Shindig! Lose it in the freak-out with a second annual
Shindig! Magazine has been peddling psych and fuzz for years. They love psychedelic music and weird beat music and, more importantly, miss the advent of getting an annual for your birthday or Christmas. As such, they've lovingly created a second annual which focuses on the loads of cool bands and gives you loads of dope pictures to dribble over.
Annual No.2 is the best bits from the mag... and maybe some new bits. We wouldn't know because we're all so poor we can't afford to buy magazines and have been banned from our local WH Smiths for thumbing through the rags with no intention of buying anything.
Anyway, you don't need to know all that.
The folks at Shindig! were kind enough to send us their new long-reader for free and I was kind enough to read it cover-to-cover (and then complain to all and sundry that I had to haul my sorry arse away from the television to actually type up this admittedly woeful article).
You don't want to know about that do you?
Well, in the pages is a load of great pieces (and, in addition, ace artwork from SFA cohort, Pete Fowler) on bands like Moby Grape, Pre T-Rex Bolan riffs, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Sonics, The Charlatans (no, the old guys who did the wondrous Codeine... and, if you don't know much about the group, it's an article that'll flip your wig clean off your dome!) and a great piece on The Dukes Of Stratosphear (who were, effectively, XTC in disguise, making a brilliantly authentic Britsike after getting stuck in the dressing up box).
There's also a cool timeline of the SanFran psych scene which covers all the greats and also-rans. It really is a cracking read for the muso-nerd (like you... c'mon... you wouldn't be this far into an article like this if you weren't some kind of music dweeb).
Shindig! sez: "An absolute must for all lovers of cult rock, pop, garage and psychedelia."
Can't really argue with that to be quite frank. [Mof]
Click here to visit the Shindig! Magazine site and snap up a copy
Anyway, you don't need to know all that.
The folks at Shindig! were kind enough to send us their new long-reader for free and I was kind enough to read it cover-to-cover (and then complain to all and sundry that I had to haul my sorry arse away from the television to actually type up this admittedly woeful article).
You don't want to know about that do you?
Well, in the pages is a load of great pieces (and, in addition, ace artwork from SFA cohort, Pete Fowler) on bands like Moby Grape, Pre T-Rex Bolan riffs, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The Sonics, The Charlatans (no, the old guys who did the wondrous Codeine... and, if you don't know much about the group, it's an article that'll flip your wig clean off your dome!) and a great piece on The Dukes Of Stratosphear (who were, effectively, XTC in disguise, making a brilliantly authentic Britsike after getting stuck in the dressing up box).
There's also a cool timeline of the SanFran psych scene which covers all the greats and also-rans. It really is a cracking read for the muso-nerd (like you... c'mon... you wouldn't be this far into an article like this if you weren't some kind of music dweeb).
Shindig! sez: "An absolute must for all lovers of cult rock, pop, garage and psychedelia."
Can't really argue with that to be quite frank. [Mof]
Click here to visit the Shindig! Magazine site and snap up a copy
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