I dunno much about this crew, the Heard, but they managed to produce one motherfucker of a classic '60s punker, "Stop It Baby!"

This group was from Rochester, New York, they were previously known as the Belvederes, a folk group!

Del Shannon was an early-'60s rock and roll singer, prolly best know for "Runaway." This mover, "Move It On Over," was issued as a 'B' side on Amy in 1965; Shannon's backed on this session by the Royaltones.

After his short time on Amy, he ended up on the Liberty label for a bit, where he recorded a MAJOR sike record, The Further Adventures of Charles Westover. Seriously, that LP is GREAT!! Anyway, he never did have any more major hits, and by 1969 he'd moved into production, tho' he was still recording and touring in the '70s. Shannnon committed suicide in 1990.

This is an English record—well, an acetate—credited to the Talismen. It's quite stunning, the playing and production are stellar!! HOWEVER, I've never read any definitive info as to who the band really was or who produced this track, so I got nothing!! Nothing that is 'sides, PLAY LOUD!

If it is the English band the Talismen, they were a beat group active in the UK and Italy. Yardbird/session guitarist, Jimmy Page, was part of the session band that played on their Stateside 45 "Casting My Spell."

Jeepers! Here we are AGAIN, back in OHIO!! Right, this group the Baskerville Hounds were first known as the Dantes, but were renamed the Tulu Babies as a nod to their manager's, WWHK's Ron Brittain, radio catch phrase. As the Tulu Babies they had a local hit with their first, and a real kick-ass 45, "Hurtin' Kind." It was their next manager, and Tema label owner Jim Testa, who named them AGAIN, and this time as the Baskerville Hounds. Oh, they were from Cleveland. I'm posting "Space Rock Pt.1 & 2" since is a fucking RAW instrumental, and I just found a copy TODAY!!

Of course "Space Rock Pt.1 & 2" IS actually a not so thinly veiled cover of "2120 South Michigan Avenue," a Rolling Stones jam off'a their 12x5 LP. I lerve the Stones, natch, but I think the Baskerville Hounds own this.

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The band, via all it's incarnations, ended up recording a TON of 45s and an LP, Featuring Space Rock Part 2. I think they split up around 1970 or so.

Wait...WHA?! Canook GARAGE?!? Bu-bu-bu-buuuuuttt, I thought Canadia only ever produced one good band..., like, EVER. And that band would be, of course, RUSH!!! Well, fuck me and dig the Lords of London!

"Time Waits For No One!?!" What a mover, y'all! The flip "Cornflakes And Ice Cream" was the sweetest of pop, filled with sunshine reflected off steel drums and cellophane candy wrappers. Um, yeah, like it's radio-friendly pop, but listen to it; it's off-sounding, hella creepy. Of course, it was a hit in 1967. The Lords of London were from Toronto, Ontario, and later evolved into heavy prog band Nucleus and then went pop rock as A Foot In Cold Water.

Godammit. As I'm currently stuck in a oui oui hole, via this afternoon's Jacques Dutronc post, I kinda think I hafta write about Les 5 Gentlemen's "Si Tu Reviens Chez Moi." So much good here, including them dueling organ bits!! Also: I WISH I knew what they were singing about!!!

I'm also quite taken with their "Longue, Longue Nuit D'amour" AND "Cent Millions D'années A.V. Jesus Christ." BOTH are good tracks, even if I have no idea what they're singing about...

This beat group was based in Marseille, France, and only met with marginal success. However, it wasn't for lack of trying; in two-ish years they released FIVE (!) EPs. They also had a go in the UK, but got nowhere. Their UK single issue was as by Darwin's Theory, "Daytime" b/w "Hosanna," on Major Minor. It's good, but again, failed.

Holy CRAPS!! So last July, original '60s Bay Area group Powder played the Comet. Well, TOMORROW night they're fucking BACK and playing at Studio 66!

Powder was a band of young fellers from San Mateo, California, where they started playing as Art Collection. Then, they hooked up with New Zealand singer Ray Columbus, their sound "matured" and they become Powder. Tho' located in the Bay Area, they were not typical period West Coast sike, they played BIG chords, HUGE riffs, and had awesome harmonies; they sound a lot like the Who. So... like, very Anglo, OBVIOUSLY, but they successfully pulled it off. Powder members, and brothers, Thomas and Richard Frost would later have some success as Thomas and Richard Frost as well as being part of Sonny & Cher's backing band. The current Powder line-up includes music scholar Alec Palao on bass!! FUCKING FUCK YEAH!!

Powder play tomorrow night, Star Wars day NIGHT, May the Fourth, at Lo-Fi. Also on deck: resident Studio 66 group the 66'ers and resident selectors ChrisPo, Vodka Twist, and Pelvis.

YEAH!!! Now THIS is a great 45, a solid double-sider from the Dirty Shames!!!

The flip, "Makin' Love," rules at ruling it also! This Dirty Shames is from the Los Angeles area and are NOT connected to the easy/harmony pop Dirty Shames, from Montana, on Phillips.

Happy May Day you relatively un-united workers of the world! I suppose all y'all anarchist/socialist/hippies might remember the Haymarket Affair AKA the Haymarket Riot...well, if NOT, I sure do! All that fucked up bang-bang/boom-boom was so we Americans might work an eight hour day and became the origin of May Day. Turns out "Haymarket Riot" was ALSO a very popular name for a handful of garage bands in the '60s...

This Haymarket Riot, again the band not the actual bombing event of 1886, were a group of weirdo kids from Enid, Oklahoma. "Trip On Out" was released on Riot Records, natch. Then there was this, another, Haymarket Riot from Monroe, Michigan. Their track "Leaving" is way more sike, but I'll let it pass as garage 'cause this mofo COOKS!

Ah, now here is a garage classic from New Zealand's the La De Da's!!

These fellers started out as Rolling Stones wanna-bes, then got a hold of an obscure 'A' side, "How Is the Air Up There," by American group the Changin' Times, and quickly made the kiwi top ten! They went on to record four albums, a ton of 45s and eventually got to England, hopeful to break huge, but instead they discovered that without label support and cutting edge material they couldn't make it. They soon returned home and went long-hair heavy.

Also, in 1982, way before they walked like Egyptians, the Bangles pailsey popped their own version of this song.

Damn if this don't sound like the Blues Project!!!

Nick Hoffman is, as far as I can tell, an unknown from California. His single, "King of the Moon" b/w "Blind and Leaving Blues," was issued on Hollywood label Miramar in November of 1965.

This Nick Hoffman is obviously not the country fiddler Nick Hoffman.

Cuing off'a Ms. Brenda Lee, some of them teenaged female screamers of the '60s really knew how to holler through a ton of raspy gravel!

Little Frankie, from Manchester, England, began her short career began in 1963 when she sang with vocal combo called the Chimes. The Chimes recorded two singles for Decca, but for some reason just couldn't break through. Then, in 1965, Frankie was tapped to go solo; she was 16 at the time. Her new management paired her with beat group the Country Gentlemen, some good beat songs, and within the year they'd record three singles...AND then got to tour the UK with Herman's Hermits, Billy Fury, the Fortunes and Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders. However, even heavily promoted and visible as they were, no one bought their records; Frankie and the Country Gents quit by '67.

This Huck Finn fuzz-led, bubblegum-garage jam, "Two Of A Kind," is quite a dancer!

The Huck Finn were from NYC and included some members of Balloon Farm. Balloon Farm, of course, are best known for their awesome fuzz and weirdo, electronic-skronk-filled Nuggets entry, "A Question Of Temperature." "Two Of A Kind" and its cool flip, "We'll Catch The Sun," was the Huck Finn's only record.

Didja ever wonder where glam came from?

Okay, FINE!! This wasn't exactly the song that birthed all'a them fab four to the floor poundin' songs made by those sweaty, glitter-crusted yobs in the early '70s, buuuuut it did partly spring from silly teenaged dance jams just like "The Gamma Goochee." The Tribe's "(You Got) The Gamma Goochee" was actually a cover of an American soul/novelty/dance record, "(You Got) The Gamma Goochee" by the Gamma Goochee.

The Tribe were an English group who had one single, on Kinks/Who producer Shel Talmy's label, Planet; the flip to "(You Got) The Gamma Goochee" was "I'm Leaving." Oddly, "I'm Leaving" is their song and not a cover. There are no threads of the often-covered by UK/Euro beat groups "Leaving Here," an Eddie Holland song, or John Lee Hooker's "I'm Leaving." The Tribe instead turn in a fucking great English beat track.