AT EASE PACK MAN

Yee haw, Boogaloo Time just posted a bunch of swinging Hammond B3 cuts, including "Bullseye" by the Martinis and that gives me a great reason to direct you to an old post with stuff by the Martinis and other tracks from bands that included Packy Axton. If you don't know Packy Axton, he was the son of Estelle Axton, co-owner of Stax. And he was a bit of a partyer. That annoyed a few people at Stax, the wrong people. He was kind of a fuck up. Which is, of course, his appeal in these parts. 

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Listen:
The Martinis - Bullseye mp3 at Boogaloo Time
The Martinis - Hung Over mp3 at Rare Funk On 45
Visit:
Vital Organs - Nine more Hammond obscuros at Boogalo Time
Who Wants a Drink - Three more Packy Axton things

WHAT?! YOU'RE HUNGOVER?!!

Have a few too many last night? Then I have just thing for you. The soothing sounds of the Martinis. Perfect for a dull throbbing day on the couch, or at least a couple minutes of it. You'll want to stick it out until at least the :42 second mark. That's where Packy Axton comes in. He feels your pain. In fact Packy Axton probably felt your pain more than a few times, and probably to a higher degree than you ever will, amateur.

Axton paid the price for being King of the Party. He managed to get kicked off of Stax, the record label he had already had a hit on. A record label that was in full stride, coming into its glory years as a hit making machine. Just the fact that he got eighty-sixed is bad enough. It's worse when you consider that the label was co-owned by his mother and uncle. Oh, the indignity. Just soak on that aspirin hound. Packy Axton makes you look like a beginner.

Axton on the left. Post Dramamine.

Axton continued to make music regardless, with other bands on different labels, but without Stax on the label the records went nowhere. He died at the age of 32, in 1974, reportedly from cirrhosis of the liver. Yeah, it's all fun and games, isn't it? The lesson? Pace yourself. You only have so many drink tickets.

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Listen:
The Martinis - Hung Over mp3 at Rare Funk On 45
The Mar-Keys - Last Night mp3 at Rock 'n; Soul Ichiban While still on Stax.
The Pac-Keys - Dig In mp3 at Office Naps
The Packers - Go 'Head on mp3 at Public Collectors
The Pac-Keys - Stone Fox mp3 (via divShare) at Burn Wood Tonight Once you get to DivShare, click on the green "Download" button, and scratch your head for fifteen seconds while the timer counts down. When the button reappears, you're good to go.

WHO WANTS A DRINK?

Were you getting all kinds of nuts last night? Dragging a little today? Spend the day on the couch? That's why seasoned pros call it amateur's night. Pacing is everything. Just don't forget that the next time. Even if you swear there won't be, believe me there will. So, if you are hurting, if I was you I'd duck out of that first song below before it hits the :42 second mark. (If you have a hungover roommate and are one for cheap kicks, play that part loud.) The song is "Hung Over" by the Martinis, featuring Packy Axton, who knew a thing or two about partying. He was the son of Stax Record's co-founder Estelle Axton, and his wooping it up was a determining factor in his not so graceful exit from the Stax stable, and that was a big deal because besides being the son of one of the owners, he was a member of the Mar-Keys, who gave the label one of their first big hits, "Last Night".

The others down there are other post-Stax bands that Axton was in. He died at 32 in 1974, reportedly from cirrhosis of the liver. Consider that a lesson from a dead man.

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Listen:
The Martinis - Hung Over mp3 at Rare Funk On 45
The Mar-Keys - Last Night mp3 at Rock 'n; Soul Ichiban
The Pac-Keys - Dig In mp3 at Office Naps 
The Packers - Go 'Head on mp3 at Public Collectors

The Pac-Keys - Stone Fox mp3 (via divShare) at Burn Wood Tonight Once you get to DivShare, click on the green "Download" button, and scratch your head for fifteen seconds while the timer counts down. When the button reappears, you're good to go.

PACKY'S HERE TO HELP

I just came back from the main drag down the street, which is all of three blocks long yet has a dozen bars. It's Saint Patrick's Day, which you'd think I would have noticed from all the people wearing green. But what I noticed first was the high percentage of shit-faced bar hoppers. In one block, three different people being held up by friends, and two cars pulled over. On one block. So, it seems it might be a little late for any sort of Irish music. Might as well get an early start on the hangover music. For my money, no one has done that better than the Martinis, a band that featured one Packy Axton, the son of Estelle Paxton (co-founder of Stax Records) who probably knew thing or two about hangovers. Despite his mother's role, and the fact that he was a member of the Mar-Keys, he was shown the door at Stax due to his partying ways. He died in 1974, reportedly from cirrhosis of the liver.

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Listen:
The Martinis - Hung Over mp3 at Rare Funk On 45
The Pac-Keys - Dig In mp3 at Office Naps 
The Packers - Go 'Head on mp3 at Public Collectors

PRESSING HER LUCK

The Mystery Suggester is at it again. Apparently either the dancing in fuzzy slippers or the martini(s) got to her, because she managed to find another solid swinger that was impossible to ignore. This one is "Hung Over" by the Martinis, yet another band that I've never heard of. I did manage to find a blurb where someone way more fiendish than I tries to piece together the background info, but, like a lot of other oddball songs, context can kill. At 1:55, it's a short song, so depending on your state, you may want to play it a few times in a row to get the required effect. Of note, you'll be lulled into a mellow vibe until, at :42 into it, you'll hear all the vocals a song called "Hung Over" needs. It's either an agonizing grunt, or someone calling O'Rourke. Either way, it adds that certain thing that makes it a certain right-click.

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Listen:
The Martinis - Hung Over mp3 at Rare Funk On 45
The Martinis - Hung Over (audio only) at YouTube In case you want a taste before you click.