RobbieReverb
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San Jose, Ca.
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Posted on Jan 01 2009 03:18 PM
The Move were a tremendous band! I guess they were pretty popular in the UK, but were not even on the radar over here. Roy Wood was/is way out there, but in my opinion is a musical genious. I've got some of their CD's and some vinyl. I ought to have everything by them, but their stuff hasn't exactly been easy to find. I'll have to get that box set. Thanks for bringing up this great band!
Bob
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5 Cd's on shuffle mode right now:
The 4 CD box The Move Anthology 1966-1972
Roy Wood is boss! This set unearthed some rare stuff from very early 1966, and includes many of the unavailable and original live tracks from the 1968 Marquee shows the Something Else from the Move ep was taken from. The Something Else tracks were doctored in the studio, most featured entirely new vocal tracks. This box features some of the show as it was on the night(s), and is raw as hell. Roy played a Jag through a ToneBender and a wah on the live stuff, and was pretty fond of Eastern sounding melodies and drones ala Roger McGuin and Jeff Beck's stuff in the Yardbirds. All five members sang so the harmonies are incredible as well.
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IvanP
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 10331
southern Michigan
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Posted on Jan 01 2009 04:32 PM
lonecat
Roy Wood is boss!
Did you know that Wood got his start playing instrumental rock in the early sixties in the UK? His band was called the Falcons, and released one single at the end of '63 ("Stampede"/"Kazutska"). Here's what Trev Faull's book "A Collectors Guide to 60s Brit-Pop Instrumentals" says about them:
"Roy Wood wrote a tribute album 'Eddy & the Falcons' in memory of his first guitar band. The two tracks on offer were written by Mick Grace and Peter Faircloth, who most certainly must have been in the group. Both cuts involved fast guitar pieces of the highest order. It is known that Roy had a copy of a proposed follow-up that was once aired on radio! It remains sadly unreleased, but both sides here feature the kind of driving guitars you don't hear every day."
You can hear "Stampede" as the lead track on the recent "Phantom Guitars" CD (though the liners claim it's unlikely this was Roy Wood's band, contrary to Faull's above entry).
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lonecat
Joined: Jun 09, 2008
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Posted on Jan 01 2009 05:28 PM
Did you know that Wood got his start playing instrumental rock in the early sixties in the UK? His band was called the Falcons, and released one single at the end of '63 ("Stampede"/"Kazutska").
Hi Ivan,
Yeah, I was aware of that...actually there is an old thread around here somewhere that I replied to concerning that exact track. After a bit of research I am not convinced that was Roy's Falcons at all.
All the info I've read over the years, including interviews with Roy himself, cites the band as Roy on lead guitar, Dennis Hunt on Rhythm guitar,Billy Martin on drums, and Alan Walker on bass, and a bit later Brian Mayling on drums.
In interviews Roy has said that the only track he ever recorded with the Falcons was a cover of The Dambusters and that is was a single shellac disc he basically did as a gift "for his mum and dad"... in his very cool book Brum Rocked On ,Laurie Hornsby, who was there in Birmingham and involved on a personal level with most of the movers and shakers, says the exact same thing. He used to watch Roy perform the song with the Falcons and says it was basically Roy's "showpiece" at the time.
Roy was in The Falcons for a very short time, and then joined Gerry Levene and the Avengers in 1963. (This band actually featured a young Graeme Edge on drums)
With Roy they recorded a tune called Dr. Feelgood, which was released in 1964 and I have indeed heard that one many times. Roy would have been around 16 years old then...the Avengers sounded like every other Brummie band did at that time, doing covers of (and derivitive originals...) American R&B and soul stuff. He had none of his trademark guitar style at that point.
It wasn't until Roy joined Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders that you can really start to identify his singing voice and developing guitar style,and also where he wrote his first B side. But it wasn't until The Move that he became the Roy Wood everybody is now familiar with.
I still should pick that comp of early British instrumental stuff up regardless of Roy's involvement, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Sorry for my rambling, but I really do love Roy and the whole Move family tree of Brummie bands...
Don
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dp
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 3546
mojave desert, california
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Posted on Jan 01 2009 05:42 PM
I just heard Tom holler because Jerry chopped off his tail with an axe!
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Ruhar
Joined: Jun 21, 2007
Posts: 3909
San Diego, CA
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Posted on Jan 01 2009 06:03 PM
JakeDobner
Ruhar
Pollo Del Mar - The Golden State
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That, and I like the cover 
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Staredge
Joined: Sep 27, 2008
Posts: 1149
Damascus, Maryland
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Posted on Jan 01 2009 06:49 PM
Episode #6 of the SG101 podcast. 
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The Luau Cinders
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Felix
Joined: May 30, 2008
Posts: 135
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Posted on Jan 04 2009 04:07 AM
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bigtikidude
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 25540
Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Jan 04 2009 05:27 AM
spskins
Emma Emmaline-Hot Chocolate
cool song,
my dad has that 45,
used to play is from time to time.
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Felix
Joined: May 30, 2008
Posts: 135
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Posted on Jan 04 2009 08:43 AM
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Felix
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Posted on Jan 07 2009 04:52 PM
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Ruhar
Joined: Jun 21, 2007
Posts: 3909
San Diego, CA
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Posted on Jan 07 2009 06:16 PM
Laika & The Cosmonauts - Surfs you Right. Some of the best Strat sounds in surf!
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Brian
Joined: Feb 25, 2006
Posts: 19266
Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Jan 07 2009 06:28 PM
The new Atomic Mosquitos "Meltdown" CD!
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mom_surfing
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 5298
the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Jan 08 2009 03:34 PM
satans' pilgrims... .'creature feature' from the two disc CD 'plymouth rock'
i REALLY,REALLY like this band and this 'best of' gets better with every listen.
carol.......
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Pappa_Surf
Joined: Oct 28, 2008
Posts: 671
Winnipeg, Canada
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Posted on Jan 08 2009 04:15 PM
Big Sandy and his Fly Rite Boys - My cousin sent it to me yesterday but he didn't say what album its from.
And right at this instant I'm listening to Jim Messina.
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tonybologna
Joined: Mar 06, 2006
Posts: 796
Oakland
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Posted on Jan 08 2009 04:37 PM
Watching/listening to Wattstax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattstax
Pretty Awesome.
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JakeDobner
Joined: Feb 26, 2006
Posts: 12159
Seattle
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Posted on Jan 08 2009 05:04 PM
I was listening to surf earlier. I swear to god. I had on the Secret Samurai disc. Work speakers suck though.
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Jon
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
Posts: 1076
Columbus, OH
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Posted on Jan 08 2009 05:26 PM
Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
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Voodoo_Idol
Joined: Jul 30, 2008
Posts: 94
Pasadena, CA
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Posted on Jan 08 2009 06:58 PM
In observance of his 74th birthday, I've been listening to the long lost, recently discovered 'Cowabunga Elvis' album. Who knew Elvis went through a Fender phase in the early 60's?
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bigtikidude
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 25540
Anaheim(So.Cal.)U.S.A.
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Posted on Jan 09 2009 01:40 AM
"Time has come today"
The Chambers Brothers
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mom_surfing
Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 5298
the outer banks of north carolina
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Posted on Jan 09 2009 07:30 AM
i'm sampling both the new atomic mosquitos and reverb galaxy cd's on cdbaby.com
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