Technicolour Dreaming

It's the first day of summer here in Adelaide, but you wouldn't know it - cold, raining and generally miserable! Hopefully I managed to cheer up a few listeners with my choice of music  - including Harry, who was taking a well deserved rest to ward off an incipient lurgy!! This weeks show was a bit on the short but sweet side, only lasting for an hour, but I'll be back next week hosting the whole 2 hours for a change. Oh, and a belated congratulations to The Systemaddicts, who have made it to the Number 1 spot on Three D Radio's Top 20+1 chart with their new CD - and it's not even released yet!

Anyway, enough of my rambling - here's what I played ...

Wall of Death - Light My Fire [The Doors]     ("A Psych Tribute to the Doors" 2014 USA)

Mr Elevator and the Brain Hotel - Are You Hypnotised?     (7" single 2013 Los Angeles USA)

The Red Plastic Buddha - A House is Not A Hotel [Love]     ("Songs for Mara" 2014 Chicago USA)

Love - Seven and Seven Is     ("Da Capo" LP 1967 USA)

Balduin - Shadows of Your Mind     ("Post from Mars" LP 2014 Switzerland)

Balduin - In A Better Land     ("Post from Mars" LP 2014 Switzerland)

Mick Ronson - Only After Dark     ("Slaughter on 10th Avenue" LP 1974 UK)

White Candles  - Monolith     ("Flowers for Delia" 2014 Philadelphia USA)

The Wondermints - The Party     ("Shots In The Dark" compilation 1996 USA)

The Tiki Tones - Monkey Farm     ("Shots In The Dark" compilation 1996 USA  )

The Playboys - Theme from Dr No     (7" single 1965, taken from "Board Boogie - Surf & Twang from Downunder" compilation, 2002)

The Barbarellatones - Electric Pussycat     (demo 2014 Hawaii, USA)

Flyying Colours - Running Late     ("ROYGBIV" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

and an acoustic version of Wall of Death's cover of  "Light My Fire" - quite a bit different to the album version!

Technicolour Dreaming

Combine a very hot day and car trouble... and it was a somewhat bedraggled Cat & Brat who trailed into the air-conditioned respite of the 3D studio. Not organised at the best of times, our penchant for spontaneity was truly tested, but despite a shaky start that was saved by some judicious selections from the extensive Fruits de Mer Records catalogue before we moved into tracks from a couple of our “best of...” selections from last year and on to some new releases. With some 60’s pop psych, both released and unreleased during that period, we finally led into our “Compilation of the Week”, the Chocolate Soup for Diabetics 5-CD boxset, the first three of which were initially released on vinyl between 1980 and 1983 and the final two in 2002, before the CD boxset was eventually issued in 2010, complete with an extensive and informative booklet to both let you know about the bands and details of the actual releases, not to mention the groovy pictures! Finally we finished off by playing a 60’s classic by pop-psych song-writers extraordinaire, Boyce & Hart and the latest release of sitar-drenched goodness from Kingdom of the Holy Sun... ahhh, a last blast of cool relief before heading off into the heat once more! So, until next time....

.... here is the playlist, plus some cool eye candy.....

the Luck of Eden Hall – SF Sorrow is born [Pretty Things cover]      (recorded 2011 USA – taken from “Sorrow’s Children: the songs of S.F. Sorrow” compilation LP 2012 UK)

the Seventh Ring of Saturn – 10,000 Words in a Cardboard Box [Aquarian Age cover]      (recorded 2011 USA – taken from “Keep Off The Grass” double-LP compilation 2011 UK)

Halasan Bazar and Tara King th. – Below Your Deepest Expectations      ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France)

Trappist Afterland – The Penitent's Rail      (“Like a Beehive, the Hill Was Alive” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

LOVEBYRD – Shot from the Sun      (“Lovebyrd” EP 2014 Germany)

Violet Swells – Here Comes Yesterday      (digi-single 2014 Tasmania)

the Dead Rocks – Surf Man      (“Surf Explosão” LP 2014 São Carlos, Brazil)

the Allah-Las – Every Girl      (7”single 2013 California, USA)

Wild Rocket – I’m Not Like Everybody Else [Ray Davies/Kinks cover]      (“Daisy Dream” LP 2015 Adelaide, Australia)

Daughters of Albion – 1968 : John Flip Lockup      (“Daughters of Albion” LP 1968 USA)

Soft Hearted Scientists – Drifting Away      (“The Slow Cyclone” 2014 Wales, UK)

Walter Ghoul’s Lavender Brigade – Mary Jane      ((recorded 1999 UK – taken from “Retrospectoscope 1967-1970” faux-60’s-anthology 2008 UK)

the Black Hollies – Paisley Pattern Ground      (“Casting Shadows” 2011 USA)

Ramses & Selket – Balloon      (“Space Hymns” LP 1971 UK)

the Monkees – I Wanna Be Free [fast version]      (recorded 1966 – taken from “Music Box” compilation 4-CD boxset 2001 USA)

Morgan Delt – Black Tuna Gang      (7”single b-side [to Barbarian Kings] 2013 California, USA)

Sir Lord von Raven – The Glass Castle      (“Please Throw Me Back in the Ocean” 2009 USA)

the Seeds – Can’t Seem to Make You Mine      (7”single 1965 Los Angeles, USA)

Front Office – Wow      (7”single 1967 San Francisco, USA)

Thomas Edisun’s Electric Light Bulb Band – Red Day      (Recorded 1967-1968 but unreleased – finally issued on “The Red Day Album” 2008 USA)

Paul Parrish – Walking in the Forest (of my Mind)      (7”single 1968 USA)

             “Compilation of the Week” 

            “ Chocolate Soup For Diabetics”  5-CD boxset

the Misunderstood – Children of the Sun      (rec. 1966 London UK – released as 7”single 1969 UK – taken from “Chocolate Soup for Diabetics” compilation 5-CD boxset 2010 UK)

Boo & the Boo Boos – Oriental Boo      (7”single b-side [to Stengun] 1967 Netherlands – taken from “Chocolate Soup for Diabetics”...)

Apple – The Otherside      (7”single b-side [to Doctor Rock] 1968 UK – taken from “Chocolate Soup for Diabetics”...)

the Rebel Rousers – As I Look      (7”single b-side [to Should I?] 1968 UK – taken from “Chocolate Soup for Diabetics”...)

Caleb – A Woman of Distinction      (7”single b-side [to Baby Your Phrasing Is Bad] 1967 UK – taken from “Chocolate Soup for Diabetics”...)

Australian Playboys – Sad      (7”single b-side [to Black Sheep R.I.P.] 1967 Australia/UK – taken from “Chocolate Soup for Diabetics”...)

Boyce & Hart – I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight       (7”single 1967 USA)

Kingdom of the Holy Sun – Getting Higher      (“Return of the Sun Kings” 2014 Seattle, USA)

Obscured By...

It was another voyage around the world of 60’s beat music this week on Obscured By..., piloted by Peter Brat, flying solo. From the Slaves in Switzerland to the Psychedelic Aliens of Ghana to Adelaide’s own Machine Gun Kelly’s Rejects, we highlighted an era where that beat was globally all-pervasive, but is only now actually available globally. Hence we got to hear from Iran’s psych legend Kourosh Yaghmaei’s 1973 LP, Chile’s Sacros [whose 1973 LP was banned by the Pinochet dictatorship], the Golden Earrings 1965 Dutch single, of which only 6 copies were pressed, a track from Lothar and the Handpeople’s 1968 LP in the US, and many more... We also played more recent songs by the likes of Lizard Train and Wooden Shjips, plus a great live version of an AC/DC classic by the inimitable Tiny Tim...

..... so here is the playlist....

Machine Gun Kelly’s Rejects – I’m Going Back     (recorded 1967 but unreleased – ‘Big Beat Cellar Scene: Adelaide 1965-69’ compilation)

Jimmy Crockett and the Shanes – That Lovin’ Touch     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

Wright of Waye – Sun God     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Max Merritt and the Meteors – So Long baby     (7”single 1965 New Zealand)

the Playboys – The Mean One     (7”single b-side 1965 Aust.)

Marcie and the Cookies – You’re on my Mind     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Judy Stone – Society’s Child [Janis Ian cover]     (7”single 1969 Aust.)

Tiny Tim – Tiptoe through the Tulips/ Highway to Hell [AC/DC cover]     (‘live’ 1994 – ‘Cosmic Outlaws: US Underground 1962-1970’ comp.)

Wooden Shjips – Flight     (West)

Steve Hillage – Hurdy Gurdy Man [Donovan cover]     (‘Live at Deeply Vale’ LP 1978 UK)

Terakaft – Tenere Wer Tat Zinchegh     (Ishumar [Mali-Niger Tourags])

Psychedelic Aliens – We’re laughing     (Psycho African Beat – Ghana 1967)

Psychedelic Aliens – Homowo     (Psycho African Beat)

Dug Dugs – Voy Hacia El Sol     (‘Smog’ LP 1973 Mexico)

Sacros – Manos Duras     (‘Sacros’ LP 1973 Chile)

Hugu Tugu – Fino a leri [‘Somebody to Love’-Jefferson Airplane cover]     (‘60s Beat Italiano’ comp.)

the Golden Earrings – Not to Find     (7”single 1965 Holland)

AB and C – Vies     (7”single 1965 Holland)

Lazy Bones – Driftin’     (7”single 1965 Holland)

the Sauterelles – Hong Kong     (‘Swiss Beat Live 1966’ LP)

Slaves – Shut Up     (7”single 1965 Switzerland)

Chapta – Journey to the Sun     (7”single 1968 New Zealand)

Kourash Yaghmaei – Shirin Joon     (‘Back from the Brink’ LP 1973 Iran)

Mayfly – Blue Sofa     (‘Mayfly’ LP 1971 Holland)

Threshold of Pleasure – Rain Rain Rain     (7”single 1968 UK)

Harry ‘the Hipster’ Gibson – Who Put the Benzedrine     (US 1947 – from “Who Put the Benzedrine: Best of” LP 1989)

Lothar and the HandPeople – Machines     (‘Presenting’ LP 1968 US)

Lizard Train – She’s like a Cloud     (Flexi-disc with ‘the Bob’ magazine: demo recorded 1985 Adelaide)

the Beach Nuts – Surf report     (7”single 1985 Aust.)

Obscured By...

Peter Brat and Michael Hunter were the two ‘DOTS’ in the studio presenting this week’s episode of ‘Obscured by...’, and were joined by phone for a lengthy chat by Craig Collinge, drummer in the Librettos, the Playboys, Procession, Manfred Mann Chapter 111, World War Three, plus lots more, even including a brief stay in Fleetwood Mac in 1973-74, and continuing through to his current ‘Evolution2Revolution’ project.... so we had LOTS to talk about! Of course there was a lot more music played... including a track from Billy Joel’s band Attila (nominated as the ‘worst record ever’ in AllMusic.com, though personally we are sure there are far worse!), a song from the first album by Bjork (aged 14) and a ‘live’ track from reformed local 60’s band, 5 Sided Circle, at their gig last Sunday... can’t get more immediate than that!

..... and here is the full playlist....    

the Five – I Can’t find Her     (7”single 1965 Queensland, Australia)

Wendy Saddington – Just Like TomThumb’s Blues [Bob Dylan cover]     (‘Wendy Saddington & Copperwine – Live’ LP 1970 Australia : CD re-issue)

Whistler’s Mother – Steamboat Willie     (7”single 1971 Australia)

5 Sided Circle – 7 & 7 Is [Love cover]     (Live in Adelaide, Australia - August 2011)

the Playboys – Swan Lake [version]     (7”single 1965 Aust.)

the Librettos – Baby It’s Love     (7”single 1964 New Zealand)

Procession – Anthem     (‘Procession’ LP 1968 Aust./UK)

Craig Collinge – So Watts New/Funk Me Dead/Rock Paper Metal     (Evolution2Revolution)

Manfred Mann Chapter 3 – Snakeskin Garter     (‘Volume 1’ LP 1969 UK)

Craig Collinge – Avant Garden     (Evolution2Revolution)

Procession – Penelope     (‘Live at Sebastians’ 1968 Australia)

Snakefinger – the Model [Kraftwerk cover]     (7”single 1979 US)

Almost Numan – We are so fragile [Gary Numan cover]     (Disc 1 “OFF”, ‘Almost Numan’ double CD

Electralane – I’m on Fire [Bruce Springsteen cover]     (CD single 2003 UK)

Attila – Rollin’ Home     (‘Attila’ LP 1970 US)

Fraternity – Jupiter’s Landscape     (‘Livestock’ LP 1971 Adelaide, Aust.)

Bjork – Atta Mira     (‘Bjork’ LP 1977 Iceland)

Bruce Wooley & the Camera Club – Video Killed the Radio Star [orig. version]     (‘English Garden’ LP 1979 Canada)

Dennis Wilson – Dreamer     (‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ LP 1977 US)