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...
Especially for Three D Radio's annual Radiothon, I was joined by Technicolour Dreaming alumni Michael Hunter for a special edition of "Obscured By... Technicolour!!!" We had a hell of a lot of fun - hope you enjoyed it too!!
Bronco Bullfrog - Listen to the Sky [Sands] ("Time Waits for Norman" 2014 UK)
Quitty and the Donts - All of You (7" single 2013 Brooklyn, New York, USA)
White Lightning - (Under the Screaming Double) Eagle ("Strikes Twice 1968-1969" 1997 Minnesota, USA)
The Gremlins - Kingsforth Hemmingseen (7" single 1968 New Zealand)
Les Variations - Spicks and Specks [Bee Gees] (7" single 1967 France)
Tony Burello - There's A New Sound (aka "The Sound of Worms") (7" single 1953 USA)
The Monkees - You Bring the Summer ("Good Times!" 2016 USA)
David Arvedon - Eliot Ness ("In Search of the Most Unforgettable Tree We Ever Met 1967-1994" USA)
Sonny and the Sunsets - Blot Out the Sun ("Talent Night at the Ashram" 2015 San Francisco, USA)
The Claypool Lennon Delirium - Breath of A Salesman ("Monolith of Phobos" 2016 USA)
The Liminanas - Dahlia Rouge ("Malamore" 2016 France)
Sagittarius - Glass ("Present Tense" LP 1968 USA)
Crocheted Doughnut Ring - Two Little Ladies (Azalea and Rhododendron) (7" single 1967 UK)
Mike Stuart Span - Second Production ("Expansions" 7" EP 1993 [recorded 1967] Brighton, UK)
Another of the Nuggets series of boxsets was our choice
for this edition’s “Compilation of the Week”...This time it
was “Where
the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets
1965-1968” which was released in 2009, in a hard-cover book format with the 4-CDs
slotted into the back cover – lots of very cool photos and articles with
detailed liner notes about each song and artist... and what great songs they
are! This is probably our favourite of the Nuggets
boxset collection [the 1972 original double-LP stands separately of course!]
because LA was producing a plethora of wonderful bands in this period, many
well-known, but most not, which in no way diminishes the quality of the sounds
coming out of the area however – brilliant stuff! Basically, if you can only
have one boxset, this is the one! Another producer of fine music is the UK’s Fruits de Mer label whose latest
compilation “Strange Fruit & Veg” is
packed with goodies. From it this week we chose a great version of theBeatles’ “Tomorrow
Never Knows”, complete with filmclip. We also featured an Australian 60’s
section with tracks by Ray Brown and Hugo amongst others, plus recent music from acts
such as Lumerians, the
Myrrors and Elephant Stone. So now, we
bid you “adieu” until next week, when we’ll have more psychedelia and
associated obscurities for your listening and viewing pleasure....
.....until then, here is
the playlist and some visuals to amuse you, including the Kikagaku Moyo “official clip” for ‘Kodama’..... enjoy!
Lumerians - Hook for an Eye ("Transmissions
from Telos - Volume III" 2014 UK)
Elephant Stone - Between The Lines ("The Three
Poisons" 2014 Montreal, Canada)
Rob Gould - Tomorrow Never Knows [Beatles
cover] ("Fruits De Mer Records presents ‘Strange
Fruit and Veg’ – promo 2” compilation
2015 UK)
Les Annees - Freaktown Stars ("Les
Annees" 2009 Melbourne, Australia)
Jake Holmes - Leaves Never Break ("A Letter
to Catherine December" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)
Ray Brown and the Whispers - Ain't It Strange (7”single 1966 Australia)
the Moods – ‘Cos of You (7”single b-side [to Say
Hello to Me] 1966 Australia)
the Wild Cherries - Krome Plated Yabby (7"single 1967 Melbourne,
Australia)
Hugo - Girl in the Garden (7"single 1969
Adelaide, Australia)
Quilt - Cry Baby Cry [Beatles cover]
("The Magical Mystery Psych Out - A Tribute to the Beatles"
compilation 2015 USA)
Deep Sea Arcade featuring
Megan Washington - Bonnie and Clyde [Serge Gainsbourg cover]
("Melodie Francaise" compilation 2013 Sydney, Australia)
Peoples Temple - Twice Burned(7"single b-side [to Brand
New Thing] 2013 USA)
Clinic - The Lion Tamer ("Bubblegum"
2010 UK)
the Myrrors - Juana Laguna ("Arena Negra"
LP 2015 Tucson, Arizona USA)
Amon Duul II - Archangel Thunderbird ("Yeti"
LP 1970 Germany)
Dr Cosmo's Tape Lab - The Secret of Tibetan Grapefruit is...
("Ever Evolving Lounge" 2014 USA)
the Warlocks - House of Glass ("Rise and
Fall" 2001 USA)
“Compilation of the Week”
“Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets
1965-1968”
WC Fields Memorial Electric
String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator(7" single 1966 USA – taken from disc 1 of
“Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets
1965-1968”compilation boxset 2009 USA)
Keith Allison - Action, Action, Action (7" Single b-side [to Glitter and Gold] 1966 – taken from disc
3 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)
the Monkees - Daily Nightly ("Pisces,
Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd" LP 1967 USA – taken from
Disc 3 of “LA
Nuggets...” boxset)
the Leaves - Doctor Stone ("Hey Joe" LP 1966
USA – taken from disc 1 of “LA Nuggets...”
boxset)
the Merry-Go-Round - Listen, Listen (7" single 1968 USA
– taken from disc 2 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)
Gene Clark - Los Angeles (recorded 1968, unissued – taken from disc 4 of “LA Nuggets...” boxset)
the Black Hollies - Benevolent Beacon (7"
single 2011 USA)
Toy - Motoring ("Toy" LP 2012 UK)
Dead Skeletons - Dead is God ("Ord" EP 2012 Iceland)
Kikagaku Moyo - Kodama ("Forest
of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)
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 (“SurfExplosão” 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)
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)
