beat - garage - mod - powerpop

V.A. Label: Acid Jazz | Format: LP Title: Rare Mod Volume 3 - 60s underground R'n'B, Psych and Soul Producer: Details: Mod, you can’t live with it, you can’t live without it! – whilst this extraordinarily resilient youth culture continues to defy the natural laws of science and quietly die, unnoticed in some dingy corner of a Soho alley, it is again reborn, embraced by a new generation of British youth – the thirst for original mod iconography, history and music has never been greater, so Acid Jazz records prepare for the release of their third instalment of the evergreen RARE MOD series…Think Nuggets or Pebbles – compilations that were crafted with care. Volume 3 sees the best collection yet – some of the finest underground mod, rhythm and blues and beat bands of the sixties, all digging out those unreleased acetates from on top of wardrobes, suitcases in the attic and in some cases, unheard studio master-tapes. Familiar names like The Creation and John’s Children with alternate takes of both Life Is Just Beginning and Desdemona (which features some previously unheard Marc Bolan vocals). Lesser lights such as The Iveys, The Preachers (featuring a young Peter Frampton), Gary Brooker (later of Procul Harum) and St Louis Union contribute amazingly rare material – there’s British soul from Goldie and The Gingerbreads, Kenny Bernard and The Wranglers (who boasted a young David Bowie on saxophone as part of their early line-up) and Andee Silver, psych from The Montanas and Dave and The Diamonds (up there with anything on the original Nuggets release!), RnB from Sean Buckley and The Breadcrumbs or Derry Wilkie and The Pressmen. In true RARE MOD style, there’s even an unidentified original acetate called Pink, Purple And Blue – answers on a postcard to AJ HQ if anyone recognizes the vocals!!! Lovingly compiled by authors Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson and Damian Jones and with extensive and highly detailed sleevenotes. TRACKS: 1. The Montanas - Open The Door 2. Sean Buckley and The Breadcrumbs - No Matter How You Slice It 3. Andee Silver - Baby I Need You Loving 4. Dave and The Diamonds - Think About Love 5. Creation - Life is Just Beginning (Alternate Take) 6. The Iveys - Chicago Calling 7. Derry Wilkie and The Pressmen - Can You Think of Another 8. Goldie and The Gingerbreads - Look For Me Baby 9. John’s Children - Desdemona (Alternate Take) 10. St Louis Union - About My Girl 11. Kenny Bernard and The Wranglers - Midnight Hour 12. The Nocturnes - Sunflower 13. The Montanas - Dr Nero 14. The Preachers - Get Back To The One 15. Sean Buckley and The Breadcrumbs - Shatterproof 16. Dave and The Diamonds - Such is Life 17. The Iveys - Little Egypt 18. Unknown - Pink, Purple and Blue 19. Gary Brooker - Verse One 20. Wainwright’s Gentlemen - Ain’t That Just Like Me 15.90 EUR | » back