Chronology of garage comps

[The Raven]

If I remember right, Wild Thing was advertised on television as I vividly remember seeing commercials for a comp with this name. Had pretty much all of the big hits in the genre.

ha! "as seen on tv!" im sure the announcer mentioned something about "The Big Chill generation" in the commercial for it.....not a bad line up for something this cheezy, with the exception of Los Bravos(?!) and Steppenwolf's 'Magic Carpet Ride'(??!!) - they also made a way outta place appearance on one of the Rhino 80s Nuggets 'punk' volumes.

 

[mansson66]

Wow, what a sleeve. Even better than Dogshit '66

 

[Frantic]

Wow, what a sleeve. Even better than Dogshit '66

haaaaa

 

[eargasm!]

Yeah, I forgot about that one, you're right about late 1983, I bought it at In Your Ear as it had arrived that week....a great comp for sure, I sold mine as well. I don't remember the liner notes at all....One of the few classic comps where I have all the original records.

Do you remember Reeds basement at In Your Ear when he had his first store? You could grab some of the coolest albums for cheap prices..same thing with Dave Pierce's record shop in Lynn,Mass located in a place where only the truly dedicated would venture...he would sell all kinds of goodies there for 3 bucks apiece. I agree with the pebbles dateline because I bought many of those at New England Music on Com Ave in Boston in 1979..

 

[Michael W]

Wow, what a sleeve. Even better than Dogshit '66

She should be wearing a bowler hat and leaning against an Aston Martin.

 

[buckeyebeat]

Do you remember Reeds basement at In Your Ear when he had his first store? You could grab some of the coolest albums for cheap prices..same thing with Dave Pierce's record shop in Lynn,Mass located in a place where only the truly dedicated would venture...he would sell all kinds of goodies there for 3 bucks apiece. I agree with the pebbles dateline because I bought many of those at New England Music on Com Ave in Boston in 1979..

Yes! I remember the basement. The street level store part was pretty small, but the basement was larger. I remember seeing an original Shaggs LP down there priced at $500.....which is $5K today by record price inflation!

 

[buckeyebeat]

ha! "as seen on tv!" im sure the announcer mentioned something about "The Big Chill generation" in the commercial for it.....not a bad line up for something this cheezy, with the exception of Los Bravos(?!) and Steppenwolf's 'Magic Carpet Ride'(??!!) - they also made a way outta place appearance on one of the Rhino 80s Nuggets 'punk' volumes.

This came out before "Big Chill" - it came into the radio station when I was still in college (until 1982). I remember summer of '81 but I could be wrong. Los Bravos are cool but since they're not of US origin they are a bit out of place.

 

[buckeyebeat]

I lived in Cincinatti Ohio in '77-''80. And I drove to Columbus Oh. in late '77 with my buddy and discovered pebbles VOL.1. There is a slight chance it was early '78, but I'm 90% sure it was late '77.

Do you remember the name of the store? Bent Back? Magnolia Thunderpussy?

 

[Frantic]

Do you remember the name of the store? Bent Back? Magnolia Thunderpussy?

HAAA..I think Magnolia Thunderpussy

 

[bosshoss]

Did anyone other than me, visit Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley, CA in the 1970's? I can't remember much about it, but every now and then, I wonder what great garage 45s they probably had that I completely overlooked, as I was only buying LPs. I bought lots of Elevators, Seeds, Barbarians, Standells etc., LPs there in 1977.

 

[Michael W]

I don't recall visiting there, but Peter Bliek said he bought Denise on Wee from them.

 

[bosshoss]

You didn't need to tell me that, Michael!
Just imagine what else must've been there....

 

[rev.sideburn]

ahhh great thread.
I´m a sucker for these compilations. Lousy sounding or not, LPs and CDs, my collection counts more than a 1000 titles with the artist "Various". (Garage/Punk/Soul/R´n`B/Rockabilly/R´n`roll ++)

Guess I´m close to complete with all the classic 70s and 80s garagecompilations. 3 weeks ago I obtained quite a few killer obscurities from the early days. Some dupes, but what the hxxxx. Costed me $$$, but well worth.

I bring you a picture later on.

 

[rev.sideburn]

I hope you don´t get offended by me posting some pics here. A bit OT, but what the heck. It´s not actually find in the wylde either. Paid real money for some of those. Got them from a long time collector who bought them new back in the days. Most vinyl VG++, sleeves VG+

 

[rev.sideburn]

some more

 

[rev.sideburn]

and more

 

[rev.sideburn]

and last

 

[soundog III]

Did anyone other than me, visit Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley, CA in the 1970's? I can't remember much about it, but every now and then, I wonder what great garage 45s they probably had that I completely overlooked, as I was only buying LPs. I bought lots of Elevators, Seeds, Barbarians, Standells etc., LPs there in 1977.

I was there in the Autumn of 1978 during several months spent rambling around California. Record buying wasn't the focus of the trip, but Berkeley was an extraordinary record town. To this day my go-to mono US Byrds & Rolling Stones LP's are the copies I purchased at Rasputin's, another Berkeley shop, mostly for the princely sum of .19¢ apiece. Yes, not a typo!

Rather Ripped was cooler than any shop in NYC at the time, with as varied an array of rock styles as I'd seen. Funny thing, Mark, the one LP I definitely remember purchasing there was Easybeats - The Shame Just Drained. Wonder what I might have found if I'd made it to Sydney on that trip?

 

[pfft]

Aaargh, I need a lot of those comps (the Reverend's)

 

[Mr.Segment]

Aaargh, I need a lot of those comps (the Reverend's)

You know, the guy who sold these is a mutual friend and still has a lot left. Just thoguht I'd mentioned this in case you're interested. I'd be happy to broker a deal