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Spike Drivers - 60's Folkrocking Psychedelia From the Motor City (1965-68/2002)

Spike Drivers - 60's Folkrocking Psychedelia From the Motor City (1965-68/2002)

BAND/ARTIST: Spike Drivers

  • Title: 60's Folkrocking Psychedelia From the Motor City
  • Year Of Release: 1965-68/2002
  • Label: RD Records
  • Genre: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Folk Rock
  • Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, log)
  • Total Time: 01:02:44
  • Total Size: 189/408 Mb (scans)
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Spike Drivers - 60's Folkrocking Psychedelia From the Motor City (1965-68/2002)


Tracklist:

1. Often I Wonder (Ted Lucas) - 5:49
2. Strange, Mysterious Sounds (Ted Lucas) - 5:31
3. Baby, Let Me Tell You (Richard Keelan) - 4:32
4. Blue Law Sunday (Tony Wright) - 4:01
5. Baby, Can I Wear Your Clothes? (Joel Myerson) - 3:51
6. Got The Goods On You (Joel Myerson) - 3:45
7. High Time (Joel Myerson) - 2:29
8. Portland Town (Daryl Adams, Sid Brown) - 5:29
9. Grocery Store (Marshall Rubinoff) - 3:30
10. Everybody's Got That Feeling (Marshall Rubinoff) - 4:26
11. I Know (Marshall Rubinoff) - 5:18
12. Time Will Never Die (Marshall Rubinoff) - 3:08
13. Sometimes (Marshall Rubinoff) - 5:56
14. Can't Stand The Pain (Joel Myerson) - 2:30
15. I'm So Glad (Ted Lucas) - 2:28

Line-up::
Marycarol Brown - Vocals
Ted Lucas - Guitar, Vocals (1-7, 14,15)
Richard Keelan - Bass, Vocals (1-7, 14,15)
Larry Cruise - Drums (1-13)
Sid Brown - Guitar, Banjo
Ron Cobb - Bass, Keyboards (8-13)
Marshall Rubinoff - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (8-13)
Steve Booker - Drums (14-15)

This collection of 15 previously unreleased recordings from 1965-1968 doesn't include their rare Reprise singles, though it does have different versions of three songs from those 45s ("High Time," "Baby Won't You Let Me Tell You How I Lost My Mind," and "Strange Mysterious Sounds"). A little better documentation about exactly when and where this stuff was cut, in fact, would have been quite useful if it's known, though the 16-page booklet has otherwise very detailed liner notes from lead guitarist Sid Brown. It's more psychedelic than folk-rock, sounding quite a bit like an early San Francisco band might, though they were from Detroit. At times there's a resemblance to the Great Society, particularly in the minor-keyed tunes and improvisational-raga influences, though that group (Grace Slick's pre-Jefferson Airplane outfit) had considerably better songs, melodies, and vocal/instrumental personality. The Spike Drivers are not a major find as far as obscure early psych bands go but, all those negatives out of the way, there's some fairly cool stuff here, if on the charmingly naïve side. "Strange, Mysterious Sounds" is a little like a collision between doomstruck raga rock and Mamas & the Papas harmonies, and "Portland Town" is a haunting drawn-out acid-folk cover of the traditional folk song. Other tracks, like "Got the Goods on You" and "Baby, Can I Wear Your Clothes?," mine a much lighter tone lyrically and musically, with their offbeat mixtures of British Invasion, folk-rock, and bohemian lyricism. Some of the tracks do get into grating, noisy psychedelic improvisation (with a sometimes substandard recording) and don't have much compositional backbone, though. And as singers they're far below the level of a Jefferson Airplane, though like the Airplane they were a mostly male group with one female singer (Marycarol Brown, who takes lead vocals rather infrequently).



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  • whiskers
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