The Bambi Molesters - As The Dark Wave Swells [2010] preview

http://www.thebambimolesters.com/



album preview

The Surf Raiders

The beginnings of the Surf Raiders can be traced back to late 1962, when Bob Dalley heard "Pipeline" on radio station KFWB in Los Angeles for the first time. The sound of the song was so infectious, that he immediately ran out and bought a guitar and, within two weeks found himself in his first surf band, the Satellites. His love for the music stayed with him throughout the following years and changing music styles. In January of 1980 Bob set things in motion towards forming the Surf Raiders when he brought together a group of surf music enthusiasts and recaptured the sound and felling of those early sixties by promoting the same spirit that existed then [by PAT V on discogs].



This is a never released compilation, you can find it ONLY here.
(You can call it also an absolute useless HOMEMADE compilation ... if you want)

The Crestones (Chicago)

Richard Mack 'Dick James'
*rhythm guitar, bass, vocals

Paul S(a)mario 'Paul Mario'
*guitars

Jerry Zukowski 'Jerry Zee'
(†25 February 2008)
*drums, lead vocals












The band was located in the Chicago Area and "She's A Bad Motorcycle" was their biggest hit,
it appeared on a couple of drag and motorcycle related compilations.

The Crestones released the following singles:

She's A Bad Motorcycle / Grasshopper Dance (Markie 117) '64
I've Had It / Little Girl Of Mine (Markie 123) '64
The Chopper" / Scrambled Eggs (Markie 127) '64
The Boomerang-Part 1 & 2 (Markie 131) '65
My Girl / The Chopper" (USA 835) '65

and 1997 a self released CD with additional session tracks, commercials
entitled "Direct from Chicago"

Markie 117 & 127 plus the "Tackle Skin Cream" commercial

a picture says more than a thousand words

The Ziggens - Pomonalisa (1998)

Cowpunksurfabilly from Orange County (California)

myspace

Albums:

* Wake Up & Smell (1991)
* Rusty Never Sleeps (1992)
* Chicken Out (1994)
* Ignore Amos (1996)
* Pomona Lisa (1998)
* Live: Tickets Still Available (2000)
* The Ziggens (2002)
* Greatest Zits: 1990-2003 (2003)

cowpunksurfabilly-a-go

In God We Trust - The Mermen [2010]

another band back from the deep sea, after ten years - their first new release ...
In the tradition of this blog: only TWO songs (≈20 minutes), so you can imagine what you can expect from the new album and their new show.

more infos & album
available at:
http://mermen.net/

The Chantays - Pipeline [1963]

"The Family Model"

You love your LPs and your family too, unfortunally you've never been the whole week at home to observe your kids. The name of your - meanwhile 46 years aged - daughter is probably Jana.

Your albums have much more big scratches than songs. Doesn't matter.














"The Collector"

You bought this album in the hope to sell it one day for very big money.
You've never heard this album.
The package is still sealed.















"The try-before-buy-type"

You have the original Pipeline 45 since decades. When this album was released on cd with 3 bonus tracks, you've ordered it. Good choice.
















"The Outsider"

You live somewhere close to the end of the world and somebody in your gang organized a copy of a copy of a copy of this album on a very old noisy C-90 tape. You've been the only person in your gang with a computer. You made covers for the whole gang and converted the tape to mp3s, so that everybody could listen to the songs on his mp3-player.

Your computer is connected to your stereo. You're waiting for the summer.





Yes, I have this album on vinyl

[thanks to the guys over at flickr, especially for the first sleeve]

biography by wikipedia

annotation:
Tomás from Spain gave the hint, that Move It/Pipeline was released as single first on Downey-Records, and only distributed by DOT-records (wikipedia says December 1962).
After I've written a short email round the globe and received some answers, I'm sure that Pipeline was first planned and pressed as A-side, with Move-it as B-side. On the second release of this single, this time a nationwide release on Dot records, they changed the sides - for what reasons ever - and released the single as Dot 16440, with Pipeline as B-side

Next time you see the following single on a flea market - BUY-IT























thanks to Rhostislav for providing the single shot.

(On the first release the band's name was spelled "Chantay's", with the so-called greengrocer's apostrophe.)

The Shadows [1961]

The Shadows are Britain's most successful instrumental and vocal group with a total of 69 UK hit charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' plus 34 as 'Cliff Richard and The Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s.

According to the Guinness Book of Hit Singles and Albums,
The Shadows are the 3rd most successful UK charted hit-singles act, behind Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard.

The Shadows were pioneers of the four-member rock-group format (consisting of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar and drums) in the UK. They enjoyed a second wave revival spell of success and interest in their music from the late seventies until disbandment in 1990. Their unique guitar sound was originally produced by a combination of American Fender guitars, British amplifiers made by Vox, echo units by Meazzi and Morley's electrostatic disc.

This album is WITHOUT Cliff Richard!

The Gagarin Brothers

http://www.myspace.com/gagarinbrothers

You can't judge a book by it's cover ...
But the cover of the Gagarin Brothers' new release (2009) characterizes it pretty good: Russian music played in the style of the early Sixties. Double bass and Bayan (a Russian accordeon) instead of keyboards and fuzz guitars.


Check it out
01 International Panorama
02 Through Belgrade At Night
03 Beauty Queen

(the first three songs of their album)

ZZ & The Maskers [ZZ en de maskers] (Netherlands)

had their first gig in August 1963,
they supported Chubby Checker, a relationship which leads to a record contract and to some recordings together with Chubby Checker (he married in 1964 the Dutch Miss World from 1962, and was very often in The Netherlands).
The first recordings were made soon after: "Dracula", the fabulous song "Beat Girl", with a brilliant played guitar and also a remake of the 007 theme. The following years they recorded also Schlager, Beat and Rhythm & Blues.

This is a kind of my personal best of.
Listen to sixteen songs at lousy 128kb.

01 Dracula 02 Beat Girl 03 Tamara 04 Playboy Loves Playgirl 05 Cadillac 06 Main Theme from «James Bond» 07 Ave Maria No Morro 08 Goldfinger 09 Greensleeves 10 Quizas 11 Formula V Special [with engine sounds!] 12 Till 13 La Comparsa 14 Dracula [engl] 15 Sloppin' In Las Vagas (with Chubby Checker) 16 Do, Do, Do You Love Me



(dutch) Biography
(on the same page is also a link to their full discography)