This is an odd mixture of psychedelia and that USian vocal sound exemplified by The Association. The guitar intro is reminiscent of Paperback Writer and Pleasant Valley Sunday.
Edited to add: a cleaner sounding version than in the clip below is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DcN39Pc7uQ but I’ve also kept the original so that the following comments make sense.
Despite the hippy gear they still managed to look very USian and clean cut. But that keyboard player was so affected.
Though it seems I didn’t, I thought I had mentioned in Friday on my Mind 29 that I actually bought Status Quo’s first hit Pictures of Matchstick Men, though they were The Status Quo then.
This follow-up – remarkably similar to that first hit and which appeared on the ludicrously titled first LP, Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo – has a title that is all too appropriate, but has a bass line reminiscent of Hendrix.
The Status Quo: Black Veils of Melancholy
Richard John (Rick) Parfitt: 12/10/1948 – 24/12/2016. So it goes.
I was sorry to hear yesterday morning of the death of Ian McLagan, keyboard player with the Small Faces and The Faces.
Itchycoo Park was a departure for the group, its phasing making it a part of the mid-60s psychedelia trend, but it does foreground his keyboard playing.
The Small Faces: Itchycoo Park
Ian Patrick ‘Mac’ McLagan; 12/5/1945 – 3/12/2014. So it goes.
Apart from calling his band Nirvana I once thought that Cobain’s use of the song title Smells Like Teen Spirit was pretty cool, a nice metaphorical touch. Then I found out Teen Spirit is actually some sort of American deodorant.
Not so cool at all, then. (Except under the arms of course.)
Here is the realNirvana‘s track, Pentecost Hotel, their second single.
The trouble with Kurt Cobain was that he named his band Nirvana.
This means that whenever I mention the original Nirvana, the true Nirvana, I have to explain I don’t mean a grungy bunch from Seattle.
The earlier (1960s) Nirvana’s mainstays were Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos. Together with producer Chris Blackwell they produced a series of idiosyncratic singles with classical/orchestral influences and also released what was probably the first concept album, The Story Of Simon Simopath, which had a quintessentially 60s psychedelic cover – complete with blocky unequal sized lettering.
This is their first single, Tiny Goddess, which has more than a hint of Pachelbel.
