As if we needed any reminders that there is an endless amount of music out there that we haven't heard, and may never hear. Bands that were hot shit in their day, maybe just among their crowd, and maybe in only one venue. And other bands that may never have done anything but one record, and could not have even conceived that their overly generic band name would mean nothing but frustration for some coffee swilling bastard trying to track down just one photo, thirty plus years in the future. But that's where we find ourselves today.
The first of the most awesome songs de jour is "Itchy Bon Mash" by the Pendletons (found on Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban). After listening to it three times in a row, and really getting off on the way the sax, all dirty and honky and such, creeps in, and then abruptly takes a piss break (very Rumblers-esque), I decide, "Okay then, let's link to this sucker...oh shit. 'The Pendletons.' That's going to lead to Google Hell." I never stood a chance. Scrapping something out of that ill-fated search, I somehow ended up on 60'sGarageBand.com. I started to poke around and landed on the page for Gross National Product, a late sixties Southern California band. They never put out a record, and their only recorded work is a practice tape, recorded by an early version of the band. Don't let the tame looks of the early version of the band fool you. Listen to "Little Girl," relish the whole tough guy routine, and remind yourself that there were many, many, bands of that era that never recorded in a studio; more still that never recorded anything at all. Sure, this one's copy cat stuff, what with all the dead on snotty sounding affectations, but it is good, real good; like a six minute "Psychotic Reaction." Goddamn, I love oddballs.
The first of the most awesome songs de jour is "Itchy Bon Mash" by the Pendletons (found on Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban). After listening to it three times in a row, and really getting off on the way the sax, all dirty and honky and such, creeps in, and then abruptly takes a piss break (very Rumblers-esque), I decide, "Okay then, let's link to this sucker...oh shit. 'The Pendletons.' That's going to lead to Google Hell." I never stood a chance. Scrapping something out of that ill-fated search, I somehow ended up on 60'sGarageBand.com. I started to poke around and landed on the page for Gross National Product, a late sixties Southern California band. They never put out a record, and their only recorded work is a practice tape, recorded by an early version of the band. Don't let the tame looks of the early version of the band fool you. Listen to "Little Girl," relish the whole tough guy routine, and remind yourself that there were many, many, bands of that era that never recorded in a studio; more still that never recorded anything at all. Sure, this one's copy cat stuff, what with all the dead on snotty sounding affectations, but it is good, real good; like a six minute "Psychotic Reaction." Goddamn, I love oddballs.
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Listen:The Pendletons - Itchy Bon Mash mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Gross National Product - Little Girl mp3 at 60s Garage Bands
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