record that wouldn't even get released in the US! A record that only got released in the UK three years <u>after</u> they had recorded the numbers. A long, convoluted trip to the top three, no doubt.<br />
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Will it be The 13th Floor Elevators? The band whose recording of <i>I Had To Tell You</i> was in fact the inspiration for creating this fine blog some eight years ago. Will the Texas sized champions be able to take their unique little release for IA Records of <i>You're Gonna Miss Me/Tried To Hide</i> and put Texas at the top spot? The band that helped define the psychedelic movement and influenced countless acts from Janis Joplin to The Grateful Dead.<br />
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Will it be The Chocolate Watchband. A real band out of San Jose who was taken under the gossamer wing of producer and writer Ed Cobb to rise to new but obscure heights. A band whose name would routinely be used by others for projects that had little to nothing to do with them. Will it be their swan song of a single, released on the legendary LA label, Tower Records, in 1967, that takes the top spot? Are the two songs of bleakness and doom, <i>Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love In)</i> and the flip-side, <i>No Way Out</i> the number one record of all garage times?<br />
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Regardless, these three records are firmly ensconced now on Mount Garagemore. Even if you are not one of our celebrity judges, please take this moment to chime in below to let us know what you think. After all, the idea of the blog, started some eight years ago, was to build a community around the obscure music we love so much.<br />
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-73478394669662903042015-07-29T08:45:00.000-07:002015-07-29T08:45:14.808-07:00Round 2 of the Battle of the Garage Bands Bracket: The Chocolate Watchband v The Ugly Ducklings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Round 8 is in the books. The representatives from Texas, The 13th Floor Elevators, bested the kings of the Pacific Northwest, The Sonics. It was hard for all of us to send a band like The Sonics packing, but that is the nature of the competition, isn't it?<br />
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On turntable 1 we have the Northern California champions, The Chocolate Watchband. They put forth with their final single, released in October of 1967 on Tower Records, <i>Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love In)</i> with a flip-side of <i>No Way Out</i>. The single has already bested the likes of The Mourning Reign, The Brogues and The Shadows of Knight just to have the opportunity to spin at 45rpm on this fine morning.<br />
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On Turntable 2 we have the champions of Canada. The entire hopes and dreams of the great white north now rest on the dusty grooves of The Ugly Ducklings and their third release, from 1966, on Yorktown Records: <i>Just In Case You Wonder</i> with a flip-side of <i>That's Just A Thought I Had In My Mind</i>. This Canuck of a single has bested the likes of The Painted Ship, The Haunted and America's The Enfields as it now starts spinning with the 7-inch white hot fury that can only come from a homely water fowl.<br />
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-45289473562155396152015-07-28T08:12:00.000-07:002015-07-28T10:01:24.692-07:00Round 2 of the Battle of the Garage Bands Bracket: The 13th Floor Elevators v. The Sonics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In our first day of Round 2, The Misunderstood of the So Cal Region went through New York champions, The Blues Magoos, like a hot knife through butter. The Misunderstand now move on to the top three and await their next opponent. Misunderstood no more. </div>
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Day 2 of the second round pits two epic records against each other (after 10 months of doing this, they better all be epic at this point!). </div>
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From the highly competitive Texas region we have The 13th Floor Elevators with their debut single, <i>You're Gonna Miss Me</i> c/w <i>Tried To Hide</i>. The single was released, first on the local label, Contact and then on International Artist records in early 1966. </div>
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The Sonics are representing the birthplace of American garage records, The Pacific Northwest. They are putting forth with their 5th single, released in the Fall of 1965 on Etiquette Records. We have the original <i>Cinderella</i> on the a-side and <i>Louie Louie</i> on the flip-side. </div>
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-42506863119426925062015-07-27T09:17:00.000-07:002015-07-27T10:04:58.911-07:00Round 2 of the Battle of the Garage Bands: The Blues Magoos v The Misunderstood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Round 2 is officially underway in our 10-month long Battle of the Garage Bands to determine (very subjectively) the greatest US garage band single ever. This round kicks off with The Blues Magoos of New York going head to head with The Misunderstood of Riverside, California. </div>
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On one side of the ring we have The Blues Magoos who landed a major record deal and put out multiple singles and multiple albums, performed on national TV shows and shared the stage with the likes of The Who. On the other side of the ring we have The Misunderstood who had to leave their Sun drenched Southern California homes to travel to the rainy UK to record a song called Children of The Sun. The single was shelved until well after the band had succumbed to the unbearable heaviness of obscurity and the boys never even saw a release of their material in their homeland. Two very different paths to this moment. Both deserving of it. </div>
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-76212873544709475652015-07-24T08:58:00.003-07:002015-07-24T08:58:35.850-07:00Battle of the Garage Bands: The Enfields v. The Ugly Ducklings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Round 5 is in the books and for the first time we have a unanimous decision. The Chocolate Watchband of the NorCal Region knocked out The Shadows of Knight of The Great Lakes region.<br />
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We move today to round 6 of the Battle of The Garage Bands' "super-duper, bestest ever, most epic garage single bracket". It is indeed the final showdown of the first round of said bracket.<br />
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On Turntable number one we have The Enfields of Wilmington, Delaware. The quintet will put forth with their 1966 single for Richie Records, <i>She Already Has Somebody/I'm For Things You Do</i>. Both sides of the single were composed by the band's guitarist, high schooler, Ted Munda. Somewhat like the single put forth by Phil and the Frantics, the Enfields take a moody, minor key, harmony approach to their double sided gem.<br />
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And on the other side of the music room, on turntable number 2, we have a band from Toronto, Canada calling themselves The Ugly Ducklings. <i>Just In Case You Wonder/That's Just A Thought I Had In My Mind</i> are two band composed numbers. The single was the band's third record and was released in 1966 on Yorktown Records.<br />
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Both of these singles had very stiff competition on their way to representing their region in The Battle of The Garage Bands. Both bands won only by the most narrow victories. Here is a look at the top 4 singles they bested to take the number 1 spot. </div>
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-64877947889600280552015-07-23T09:21:00.000-07:002015-07-23T09:54:32.343-07:00Battle of the Garage Bands: The Chocolate Watchband v. The Shadows of Knight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday The Sonics, representing the Pacific Northwest region, steamrolled Phil and The Frantics, the representatives of the Rocky Mountain Region.<br />
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The Chocolate Watchband of San Jose, California, will put forth with their 4th and final single, <i>Are You Gonna Be There/No Way Out</i>. The record was released in October of 1967 on Tower Records. The Shadows of Knight will put up their 2nd single, <i>Bad Little Woman/Gospel Zone</i>. It was released on Dunwich Records in August of 1966.<br />
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Take a look at the graphics here to see some of the top competition that these two bested on the way to their awesomeness. Both of these bands had to beat some real great talent to get to this point. </div>
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Another round in the books and The 13th Floor Elevators of Texas cruised past a very strong single from The Bad Roads.<br />
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Today we move down to the next bracket. The Sonics representing the Pacific Northwest are going head to head with Phil and The Frantics representing The Rocky Mountains. Two very different approaches on American Garage records. The Sonics on Etiquette Records with their power chord heavy original, Cinderella, and a blitzkrieg reimagining of the PNW standard, Louie Louie. And on the other side of the ring we have Phil and The Frantics on Sounds Ltd. Records with two minor key originals that stutter and stop and takes at a more sensitive approach. Perhaps the only similarity between the two is the use of Saxophone in their records.<br />
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And here is a list of top singles The Sonics had to best to be crowned the PNW Region champions.<br />
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Day two of the bracket system witnessed The Misunderstood of the Southern California region getting past the midwest region winner, The Litter. Our congratulations go out to The Misunderstood who, we have on good authority, are huddled at a restaurant in Las Vegas watching the returns with baited breath. Stand by boys, we are about to move on. </div>
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Today we move to a bracket with two very strong region representatives: The 13th Floor Elevators representing Texas and The Bad Roads from nearby Louisiana representing The South region. Our celebrity judges will now weigh-in with eloquent words located in the comment section below and let you know who comes out ahead today. So, without further ado, let's get ready to rumble!</div>
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Well, well, well. We have the first showdown in the books and it surprised me. Big time. This is why we have all these celebrity judges helping out. I flat out expected The Squires to make it deep into the brackets. Not even close. The Blues Magoos took their New York power and ran rough-shod over their New England Brethren. <br />
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So now we spin the winner of the Midwest region, Minnsesota's The Litter, against Southern California's hotly contested winner, The Misunderstood. The seven judges, who Donald Trump has described "as the most classy, opulent judges in the world", will now settle the score with these two bands and their powerful releases from 1967. Don't forget, both sides count in the consideration of the greatness of the record.<br />
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To put this into better context, here is a look at some of the competition that these cats bested as they claimed their regional victory.</div>
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-9402770893983281622015-07-17T08:09:00.000-07:002015-07-17T08:19:47.207-07:00Battle of the Garage Bands: The Squires v. The Blues Magoos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Day one of the Battle of the Garage Bands epic bracket system showdown. Today we have the winners of the New England Region going head to head with the winners of the New York region. The Squires of Connecticut v. The Blues Magoos of Greenwich Village. Celebrity judges will vote below to determine who moves on to the next round. Enjoy.<br />
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There comes a time in the history of man that certain events define and shape the very times in which we live. The Rise of the Roman Empire, the Mongol Horde unifying Asia, the teachings of Jesus, the geo-political realignment that came from World War II, and, of course, On The Flip-Side's epic Battle of the Garage Bands. </div>
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For months now we have had a day by day competition to crown the best North American garage single. It started way back in October of 2014, posting roughly 10 singles from 12 different regions of the continent. </div>
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As you can (almost) see from our cool map below, the winners in each region are as follows (and click on each winner to see the top five finalists from each region):</div>
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<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2014/02/on-flip-side-is-on-facebook.html" target="_blank">New England: The Squires</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2014/11/new-york-spotlight-and-winner-is.html" target="_blank">New York: The Blues Magoos</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2014/12/and-winner-of-mid-atlantic-region.html" target="_blank">Mid-Atlantic: The Enfields</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2014/12/and-winner-of-south-region-battle-of.html" target="_blank">The South: The Bad Roads</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2015/01/and-winner-of-great-lakes-regional.html" target="_blank">The Great Lakes: The Shadows of Knight</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2015/03/and-winner-of-mid-west-region-is.html" target="_blank">The Midwest: The Litter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2015/02/and-winner-of-texas-battle-of-garage.html" target="_blank">Texas: The 13th Floor Elevators</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2015/03/and-winner-of-rocky-mountain-battle-of.html" target="_blank">The Rockies: Phil and the Frantics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2015/04/and-winner-of-so-cal-battle-of-garage.html" target="_blank">Southern Cal: The Misunderstood</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2015/05/and-winner-of-nor-cal-battle-of-garage.html" target="_blank">Northern Cal: The Chocolate Watchband</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2015/06/and-winner-of-pacific-northwest-battle.html" target="_blank">Pacific Northwest: The Sonics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2015/07/and-winner-of-canadian-battle-of-garage.html" target="_blank">Canada (not shown): The Ugly Ducklings</a></li>
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Now we start the final competition! A <i>battle royale</i> of all 12 regional winners. Each regional winner will now go head to head in a bracket system until we can crown the top three North American garage singles ever dedicated to wax. Look at the high tech graphic below to see where we have seeded each band. </div>
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We'll start at the top and move our way down. This will go fast. Guest judges will help us pick the winner of each round until we crown the top three singles. At that point we will rank them based on our very subjective votes and, in a moment that will make even the Dalai Lama stand up and take notice, we will be able to crown a champion single. </div>
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-32026930153399886812015-07-14T09:27:00.000-07:002015-07-14T09:27:19.668-07:00And the winner of the Canadian Battle of the Garage Bands is...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Canada is in the books and the winner of the tightly contested competition for of our FINAL region in our Battle of the Garage Bands is Toronto's The Ugly Ducklings! Their duo of original songs bested the Canuck competition by the narrowest of margins possible, just in case you wondered.<br />
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So now we have 12 regions in the books! But we're not done. All 12 will now compete in a bracket style system as we endeavor to crown THEE single greatest Garage Band single ever put to wax. How is that for epic?<br />
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Below is one cut from each of the 12 winners. Let's get ready to ruuuuuumble!<br />
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Canada: The Ugly Ducklings - Just In Case You Wonder<br />
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Pacific Northwest: The Sonics - Cinderella/Louie Louie<br />
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Mid-West: The Litter with Action Woman/Legal Matter<br />
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Texas: The 13th Floor Elevators with You're Gonna Miss Me/Tried To Hide<br />
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New England: The Squires with <i>Going All The Way</i> and <i>Go Ahead</i></div>
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The South: <i>The Bad Roads with Too Bad/Blue Girl</i><br />
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Great Lakes: The Shadows of Knight with <i>Bad Little Woman/Gospel Zone</i></div>
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The Mid-Atlantic: The Enfields with <i>She Already Has Somebody/I'm For Things You Do</i></div>
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New York: The Blues Magoos with We Ain't Got Nothing Yet/Gotta Get Away</div>
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Back for our 5th and last installment of Canada Garage Spotlight.<br />
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The Plague hailed from Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada. The band put out just this one single (I believe). It was released in 1967 on REO Records. <i>Love And Obey</i> has a bunch of cool stutter stops and a real nice jangly guitar that rises into a great lead which helps lift the song to real nice new heights. Props to the bassist for some subtle and great bass work.<br />
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The flip is a cover of <i>High Flyin' Bird</i>. I don't have that so here is a vid of it.<br />
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-61483055139258814822015-06-30T10:00:00.000-07:002015-06-30T08:43:26.284-07:00Canada Spotlight: The Free-For-All - Show Me The Way/Blue Monday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Day four of the Canada Battle of the Garage Bands takes us to Nova Scotia, Canada. Seriously. We definitely don't know of any other garage bands from Nova Scotia. </div>
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The band name on the label says The Free-For-All but the band is really the Halifax, Nova Scotia band, The Great Scots. The Great Scots recorded a number of solid records in their native land for London Records and Epic Records before they made their way to LA to try to hit the big time. The band seemed to be on the edge of success when they ran into a brick wall. Maybe it was their silly Kilt outfits and coordinated dances. Or maybe it was their tight cut non-Beatle hair that held them back. Who knows? But in an effort to trick jaundiced radio programmers, the band released <i>Show Me The Way</i> (which is actually the Flip-Side of the record) under the name The Free-For-All. <i>Show Me The Way</i> just soars. Catchy melody and a great guitar riff. How was <i>this</i> not the A-Side?</div>
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The A-Side was the more pedestrian blues number, <i>Blue Monday, </i>a rewrite of T-Bone Walker's often covered number, <i>Stormy Monday Blues</i>. </div>
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The single was released on Challenge Records in the Summer of 1966. Ultimately the prestidigitation didn't work and the record went nowhere, despite it's inherent quality. Then the Canucks got a rude awakening. Dave Isnor was conscripted into the US Army and sent off to Vietnam. Yep, when you were here on a working visa, you could be drafted. Whoops. The remaining members, Gerry Archer, Bill Schnare, Rick McNeil. and Wayne Forrest high-tailed it back to Nova Scotia on the first dog sled out and their chance at stardom was lost. Luckily they left us this gem before they got lost in the snow drifts of time.</div>
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Day three of our Canada spotlight takes us to Vancouver, British Columbia. I believe this is our first stop in that fine, fine town.<br />
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The Painted Ship kicked out two records in their brief career. Today we spin their first record, released in December of 1966 on London Records.<br />
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<i>Little White Lies</i> gets the A-Side and it is a humdinger of a song. It turns the lying cheating no good lover story around. In this approach our singer, William Hay, admits that he is a lying, cheating, no-good scoundrel. Cool guitar work, hushed whispers of "white lies" makes this a unique song. We love the end of the song as our protagonist seems to really enjoy his rogue role.<br />
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The flip-side is <i>Frustration</i>. Another cool number with some squeaky Vox Continental organ backing up Hay's understated approach.<br />
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Day 2 of our Canada Battle of the Garage Bands has us visiting Montreal, Canada. In this hip town we find a band called The Haunted. The band was formed in 1965 by gutiarist Jurgen Peter and grew to include Bob Burgess on vocals, Al Birmingham on lead, Mason Shea on bass and Dave Wynne on drums. The Haunted immediately became THEE band in Montreal and opened for the Stones, Them and a host of other cool cats.<br />
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The band cut their first single for Quality Records in May of 1966. <strike>We feature that number today.</strike> The released version of <i>1-2-5 </i>required a recut as the record company deemed the lyrics too risqué for the French-Canadian audience. Ironically, the original version, which is not nearly as good as this recording, saw the light of day in the puritanical US on Amy Records. Now that is a hard record to find! <i>1-2-5</i> tells the tale of a boy just strolling down the street with five bucks burning a hole in his pocket. Who does he see but Mary Jane, a local prostitute. Exchange of cash, and then she is pulling down the shades.<br />
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The flip-side is <i>Eight O'Clock This Morning</i>. Composed by Burgess and Birmingham, this proves the band knew what they were doing. Great bass, great vocals, great guitar. All great.<br />
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<i>1-2-5</i>, replete with snarly vocals, edgy lyrics, a brilliant bass line and a killer guitar lead, broke nationally and made the band a household name across the great white north. But whose name? You'll note from the picture above that the band's name was misprinted on the first pressing of the single as The Hunted. These record companies did this so frickin' often back then it is really hard to imagine who they had editing their work.<br />
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Our regional Battle of the Garage Bands heads to the great White North. The Ugly Ducklings hailed from the suburbs of Toronto Canada in the town of Yorkville Village. </div>
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The Ugly Ducklings were Dave Byngham on vocals and harmonica, Glynn Bell on rhythm guitar, Roger Mayne on lead, John Read on bass and Robin Boers on drums. The group released six singles in their heyday of '66 and '67 on Yorktown Records and Yorkville Records. Today's double sided feature is their third single: <i>Just In Case You Wonder/That's Just A Thought I Has In My Mind.</i></div>
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<i>Just In Case You Wonder</i> (misprinted on the first releases as <i>Just In Case You're Wondering</i>) is a standout of the entire garage genre and makes a strong argument for the best Canadian garage record of all time. Roger Mayne's fuzzed out guitar work gives the song a strong backbone without getting to the point of ridiculous fuzz (as was sometimes too often the case with garage bands). It's nicely complimented by Bell's distinct jangly rhythm work. The song is written by Byngham and Bell and our singer lays it out clear that he's psychologically damaged by a mean, nasty girl. </div>
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Just in case you wonder<br />
Why I'm feeling blue<br />
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I'm sitting at home<br />
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Just in case you wonder<br />
Baby where I'm at<br />
I'm in the basement yonder<br />
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Yeah baby! One rat, two rat. Then we go into a very impressive extended lead from Roger Mayne. </div>
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<i>That's Just a Thought I Had In My Mind</i> is a solid Flip-Side. Much different from the A-side, more straight out pop, but I think you'll agree, it deserves a little love from us today. The flip was written by Byngham and Mayne. </div>
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We have a winner in our Pacific Northwest Battle of the Garage Bands!<br />
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I don't think anybody is surprised that The Sonics have unanimously won the coveted Pacific Northwest Battle of the Garage Bands competition. Quite frankly, we could have put up three of their earliest singles and any of them would likely have won the top spot. That's how good they are. A little more surprising is how high The Daily Flash finished. We love the record, but that is quite the honor to get ahead of The Wailers and The Kingsmen, two of the most influential bands in the region.<br />
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The Sonics are now the kings of the last United States region. That's 11 regions in all! But we're not done. We so love our brothers to the north that we are going to include Canada for the next round. A lot of geography for just a few singles, but I think it will be worth it. Plus, it will give us an even number for our bracket system that will soon pit the winner of each region against the winner of another region. We'll battle each band against each other until we can crown one big winner in the coveted Battle of the Garage Bands. Dare we say, crown one single as THEE greatest North American garage single ever!<br />
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So, The Sonics take a breather and wait to see what Canada can give us. That will start tomorrow. Until then, enjoy a cut from all eleven winners.<br />
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Pacific Northwest: The Sonics - Cinderella/Louie Louie<br />
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Southern California: The Misunderstood - Children Of The Sun/I Unseen<br />
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Mid-West: The Litter with Action Woman/Legal Matter<br />
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Texas: The 13th Floor Elevators with You're Gonna Miss Me/Tried To Hide<br />
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The South: <i>The Bad Roads with Too Bad/Blue Girl</i><br />
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Great Lakes: The Shadows of Knight with <i>Bad Little Woman/Gospel Zone</i></div>
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The Mid-Atlantic: The Enfields with <i>She Already Has Somebody/I'm For Things You Do</i></div>
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Final day of our Pacific Northwest Battle of the Garage Band singles takes us to the small town of Moses Lake, Washington. There we find four cats calling themselves The Bards. This band espouses love on every side.<br />
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The Bards were Mike Blazotti, Bob Galloway, Mardig Sheridan and Chuck Warren. The band's discography is a bit of a mess with a-sides and flip-sides being issued in numerous forms. Regardless, we feature today their third single. Released in September of 1967 for Picadilly Records. As you know we like to do here, we start by flipping sides.<br />
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<i>Light Of Love</i> was written by the keyboardist and the guitarist and showcases the band's mousy vocal talent. Great bass work by Chuck Warren abounds. We really love the last :25 of the record as the band does a nice little vocal coda to finish the song off.<br />
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We have more love on the other side of the record. The A-side is a cover of the Curtis Mayfield number, <i>Never Too Much Love</i>. This side is a little scratchy, true. It does demonstrate that this band was not your typical garage band. A little jazzy, a little soul, a whole lot of vocal talent. The band would soon get picked up by Capitol Records for national distribution and would soldier on into the 70s. Dig that photo below. Stonecringe.<br />
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-14212984468260064512015-06-17T13:18:00.004-07:002015-06-17T13:34:38.833-07:00Pacific Northwest Spotlight: The Bootmen - Ain't It The Truth Babe/Wherever You Hide. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Day 9 of our Pacific Northwest Battle of the Garage Bands has us spinning another 45 from Riverton Records, the Etiquette subsidiary.<br />
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The Bootmen hailed from Tacoma, Washington and released three singles in their brief career. The first was a pair of instrumentals on Etiquette Records and then two more singles, with vocals and all, for Riverton. We focus today on their swan song of a single, <i>Ain't It The Truth Babe</i> with <i>Wherever You Hide,</i> released in March of 1966.<br />
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The band appeared to change members quickly but it looks like a core of the band was Duane McCaslin on bass, Neil Anderson on guitar, Barry Bellandi on drums and Mike Moore on organ and Ron Gardner on vocals. But we can't swear that is the lineup here.<br />
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We don't know too much more about them expect Dickerson, Moore and McCaslin penned the excellent a-side, <i>Ain't It The Truth Babe</i>. Vocals are awash in reverb. Dig that guitar solo.<br />
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The flip-side is pretty amazing as well. <i>Wherever You Hide </i>has a nice snappy rhythm to it and, to this listener, sounds like it would fit in with some of the great Aussie singles featured on Ugly Things. Now that I listen closer, it sounds like they may have been listening to <i>Questions I Can't Answer</i>, by Heinz.<br />
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On The Flip-Sidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07319364292191851993noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497209460362406306.post-48132106202293646402015-06-15T11:29:00.002-07:002015-06-15T11:30:23.434-07:00Pacific Northwest Spotlight: Paul Bearer and the Hearsemen - I've Been Thinking/Route 66<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is why we love garage music. From the small town of Albany, Oregon, a town not too far from the college town of Corvalis, comes the brilliantly named Paul Bearer and the Hearsemen. Yeah, baby.<br />
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Paul Bearer and the Hearsemen released one single in July of 1966. It was released on Riverton Records, a subsidiary of the Seattle based Etiquette Records.<br />
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Flipping this record over, as usual, we are going to start with <i>I've Been Thinking</i>. The 2:40 second blitzkrieg was composed by the band's guitarist, Ed Westby. Ed, along with his brother, Jim, who is on vocals here, Marshall Adams on bass, Peter Brown on drums and Gary Snyder on organ, created one of the most manic, aggressive records ever. And it came out in 1966. Holy crap.<br />
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The A-side is a brilliant cover of Bobby Troup's standard, Route 66.<br />
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Today we spin a band out of Seattle, Washington. The Daily Flash started in the folk clubs of the PNW town and eventually would make their way down to the hipster scene of LA and then San Francisco. The band was guitarist and lead singer, Steve Lalor, guitarist Doug Hastings, Don MacAllister on bass and Jon Keliehor on drums. </div>
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The band recorded only two singles in their brief existence. Today we feature their debut single, and, as usual, we flip the record over to start on the superior flip-side. The record was released in July of 1966 on Parrot Records.</div>
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The flip-side is the brilliant <i>Jack of Diamonds. </i>It opens with a wall of feedback before it gives way to a rolling bass line and wailing harp. The hard charging arrangement is never better than at the ever so brief, incendiary guitar break led by Doug Hastings. Dig that bass work behind the lead. The song gets writing credit from the band. However, that is a bit suspect. The song dates back to at least 1926 when Blind Lemon Jefferson recorded the number in Texas. The Daily Flash give it a pretty wild reinvention, but let's be honest, they rearranged it, they didn't write it. </div>
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The band released one more single, on Uni Records, in January of 1967 and is well worth seeking out. <a href="http://ontheflip-side.blogspot.com/2013/02/song-of-week-daily-flash-green-rocky.html" target="_blank">We wrote about here back in 2013.</a></div>
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Day six of our Pacific Northwest Battle of the Garage Bands finds us still kicking it around Portland, Oregon.<br />
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I could make a very strong argument that The Kingsmen's <i>Louie Louie </i>was both the most important and influential recording in rock history.<br />
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It was in 1963, Portland, Oregon, that the The Kingsmen paid $36 to record this number at a small radio studio with only two mics: One for the drums, one for the rest of the band, including the vocalist. The band banged it out and released it on the Seattle based Jerden Records in the Summer of 1963. From there Wand Records picked it up and released it nationally in October of that year.<br />
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The record spread like a wild fire and even launched a Justice Department investigation to determine if the lyrics were obscene (the answer was, "we can't tell") and was banned by one midwestern Governor who thought his state's impressionable teens should not undulate to the suggestive beat.<br />
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But the record persevered. This rag-tag stutter rhythm recording would soon be replicated by every garage and frat rock band in America. And when Pye Records released it in the UK in December of 1963, the Brit bands would be jumping on board as well. Bands like The Kinks, The Who, The Eyes and The Troggs would soon be pounding out their own interpretations of this rhythm and selling it back to the Americans who started it.<br />
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Jack Ely would be forced from the band by Lynn Easton who wanted center stage. His mom trademarked the name and the Easton family began cleaning house. That's the drummer, Easton, in the 1000 lip-synched versions you've seen on YouTube. Don Gallucci would be the next casualty with him being forced from the band as he was too young to tour.<br />
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Day five of our Pacific Northwest spotlight takes us to Portland, Oregon. Here we find a band called Don and the Goodtimes. Lame name. Not lame music.<br />
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Don Gallucci had been the organ player for The Kingsmen. That's him that opens the legendary recording of <i>Louie Louie</i>. But after that song hit it big, The Kingsmen went in to upheaval as the drummer and his parents smelled money and began pushing everyone out of the band to assert control. Don was one of those casualties as was singer Jack Ely. Ely apparently served as the earliest singer of Don Gallucci's band, but I am not clear if that is him singing in this record. I assume it is Don Gallucci singing.<br />
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Today we spin the a-side of the band's second single, released in 1965 on the Seattle based Jerden Records. <i>Little Sally Tease</i> was written by the band's guitarist, Jim Valley. The number only gained modest local attention, but it was enough to get Dunhill Records to release it nationally in August of 1965. <i>Little Sally Tease</i> tells the tale of a young gal who liked to lead the boys on and had all the skills to get what she wants. The number would later be picked up by The Standells for their 1966 LP, <i>Dirty Water</i>. As fine as that more famous recording is, we prefer this, the original version.<br />
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The initial release on Jerden came with a cover of the Rogers and Hammerstein number, <i>You'll Never Walk Alone</i>. I can't seem to find that so I will share a YouTube vid of the flip-side of the Dunhill Release, <i>Little Green Thing</i>.<br />
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Members of Don and The Goodtimes would swap spots with members of The Kingsmen and Paul Revere and the Raiders often. The Kingsmen would even go on to record <i>Little Sally Tease </i>with a particularly banal version released on Wand Records in 1966. They also did a rendition of <i>Little Green Thing</i> as the flip-side of their third release of Louie Louie, in 1965. </div>
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