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Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Clear Spot
(1972, Reprise)



I need repeated listenings to appreciate Beefheart records, but it's worth the effort. Clear Spot is a little more accessible than other titles that I have - having Ted Templeman, who produced the Doobie Brothers, as producer probably helps here. "Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles" is on The Big Lebowski soundtrack.

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Dick Dale and His Del-Tones - Checkered Flag
[2010. Sundazed] Reissue of 1963. Capitol Lp.



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: KING OF THE SURF GUITAR

on my last batch of 60's surf tunes, there was the tune that I considered the greatest SURF GUITAR when it came out , and still do

Pipeline - The Chantays

hit a few garage sales and back to CRM today....$5 total ....the Hendrix cover is falling apart, but the vinyl is vnice

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Otis Redding - The Dock Of The Bay
(1968, Atco)



The title song was co-written with Steve Cropper, the guitar player from Booker T. & The M.G.s, who is also producer here. The album cover is rough but the LP is excellent, with wonderful late 60s dynamics.

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More on this event at: KING OF THE SURF GUITAR

Thanks for the heads up, that definitely looks like an interesting flick.

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Lou Reed - self titled
(1972, RCA)



with Steve Howe, guitar; Rick Wakeman, piano.

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Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits
(1969, Reprise) two-tone W7 label



I have a smash hits poster hanging in the basement, but the poster that shipped with this copy was long gone when I picked it up.

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Backstreet Crawler - The Band Plays On
(1975, Atco)



Debut record. with ex-Free guitarist Paul Kossoff. From the first track, the wailing guitar is recognizable as Kossoff's from Free. a dollar bin find last month.

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Laurindo Almeida - Classical Current / Electronic Excursions
(1969, Warner Bros)



some nice listening for Sunday morning. Almeida is experimenting here with electronic classical guitar and forms of musique concrete with adaptations of selections from Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Tschaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel.

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The Bob Brookmeyer Quintet - Traditionalism Revisted
(1958, World Pacific) Mono



with Jim Hall, guitar. one of several Brookmeyer LPs that I plucked out of dollar bins last month.

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was listening to Pandora last night on the Senns ....the screen blacks out after 1 minute. Some electric blues came on that was so good that I had to awaken the iTouch to see what was playing..

thought I read it wrong ....said "Chicken Shack" ...turned it up and went back to enjoying ...I had NEVER hear of them, but I guess they are real

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Shack

Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards) in 1968.

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Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Second Wind
(1972, RCA)



Brian Auger on keyboards and a Hammond B-3 organ, smokin'.



Chicken Shack

was listening to Pandora last night on the Senns ....the screen blacks out after 1 minute. Some electric blues came on that was so good that I had to awaken the iTouch to see what was playing..

thought I read it wrong ....said "Chicken Shack" ...turned it up and went back to enjoying ...I had NEVER hear of them, but I guess they are real

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Shack

Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards) in 1968.

I bet that was nice. I've seen a 1969 title "100 Ton Chicken", released after Christine left, but I have yet to run across one when she was in the band.

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John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band with Elephant's Memory - Some Time In New York City
(1972, Apple) Bell Sound sf in the deadwax; mastered by Sam Feldman at Bell Sound



"John & Yoko forever. Peace on earth and goodwill to all men '72" in the deadwax, side 1. It's interesting but not a great record. I remember going wtf? when I first heard this in the 70s, and it hasn't aged with me. with Franka Zappa, Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, Klaus Voorman.

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Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Soul Limbo
(1968, Stax)



includes a cover of Hendrix' Foxy Lady and Lennon & McCartney's Eleanor Rigby.

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Link Wray & The Wraymen - s/t
[1985. Edsel]
Reissue of 1960. Epic Lp + bonus trax



Great 1st Lp w/early guitar distortion growl.


Love - Da Capo
[1967. Elektra] Stereo
German Issue.



Legendary stuff on side A. But side B is kinda offbeat pointless jam session. Maybe they want to beat up The Who - A Quick One, Stones - Goin' Home, The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray or The Seeds - Up in Her Room . Revelation bacame Disintegration


The Seeds - A Web of Sound
[1966. GNP Crescendo]



Great early psych. Sky Saxon, a tripmaker

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Quicksilver Messenger Service - Comin' Thru
(1972, Capitol)



One of the last of the original QMS records, but without lead guitar John Cipollina who had already left to start his own band Copperhead - returning in 1975 for a QMS re-incarnation.