James Brandon Lewis - Code of Being
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@bdp24 I liked the Goovies album you mentioned quite a bit. Reminded me a bit of SLOAN from Canada. A group I liked as a teenager and still play. |
@bdp24 - Yeah, Flamin' Groovies were great; their earlier stuff like Teenage Head, with their original singer the late, great Roy Loney is excellent as well... Sounds like you're a 'pub-rock' fan.... |
Dang, hip crowd ;-). Yeah, I’m big on Pub Rock. Like Graham Parker’s first coupla albums. And I just found Taxi To The Terminal Zone by Ducks Deluxe (also produced by Dave Edmunds) on LP. And The Groovies are actually still limping along. I was in my great local record store (Music Millennium in Portland) right before the Pandemic hit, and I heard them playing on the store’s sound system. I went up to the main counter to see 1- what album of theirs was playing (I hadn’t heard the song before, and I have all their records, dating all the way back to their self-issued 10" Sneakers, bought in San Jose at the time of it’s initial release in 1968), and 2- who had put it on the turntable. It turned out to be 1- their new-at-the-time Fantastic Plastic album (Cyril Jordan---great Rock ’n’ Roll name!---and Chris Wilson are the sole remaining members, yet they still sound exactly the same), and 2- put on the player by a 25-year old chick (okay, young woman) employee, a huge Flamin’ Groovies fan. She’s a classically-trained pianist (so much for trained musicians being Jazz or Classical snobs ;-), and real cute taboot! Made me wish I had been born later ;-( . |
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