Technicolour Dreaming

Beginning with a 60’s classic has become a regular feature of the show and this week’s choice was the 1967 debut single by UK band Traffic, which we felt melded quite nicely with the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s eastern-tinged instrumental that followed. In fact we played a fair number of songs from “the original psychedelic era”, as Lenny Kaye named it on the Nuggets LP back in 1972... amongst them was the title-track of Donovan’s 7^th album which featured the Jeff Beck Group, the flip-side of the sole UK single by Normie Rowe’s backing-band, the Playboys, on Immediate Records, as well as a track from the “lost” LP by Gary Walker & the Rain – a 1968 ‘Japan-only’ release which just recently became available in the rest of the world. It was also the last appearance of Brian Eno as our ‘Artiste of the Week’ and we concluded the show with the brilliant opening track of his second solo album. Finally, there was also a selection of ‘punk-era’ recordings from the likes of the Ramones, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Patti Smith, which we played in memory of Ian ‘Butch Brat’ Roberts, who passed away last week... Butch was Adelaide band the Brats’ mixer, roadie and valued friend, and we saw all these bands, and more, play gigs in London in the mid/late 70’s!

R.I.P. Butch..... 

Traffic – Paper Sun     (7”single 1967 UK)

Brian Jonestown Massacre – Panic in Babylon     (‘Aufheben’ 2012 USA)

the Lovetones – Come Home     (‘Meditations’ 2006 Melbourne, Australia)

Weightless – Holding On     (‘Self-Adjustment’ 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the What 4 – Logan’s Run     (‘Say It Straight’ 2008 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Sunbirds – Stone     (‘Emergency Christmas’ EP 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

the Grand Rapids – Brian’s Got a Rubber Soul     (‘Great Shakes’ 2012 Melbourne, Aust.)

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Mittageisen     (7”double A-side single [with Love in a Void] 1979 UK)

Ian Brown – F.E.A.R.     (‘Music of the Spheres’ 2001 UK)

the Smiths – How Soon Is Now?     (‘Meat Is Murder’ LP 1985 UK)

Caveman – My Room     (‘CoCo Beware’ 2011 Brooklyn, USA)

the Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop     (‘the Ramones’ LP 1976 New York, USA)

John Cooper Clarke – I Don’t Want to be Nice     (‘Disguise in Love’ LP 1978 UK)

Patti Smith – Free Money     (‘Horses’ LP 1975 New York, USA)

the Clash – London Calling     (‘London Calling’ LP 1979 UK)

Gary Walker & the Rain – Francis     (‘Album Number One’ LP 1968 Japan/UK)

Caleb – Baby Your Phrasing is Bad     (7”single 1967 UK)

Donovan – Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love is Hot)     (7”single 1969 UK)

the Fleur De Lys – Circles [Who cover]     (7”single 1966 UK)

the Playboys – Sad     (7”single b-side [to Black Sheep R.I.P.] 1967 Aust./UK)

Bobby & Laurie – Every Second Day     (7”single 1966 Aust. – also on ‘Exposaic’ LP 1966 : taken from  ‘A Forest of Gold Tops in the Land of Oz - 26 Tabs from the Semiconscious Sixties’ compilation 1997 Aust.)

the Masters Apprentices – But One Day     (7”single 1968 Aust.)

Eno – Burning Airlines Give You So Much More     (‘Taking Tiger Mountain [By Strategy]’ LP 1974 UK)  #

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