No mere footnote in surf music history, the Avengers VI were an exceptional group of clean-cut rockers in matching suits from Anaheim, CA, whose somewhat forgotten classic, "Time Bomb" was covered in recent years by both Man or Astro-man? and the Bomboras. This reissue of their first recording, which came out in 1966, was originally intended to be promotion for the Good Humor Ice Cream Company. The cover features them on top of and around an ice cream truck sporting matching aqua-colored suits. Nearby, an ice cream man displays a Popsicle. But the album is also a very impressive and enjoyable collection of originals and covers including a knockout take on "Downtown," as well as Henry Mancini's "Mr. Lucky" and more obvious choices like "Pipeline" and "Peter Gunn." It's the originals, though, that make the case for the band being a forgotten gem amongst the legions of '60s surf groups. Featuring scintillating organ riffs and three guitars going berserk, songs like "None But the Brave" and "The Avengers Stomp" prove the Avengers VI to be a crucial, though mostly forgotten chapter of the surf music era. (Allmusic)
trax:
The Denvermen:
01 Surf City Stomp 02 On the Beach 03 Mystery Wave 04 Surfside Romance 05 Ho-Dad 06 Surfer's Cha-Cha 07 Back Rip 08 Let's Go Surfin' 09 Spanish Sands 10 Quiet Beach 11 Surf Patrol 12 Surfer's Blues
The Avengers VI:
13 Heartbeat 14 Downtown 15 Mr. Lucky 16 None But the Brave 17 The Good Humor Stomp 18 Slaughter on 10th Avenue 19 Pipeline 20 Summer Place 21 Peter Gunn 22 Time Bomb
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The Denvermen "Let’s Go Surfside" / The Avengers VI "Real Cool Hits"
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BONUS 1 OF 5
Sonny Knight & The Lakers - I'm Still Here (2014) @320
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Born in Mississippi and raised in Minnesota, Sonny Knight cut his first single in 1965 with his group Little Sonny Knight & the Cymbols, when he was just 17 years old. Knight's career in music took a few detours as he spent some time in the military, settled in California for a while, and returned to Minneapolis to work with the group Haze before quitting music in the '80s and landing a job as a truck driver. Most folks would never guess Knight's back story from listening to I'm Still Here, the first album from him and his new group, the Lakers; judging from the strength of his performance and the clarity and control of his instrument, it's hard to believe this band is fronted by a man who's 65 years old. the Lakers are comprised of younger soul fans who kick up an impressive amount of rhythm behind Knight, ranging from cool, Northern Soul tracks like the title tune to raucous dance numbers like "Do the Caveman" and tough proto-funk like "I'm Through with You," with drummer Eric Foss and horn men Tony Beaderstadt, Bryan "Lumpy" Highhill, and Cole Pulice more than earning their keep on these sessions. But Knight is clearly the star of this show, and he certainly deserves the spotlight; he not only has a great voice, he works well with a band, and he's an outstanding performer who brings these songs to life with plenty of joyous ferocity, whether he's encouraging the crowd to boogie on "Get Up and Dance" or delivering the streetwise anti-addiction message of Rodriguez's "Sugar Man." Sounding like it was recorded in a sweaty club on a Saturday night, I'm Still Here demonstrates Sonny Knight is one of the best and most powerful vocalists to emerge on the retro-soul scene, and this is old-school R&B that grooves hard and sweet. Whatever Sonny Knight is doing, it's working well for him, and this album is a treat for fans of classic R&B sounds. (Mark Deming, Allmusic)
INFO
http://www.allmusic.com/album/im-still-here-mw0002667215
BONUS 2 OF 5
Alley Special (Krazy Kat, 1988) @320 Mono
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Alley Special compiles fourteen tracks that are linked not as a result of geographic or stylistic commonality but rather by their rawness and the fact that they were procured from independent producers by the Ballen Record Company, which was the parent corporation of the Gotham and 20th Century imprints. Excluding the early Muddy Waters cut (which displays an under-acknowledged Robert Lockwood, Jr. influence), these songs are all performed by considerably less celebrated bluesmen, although aficionados of the Detroit scene will probably be familiar with Baby Boy Warren and Eddie Burns, with the latter's minute-and-a-half-long "Untitled Blues" sounding like a demo recording. On his three titles, Wright Holmes reveals an inimitable playing style in which the guitar functions like a second voice, while David Pete McKinley and Stick "Horse" Hammond also display engagingly ragged instrumental approaches. The material by W. Harris and Sonny Boy Williamson No. 1 clone Sonny Boy Johnson sound almost uptown in comparison with the other material, although that does not detract from their listenability.
A1
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Wright Holmes
Good Road Blues
A2
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Wright Holmes
Alley Special
A3
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Sonny Boy Johnson (2)
Quinsella
A4
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Wright Holmes
Drove From Home Blues
A5
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David Pete McKinley*
Ardelle
A6
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Stick "Horse" Hammond*
Little Girl
A7
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Stick "Horse" Hammond*
Truck 'em
B1
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Muddy Waters (As James Carter)*
Mean Red Spider
B2
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"Baby Boy" Warren*
Nervy Woman Blues
B3
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"Baby Boy" Warren*
My Special Friend Blues
B4
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W. Harris
Angel Of Mercy
B5
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W. Harris
Low Down Dirty Shame
B6
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Eddie Burns
Untitled Blues (Decoration Day Blues)
B7
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David Pete McKinley*
Shreveport Blues
INFO
http://bluesarchives.blogspot.com/search?q=ALLEY+SPECIAL
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Alley-Special/release/4573707
BONUS 3 OF 5
THE DOORS - Celebration Of The Lizard @320
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(soniclovenoize reconstruction)
Side A:
1. Five To One
2. Love Street
3. We Could Be So Good Together
4. Yes, The River Knows
5. My Wild Love
6. The Unknown Soldier
Side B:
7. Spanish Caravan
8. Wintertime Love
9. Celebration of the Lizard
This was a much-requested reconstruction that was surprisingly easy to do, so I thought I’d revisit and bastardize my favorite Doors album as present to my blog followers! This is a reconstruction of the unreleased Doors album Celebration of the Lizard, which was restructured into 1968’s Waiting For The Sun. The bulk of my reconstruction uses a superior needledrop vinyl rip of the album for the best possible fidelity, and the title track is reconstructed from three different sources to make a complete and dynamic performance piece as it would have sounded like in 1968, superior to the officially released “work in progress” track.
Upon entering the recording studio in 1968 to make their third album, The Doors hit a creative wall for several reasons. First and foremost, they had simply run out of material, having blown through their backlog of quality songs with their first two albums in the previous year. Paraphrasing Robbie Krieger, the ‘Third Album Syndrome’ had affected The Doors, who were thrown into the position of needing a new album to promote with no songs immediately on hand, forced to compose new material in the studio. A solution was to base their third album around a lengthy poetry piece of Jim Morrison’s, entitled “Celebration of the Lizard”. Originally claimed to occupy an entire side of the LP, “Celebration of the Lizard” would have included seven sections, some of which were experiments in noise to accompany Morrison’s abstract poetics. Unfortunately, the piece was too abstract for producer Paul Rothchild, who felt the band absolutely needed a hit single, and the band themselves allegedly could not properly record the song to their liking in the studio.
Read All About This Album Here:
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Thanks for The Doors and The Denvermen & Avengers IV, Gyro!
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Another album I played on in the 90s. The Slow Poisoners. Still kind of mining the vein I was doing in the Ophelias which I placed on here the other day.
The Slow POisoners - Great Spiders and Diamond Powder
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Thanks for the denvermen and the avengers VI. Thanks for using zippyshare
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