Sitars, theremin and mellotron, backwards guitar, phasing and fuzz, fringes and mohawks, paisley, black, velvet and leather, feedback, bass and drone, beads, berets and safety-pins, Shindig! and Creem, 3 chord wonders, teenage symphonies and snarl, Rickenbacker, Farfisa and 4-track recorders... onstage at CBGB's, Max's Kansas City or the Trip, the Roundhouse, the 100 Club or the Crystal Ballroom, Catcher's, Big Daddy's or the Squatters Arms.... and the Cat and the Brat on 3D Radio!
Three D Radio announcer, MeganCat (up until recently with her husband, the late Peter Brat)lives in "The BratHaus" a rural seaside home about 100km from Adelaide on South Australia's scenic Fleurieu Peninsula. Veteran musician Peter, and artist/musician Megan, were long-time DJs onThree D Radio 93.7fm, Adelaide's eclectic independent music station. Together Peter & Megan, known as "The Cat and The Brat" created this blog to allow listeners to review the playlists of their radio show, "Technicolour Dreaming", watch clips of selected songs and simply join them in the enjoyment of their favourite music... psychedelia, 60's garage, surf, punk/post-punk, pop, folk-rock, glam, 'Krautrock', goth, 80's electro... and much more!
But The Cat is carrying on the tradition, with guest co-presenters, and "Technicolour Dreaming" will continue in the same format, drawing from the huge "Cat & Brat" music collection, with the addition of new releases and reissues to keep things current. The Brat is hugely missed, but the show must go on, as he wanted...
This was a very, very sad weekfor losing legendary front-men - first, the news that the Easybeats'Stevie Wright, later a successful solo musician in his own right, had died on December 26; and 3 days later we lost Lemmy, best known from Motorhead, but prior to this the Rockin' Vickers, Sam Gopal, Opal Butterfly, and of course Hawkwind. At least The Brat will have some more people to jam with! So of course a few tribute songs were in order, but of course the show must go on - with quite a few instrumentals - Wiskey Biscuit,Scantharies and White Candlesfeatured, plus some French tracks (which I'd been missing) from Jacques du Tronc, Bernard Chabert and Dansez avec Moa. There was also a bit of a "Garden" and "Violet" theme going on for a while there, too, and another track from Sir Psych & LA Al'sSmoking Trees. Plus the usual mix...
...so here is the playlist, with candy to feast your eyeballs upon!!!
White Candles - Behold! The Abstract Eye ("Flowers for Delia" EP 2014 Philadelphia, USA)
The Scantharies - The Bear ("The Scantharies" 2012 UK)
The Smoking Trees - Victoria's Garden ("TST" 2015 Los Angeles, USA)
Violet Swells - Jupiter's Garden (CD Single 2014 Hobart, Aust.)
Violet Woods - Take Your Time ("Violet Woods" 2014 Cambridge UK)
Frantic Chant - Spittin' Fire ("Ruthless Supermen" 2014 Edinburgh, Scotland)
Love - Seven and Seven Is ("Da Capo" LP 1966 Los Angeles USA)
Wiskey Biscuit - A Shot in the Dark [Henry Mancini] ("Shots in the Dark" comp 1996 USA)
Sagittarius - My World Fell Down ("Present Tense" LP 1968 USA)
The Church - Silver Machine [Hawkwind] ("Box of Birds" 1999 Aust.)
The Easybeats - Sorry (7" Single 1966 Sydney, Aust.)
Thursday's Children - E Too D [Small Faces] ("Kaptain Kavemen From Brisbane" 2015 Aust.)
Running Jumping Standing Still - Diddy Wah Diddy (7" single 1967 Melbourne, Aust.)
Lord and the Flies - Echoes (7" single 1966 USA)
Purple Hearts - Early in the Morning (7" single 1966 Brisbane, Aust.)
The Cryan Shames - Ben Franklin's Almanac (7" single [b-side to "Sugar and Spice"] 1966 USA)
Jacques Du Tronc - Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous ("Jacques Du Tronc" (1) LP 1966 France)
Dansez avec Moa - Les Francais sont des veaux (7” single late 1960s, taken from “Wizzz Psychorama Francais Vol 3 "compilation 2015 France)
Bernard Chabert - Helga Selzer (7" single (b-side to L'homme De L'univers {Neanderthal Man] 1970 France)
Flyying Colours - Like You Said ("Flyying Colours" EP 2013 Melbourne, Aust.)
Myrchents - Indefinite Inhibition (7" single 1967 Ohio, USA)
The Craig - I Must Be Mad (7" single 1967 USA)
Les Mistigris - Summer Nights ("Psychedelic Super Pjotr (Original Motion Score)" 1999 Ukraine)
George & Beathovens - Jdi Dal ("Psychedelic Super Pjotr (Original Motion Score)" 1999 Ukraine)
We
began and ended the show with songs from the late 1960s of diverse style and from
various locales, beginning with some fuzzed-out Scott
Walker, an equally fuzzed track by Israeli band, Churchill’s and a sitar-drenched album cut by the Hollies, while finishing with a classic slice
of “Nederbiet” by Q65,
which followed an updated version of a classic Michel
Polnareff song by Germany’s Vibravoid
from their 2013 EP on the Fruits de Mer Records
label... and so it went for the rest of the show, with a mixture of new
releases from the likes of Sydney’s Grease Arrestor
andSan
Francisco’s Cool Ghouls with older faves such
as the Monkees through to Permanent Clear Light and the
Sand Pebbles. Then of course there was our “Compilation
of the Week”. Following on the heels of the
Doors and the Rolling Stones in their “A Psych Tribute To...” series, Cleopatra Records is releasing "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to theBeatles"
next month and since we managed to grab a pre-release copy, we thought we’d get
in early and make it this edition’s featured compilation and give you a sneak
preview of some of the delights on offer, with great interpretations and
remakes by Quilt, the
KVB and Sugar Candy Mountain amongst
others, so stay tuned to 3D Radio for further
tracks in coming weeks. That was the show that was, so until next week.....
..... here
is the full playlist, with bonus moving pictures.....
Scott Walker - The
Plague ("Scott 2" LP 1968 UK/USA)
Churchill's - Open Up Your
Eyes ("Churchill's" LP 1968
Israel)
the
Hollies - The
Maker ("Butterfly" LP 1967 UK)
Clinic - It's Only Rock and Roll (But I
Like It) [Rolling Stones cover]
("Stoned: A Psych Tribute to the Rolling
Stones" 2014 USA)
Pond - Man it Feels Like Space Again
("Man It Feels Like Space Again" LP 2015 Perth, Australia)
the Monkees - Porpoise Song [mono version]
(7"single 1968 USA)
the David
- Another
Day, Another Life Time / I would Like to
Know ("Another Day, Another Life
Time" LP recorded 1968, released 2001 New York)
Violet
Woods- Electric
Fascination ("Violet Woods" 2014
UK)
the
Amazing -
Defect ("Wait for a Light to Come" 2010 Sweden)
the Sand
Pebbles - Future
Proofed ("Ceduna" 2008
Melbourne, Australia)
Permanent
Clear Light -
Harvest Time ("Beyond These Things"
2013 Finland)
the Beep
Seals - I Used
to Work at the Zoo ("Things that
Roar" 2008 UK)
Jim Noir -
Tea ("Jimmy's Show" 2010 Scotland,
UK)
“Compilation of the Week”
Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the
Beatles
Electric Moon – Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 Germany – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Sugar Candy Mountain – Rain [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 California, USA – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
the KVB – Taxman [Beatles
cover] (rec. 2014 Germany – taken from "Magical
Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Fantasmes – Love You To [Beatles cover] (rec.
2014 Puerto Rico – taken from "Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to
the Beatles" 2015 USA)
Quilt – Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover] (rec.
2014 USA – taken from "Magical Mystery Psych Out: A Tribute to the
Beatles" 2015 USA)
Cool Ghouls - And it
Grows ("A Swirling Fire Through the
Rye" 2014 San Francisco, USA)
the Grease Arrestor - Let it Go ("Volume Two" 2015
Sydney, Australia)
Ty Segall - Drug
Mugger ("Mr. Face" double 7”EP
2015 California USA)
