Thanks !! Yeah it was a blast.. !! that girl on lead was ME, by the way! I appreciate your complimetn! I'm RAlph's wife, by the way .. the whole family is Pyschedelic ;-) Thanks again.. I will pass this on to Ralph! Watch for more Magoo gigs, recordings, etc! Love, Beki!
Wow -- so crazy how great these guys still sound! Their songs have lived in my head since 1967 and never left! They're part of who I am. Great job Beki!
The first time I heard WE AINT GOT NOTHING YET...I ran to the store to buy the LP. Then discovered so many more gems like ONE by ONE, Gotta Get Away, etc etc...kick ass album. I always loved Scala's lead vocals. Cheers to one of the pioneers of Psychedelica. Thanks to Beki for putting up this video clip of the band's reunion.
But it is so nice to have it all now! I was too young back then but now.. it's a blast to see these bands play!! Thank the powers that be for keeping these guys around and in good shape! They can go the distance and they, like fine wine, only better with age!!! :-) Bek!
I love these guys. Saw them 3 times live when they used to play a club in Detroit called the Chessmate. They put out three great albums that still get regular play in my house. Love that Basic Blues Magoos LP especially.
i randomly bought a worn out, mold damaged copy of psychedelic lollipop at thrift store last month, cleaned it up and loved everything on it! last night my brand new stereo copy of psychedelic lollipop on vinyl came in the mail. "sometimes i think about" is already one of my all time favorite songs. i love this video, so up close and down to earth. thanks for posting it! Evan
Just read about this band in Ace Frehley's recent book 'No Regrets'. Ace was friends with Peppy Castro, who was one of his mentors! I'm 51 now, and have heard of The Blues Magoos, but never heard their music until today. I may have heard their hit on the radio a long long time ago, but really don't remember. Anywho, you gotta love 'RU-vid'!
Got to see these guys play again just last month ago in Woodstock at the Bearsville Theater during the 40th anniversary weekend of the Festival, and they were really tight and polished with high energy. But they're playing with a replacement guitar player so their original lead guitarist (who was there) only played the Theremin. Great show!
Ralph looks & sounds the same, & Espo, that was innovative guitar for that time. One of the best pop songs of all time! Seeing you guys together makes me what to call some old friends.
sweet, real nice, my friends band opened for them in a local club in 69 or 70. they were as cool off stage as their throw down on, if memory serves me.
One day way back in the early 1970's I was selling my used 1950's Fender Duosonic guitar. I was living in NJ back then. The doorbell rings and standing there was Pepe from the Blues Magoos and his girlfriend was with him. He bought the guitar. I wonder if he still has it. Vince
One of my top five favorite bands. Especially loved Basic. Very sophisticated music. Their version of I can hear the grass grow was much better than the Move’s original. One of the best songs on there is Scarecrow’s Love Affair. But I have been trying for years to figure out the lyrics! Does anybody know what they are singing???
I am RIGHT there with you on this! Basic... is one of my favorite albums of all time, certainly one of the most psychedelic. Also right there with you on Scarecrow's Love Affair - that is a dark and adventurous number. I wrote to Peppy and asked if he could tell me the lyrics since he's one of the co-writers. Unfortunately, he could not!
@@davidpanzer1166 Most likely. I mean, I guess I could try and pressure Peppy to investigate further, but he was already gracious enough answering my other questions, and his reply to about this track was something along the lines of "That track is from 54 years ago, I co-wrote it when I was 19, most likely on some kind of hallucinogen, with someone who later kicked me out of the band and sued me, and you want me to remember the lyrics? LOL!" Unfortunately the other co-writer, Ronnie Gilbert, is kind of off the grid and not as easily contacted. Peppy is at least still pretty much accessible online - but he also has done a ton of other work after this album, so I'm sure this one isn't at the top of his priority list. So...short answer, yes, this track's exact lyrics might never be confirmed. But, in a way, kind of adds to its mystique.
I was listening to that song tonite. The challenge is the vocals have got multiple effects added, it doesn't matter much if you tweak the EQ - all I could make out in the sonic soup is the song's title which is a repeat chorus. And I guess the Magoos never played/ recorded a live version.
Is that Mike Esposito playing the lead on We Ain't Got Nothing Yet? I would like to know what kind of amp, amp settings and effects he is using to get the reverb/echo sounds during the solo? This is one of my all time favorite guitar solos and I wish the Blues Magoos would get together for a gig in Western NY.
Beki...Thanks for this insightful video and the clever editing. Wish it was longer and we could hear more of the set list. The guys sound amazingly good and tight for being apart for three plus decades (it is the original five, right?). I wonder where the electric suit is now. Did they do anything from "Basic" at Cavestomp!? Please keep us posted on any forthcoming details on a new reunion.
It's great to see the Blues Magoos are still around and playing. Showing them at practice is a great idea. You could see that the still love playing. The only drawback was the recent live performance - to capture their essence, I would have turned down the snare drum, bring up the farfisa and add whigged out distortion on the guitar with echo on the vocals.
I DESPISE the way they always mix the drum so loud especially the snare. They just do it for every band no matter what kind of music it is. Keyboards are never audible. Makes me fuckin sick. Won’t go to any live shows.
@@davidpanzer1166 ha, ha, David, I agree with you. For the last 30 years or so, there has been an annoying tendancy to have the snare and bass drums way louder than they need to be. I did see one rare exception to that at a recent concert by French prog rock band Magma. Being that leader/founder Christian Vander is an incredibly powerful drummer, maybe the sound technician decided he didn't need "help".
Thanks for reply on that. I'll have to look into buying a tape echo unit. I should have gotten the Guild Echorec I acquired fixed instead of selling it. Kicking myself!
I will ask Ralph .. all I ever hear about in the Village is The NIGTHOWL CAFE! ;-) I know there where more but that is where they were playing regularly when they were discovered and signed! :-) Beki!
The main effect comes from an Echo-plex tape echo unit. I don't know what the timing is. Maybe you can detect the slap back timing in the audio. But as he's playing triplets, it's probably be something relative. Looks like he was playing out of a Fender 60's era blackface.
Oh great, disabled audio on the sections that are TV video clips; probably in result of a copyright complaint. But isn't this video a historical documentary that is teaching people, who were alive to see it first hand, the history of rock? Doesn't teaching music history constitute fair use?
