Monday, September 14, 2020

THE APPLES AND ORANGES BAND

A friend posted a thing on Facebook about the Flamin' Groovies Shake Some Action LP, praising it. This was after he mentioned a few days ago that the first Blondie LP, released around the same time, did not age well. I wholeheartedly agree. Shake Some Action is a great album, produced by Dave Edmunds, in my friends words "possibly the best Beatles tribute of all time". And he would know. I'm not going down that road tonight, just take it from me. This he was saying about Shake Some Action. It was like Flamin' Groovies 2.0. All polished, courtesy of Edmunds. Roy Loney's out, Chris Wilson's in. And suits. What's that all about? A different band, only one album removed from Teenage Head. So, here's four songs from four successive LPs, the first two with Loney in the band, and the second two with Wilson in the band.

~ NOTE: ALL MEDIA IS HOSTED BY THE BLOGS & SITES NAMED BELOW ~ 
Listen:
Flamin' Groovies - Headin' For the Texas Border mp3 at Melting Pot  1970
Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head mp3
at Chris Wireman (?) 1971
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action mp3
at Margauxville 1976
Flamin' Groovies - Take Me Back mp3
at Flying Snail 1978

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