TEXAS PSYCH & ROCK & BLUES

Post by **jamestkirk** » Mon May 02, 2011 9:19 pm

Great music in my favorite genre came out of TEXAS in the 60's. WHat are your favorite Texas psych rock bands?!

my #1
FEVER TREE

SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS...great 60's pix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0Y7uKt ... re=related

The Sun Also Rises!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPGqEWxf ... re=related

ANd a band that is on several 60's Acid & Flowers styled compilations...wish we had more of them!

CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS

SUICIDAL FLOWERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGgH2sAW ... re=related

Setting Of DIspair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPqZUy5e ... re=related

So name some of your favorite TEXAS rockers, WITH OR WITHOUT LAVA LAMPS!

Post by **jamestkirk** » Tue May 03, 2011 4:17 pm

DOUG SHAM (RIP) & THE SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET

GREAT ! GREAT! ARTIST!

Douglas Wayne Sahm (November 6, 1941 – November 18, 1999), was a musician from Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he was a child prodigy in country music, but became a significant figure in blues, rock and other genres. Today Sahm is considered one of the most important figures in what is identified as Tejano music. He was the founder and leader of the 1960s rock and roll band the Sir Douglas Quintet, and later with Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez in The Texas Tornados, and also in Los Super Seven supergroup.
-wiki

She's About A Mover...b&w TV appearance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XboE3_7K ... re=related

Austin City Limits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxsWRDeuxTE

"Mendocino"....great song but we can thank Sir Doug's hit for the loss of innocence and population explosion in the idyllic community that was home to hippie rockers & back to the earth flower children .... Gene Clark lived a quiet life there with his wife and children away from the LA drug culture and hangers-on....writing NO OTHER.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1MSwRP ... re=related

Post by **silentseason** » Tue May 03, 2011 6:17 pm

Maybe a stretch but I'll include the First National Band, specifically "Nevada Fighter" from Mike Nesmith. 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds' is a fantastic bit of tex-mex/country psych from Nez and Red Rhodes.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Tue May 03, 2011 7:33 pm

silentseason wrote:Maybe a stretch but I'll include the First National Band, specifically "Nevada Fighter" from Mike Nesmith. 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds' is a fantastic bit of tex-mex/country psych from Nez and Red Rhodes.

Not a stretch at ALL!!

Pap Nez....so much music so little time!

Robert Michael Nesmith (born December 30, 1942) is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name. Nesmith is notable as a songwriter, including "Different Drum" sung by Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys, as well as executive producer of the cult film Repo Man. In 1981 Nesmith won the first Grammy Award given for Video of the Year for his hour-long Elephant Parts.

The original Space Cowboy in my mind!

Zappa & Nez
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNJy-OgCzB0

Eldorado To The Moon...love this video from Michael
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpOQKUAY ... re=related

I have most of Papa Nez on vinyl including the obscure vinyl box promo..."THE PRISON"

The Prison - A Book With A Soundtrack (or simply The Prison) is Michael Nesmith's seventh solo album of his post-Monkees career and his first to be released under his own record label, Pacific Arts. It includes a novella meant to be read while listening to the album as its "soundtrack". In 1994 Nesmith recorded a companion novella/album entitled The Garden. According to Nesmith's website (Videoranch), a third instalment is in development; however, no date has been listed for the release[1]

The Prison and The Garden were re-released together on CD in 2004 by Video Ranch.

Critical reception

Allmusic called The Prison "a brilliant multimedia concept marrying the personal and inner visual experience of Michael "Papa Nez" Nesmith's novella with the aural medium of an equally original soundtrack." Robert Christgau called it a "ghastly boxed audio-allegory-with-book."[2]

I love it...here is DANCE BETWEEN THE RAINDROPS & BBC interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk0GUX4_Kgc

Post by **silentseason** » Wed May 04, 2011 2:10 pm

I've never heard 'Wichita Train Whistle Sings'. Is it a worthwhile listen? Nez never lacked ambition.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Thu May 05, 2011 5:18 pm

silentseason wrote:I've never heard 'Wichita Train Whistle Sings'. Is it a worthwhile listen? Nez never lacked ambition.

I have it on vinl....quite rare. Nesmith owed something like $50,000 income tax and decided the best way to stick it too Uncle Sam was to make a totally unsellable record and get a large loss write-off!
Which he did!

It is all instrumental and is good if you like instrumental work ....a lot of great musicians are on this one. Many covers of his own Monkees. songs too.

The Wichita Train Whistle Sings was the first solo album by Michael Nesmith and was recorded while he was still a member of the Monkees. It peaked at No. 144 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.

The album comprises instrumentals performed by a full orchestra. All but one of the songs were recorded by the Monkees (a couple of them weren't released until the Missing Link albums).

The album was made over a two-day session on November 18 and 19 1967 and featured the best musicians in Hollywood, including ten trumpets, ten trombones, ten saxophones, 2 drummers, five percussionists, four pianos, eight basses, seven guitars. As it was the weekend, all musicians were paid double time and the session was catered by Chasens, the finest restaurant in Hollywood. It all cost $50,000. Nesmith explained to Hal Blaine that he was about to pay a similar sum in tax and he would rather spend it on the sessions and write it off than give it to the IRS[1].

When Nesmith released "Wichita Train" on CD, he recorded the album onto digital from a phonograph. As he explained in the liner notes, the album was intended to be played on vinyl, and therefore, attempted to capture the album's true essence.

The album was also remastered and re-released along with Timerider in 2008 on the Edsel label.[2]

1. "Nine Times Blue"
2. "Carlisle Wheeling"
3. "Tapioca Tundra"
4. "Don't Call on Me"
5. "Don't Cry Now"
6. "While I Cried"
7. "Papa Gene's Blues"
8. "You Just May Be the One"
9. "Sweet Young Thing" (Nesmith, Gerry Goffin, Carole King)
10. "You Told Me"

Tapioca Tundra...not the instrumental from the album...but sung by Michael...he still has it!!

I wonder if Morrison had lived ....would he be bald, shaven, & wear a tux at 2010 BMI Music Awards like Michael did ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P60NddHYEoU

Post by **silentseason** » Fri May 06, 2011 3:33 pm

One hit group Bubble Puppy "Hot Smoke and Sassafras".

Post by **jamestkirk** » Fri May 06, 2011 5:00 pm

silentseason wrote:One hit group Bubble Puppy "Hot Smoke and Sassafras".

Absolutely...their ONE album is amazing! If you don't have it ...GET IT!!!

A PSYCH CLASSIC!!! Some more from Bubble Puppy's "A Gathering Of Promises"

ELIZABETH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3leGN7DB ... re=related

HURRY SUNDOWN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C70l_pf6 ... re=related

Gathering Of Promises
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_KtZljY ... re=related