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...
Thought it was time to throw a little bit of garage into the mix...well, a lot actually! This week's show was firmly rooted in the Late Sixties, with a few more recent releases thrown into the mix. Enjoy!!
The Knickerbockers - High on Love (7" single 1966 Los Angeles USA
Halasan Bazar - Everybody Dies (Once or Twice) ("Don't Tell Anyone" EP 2010 Denmark)
The Pasternak Progress - Flower Eyes (7" single b-side [to "Cotton Soul"] 1967 Los Angeles, USA)
Vibravoid - Shadows of Reflections ("Wake Up Before you Die" 2016 Dusseldorf, Germany)
Penny Arkade - Voodoo Spell ("Not The Freeze" LP 1968 USA)
Mark And the Clouds - Lady Stardust [David Bowie] ("A New Career in Town: More Songs by David Bowie" 2016 London, UK)
Antoine - An Elephant's Looking At Me (Un éléphant me regarde) ("Elucubrations: Antione on 45, 1965 - 1966" France)
Hearts and Flowers - Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down?) (7" single [b-side to "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune"] 1968 Los Angeles, USA)
Lee Hazelwood - Rainbow Woman (7" single 1968 Los Angleles USA)
Kikagaku Moyo - Streets of Calcutta ("Forest Of Lost Children" LP 2014 Japan)
The Spencer Davis Group - The Sanity Inspector (7" single b-side [to "Mr Second Class" 1967 UK)
The Summer Set- Cos It's Over (7" single b-side [to "Let's Go To San Francisco"] 1967 UK)
Those Fadin' Colours - Try Me On For Size ("Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds" compilation 2016 UK)
The Koobas - Barricades ("Koobas" LP 1969 Liverpool UK)
Donovan - Sunshine Superman (7" single 1966 UK)
The Coffee Sergeants - Purple Martian Sanctuary ("Purple Martian Sanctuary" 2014 Austin, Texas USA)
Pretty Things - Talkin' About the Good Times (7" single 1968 UK)
The Moles - We Are the Moles (Part 1) (7" single 1968 Portsmouth, UK)
lightsweetcrude - Ahir/Now ("Listen To the Colour" 2011 Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Kites (7" single 1967 Portsmouth, UK)
Balloon Farm - A Question of Temperature (7" single 1967 New Jersey, USA)
The Calico Wall - I'm A Living Sickness (7" single 1967 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA)
The Luck of Eden Hall - Bangalore ("Alligators Eat Gumdrops" 2012 Chicago, USA)
The Sparkles - No Friend of Mine (7" single 1967 Texas, USA)
The Shy Guys - Black Lightening Light (7" single b-side [to "Goodbye to You"] 1968 Floida, USA)
Teddy and His Patches - Suzy Creamcheese (7" single 1967 San Jose, California, USA)
The Laurels - Manic Saturday ("Plains" 2012 Sydney, Australia)
Country Joe and the Fish - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag (7" single 1968 Berkeley, California USA)
Grace Slick and The Great Society - Somebody To Love ("Conspicuous Only In It's Absence" LP 1968 San Francisco, USA)
Galileo 7 - Staring At the Sound ("Staring At The Sound" LP 2012 The Medway, UK)
Here's one of the shows that I never got round to posting at the time -for the completist in me, I had to get it done, late or not!
Blue Giant Zeta Puppies - Heroes [David Bowie] ("A New Career in Town - More Songs By David Bowie" 2016 UK) Joseph Cave - Rock 'n' Roll Suicide [David Bowie] ("A New Career in Town - More Songs By David Bowie" 2016 Shrewsbury, UK)
Papy - Toi Le Shazam ("Wizzz! Psychorama Francais Vol 3" France)
Insekt Life Cycle - Sleepcrawler (7" single, The Phillipines 2016)
Sudden Death Of Stars - Over the Top ("All Unreleased Parts of the Unknown" 2014 Rennes, France)
Sendelica - Nite Flights [Scott Walker] (7" single 2016 UK)
The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (extended version) ("Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds - The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967" 2016 UK)
Us and Them - Next Time Around [Sandy Denny] (10" single 2016 Scandinavia)
Peter and the Wolves - Little Girl Lost and Found [The Garden Club] ("Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds - The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967" 2016 UK)
My Expansive Awareness - Liar Liar [The Castaways] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III" 2015 Spain)
Algae and Tentacles - Cuddle Up ("Algae and Tentacles" cassette 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Prefab Messiahs - Flight Reaction [The Calico Wall] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III" 2015 USA)
The Shivas - We Go On ("Freezing to Death" 2010 Portland, Oregon USA)
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The Coathangers - Stomp Stomp Stompin' ("Scramble" 2009 Atlanta, Georgia USA)
Wight Lhite - Counting Diamonds ("Beyond the Satellites" 2014 Tucson, USA)
Black Vacation - Germantown ("Germantown,TN" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Death By Raygun - Sheila Comes Back ("The Clifford Hoyt Experience" 2012 Japan)
Dick Diver - Tearing the Posters Down ("Melbourne, Florida" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Epsilon One - Sweet Airwaves and TV Spells ("Spirals" EP 2012 Edinburgh, UK)
Spacegazer - Not Your Steppin' Stone [Monkees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of TBTCI Vol 2" 2013 Paris, France)
Without further ado, here it is, the playlist for last week, ONLY a week late...a mixed bag of tracks, with new releases from Moon Duo (album "Occult Architecture Vol 1" due out early next year), Beaulieu Porch, Garden Gate, Lola Colt and Mother Upduff.
Here we go.........!
The Smoke - Utterly Simple (proposed 7" single 1968, never released UK)
Beaulieu Porch - Apollo's Here ("Sarum Sounds" 2016 UK)
Ron Grainer Orchestra - Boy Meets Girl ("Themes Like..." LP 1969 UK)
Nick Nicely - Raw Euphoria ("Space of Second" 2014 UK)
E.L. Heath - Seren ("Tŷ" 2013 Wales, UK)
Nashville Teens - I'm A Lonely One ("The Nashville Teens" LP 1972 Surrey, UK)
Children of Leir - Drowning in Fear ("Children of Leir (3rd Album)" 2016 Leicester UK)
Risque Humour - To The Sea ("Playground" LP 1984 Adelaide, Australia)
Pink Floyd - Scream Thy Last Scream ("Interstellar Overdrive: The Alternate Masters '66-'68" UK)
Groep 1850 - Mother No Head ("Agemo's Trip to The Moon" LP 1968 Netherlands)
Moon Duo - Cold Fear ("Occult Architecture Volume 1" [to be released 2017] USA)
The Dunes - Mountain (digital single 2016 Adelaide, Australia)
The Selfish Cales - See Tomorrow's Shores ("Throw Your Watch To The Water" 2015 Italy)
Garden Gate - Malevolent Thoughtform Dispersal ("Bonfires" 2016 USA)
Heaters - Master Splinter ("Holy Water Pool" 2015 USA)
Lola Colt - Jaguar (digital single 2016 London, UK)
Mother Upduff - Concept and Scope ("The Decay" 2016 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
The Jason Tryp Experience - She Creature (From the Deep) ("The Many Colours Of Tryp" 2013 California, USA)
The Disturbed - Don't Look Down ("Astonishing Sound Show Stories Volume One" 2001 Glasgow, UK)
The Smoking Trees - Lifetime Experience ("The Archer and the Bull" 2016 California, USA)
Aah, this was the day when everything went wrong... a few minutes into the show and the computer had a hissy-fit, leading to several people pulling plugs in and out, and scrambling around under the desk, trying to find the on/off switch. Needless to say, by the time everything was up and running again, my programming was totally out the window, but at least the music went to air! These are the perils of Community Radio, but on the upside, when everything is operating as it should, we're very lucky to be able to play whatever we fancy (and without endless commercials interrupting the flow), which benefits you, the listener. As a result of the above-mentioned malfunctions, I ended up unintentionally relying on 2 very good compilations (as you'll see below, they feature very strongly in the playlist): Fruits de Mer Records'"Strange Fruit and Veg"compilation, and "Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968". Both releases are collections of cover versions, and very good versions they are too! So here's the playlist, but with limited clips this week...
The 49th Parallel - Close the Barn Door (7" single (b-side to "Twilight Woman") 1969 USA)
The Green Telescope - I'm a Living Sickness [The Calico Wall] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland UK)
Oxford Circle - Foolish Woman (7" single 1966 California, USA)
ZX+ - She's a Rainbow [Rolling Stones] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 UK)
The Mint - We're Friends ("Endless Journey: Reverberation III" compilation 1971 Texas)
The Dragons - Heart Transplantation (7" single 1969 Bonn, Germany)
The Hergs - Style of Love (7" Single 1967 Adelaide, Australia)
The Dukes - The Dentist (7" single (b-side to "Vera Petruschka") 1969 Sauerland, Germany)
M.P.D. Limited - No Regrets (7" single 1966 Melbourne, Australia)
The Telephones - Hummmingbyrd (7" single 2014 UK)
Mauve La Biche and Cary Grace - Archangel Thunderbird [Amon Duul] ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 UK)
Mark Fry - The Witch ("Dreaming WIth Alice" LP 1972 UK)
The Crawlin' Hex - Who Do You Love? ("Strange Fruit and Veg" compilation 2015 Fylde Coast, UK)
The Lords of Gravity - Black [The Throb] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
The Gruntled - Drivin' Me Insane [Missing Links] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
Ninetynine - It's A Hard Life [The Atlantics] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Melbourne Australia)
The Double Agents - I Want, Need, Love You [The Black Diamonds] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
The Cants - Saturday Date [Toni McCann] ("Wild About You: A Tribute to the Australian Rock Underground 1963 - 1968" 2002 Australia)
Arirang - 10:15 Saturday Night [The Cure] ("The Cure In Other Voices" 2016 Milan, Italy)
The Skating Party - Metal Baby [Teenage Fanclub] ("TBTCI Loves TFC" 2016 Pennsylvania, USA)
Champanes - The Concept [Teenage Fanclub] ("TBTCI Loves TFC" 2016 Washington, USA)
T Rex - Truck On (Tyke) [full-length master version] ("Shadowhead" 2001 UK)
Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Thinking About You ("Sidewalk" 2013 California, USA)
Jeffertitti's Nile - Midnight Siren (7" single 2011 California, USA)
Sidewalk Society - If Only ("Venus, Saturn and the Crescent Moon" 2012 Long Beach, California USA)
Os Noctambulos - Watching You (7" single [b-side to "Outsider"] 2015 Paris, France)
Dusty Mush - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White ("Psychotic Reaction" compilation 2015Île-de-France, France)
Wow, how time flies when you have to catch up on blog entries ... I'm so far behind it's not funny! But catch up I will, so enough of my dribbling, here's the show from way back in early October... and onto the next one, post-haste...!
KAK - Trieulogy - I. Golgotha II. Mirage III. Rain ("KAK" LP 1969 Davis, California USA)
The Animated Egg - Sock It My Way ("Animated Egg" LP 1968 USA)
Sullivan - Hashish Faction (7" single 1966 France)
Les Papyvores - Le Papyvore (7" single 1967 France)
Stu Phillips - Skip To My Mary Lou ("Hell's Angels on Wheels" LP 1966 USA)
Crimson Shadows - Even I Tell Lies (7" single 1985 Vallingby, Sweden)
Dolkows - Silent Woods ("Story of Robi & The Nudes" LP 1987 Sweden)
Covers and Comps (cover versions and compilations, that is...) pretty much sums up this week's show, with both in abundance! And especially those of the Australian variety, such as "Tomorrow Is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" and "Burn Your Fingers On The Sun", two classic double-CD psych comps which are now pretty hard to lay your hands on, unless you get lucky in the second-hand bins. The former release also features a disc of current (at the time) bands covering sixties Australian songs ... details of which can also be found in the accompanying book (of the same title) by Iain McIntyre, which also covers fashion, youth culture and society at large, and is still available from Wakefield Press. Unfortunately not many clips of these bands exist, so in some cases I've included an alternative song to give you an idea, in case you missed the show.
Marc Almond - Late Night [Syd Barrett] ("The Madcap Laughs Again!" 2010 UK)
The Orange Drop - Juniper Pearl ("Stoned In Love" 2016 Pennsylvania, USA)
Steve and the Board - The Giggle-Eyed Goo ("The Complete Steve and the Board" 2016 Sydney, Australia)
6 Feet Under - Inspiration in My Head ("6 Feet Under - In Retrospect [1969-70]" USA)
Jacques Du Tronc - Le Responsible (7" single 1969 France)
The Legends - High Towers ("The Legends - High Towers [1965-1973]" USA)
Christine Pilzer - Ah Hem Ho Hu Err ("Cafe Creme" 7" EP 1967 France)
Peter Pan and the Good Fairies - Kaleidoscope ("Garageaholic! Psychedelic! Outsider Music! (Arf Arf Audio Relic sampler)" 2008 (recorded 1968) USA)
biG GRunt - The Strain (12" EP 2016 (recorded March 1970 on the John Peel Show) UK)
biG GRunt - Cyborg Signal (12" EP 2016 (recorded March 1970 on the John Peel Show) UK)
C.A. Quintet - Cold Spider ("Trip Thru Hell" LP 1969 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA)
Die Dancing Bears - New York Valentine (7" single 1982 Adelaide, Australia)
The Brats - We Love You [Rolling Stones] ("Demo 1980 [Live at the Port Elliot Hotel]" 1980 (unreleased) Adelaide, Australia)
The Laurels - Turn on Your Mind ("Mesozoic" 2011 Sydney, Australia)
Intercontinental Playboys - Just Turn On ("Just Turn On" 7" EP 2002 Sydney, Australia)
The Frantics - Farfisa ("Antipodean Screams" 2003 Australia)
Blue Sunshine Minds - How Does it Feel? ("Burn Your Fingers On The Sun" 2007 Australia)
The Great Apes - Sebastopol Street [Procession] ("Tomorrow Is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" 2006 Melbourne, Australia)
Mid State Orange - Moving in A Circle [The Executives] ("Tomorrow Is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" 2006 Melbourne, Australia)
The Black Ryder - Rise ("Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride" 2009 Sydney, Australia)
Thee Pink Stainless Tail - Gottzar ("The Sky's A Soft Target" 2003 Melbourne, Australia)
Belles Will Ring - Lantern Of Black Light ("Burn Your Fingers On The Sun" 2007 Sydney, Australia)
3DTV - The Neon Distortion ("Tomorrow Is Today: A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-70" 2006, Australia)
The Alohas - Kooksville ("Get Leid With" 2000 Sydney, Australia)
The Sun Blindness - A Trip In The Painted World ("Like Pearly Clouds" 2008 Melbourne, Australia)
Ian Wettenhall - Pirate Lies ("Antipodean Screams" 2003 Australia)
At Three D Radiowe are lucky enough to receive donations of CDs and vinyl to fill gaps in our collection, often from other announcers (I'm sure regular listeners will have heard me, and others, mentioning the latest release donated by Andrew K, whose show follows Technicolour Dreaming), and sometimes from generous members of the public. So I was very pleased to discover the compilation "Monster a Go-Go: Teen Trash from Psychedelic Tokyo '66-'69"had appeared as a new acquisition, and that it had not one, but two tracks by The Spiders! Some years ago, I had seen a some excerpts from the 1968 movie "Go Forward!" and a few other comedies that featured The Spiders (apparently there are thirteen in total!), but had no idea of the names of the songs. I've now discovered that one of my favourites was "Nati Bati Yi", which is included on the compilation (obscure fact - backing vocalist and tambourine player Masaaki Sakai might be better known as the lead character in the TV series "Monkey"). So here's the playlist for the show, with clip of "Go Forward!" at the end, for your amusement...
Toy - Strange ("Toy" 2012 UK)
The Spiders - Nati Bati Yi ("Monster a Go-Go: Teen Trash from Psychedelic Tokyo '66-'69" compilation Japan)
The Chocolate Watch Band - Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-in) (7" single 1967 USA)
The Mops - Blind Bird (7" single 1967 Japan)
First Crew To The Moon - The Sun Lights Up the Shadows of Your Mind (7" single 1967 USA)
Cate Le Bon - Wonderful ("Crab Day" 2016 Wales, UK)
Allah-Las - Warmed Kippers ("Calico Review" 2016 Los Angeles, USA)
White Noise - Here Come the Fleas ("An Electric Storm" LP 1969 UK)
Episode Six - I Can See Through You (7" single 1966 UK)
The Bystanders - Cave of Clear Light (7" single [b-side to "When Jezamine Goes"] 1968 Wales, UK)
The Missing Souls - Sweet, Sweet Sadie (7" single 2016 France)
Philwit and Pegasus(Mark Wirtz) - Pseudo Phoney Mixed Up Croney (extra track on the 2003 reissue of the "Philwit and Pegasus" LP 1970 UK)
Schnauser - Protein For Everyone ("Protein For Everyone" 2014 UK)
My Expansive Awareness - Liar Liar [The Castaways] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III" 2015 Spain)
Algae and Tentacles - Cuddle Up ("Algae and Tentacles" cassette 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Prefab Messiahs - Flight Reaction [The Calico Wall] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of The Blog That Celebrates Itself Vol III" 2015 USA)
The Shivas - We Go On ("Freezing to Death" 2010 Portland, Oregon USA)
The Butterscotch Cathedral - Waterfall Parasol ("The Butterscotch Cathedral" 2015 Tucson, USA)
The Coathangers - Stomp Stomp Stompin' ("Scramble" 2009 Atlanta, Georgia USA)
Wight Lhite - Counting Diamonds ("Beyond the Satellites" 2014 Tucson, USA)
Black Vacation - Hold ("Germantown,TN" 2016 Melbourne, Australia)
Death By Raygun - Sheila Comes Back ("The Clifford Hoyt Experience" 2012 Japan)
Dick Diver - Tearing the Posters Down ("Melbourne, Florida" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Epsilon One - Sweet Airwaves and TV Spells ("Spirals" EP 2012 Edinburgh, UK)
Spacegazer - Not Your Steppin' Stone [Monkees] ("The Psychedelic Sounds of TBTCI Vol 2" 2013 Paris, France)
Basement Spaceman - Pussyfooter ("BS2" 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
Spaceman - Dead Baum ("Palm Haus" 2016 Fremantle WA)
The Maybes - Don't Ask (digital single 2012, Glasgow, UK)
Tooth and Tusk - Nothing Makes Sense (digital single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)
The Smoking Trees - Goodbye ("The Archer and the Bull" 2016 LA, USA)
