Monday

mystery trend

...these frisco artschool beatnix never actually got past one single release back in th' day but they did cut a fair few tunes over a couple years(65/7)'n they got gather'd up 'n put out on this swell'n groovy disk...a perfect blendin' o' merseybeat'n folk much like many others on th'west coast but these cuts got somethin' else, a little undefinable at first, but after list'nin' a while most layabouts hep to th'mid60 beat will recognize a pop perfection happ'nin', not necessarily in a chart bound sound way but easy to imagine th'monkees wishin' they could be this real when left to their own devices...not psychedelic in a acid pop/orchestral pop way but guaranteed to supply good vibes for melt'd mynds...

3 comments:

Jeff Gee said...

"Carl Street" is such a cool tune. Always thought it was a real shame these guys didn't stick together long enough to put a proper album or 3 back in the day. Hey, if you ever feel like posting Mystery Trender Ron Nagle's solo LP "Bad Rice," it will deeply appreciated in these here quarters, anyhow. I dumped it during a move 30 years back and regretted it before I even hit the city limits.

spacedsaviour said...

bad rice, great LP with some well plug ugly artwork, will see if it can be ripped from vinyl (if you wanna write any memories of lost records, strange gigs check 'http://returnofthebadman.blogspot.com/' blog, most cats seem scared to remember anything, or put finger to keyboard)...

Jeff Gee said...

Yeah, my recollection is that the front cover was a pile of rotting rice, and the back cover was a full face shot of some body with a nasty looking cracked front tooth. Couldn't have been Nagle, could it? Even in 1970 I don't think you could get a record contract if you looked like that. The graphics definitely made that sweet piece of vinyl easier to part with than even a plain brown wrapper would have.