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...
Very sad to hear that another twolegendary musicians have joined the Supergroup in the Sky - and coincidentally on the same day - Jefferson Airplane members Signe Anderson, the original vocalist, and guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Paul Kantner. This intro is rapidly becoming a list of who has died, rather than what I've played on the show - hopefully at least a week will go by without any more major losses....
So here's the playlist for the week, and amazingly with a clip for every song! Enjoy...
Vibravoid - Playing with Beuys ("The Politics of Ecstasy" 2009 Dusseldorf Germany)
Procul Harum - Shine on Brightly ("Shine on Brightly" LP 1968 UK)
Billy Nicholls - Girl From New York ("Would You Believe" LP 1968 UK)
Jefferson Airplane - Wooden Ships ("Volunteers" LP 1969 San Francisco USA)
Pinkunoizu - I Said Hell, You Said No ("The Drop" 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sundays and Cybele - Waiting for You ("Gypsy House" LP 2015 Hokkaido, Japan)
The Who - Armenia City in the Sky ("The Who Sell Out" LP 1967 UK)
Moodoid feat. Melody's Echo Chamber - Le Lac d'or (CD single 2015 France)
Octopus Syng - Listen to the Moths ("Reverberating Garden No 7" 2014 Finland)
Dean Allen Foyd - Lovely Sort of Death ("The Sounds can be So Cruel" 2012 France
Ghost - Water Door Yellow Gate ("In Stormy Nights" 2007 Tokyo, Japan)
Holy Wave - Son of Sound ("Relax" 2013 Austin, Texas USA)
Elephant Stone - Child of Nature (Om Namah Shivayah) ("The Three Poisons" 2014 Montreal Canada)
The Tremolo Beer Gut - While Squaresville is Watching From Afar... ("From the Vinyl Archives of..." mini-album 2001 Denmark)
Turbonegro - Suffragette City [Bowie] (7' single 1997 Norway)
The Royal Beat Conspiracy - Had To Be a Woman ("Music to Rock the Nation" 10" LP Gothenburg, Sweden
The Cush - The Vigilant Ones ("Between the Leaves" 2009 Fort Worth, Texas USA)
Pineapples From the Dawn of Time - Freaky Acid Planet / Too Much Acid ("Shocker" LP 1987) Brisbane, Australia
Fast Camels - 50 Things on Your Mind ("The Magic Optician" 2007 Glasgow, Scotland)
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Smell of Incense (7" single 1968 USA)
Tom Northcott - Who Planted Thorns in Miss Alice's Garden (7" single b-side [to "Sunny Goodge Street"] 1967 Canada)
The Misunderstood - Never Had a Girl (Like You Before) (7" single 1969 USA/UK)
Jefferson Airplane - And I Like It (alt version prev unreleased) ("Takes Off" LP 1966 USA)
I actually managed to stay for the whole 2 hours of this week's show, whichwas a welcome change, while Harry had a well-earned rest. Amongst the bands I played were The Moving Sidewalks, which included Billy Gibbons,later of ZZ Top, as well as The WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band,who were the first band to release Stepping Stone, the classic version of which was made famous by The Monkees not long after. Also featured were a selectionof bands playing at the "Going Steady Festival" at Jive on December 13 2015, such as local acts The Dunes, Black Coral and Glass Skies, and headliners Moon Duo.
...and here's the playlist,moving pictures and all!
Pinkunoizu - Necromancer ("The Drop" LP 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark)
Sudden Death of Stars - I'm Not Among Believers ("Getting Up, Going Down" LP 2011
Rennes, France)
Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra ("Dead Magick" 2011 Reykjavík, Iceland)
The Moving Sidewalks - 99th floor (7" single 1967 Texas USA)
The Purple Gang - Granny Takes a Trip (7" single 1967 UK)
The Litter - Action Woman (7" single 1967 Minneapolis USA)
The WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band - Hippy Elevator Operator
(7 " single 1966 California USA)
The Rokes - When the Wind Arises (7" single 1968 UK)
The Pretty Things - Defecting Grey (7" single 1967 UK)
Flamin Groovies - Slow Death (7" single 1972 San Francisco USA)
Goat - Gathering of Ancient Tribes ("Commune" 2014 Sweden)
The Night Beats - Outta Mind ("Sonic Bloom" 2013 Seattle USA)
Holy Wave - Spooky Fuckin' Blues ("Evil Hits" LP 2012 Austin, Texas USA)
Wall of Death - Marble Blues ("Main Obsession" LP 2012 Paris, France)
Magician - Fuck for Peace ("Golden State Psychedelia" compilation, late 1960's San Francisco USA)
Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride ("Wooden Shjips" 2007 San Francisco, USA)
Six Organs of Admittance - Actaeon's Fall (Against the Hounds) ("Luminous Night" 2009
California USA)
Espers - Widow's Weeds ("Espers II" 2006)
Black Coral - Please Never (CD Single 2014 Adelaide, Australia)
Moon Duo - In A Cloud ("Shadow of the Sun" 2015 San Francisco, USA)
Glass Skies - Highway ("Glass Skies" EP 2014 Adelaide, Australia)
The Dunes - When You Wake Up ("Live at the Sound Lounge, Three D Radio" 2015 Adelaide Australia)
The Systemaddicts - Black [The Throb] ("Broken Hearted on the Nullarbor" 2015 AdelaideAustralia)
Richard Hell - (I Belong To The) Blank Generation ("Ork Records: New York, New York" compilation 2015 USA)
Alex Chilton - Can't Seem to Make You Mine [Seeds] ("Ork Records: New York, New York"
It is
appropriate that this edition’s Compilation of the Week
is the 2014 Electric Sound Show 5-CD box-set,
a series that describes itself as ‘An Assortment of
Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur’, which, in part, is what we
aim to play for our listeners each week, along with more recent releases we pick from the current
psychedelic outpouring and its 20th century predeccessors! It
has a slightly murky history (you try getting any CONSISTENT, accurate
information about this series on the internet!) with the first
instalment of the original vinyl series, the “We
All Live On Candy Green” LP, put out by Soundshow
Records in 2004, followed by “In King
Solomon’s Minds” in 2010. The next LP was “Apricot
Hash in the Hourglass” in
2011, “Paper Thoughts of Polly Pan” (2013)
and finishing with “Green Eyed Gods of Smoke” (also
2013). The set covers rare 60’s psychedelia from Britain and the USA,
plus what is variously described as ‘Pop-Psych’, ‘Mindblowing Nuggets’ and
‘Heavy Psychedelic Stoners’ from the rest of the world. The limited edition 5CD
box set released by ParticlesRecords that is our particular focus this week is
based on the original vinyl albums, but with some different tracks to confuse
the issue.... whatever, it is a great boxset, and deserved its place as
our feature. Another highlight was a rare interview with Nickof Adelaide’s Molting Vultures... much merriment ensued as he
regaled us with tales of the music scene in Melbourne where he now resides. This
move several years ago means however that the Molting
Vultures now only play occasionally in either city, but have a great
turnout of loyal garage-psych aficionados whenever they appear and hopefully a
new album release will also ensue in the not too distant future with Nick promising he has some new songs ready for the
band to develop. For the rest of our playlist simply see below, and so until
next Tuesday, between 2
and 4pm (Central Australian Time)
on 3D Radio, we bid you “adieu”.....
......
and here’s the complete song-list, including some associated clips, including scenes from the Cat & Brat's wedding performance of 'Life On The Dole' with the Molting Vultures, the complete Andy Warhol tribute, “Songs for Drella”, played
live in 1990 by John Cale and Lou Reed, plus an episode of Julian Cope's "Modern Antiquarian" TV show..... Enjoy!!
Three
Minute Tease -
Bravely Fade Away ("Bite the
Hand" 2014 UK)
Pinkunoizu- The
Abyss ("Free Time" 2013
Denmark)
White
Noise - Phase In –
Firebird ("An Electric Storm" 1969 UK)
Halasan
Bazar and Tara King th.
- Ventolin ("8" LP 2014 Denmark/France)
the Molting Vultures
- Here Come the Mushroom People ("Drop in and
Go" 2009 Adelaide, Australia)
Interviewwith Nick
Molty ofthe MoltingVultures
Peter Brat and the Molting Vultures - Life on the
Dole (7"single 2010 Adelaide,
Australia)
Lothar
and the Hand People
- Sex and Violence ("Presenting ... Lothar and
the Hand People" LP 1968 New York, USA)
Dodson
and Fogg [feat. Nigel Planer] - Entrepreneur in the
Garden ("In a Strange Slumber"
2014 UK)
Octopus
Syng - Listen to
the Moths ("Reverberating Garden Number 7” 2014
Helsinki)
Our Compilation of the Week for this edition was “A Forest of Goldtops in the Land of Oz” plus its
companion volume, “Datura Dreamtime”, a 2-CD
series of Australian psychedelia put out in very limited numbers in 1997 and
1999 respectively. They are classed as “unofficial” releases, but most of the
songs are long deleted, unknown or very rare, and though a few, by such artists
as the Twilights and Bobby & Laurie were on major labels, most, for instance by Glass Web [whose bass-player, incidentally, later found
some reknown as Stan
Brat of Adelaide’s the Brats, the band of which this writer was
also a member],were
put out by small independent record companies or self-released and thus
extremely hard, not to mention expensive, to find. Hence, these early compilations
gave modern fans of psychedelia a chance to hear these songs, often for the
first time, and to rescue them from oblivion, a job they seem to have done
successfully when one looks at the growing number of such Aussie psych compilations
today. Staying in that same Australian vein, we also played from the limited
edition vinyl double-LP of 2013’s great “Nuggets :
Antipodean Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era” of current Australian
artists playing versions of the original “Nuggets” compilation of 1972 and which features 7
more tracks than the CD version. Needless to say there was also music from
diverse sources and eras such as songs by Pinkunoizu, Permanent Clear Light, the Luck of Eden Hall, Vibravoid and others as is our
wont. So, until next week.....
..... here is the playlist plus the
occasional visuals..... enjoy!
New Electric Ride - Marquis De Sade ("Balloon
Age" 2014 UK)
People - I Love You [Zombies cover]
("I Love You" LP 1968 San Jose,
California USA)
Shocking Blue - Acka Raga ("Shocking Blue"
LP 1969 Sweden)
the Rolling Stones - My Obsession ("Between
the Buttons" LP 1967 UK)
Thee Jezebels - Black Book (7"single 2015 UK)
Rocket From the Tombs - Sonic Reducer (recorded live 1975 Cleveland, Ohio USA –
originally unreleased; taken from
"Babylon's Burning:The Rough and Ready Rise of Punk Rawk 1973-1978"
boxset compilation 2007)
Ty Segall - Love Fuzz ("Twins"
2012 California, USA)
Melodie Nelson - Tobacco Road [Trad./Blues
Magoos cover] ("Nuggets: Antipodean
Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP 2013 Australia)
Bad//Dreems – Pushin’ Too Hard [Seeds
cover] ("Nuggets: Antipodean Interpolations of
the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP 2013 Adelaide, Australia)
Pinkunoizu - Death is not a Lover ("Free
Time!" 2012 Denmark)
Permanent Clear Light - The Skies Will
Fall ("Beyond These Thngs" 2012
Finland)
Cary Grace - Cirrus Minor [Pink Floyd
cover] ("Fruits de Mer: A Temporary Lapse of
Vinyl" compilation 2015 UK)
the Luck of Eden Hall - This is
Strange("Alligators Eat
Gumdrops" 2012 Chicago, USA)
Spacegarden - Blood Red Dawn of Opium ("Psychedelica 1"
compilation 2006 York, UK)
ScotDrakula - Run Run Run [Third Rail
cover] ("Nuggets: Antipodean
Interpolations of the First Psychedelic Era" double-LP 2013 Australia)
Compilation of the Week
"A Forest of Gold Tops in the Land of Oz"and"A Forest of Gold
Tops – Vol. 2 : Datura Dreamtime"
the Proclamation - King of the Mountain (7"
single 1968, Perth, Australia – taken from “A
Forest of Goldtops...” compilation 1997 Australia)
Glass Web - In a Year or So
(7" single 1971 Adelaide, Australia – taken from “A
Forest of Gold Tops... vol.2 – Datura Dreamtime” compilation1999 Australia)
Peter Tilbrook - All Mine to Play With (7" single b-side
[to Stop the Time] 1971 Adelaide,
Australia – taken from “A Forest of
Goldtops.....”)
Doug Ashdown - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On [version] (7" single 1969, Australia –
taken from “...vol.2 – Datura Dreamtime”)
the Vegetable Garden - Even Stevens
(7" single 1969, Perth, Australia– taken from “A Forest of Goldtops.....”)
Travis Wellington Hedge - Hey Bulldog [Beatles cover] (7" single 1969
Adelaide, Australia – taken from “...vol.2 – Datura Dreamtime”)
