Band INFO needed - The Resurrection (FROM UTAH)

[MopTopMike]

These are certainly NOT inept / loser garage songs. That's typical, mythological used car salesman hype and not being honest & accurate.

Inept in my book denotes the inability to function and play together as a group. Usually, inept captured/recorded songs really suck. I'm not talking about poorly recorded on the part of the studio or person who was in charge of the recording session. I"m talking about the failure of one or more persons to function together. Anyone who has played in a rock & roll group with other folks who did not have the ability to keep time (drummer) or play on feel (you know, the guy who has to have all the chords written out, and can't get past a slow march tempo 4/4 rhythm) will agree with me.

The Resurrection are no prodigies, but they are more than competent in their ability to perform as a group as judged by the two songs.

As for this "loser' tag, well, that's an often quoted yet ridiculous phrase that started off as a complete joke via the gang responsible for the Shutdown 66 comp. The over-the-top satire became elevated toward belief of some sort of idea that most, if not all of these teenaged groups were a bunch of losers, and the lyrics reflect this notion. Problem with that is people born post 1970 really think that made up satire was the truth.
Not so.

 

[MopTopMike]

The Salt Lake region of Utah, incidentally, had a thriving local rock & roll scene in the mid '60s. There were at least a dozen 45s I know of from that locale which are decent to excellent.

 

[Mr.Segment]

Great songs! Thanks for making them heard. Let me tell you is the winner in my book. Strong 6/5 respectively. It's the sort of 45 I'd like to own but not sure if I would play it that much.

 

[paul messis]

Mike,

I know and understand what you're saying.

But isn't 60s Garage Music (particularly the smaller regional scenes) all pretty much along the 'loser' theme. small town cats who were the odd guys in their schools playing beat music like their british heroes.... I know in having spoken to The Plagues myself that there wasn't many jocks digging this stuff in the 60s and in fact just having hair below the ears was pretty detrimental to your social status in those days.... In The Plagues' case they did get a hard time from 'jocks' and told me that 'frat parties' were not that fun to play really.

All the themes of 60s garage that I particularly relate too are the ones which happen in my own life and inspire my own music.... girls that treat us mean, girls which we fall in love with who leave us, being an outsider in a very square world and not being understood at all by the older generations or even our peers.

I know most 60s garage was just done by normal middle class kids craving for the attentions of girls, the hope of make a small impression, the small hope their 45 will be spun on a radio show locally and just the love of music in general.... I guess the same reasons why I make music

It's all pretty existential music and I admit certainly that for post mid 80s born garage punk fans like myself, there is a allure to it being an "outcast" type of music, it's similar for me how The British Invasion guys all got into the blues... in their own suburban head space they were their heroes in the delta... likewise because I am wrongly socially deemed a "loser" or "dud" myself today, I most certainly relate to a track such as The 9th Street Market's 'I'm A Baby' or 'Thoughts of a Madman' by The Nomads... cos that is my life on record.

This Utah record upon hearing the 'Let Me Tell You' side particularly sounded like it was crudely played and sung in an inept style.... BUT hands up that's just my own opinion and thoughts.

I know totally what you're saying however Mike.

Lets just hope more great records and found and unleashed to the world.

I'd be interested in knowing the other killer Utah 45s Mike? or do I have to wait for the book?



Paul

 

[gregk25]

Is it just me or does "Let me tell you" sound pretty much like that pre-LP 45 the New Dawn (apparently) never recorded? Both band names certainly have something in common and the Resurection singer remindes me A LOT of the New Dawn one both in tone and intonation... A great 45 in my, erm, book!

 

[MopTopMike]

Paul,

I think in retrospect, whenever you have someone contact an older person who played in a group in the '60s, said person generally has no idea at first why anyone would care, unless they were involved in some way (knew the members, went to the dances the group played at, etc.).

When the person doing the questioning for information begins to tell them about the what, how and why of the situation, the former group member will then subconsciously tailor his/her memory (whether inaccurate or otherwise) based upon the input from the person who initiated contact. That's why you read all these "memories" from the members on-line nowadays, using terms to flavor their stories that were not around in the day - like "loser garage", for example.

Let's take the Rogues of "Next Guy" fame. I've seen this song analyzed as being done by an inept bunch of teenage losers. And that is hardly the truth, at all. The leader of the group actually was into folk music - Phil Ochs was his hero at the time. Impressive for a 14 year old kid. And he tried to write a song like one of Phil's. Nothing more than that. He certainly wasn't a loser (he had other non music things going on in his life), and none of the guys did either - their lead singer was on the high school football team. Believing that the lyrics are a true reflection of what he was feeling at the time is only made up in the mind of the listener who is taking it in, decades later.

I would offer that a high percentage of teenaged groups back then were comprised of mixed "status" groups, like jocks, brainiacs, marching band members, and yeah, those who did not fit into any other teen 'status' category. I'm sure if fellow esteemed elders NWBuckeye, Jeff, Ned, Rich S, wanted to chime in, they would tend to agree with me - This belief that local teenaged rock & roll groups were generally all girlfriendless losers trying to impress girls isn't accurate. Lots of guys interviewed had girlfriends before,and during their music playing days as teens, or found girlfriends as a result. If you wanna invoke that girlfriendless losers example, place it on the real sect of garage bands - the ones who came to be at the dawn of the '80s and beyond!

 

[Jeffers66]

I sometimes use the "loser" term to describe individual songs, but never the artists... who (generally speaking) were just hoping to write a hit song, or a quickie B-side. The fact is, even the most uncool looking geeks were cool when they were on stage, playing their gee-tars. And the little girls understood.

 

[paul messis]

Mike... that is an insightful response.

Time is a weird one I guess... In speaking to a friend of mine who is in his 60s, he said to me.... "I will never understand your generation"....I replied "I don't understand my generation or yours"

So I guess it's all about perspectives and in terms of garage.... I guess comps and the descriptions used are to blame for a great deal of what i've said above.

Greg thanks for the information on The New Dawn, hopefully that will lead to a further branch in 'The Resurrection' 45 mystery.

Mike, The Rogues 'Next Guy' is a killer track, one of my all time faves, I never knew it was inspired by Phil Ochs, that's interesting.

Do you find it kind of funny how old members etc use terms like 'loser garage' to define their own music from back in the 60s, I find it hilarious that time and age has made this happen... god forbid what I'll be terming my sounds in 30 years time?