sidewinders

...the cover of this disk was shot in the chelsea hotel in NYC and the sidewinders played some gigs at max kansas city, home of the dolls and jayne county but that's as far as decadence goes with this combo who much prefer the good honest AM pop radio approach to all things rocking and groovy...mixing in many many parts from the tapestry of six-oh pop/rock from surfing instro twang to merseybeat, from phil spector to creedence bayou sauce spreading across the landscape, white album fabs to hippy beach boys via dion d'mucci...cats working in the same area, drinking in the vibes from the same wellspring would be the raspberries in cleveland, memphis could claim big star as its poprocker sensation and so not to be outdone boston had the sidewinders...quite big (in a relative sense) on the new england underground scene that just couldn't translate club success into radio hits so their chance to be players in the early seventies pop-revival were limited to 'retro action' when andy paley became something of a small noise in the new wave era along with fellow bostonian johnny richman whose modern lovers operated a kind of velvets poprock at the same time playing the same clubs and backroom areas...cats who dig badfinger crossed with some kind of precient pub rock brinsley schwarz will groove with this lenny kaye produced disk as will all with a rock'n'roll heart...
...rocking noise...