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Question: when I visited the late Dave Gibson in his house at Carondolet St. near Downtown LA in 1980, he showed me all his equipment he used for making his "Moxie" comps. I bought a couple 45's from him and he showed me a 45/Acetate by a band going by the name "Electric Train". I knew that the...

But in 1963 I turned 16 and THEN I started my "career" as a "Club-Goer" and the first band I ever saw on stage at the Star-Club was Johnny Kidd & The Pirates. That was in the spring of 1963 and from then on it was NO stopping and I made friends with a lot of musicians; The Rattles, The German...

In 1961 I was just 14 when they started out here in Hamburg, Germany and my parents didn't allow me :( to take a trip to our world-famous "Red Light" district, the "Reeperbahn" and the "Kaiserkeller" were they had their first stage appearance.

I once read that after The Beatles appeared at the "Ed Sullivan Show" in February 1964 that it was a milestone in American Pop culture and thousands of young people (mostly boys ;) ) nationwide started bands, bought cheap equipment, cleared out their parents GARAGES and began practising.

I'm looking for more infos about this band from LA who took their name from a Doors song. I own this album since 1999 and I can find nil about them. The Blue Bus title "You're minds moving too fast" on Vee Records and I think it was pressed here in Germany.

I own a copy of that "Pussy" album and it's a cool one. UK Freak-Beat/Prog Rock

Because they look so very young, I suspect the foto was taken during a "Battle of the Bands" and we may never find out who they were

Thanks for your interest and it's gonna be a long story, starting with the "Nuggets" album in 1972 and even earlier in 1966 when I heard The Shadows of Knight, The Count IV, The Seeds, The Music Machine, The Electric Prunes and many more here in Hamburg, Germany on the RADIO; believe it or not...

I only complained that I spent all the money I got from the volumes on the next one ... until I ran out of money and lost my enthusiasm and finally sold all the rest of my collection for peanuts. Those 2 Shaggs/Shags 45's are the last I found in a box together with a bunch of unused labels for...

I know and I am, because I was one of the very first here in Germany making those comps. The one who bootlegged my vinyls on CD got bootlegged by others and in the end those CD's became CD-boxes with all 5 records. I am proud of my comps and don't forget: it was in the days before the Internet...

The Baytovens?

Back then a Bootleg was a taped concert put on wax.

Yes, but what do you call all the others? Pebbles. Moxie. Oil Stains. scum of the earth and and and ...

They can and I did it once or twice. Don't you laugh but I put it on a warm electric plate and a heavy pot on it as a weight and it worked ... I must admit it was not a rarity of the highest order, only the William Penn Fyve "Swami" which I bought for 20 $ back in 1979

I bought the X-Treems 45 together with the Blue Banana 45 (with p/c) from the same guy you're talking about here and I used both for my "A Journey to Tyme Vol. 1-5) comps in the early/mid 80's