Shouldn't Quibble / In the Swamp / Hook / Sleazy / RE: (TV) unbel ievable steal on a 5 cd box!!????

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

Couple of comments (don't interpret 'em 
as complaints):

I've never heard of any of the bands on
that 5-cd boxed set, except for:

Kim Fowley, The Bees (maybe), Shadows 
of Night (maybe), Yesterday's Children 
(maybe), The Bobby Fuller Four, Shag(s) 
(only if they were an all-girl band), 
The Electric Prunes, The 5 Canadians 
(consisting of Greg Grant, Eric 
Veillette, and 3 Labatt drinkers), 
and The Barbarians. 

The last band were from Boston, and they 
opened for the 1964 Beatles' outdoors 
concert at the Suffolk Downs Racetrack 
in Boston (Revere(?), MA). Or possibly they 
were the opening act for the Rolling Stones' 
outdoor show at the Lynn (MA) Bowl (or both)? 
The Barbarians' drummer had only one hand, 
but he used his Captain Hook-like 
attachment very adeptly when playing.

Not sure if I'd categorize The Bobby Fuller 
Four under the genre of Wild Psychotic 
Garage Punk (or even under Garage-band).

Question: were the Electric Prunes also 
originally from Boston?

	Leo

PS:  Warning, run-on sentence coming.
There's still a used (and new) cd/vinyl 
store in Central Sq., Cambridge that in 
the 1990s had one of its entire corners 
devoted to a huge collection of just a 
single kind of of music--this corner's 
wall-sign categorized the genre as 
'Swamp rock', and within that category, 
about 10 sub-categories of 'swamp rock' 
were broken-out. 

The majority of these albums had been 
recorded in the 1960s to late-1980s by 
pretty obscure bands/performers, and 
each had never been played but each 
cardboard album was still hermetically 
sealed in its original cellophane. 

The store also had a similar big section 
containing nothing but un-played,  
cover-still-sealed-with-cellophane 'Swamp 
Blues' albums. 

And in the rear of the store, was, of course, 
a whole section devoted to albums by 60's-early 
70s rock bands--also still hermetically sealed. 
Some examples: The Insect Trust, Paul Revere 
and The Raiders, The Zombies, Blue Cheer, The 
Bobby Fuller Four, Moby Grape, and The Seeds 
(and a 100 other bands my mind can't dredge-up 
at the moment). 

I'll have to leave my work desk and go there 
right now.
 

PPS: The store was/is called Cheapo Records.
The only few down-sides were that the 
constantly on-site owner was a big fan (and 
a record spinner at weekend dances or 
conventions) of 1950's singing groups (e.g. 
the song, "In The Still of The Night"), as 
well as 1950s''do-wop'. Luckily he hardly 
ever played any of this stuff in the store, 
but also was an incredibly dishonest 
business man. 

For instance, he had a somewhat-faded, handwritten 
sign that was a little larger than a postage stamp 
taped to the underside of his heavily scratched 
Plexiglas check-out/cash register's counter, which 
read, "In order to return any defective new records, 
they Must still have the [slit-ed] plastic cover 
cellophane wrapper still attached."  (Most knowledge 
vinyl records' customers knew it was best to 
entirely remove the cellophane as otherwise, you'd 
greatly increase the likelihood of your record(s) 
warping over time. 

I 'got him' once when I brought back to the store a 
Link Wray compilation vinyl album (had some of his 
'hits', plus his cover of the theme music for the 
god-awful late-60s' tv show, "Batman"). My copy 
clicked badly in a couple of places, but I had 
not removed the slit-cellophane on the cardboard.     

In addition, some of his store's inventory of 
brand-new 1950s to mid-1990s unopened vinyl 
albums, had been procured under illegal 
circumstances, or/and through slimy, hard-ball 
tactics. Know of one instance where he got 
caught doing somthing along those lines; it 
must have somehow included inter-state activity 
as he received a large *federal* fine.  Let's 
just say that he was The Anti-Andy Ferguson, 
and he wasn't a 'rose'.

   
 -----Original Message-----
From: tv-owner@obbard.com [On Behalf Of Jay
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 9:04 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) unbelievable steal on a 5 cd box!!????

>seems too good to be true, but i just ordered 
>one for>me and my brother.....

>shhhhh
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