This didn't exactly come out of nowhere. check "7 and 7 is" by Love or "Demolición" by "Los Saicos", for instance. But a great song, obviously.@@Beneluxer
@@TeddyLeppardif it was in a nugget or pebbles box that is definitely proto-punk this wasn't big corporation music these guys didn't have super budget's like the English bands
@@eternallife9786 This reminds me of Pink Flag. It seemed like it wrote some new rules. That weird inserted bridge (Can't seem to talk about...) the TALK TALK TALK TALK coda...this song is from another planet.
The Music Machine was an important Sunset Strip band that had a sudden moment of glory with this great song. Instantly in January of 1967 every local band was doing their cover of it at all the open houses (dances). It was the sine qua non of hard rock in it's day, though one must mention 1966 rockers as well like Gloria, Wild Thing, Psychotic Reaction and Love's 7 and 7 Is. What a time for music this was.
I get the chills just thinking about it! There are still a few bands putting out new music like this and doing great covers of the 60s stuff. My favorite is The Satelliters (from Germany). I didn't like their first few albums as much, but once they released "What's Up With Timothy Dee", their albums have been awesome. I think "Hashish" is their best work. Also "Sexplosive" and "More of the Satelliters" and "Timothy Dee". (If you can find the original vinyl of "What's Up With Timothy Dee" it had a couple songs that were not included on the CD when it was finally released years later. The Chesterfield Kings and The Miracle Workers too!
Sean Bonniwell (and indeed the rest of Music Machine) was a criminally underrated talent. Shit was just too heavy for most people at the time. This is as metal as Iron Butterfly.
I'll never forget the sixties! Everyday there was a new song that just knocked you out! They made you feel good. It was as if the whole world, all of us, were in some great movie being made. The motion picture's in the theater's as well as the TV show's we watched were awsome too. The comic books!, ah man I don't even know where to start. The sports scene was the same as everything else in the sixties...., amazing and fantastic!
Excellent suggestion! Lenny Kaye compiled the Nuggets and Nuggets II albums with great garage band songs. He was also a guitar player and musical director for the Patti Smith Band. Music reviewer and critic. What a guy!
Try out Pebbles and Back From The Grave too. Nuggets is great, but Pebbles and BFTG gets into some really scuzzy and sick garage rock. Also stuff like Flower Traveling Band et al were super heavy and bad ass.
The bass player is Keith Olsen, famed producer. I fired off a quick email to him because I loved the little four note fuzz bass fill which was cool for 1966. He kindly got back to me. Those EKO basses were popular in my town mainly because they were relatively affordable and had the Hofner style violin shape.
Loved this song since it came out when I was 17. Over the years I've come to recognize what an unusual arrangement this is with the stop starts and the drum rolls. Not your usual chords and melody type of song. Very unique still.
I'll be playing this one in the year 2066, along with hundreds of other fabulous cuts from 1966, and they will all sound as sharp and crisp as ever, a hundred years after the fact!
This is a great teenage angst song, "my social life's a dud, my name is really mud, I'm up to here in lies, I guess I'm down to size." I love this song.
No, no, no. You want a teenage angst song.........listen to "7 and 7 Is" by Love. Now THAT'S an angst song........complete with a bomb going off at the very end.
One black glove and straight ahead rock of the day. Haven't heard this song in years (decades?). Thanks to RU-vid and all who contribute this history for each of us to enjoy...
Tell me about it. I was pleasantly surprised when I randomly found Hawkwind again too. Now if big tech can just be destroyed the future might have a chance.
I remember first hearing 'Talk Talk' back in the late '70s when The Demics would cover it in their live set. So many bands at the time were rediscovering all these '60s underground gems. The original still stands up. Such a cool song!
I've heard this song only once in my entire life, it was in the early 70s when I was about 10 years old, I never heard it again until now almost fifty years later! I always wondered who sang it, a life long mystery finally solved.
Same here. I was listening to radio station on the way to work in the mid 80's. The DJ didn't say the song title or band. It blew me away. I thought it was a new song. I kept waiting to hear it again, but never did until just a few years ago.
Since this group was a bit of a one-hit wonder, I have always thought that this song has gone rather unappreciated in terms of its place in the development of hard rock and heavy metal When you consider the era this song was written, some of the hard rock elements of the song are pretty far ahead of its time. The bass lines are very cool, and the 2-note lead-in to the last verse was a very unusual technique back then.
The original punky leather tough Ramone's hair look 20 years earlier.. and the one glove thing MJ lifted 30 years later . I had the 45 when it came out. ahhh. the advantages of being 65 :) lol
You could tell me this came out in 1977 I wouldn't question it for a second. I'm super into finding bands who were the early brick layers for punk and heavy metal right now and this was a treat.
These guys were 10 miles ahead of there time, and now 2016 the music this music blows away most bands. What a beat, great band that has meaning and the fucking drums are awesome.
I’m grateful that I was a teen during the 60’s. This song reminds me of hanging with friends on hot summer nights in Burlington, Mass. great memories. Great band.
When I was 16 I flew from LA to NYC and the whole band was on the plain. I recognized them from songs like this. Farfisa organs were a trademark of the era.
Fabulous. I was six years old when this song was performed. I love knowing something this cool was going on somewhere when I was already on the planet, but before I actually even knew what "cool" was. Like it was just out there, hangin' in the ether, waiting for me to find it someday. Thanks Sean Bonniwell, RU-vid, and the video poster!
That's 100% what makes this era of music so great. Wear suits and ties, have a catchy tune, and then subversive lyrics and some dark distortion of the guitar. Love it.
When I was thirteen I went to a Paul Revere and the Raiders concert in Des Moines, Iowa in 64(?) With my bandmates (The Shylocks)....We saw Billy Joe Royal, Steve Alaimo and Flash and the Board of Directors(A white James Brown style act-cape and all).....One thing I remember was the intensity of the drummers in all those groups! They were positively SLAMMIN'!!...That was my first "real" concert and our little band kicked it up a notch after seeing some real pros hit the stage like they were gonna stomp it to pieces!!..We made a homemade strobe light and a psychedelic backdrop light which consisted of a cut glass ashtray filled with Aqua Velva or Jade East into which we dropped food dye, baby oil and Alka Seltzer tabs...This sat on an on an overhead projector which shone on sheets strung up behind us.....We flailed about as though we had literally gone bat shit crazy and just whipped the little farm girls into a frenzy down at the local American Legion Hall in Podunk Corners...I think we scared the shit outta the adult chaperones.....They thought their sweet little daughters had been possessed by the devil.....AAAAAH, YOUTH!!
These guys knew how to mix straight ahead rock with a proto-punk and garage vibe. Check out the kids groovin'!! Bonniwell and the guys really kicked ass!!!!
When I grow up in San Francisco as a teenager this group I love their style at the time one of a kind one hit wonder but I know every word of this song
Psychodelics to the Max.....loved this song when it came out and still do so many decades later!! Todays Kiddos don't have a clue..... Dontcha wish you could go back and relive all this?? ;-)
This Song/band were ahead of their time,forerunners to a lot of music styles/looks.Musicians of today should learn that not copy everyone else.Go Go Dancers were always a part of 60's music [like in the knickerbocker bands clip]
Possibly the first band to tune their instruments down 1 and a half steps from E standard tuning to C# standard tuning. The next band to popularize that tuning was Black Sabbath on their 1971 album Master of Reality.
+John Smith amboy dukes- Ted's first band, he stole the name from a band in Detroit. i got call of the wild and tooth,fang and claw. has the original hibernation and great white buffalo.
Really, that's pretty cool. I always figured it was a baritone guitar being fed through the early distortion available. Here I always credited Edward Van Halen with featuring the first low A tuning on Good Enough (5150). Good catch!
It is a LOT harder to play than most people think. It's actually a very complex piece for the time. It only *sounds* deceptively simple. Ron Edgar's drums are amazing. He was one of the best at the time. One of the only LA bands who was NOT getting studio musicians to fill in for them, even the Byrds, etc., were "shilled" for by studio musicians. Not The Music Machine, they played their own songs.
Garage Rock, proto-punk, it has a lot of names, but you could squeeze 20 songs into an hour, with commercials, on the radio because of tunes that pack it in under 2 minutes, like this one.
In those days(as far as I know), they called it punk, likely because they were American wannabe Brits(after Beatles, Stones and in MM's case, the Animals); then when the Sex Pistols, Ramones, et.al. broke, punk got applied to them; for a while, the 60's bands were called grunge by some writers, then the Seattle bands broke and grunge got applied to them. In both cases, bands with something more original to offer made off with those labels. MM, the Standells, Seeds, Blues Magoos, etc. as well as the Lyres and Original Sins, who outdid the former and the rest, have been called garage ever since.
I was 10 years old when the Beatles hit the radio stations in 1964 and I was buying all there records , but when I first ever heard this great song on the radio that changed my taste in music , as I fell in love with the sound of fuzz tone guitar !
