2008/08/25

The third great lost Kinks Album. Thanx to Ian S.




1: Long Tall Sally 2: Obadiabloo 3: I Don't Need You Anymore 4: Too Much Monkey Business
5: You Really Got Me 6: Got Love If You Want It 7: Little Queenie 8: I'm A lover Not A Fighter
9: I've Got That Feeling 10: You Shouldn't Be Sad 11: Hide And Seek 12: Never Met A Girl Like You Before 13: Milkcow Blues 14: Got My Feet On The Ground 15: She's My Girl 16: Listen To Me 17: I Am Free 18: A Well Respected Man 19: Holiday In Waikiki 20: Fancy 21: Little Miss Queen Of Darkness 22: Animal Farm 23: Plastic Man 24: Victoria 25: Mr.Churchill Says 26: Arthur 27: Got To Be Free 28: Marathon 29: Lola 30: Apeman.

INFORMATION:1: Live at The Cavern Club, Liverpool, Dec.1963 2: as The Ravens, first recording session, Oct.63 3: Outtake, Jan.64 4: same as 3 5: no info available, but probably same as track 6 6: BBC, Sept.64 7: BBC "Saturday Club2", 7.Sept.64 8: no info 9: BBC, Saturday Club, 9.Dec.64 10: BBC, Saturday Club, 20 April 1965 11: no info 12: no info 13: BBC, Aug.6.65, different version on official BBC set 14: BBC, Sat.Club, 10.Aug.65 15: "Kink Kontroversy" outtake, 1965 16: same as 15 17: no info 18: BBC, Sat.Club.13.Dec.65 19 --- 21: Stereo mixes from "Face To Face" LP, 1966 22: BBC, Sat.Club. 26 Nov.68 23: BBC, Sat.Club, 2 Apr.69
24: no info 25: no info 26: BBC, 18 Dec.69 27: no info 28: Ray Davies, for BBC play "The Longdistance Piano Player", March 1970 29: BBC, 18 May, 1970 30: BBC, 13 Dec.70.

2008/08/22

A police car and a screaming siren, pneumatic drill...


A ripped up phone booth?

(Thanx to Vanooh)

Steve Marriott's Moments. (Thanx to Mick, Flavio and John of course)

STEVE MARRIOTT'S MOMENTS - THE E.P




Limited edition 7 inch vinyl and download: ACID JAZZ RECORDS AJX 210s – released 22nd September 2008

Side a – Money Money & Good Morning Blues

Side b – You Really Got Me & You'll Never Get Away from Me

UNHEARD STEVE MARRIOTT MASTERS UNCOVERED

Legend is an oft abused word. There are few stars in the British pop pantheon who could legitimately be described as such. Steve Marriott is one. With an army of dedicated devotees numbering Weller and Gallagher in their ranks, the Marriott legend continues to grow.

From his first role as the original Artful Dodger in Lionel Bart's first run of Oliver, to the electrifying bundle of energy that fronted the Small Faces, through his Humble Pie 'super-group' with Peter Frampton, and his eventual return to his Essex blues roots. Steve Marriott crammed a lot into a short time. Following his tragic death at 44 in a house fire in 1991, the Small Faces catalogue has been reissued in a hundred different ways. Box sets, CDs in tins – virtually every track they recorded is available. For a band together for only three years, their impact still looms large as the genuine mod icons.

But what of Marriott's time before the Small Faces? At 16, Steve Marriott formed The Moments, an east London r and b band with a loyal mod following through their residencies at the Flamingo Club. They gigged hard through 1964 but commercial success eluded them and in October of that year Marriott was dumped by the rest of the band after they decided that 'he didn't have it in him to be a singer…'

Then, according to David Bowie, he and Marriott were planning a blues band called David and Goliath when Marriott jumped ship and formed the Small Faces with Ronnie Lane.

Last year, Barry Hewitt, the bass player in The Moments chanced upon an un-played acetate recorded back in 1964. A conversation with Whapping Wharf's John Hellier led the unheard recordings to Acid Jazz, where they have been coupled with The Moments only release, the impossibly rare 'You Really Got Me'/'Money' (US World Artists 1964) for a special limited edition 7 inch vinyl EP.