THE INVADERS (Omaha, NE) * Story

[captainsalty]

Hi guys,

Anybody who is interested in The Invaders' story, please check out a new site I'm just starting, concentrating on teen band interviews. It will be mostly MA bands, since I'm also putting together a "MA Teen Beat" site, but the Invaders are a personal fetish, so they'll be first.

If you don't know the group, check out the ultra moody "I Was A Fool" on Erik's No No No comp, and the glorious flip "Cryin' All Night Long" on my own forum comp "Strange Worlds #5".

I still may add stuff (like another pic) later, but the main thing is complete. Please ignore any links or placeholders, as the site is still temporary and not a lot is working as of now.

http://headdiprecords.wix.com/talkingteenbeat#!invaders/c1jkf

Bye,
-Lee

 

[greenfuzz]

Great job. I look forward to future interviews.

 

[MopTopMike]

Sorry to rain on your parade, Lee, but the Invaders 45 came out in July, 1967.

 

[MopTopMike]

Other than that gaff, it looks great! The layout is top-notch, perfect - easy to read and doesn't take away or distract from the information. So many other blogs have way too much graphic insanity going on.

 

[captainsalty]

Hi Mike,

of course I checked with TBM, but Tyler was sure it was released in late 1966. I opted for his version, knowing that your book is probably right

Will change that later when I add some new info.

 

[MopTopMike]

That's why a small sect of forum members here like myself, Jeff L. George, and a few others are meticulous about pressing plant codes. We've each devoted at least 25 years to collating and deciphering them. It is the antithesis subject of the Joe rock n' roll / bro crowd. you know those guys, the ones who don't care for fact n' figures, just the music.

The Sears 45 is a Kaybank pressing, and those master numbers provided by the company easily identify the year (first digit, 7, preceding the dash and four digit sequential number) denotes the year within the 1960s. Thus, 7 = 1967. The sequential four digit number places the disc as a July, 1967 mastering / pressing, the earliest it could have been issued. Sidebar: Kaybank did not commence using a prefix until late 1964, so the earliest date with the prefix is 1964, very late in the year(around November).

Lots of band members have inaccurate memories when it comes to precise details. One year is rarely different than the next when recalling details from 50 years ago. Unless they were of the mindset from a young age to train their brain to pay attention to detail, it is not usually a guarantee that an event transpired as recollected. The general memory is there, but placing it in a context of date / time is often skewed.

Just my two cents....

 

[MopTopMike]

Here is a geeky / goofy example where I got a memory wrong....my own.

I was very young. I vividly recall a hot summertime heatwave. It was so stifling and uncomfy that my mom and dad let me sleep on my mattress in the parlor (what the elders called the fancy room which really wasn't more than a second living room). It had the better furniture than the other room my folks called "the Living Room", judging by old photographs.

My dad placed our electric metal window fan into the window so the air would circulate in the room. I'm sure mom and dad brought me down to the street to buy some ice-cream from the "Mister Softee" truck. The driver would make custom flavor milkshakes, my fave treat.
The sun was still out, waning in the sky, bright. The AM radio was on. I distinctly recall hearing several tunes that were out during late summer, 1966: "Sunshine Superman", "Reach Out, I'll Be There", etc. Whenever I hear those songs, my mind goes right back to that hot summer evening.

Thus, thinking back on the memory every so often I figured the heatwave took place in August / September 1966. Checking weather records for those days documented a few weeks were temps just missed or hit triple digits.

Fast forward to recent times. i still had the Hunter electric fan. I was going to get rid of it since the metal grills on the front and back had become too loose and rattled, making a loud running fan motor even louder. As I inspected it to see if I could fix it, I spied the model's serial number. I did some research, and found that the model was manufactured in 1967. My time frame of the memory was off by one whole year, despite evidence that suggested otherwise.