Recent content by franku

For anyone that's interested, I found an excellent article about the band's history on the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends site. Put together by a (now-) retired teacher, this site has some great in-depth pieces on dozens of MI acts from all eras, often based on interviews. Highly recommended...

I may also have this - a CD-R with four songs. But I think it's just the single and alternate versions? The photo on Discogs of the 45 shows it has a copyright date of 1968 and Kool Kat's few other releases seemed to be mostly soul. I wonder if the disc is so rare because the band had already...

And the classic Kool Kat 45:

And here they are on Swingin' Time doing a tune apparently called "Renee" that seems unreleased? Or did it come out?

I just found this cool photo of the Royal Coachmen from Adrian MI in a 1967 high school yearbook from nearby Jackson. These guys cut the elusive "You Can't Get Me Down" 45 on Kool Kat, which is one of the toughest Michigan garage 45s to score (I've never seen a copy and know of only one local...

This is a groovy garagey/sunshine pop track given away to promote a cheap upstate NY lager beer. It's not super hard to find, and I have the 45 but not the nifty sleeve, as pictured in this video.

This sale of the Fenton Black Watch 45 from almost two years ago for $4300 was another shocker - 10x the price a similar condition (though not signed) copy went for a year before. Great record, but not impossibly rare here in MI...

I do have the Frito Twist 45, but it might take me a few days to find. I'll let you know if it turns up!

Things seem slow around here so I thought I'd put up a few more autographs. Half secured in person, the rest purchased at record shows or found in the wild. Some may quibble with the relevance to this forum of some of these, but Andre Williams wrote garage standard "Shake a Tail Feather," Billy...

Here are a few more - the Alarm Clocks signed the sleeve of a reissue, and the Ritual was found in a thrift store many years ago. Most of the LPs were signed in person, though the Rob Tyner was found at a flea market and the Gene Clark at a friend's garage sale - he got it signed himself and...

The fantastic Cavestomp shows in NYC were a great place to catch band members. Empty sleeves fit in a pocket just in case one was nearby and so I got some/all of the Beau Brummels, Blues Magoos, Syndicate of Sound, Richard and the Young Lions, and Mark Lindsay (and a few more I can't find at the...

I love this thread - autographs are always a fun bonus when you pick up a 45. Sometimes it takes me a while to realize it's not the owner's name scrawled on there but a band member! These were mostly signed 'in the day' and are often somewhat un-decipherable, alas, though I did get Question...

However it comes out, this is essential music - and thanks for posting that fantastic article. The first time I was in Santa Barbara on a family trip with my parents (in 1983), we stayed for one night in the Miramar Hotel. On the day we were going to leave I had an hour to kill so I went to the...

The 45 by Gold Standard on Vance is actually called "Love Is Everywhere" (I had the title wrong) b/w "On the Road Again" (Lovin' Spoonful cover). I found an MP3 I made of it but the 45 itself eludes me at the moment. Gold Standard Love Is Everywhere

Is this the Vance label from Oakland CA? I have a 45 on it by Gold Standard, "Talkin' 'Bout Love" that is a low-fi garage/psych masterpiece which I've never seen mention of online (it's not in Discogs or youtube) - were the pressings on this label extremely limited?