Highs in the Mid Sixties, Part 6

For a Saturday, three more fab discs of obscure and highly regionalized 1960's psych/garage from
three different corners of the US of A....volume 16 features part three of perhaps my favorite region, The Northwest, I think the Northwest sound of that era was quite unique, very individual. And, once more, the well-known acts of the era/region are nowhere to be found (this is a GOOD thing as those tracks are easilly available elsewhere). Perhaps the best known act here is Rocky & His Friends with the very fab "Riot City", otherwise we get a wonderous assortment of lesser luminairies such as International Brick, Pembrook LTD, and the City Zu....great volume in the series.

Volume 17 brings us back to Texas (the fourth Texas volume in the series).....we do get a fab track from Neal Ford and the Fanatics "Bitter Bells", otherwise, SJ & the Crossroads, The Souncations, and of course the Roks, who check in with their version of that hard to find chestnut "Hey Joe" (I REALLY want to do a self-made "Battle of the 'Hey Joe's", much like the three disc "Gloria" comp I posted a while back.....honestly I think I can probably get a 25-30 track disc, maybe two discs, out of all the versions of "Hey Joe".......perhaps, one day.

And Volume 18 lands us in Colorado, who give us a few acts that I've run across on a some other comps, such as The Monocles, Moorakers, and the Elopers groovy "Music To Smoke Bananas By" (!), this is ALSO one of the better volumes in the series, and is the ONLY Colorado disc in the set
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LOTS of good feedback on this series thusfar, I wasn't sure......I guess, maybe there IS a high demand for this stuff, the more obscure the "better", I don't know......we are about three steps BENEATH "Nuggets" now, as obviously "Nuggets" contained some records that were actually huge hits....that ain't where we are now with this series and some of the others I've put up and will continue to (I guess) for a while, as you guys seem to really be diggin' em', and there will NEVER be enough obscure psych-punk-garage for yours truly.

Keep on rocking

VOLUME 16-01 THE RAYMARKS-Work SOng/02 THEE UNUSUALS-I'm Walkin Babe/03 ROCKY & HIS FRIENDS-Riot City/04 THE DOMINIONS-I Need Her/05 THE BUMPS-Hey Girl/06 THE LIVE FIVE-Move Over and Let Me Fly/07 THE EXPRESS-You Gotta Understand/08 THE NAVARROS-Tomorrow Is Another Day/09 THE GENTLEMEN WILD-You Gotta Leave/10 WHEEL OF FORTUNE-Before You Leave/11 PEMBROOK LTD-Sleepy John/12 THE CITY ZU-Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast/13 THE UNITED TRAVEL SERVICE-Wind and Sound/14 INTERNATIONAL BRICK-You Should Be So High

VOLUME 17-01 THE SPARKLES-The UT/02 SJ & THE CROSSROADS-Ooh Poo Pah Doo/03 SJ
& THE CROSSROADS-Darkest Hour/04 THE SOUNCATIONS-Exit/05 THE VISIONS-Humpty Dumpty/06 THE SPECTRUM-Bald Headed Woman/07 GENTLEMEN-Come on (If You Can)/08 KEMPY & THE GUARDIANS-Love For a Price/09 THE ROKS-Hey Joe/10 THE LOST GENERATION-They Tell Me/11 THE SPADES-We Sell Soul/12 NEAL FORD & THE FANATICS-Bitter Bells/13 THE IGUANAS-Leaving You Baby

VOLUME 18-01 THE ASTRONAUTS-Come Along Baby/02 THE SOUL-Have It All Your Way/03 THE TROLLS-I Don't Recall/04 THE TROLLS-Stupid Girl/05 THE POOR-She's Got the Time (She's Got the Changes)/06 THE SOOTHSAYERS-I Don't Know/07 THE MOONRAKERS-I DOn't Beleive/08 SUR ROYAL DA COUNT & THE PARLIAMNETS-Scream Mother Scream/09 OUR GANG-Careless Love/10 THE MOONRAKERS-Baby Please Don't Go/11 THE MOONRAKERS-I'm All Right/12 THE LIDOS-Since I Last Saw You/13 THE RAINY DAZE-Fe Fi Fo Fum/14 THE DOPPLER EFFECT-God Is Alive In Argentina/15 MONOCLES-Psychedelic (That's Where It's At)/16 THE ELOPERS-Music To Smoke Bananas By

Links In a little bit, don't blame Zippy if it takes till morning, I got a couple of movies I wanna burn first.........but you'll get em, hopefully tonight, and these are three of the better discs of the set, I think.....continue with the comments, it's the only way I can gauge the interest......and thanks again to DAVIDWOLFSONNC, one of the greatest of "Friends of the Blog", for contributing the only disc of the series that I was missing, Volume 23 (Texas Part 5)......I will put it up in order with the other discs OR you guys can just go into the comments section from a couple days ago and download it yourselves, up to you.......But thanks again, you've (davidwolfsonnc, I mean) bailed me out more times than I can calculate!