09-12-07 - 16-12-07

Saturday, December 15, 2007

V.A. - Autumn Records_Someone To Love

V.A. - Nuggets from the Golden State_Someone To Love
[The Birth of the San Francisco Sound]

Tracks :
1 The Mojo Men - She's My Baby (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
2 The Mojo Men - Fire In My Heart (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
3 The Mojo Men - Why Can't You Stay (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
4 The Mojo Men - Girl Won't You Go (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
5 The Great Society - Girl (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
6 The Great Society - Father Bruce (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
7 The Great Society - You Can't Cry (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
8 The Great Society - Born To Be Burned (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
9 The Great Society - Daydream Nightmare Love (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
10 The Great Society - Heads Up (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
11 The Great Society - Double Triptamine Superautomatic Everlove' Man (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *
12 Charity Shayne - Ain't It Babe (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
13 The Vejtables - The Last Thing On My Mind (San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.)
14 The Vejtables - Mansion Of Tears (San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.)
15 Dino Valenti - Let's Get Together (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
16 The Great Society - That's How It Is (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) */**
17 The Great Society - Right To Me (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) */**
18 The Great Society - Where (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) */**
19 Jan Ashton - Cold Dreary Morning (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
20 Butch Engle & The Styx - I'm A Fool (Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.) *
21 Butch Engle & The Styx - Smile Smile Smile (Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.) *
22 The Great Society - Somebody To Love (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
23 The Great Society - Free Advice (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
24 The Tikis - Bye Bye Bye (Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.)
25 The Tikis - Lost My Love Today (Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.)
26 The Tikis - More & More & More (Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.) *
27 The Tikis - True Love Is Hard To Find (Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.) *
28 The Tikis - Happy With You (Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.) *
29 The Tikis - Mad (Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.) *
30 Jan Ashton - About My Tears (San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.) *

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/** indicates that those 3 tracks are tagged as Dino Valenti on the mp3 files

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Lollipop Shoppe - Just Colour [1968, Vinyl]

Led by singer Fred Cole, who had formerly been in the Northwest punk band the Weeds, the Lollipop Shoppe's sole album (from 1968) ranks as one of the better psych-punk LPs, and also as one of the better one-shot rock records of the late '60s. Featuring Cole's choked, bitter phrasing, the group staked out the middle ground between the Seeds (who shared the same manager) and Love, with a bit of fellow L.A. psych-punkers the Music Machine thrown in. If comparisons must be made, they were definitely closer in tone to Love than the Seeds, with a mixture of raunch and reflection in the spirit of Arthur Lee. Cole was one of the few psychedelic performers to make a contribution during the punk era, surfacing in the Portland punk band the Rats in the late '70s. [Allmusic.com]

The Lollipop Shoppe were a 1960s psychedelic garage rock band.
They were originally known as The Weeds and featured Fred Cole, now of Dead Moon. After The Weeds signed to UNI Records (a now-defunct subsidiary of MCA), their new manager, "Lord" Tim Hudson, insisted they change their name to The Lollipop Shoppe to fit in with the current trend of bubblegum music. The band's actual recordings, including the 1968 LP Just Colour, are hardly bubblegum, but instead a mix of garage rock and psychedelia. The album and its single, "You Must Be a Witch," are regarded as period classics and still prized by collectors, though neither made the charts. The band opened for stars such as Janis Joplin and The Doors, and appeared in the biker movie Angels from Hell. The album has been bootlegged; the Music Maniac label has announced a reissue but it has not appeared. The Lollipop Shoppe released one more single, "Someone I Knew" b/w "Through My Window", before breaking up in 1969. They reunited as The Weeds for a 1971 single [Wikipedia]

Track list;
01 - You Must Be A Witch
02 - Underground Railroad
03 - Baby Don't Go
04 - Who'll Read The Will
05 - It's Only A Reflection
06 - Don't Look Back
07 - Don't Close The Door On Me
08 - It Ain't How Long
09 - It's Makin' It
10 - I'm Gonna Be There
11 - You Don't Give Me No More
12 - Sin

[192K]

Style; Psychedelic, Garage Punk

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Dennis the Fox - 1975 - Mother Trucker

"DENNIS THE FOX Mother Trucker (MusArt US '7?)
Only a handful of heads have encountered this mad beast of an LP, and it's top 40 at least of all US LP's for me: utterly dark and sleazy lowlife nirvana! Like seeing God in a burst condom stuck to the tailpipe of a rusty pimpmobile, finding out Jesus stole your mama, looking for the meaning of life in a puke pile by a truckstop motel .... kinda scary how real this dude is! The cover is awesome and the music ranges from seedy bluesy loser zones into fucker up dive bar epiphanies. I can't think of any other record more at the end of the road seeking salvation in the tawdry. Wicked sense of humor. Twilight Zone. One of those smart literate guys attracted to funky situations. Like so many obscure LP's, the names of people on it seem too weird to be real .... Alfie Van, Audie Bridges ... backup vocals by Mary Bliss & the Bixens. Blows Damon & Fraction out of the water as far as my own need for kicks goes. "

all i can say is YES and YES
and how about some lyrics:

well you talk about your whiskey
and you talk about your wine
so i'm here to tell ya people
that that kind of thing is fine
you go chasin' after women
but you sure ain't got one yet
that knows somethin' about somethin'
and that's one thing i can bet
when it comes to really livin'
or just somewhere in between
there's a high steppin' side steppin'
life outside you ain't never seen

she's the lady
they refer to when they cut the ace of spades
she's the lady
that they think of when the night pulls down its shades
she's the lady
with the action if you think you've got the nerve
to put your money where your mouth is
and find out what she can serve
she's a lady
with the answers that can teach you about the world
she's a truck drivin' piledrivin' mean mothertrucker of a girl

pile driver
don't you worry she treats every man the same
pile driver
don't you worry that's the way she plays the game
pile driver
don't you worry cause when everything goes wrong
just call her name
call her name
call her name
and she'll come lookin'

[guitar solo]

[repeat above]

she'll come bookin'
she'll come cookin'
(review by Joaquim_Peso @ rateyourmusic.com)

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Aorta - 1969 - Aorta (LP)

Hi everybody,

Here is an essential addition to Lost-in-Tyme.
Some straight from the LP 320 kbs hi quality MP3s for your enjoyment of discovering or rediscovering a great album!

Aorta is the name... For the album and for the band.
1969 was the year...

Tracks :
1 Main Vein I
2 Heart Attack
3 What's In My Mind's Eye
4 Magic Bed
5 Main Vein II
6 Sleep Tight
7 Catalyptic
8 Main Vein III
9 Sprinkle Road To Cork Street
10 Ode To Missy Mxyzosptlk
11 Strange
12 A Thousand Thoughts
13 Thoughts and Feelings
14 Main Vein IV

May you find your main vein (or at least one of the four suggested on that LP) and have a nice trip. Some of you may reply that the aorta is not a vein but an artery... Who cares? the effects you get are the same... A complex cocktail indeed. Some passages may suffer the test of time (but not the one of Tyme) The whole remains a flowing suite of very satisfying tracks both for the ear and the mind :) Enjoy!

Here is what Bryan Thomas from Allmusic have to say about this one :

"During the mid-'60s, the members of Aorta -- originally hailing from Rockford, IL -- had previously been in a group called the Exceptions. Early members of this group included Kal David (later of Illinois Speed Press and H.P. Lovecraft), Marty Grebb (the Buckinghams), and Peter Cetera (Chicago). The Exceptions were a soulful, if unremarkable, Top 40s cover group who were nevertheless acclaimed for their "exceptional" musicianship. They were one of the more popular acts on the greater Chicago local scene, and released a handful of singles on numerous Midwest labels -- Tollie, Cameo, Quill -- and for L.A.-based Capitol. For the last of these releases, the band dropped the "s" from their name and began calling themselves the Exception (a compilation for the Collectables label, The Quill Records Story, collects two of their singles). They also recorded an EP called "A Rock & Roll Mass for the Flair label; it featured six different rock songs with words taken from various religious prayers. As each member of the group -- with the exception of bassist Peter Cetera -- already had an eye toward expanding their original material to include a more "psychedelic" sound, they soon reconfigured themselves as Aorta, and, in late 1968, recorded a single for Atlantic. Eventually, producer Bill Traut (American Breed) approached them on behalf of Dunwich Productions, Inc., and -- with Bobby Jones taking over on bass after Cetera's departure -- they accepted his offer to record their debut album for Columbia in 1969. They recorded two albums under the name Aorta. The first of these, the self-titled Aorta, is today highly acclaimed as a lite-psych album of some minor renown, and though it managed to chart on Billboard's album charts, it failed to do what was expected. A revised version of the group -- still led by Jim Donlinger and now featuring Michael Been on bass/guitar/vocals -- recorded the drastically different second album, Aorta 2, for the Happy Tiger label. Jim Donlinger -- who along with his brother and Jim Nyeholt (during a brief period between the two albums), had all played in the Rotary Connection -- later left Aorta to join Lovecraft (formerly H.P. Lovecraft, who were signed to Reprise at the time), while Billy Herman would eventually move on to join New Colony Six. Michael Been later played with Moby Grape members Jerry Millerand Bob Mosley in Fine Wine, and ultimately achieved his biggest success with the Call. Been is also the father of Robert Turner of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The original Aorta later re-formed (joining another great Chicago-area group, the Cryan' Shames) to do promo spots for the U.S. Armed Forces on a very rare promotional LP. They've appeared on numerous compilations over the years. Aorta was re-issued on CD in 1996."

Sounds good to me... Thanks Bryan ;)

I've never heard that CD reissue but some reviewers say that the sound is so so... Here is the occasion to hear it in all its glorious LP version!


May Lost-in-Tyme never find the way home! (Another way of saying Keep on Rockin'!)

By the way, thanks to Pat Lego for that awesome LP!

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Love - 1974 - Reel to Real

Love - 1974 - Reel to Real

Tracks :

1. Time Is Like A River (Arthur Lee)
2. Stop the Music (Arthur Lee)
3. Who Are You (Arthur Lee)
4. Good Old Fashion Dream (Arthur Lee)
5. Which Witch is Which? (Arthur Lee)
6. With A Little Energy (Arthur Lee)
7. Singing Cowboy (Arthur Lee-Jay Donnellan)
8. Be Thankful For What You Got (William DeVaughn)
9. You Said You Would (Arthur Lee)
10. Busted Feet (Arthur Lee-Charles Karp)
11. Everybody's Gotta Live (Arthur Lee)

Personnel :

• Arthur Lee: rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, vocal
• Melvin Whittington: guitar
• John Sterling: guitar
• Sherwood Akuna: bass
• Joe Blocker: drums
• Bobby Lyle: keyboards
• Gary Bell: synthesizer
• Wilber Brown, Fred Carter, John Clauder, Alan DeVille, Clifford Solomon and Billy Sprague: horns
• Vanetta Fields, Jessica Smith and Carlena Williams: vocal
• Robert Rozelle: bass (6, 7, 10)
• Buzzy Feiton: lead guitar (3)
• Art Fox: acoustic guitar (5)
• Harvey "The Snake" Mandel: electric guitars (5)
• Joe Deaguro: vocal, vibes (8)

Reel To Real turned out to be Arthur hitting it right on the nail again. For on it, he is returning to the Rhythm and Blues music he did before he heard the Byrds. On this album he had an entirely new band, with two exceptional guitarists. Melvan Whittington on lead and John Sterling on slide. (The latter had previously played with Eric Burdon.) On bass, Sherwood Akuna (a meaty Fatback bassist) and Joey Blocker on drums, providing an able pounding punchy backbeat. Among the guest musicians, Arthur had Buzzy Feiten on guitar and Bobby Lyle on keyboards (well known session men), and among the people he thanked for helping him with the album was Keith Moon of the Who. Arthur Lee was always able to find great new musicians to play with. And maybe this is his secret. Why he has been able to survive so long. Because like Miles Davis, he is always changing. Lee, who at this time had the clean shaven headed Isaac Hayes look and a Fu Manchu mustache (which looked surprisingly good on him), seems to have developed an interest in Eastern Religion and Vegetarianism; as evidenced by the photographs on the album jacket and inside record sleeve.

With the opening number, ‘Time Is Like A River’, Arthur hits us with something entirely outrageously new. A perfectly blended, smoky Rhythm and Blues sound. Horns, background chorus (with a molten groove) added to the band (a deep New Orleans Funk if you will, just hinted at contextually in Rock form in ‘Feel Daddy Feel Good’ on False Start.) And with each succeeding song, ‘Stop The Music’ (where Lee plays burning Harmonica and Melvan Whittington a stuttering guitar solo while John Sterling plays a lean threatening slide) the stop/start arrangement hanging you on the edge, ‘Who Are You’ (a really silky devil of a vocal) with guest guitarist Buzzy Feiten smoking furiously on guitar, ‘Good Old Fashion Dream’ (Arthur cooking and boiling with the background chorus); this is a startlingly different Arthur Lee. ‘Which Witch is Which’, a merging of acoustic and electric Blues, with Lee adding just a touch of Harmonica to a mix of backwards guitar (that Beatles/Hendrix influence) and John Sterling’s slide solo. ‘With A Little Energy’, another smoking R&B number with the added twist of a solo on Moog Synthesizer by second guest keyboardist, Gary Bell.

On side two Arthur revisits ‘Singing Cowboy’ from Four Sail. A more restrained and relaxed smooth vocal this time, with Melvan Whittington and John Sterling cutting two musical swathes across on guitars, behind his vocal. A very different take on the song, with Arthur having developed a completely new singing style (which he first attempted on Vindicator and perfected on the title song for the film ‘Tomasine and Bushrod’). Next is William Devaughn’s popular ‘Be Thankful For What You Got’. And Lee does one hell of a reading; as good as the original. This is Arthur Lee, very Black and very Funky. Besides using his own regular vocals and voicings on the album, he also uses occasional inflections of Sly Stone and Al Green; which are very good. The following song, ‘You Said You Would’, is a humorous Country Rock affair with Arthur singing the tale of the ‘woman who done him wrong’. Whittington and Sterling trading licks, and the song ending with an explosion worthy of ‘Seven and Seven Is’. Next, a remake of ‘Busted Feet’ from the Vindicator album, that is much better than the original. Whereas on Vindicator it was just an average Rock song, here, the song is shorter and the arrangement is much tighter and threatening. Gary Bell provides a great atmospheric background with Moog Synthesizer, as Melvan Whittington really cuts loose on guitar and Arthur abruptly cuts off the song; as he sings about not quite being able to let go of the past. The final song, ‘Everybody’s Gotta Live’ (also from Vindicator) is an acoustic reworking and a very poignant statement; as Lee leads the group of backup singers into the chorus, singing smoothly and finally doing justice to a very good song. An album worth having and cherishing.

At last a positive review from a Real Arthur Lee Fan

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