sanjuro73
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Wish I knew something, but it sounds intriguing. Do you have sound clips available? I’d love to hear this.
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Wish I knew something, but it sounds intriguing. Do you have sound clips available? I’d love to hear this.
Hicksville Hogwash
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ok here you go
The Sunn - How Does It Feel / Walk On By.
It's starting to sound more like heavy rock the more I listen. Found some people trying to get 250-300 bucks for this!
The Sunn - How Does It Feel / Walk On By.
sanjuro73
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Sounds like early 70’s hard rock to me, but could still have been recorderd circa 69ish. Not terrible, but certainly not worth anything near what folks are trying to sell it for (looking at you Craig Moerer)
Hicksville Hogwash
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I prefer the Walk on By side for the trippy bits, kinda kool but a shame the singing parts are so square. I just found the Hyperbolic label with a Y, label was active '69 -72ish I think? info is scant but it's the same label (I came home with another 45 from same thrift store with Hiperbolic on it (a one sided thing on I Love You Records))
Frantic
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I like them both. A side is pretty cool but then I'm into psych on the heavier side. Walk on by is pretty decent when it gets to the trippy parts. $75-$100 bucks easy.
troggy
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Glad to see this old thread revived, one of my favorites on the board.
Hicksville Hogwash
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I extracted this from a thrift store last year.
Took a while to find out when it was from. My ears thought it sounds like decent garage folk psych from 1967 or 68 but it’s actually a baseball player, Al Fitzmorris pitcher for Kansas City Royals.
Internet says - Released in 1973? but also found it was registered for copyright entry in 1970? I don’t understand!
What do the guys think?
Took a while to find out when it was from. My ears thought it sounds like decent garage folk psych from 1967 or 68 but it’s actually a baseball player, Al Fitzmorris pitcher for Kansas City Royals.
Internet says - Released in 1973? but also found it was registered for copyright entry in 1970? I don’t understand!
What do the guys think?
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The PRP master on the 45 places it to a January, 1971 release / pressing.
Al Fitzmorris was a pretty good MLB pitcher, never knew he recorded a 45.
Al Fitzmorris was a pretty good MLB pitcher, never knew he recorded a 45.
Hicksville Hogwash
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NYTimEs.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 29, 1970
The first thing you notice is the long, straight, reddish blond hair that hides the top rim of his shirt and the top of his ears. Then you look past the hair and the bushy sideburns that drop below the ears, look into the locker, and you see the burgundy shirt hanging next to the striped bellbottom slacks, the pink stripes and the lavender stripes, the green and the orange.
The sandals are there, too; so are the beards. But the guitar isn't. The guitar is at home with the motorcycle and the rest of the sincerely mod wardrobe that sets Al Fitzmorris of the Kansas City Royals apart from most of the rest of his fellow baseball players, who dress with wild and colorful clothes because it is the way to dress right now.
Al Fitzmorris is a pitcher, a 24‐year‐old pitcher who should not be a pitcher. He should be baseball's ambassador to the young fans the game tries so hard, but so often unsuccessfully, to at tract.
“Sometimes on a road trip,” Fitzmorris was saying the other day before facing the Yankees, “I wish I had brought along jeans and clothes like that because young people would be leery of me if I walked up to them and started talking to them. But I'd like to dress in jeans and just rap with them about things. But we have to wear a tie and a jacket on the road.
Attracts Young Fans
“It's too bad because I find a lot of young kids interested in baseball and they come up to me and say they like the way I dress and look. Kids say they can identify with me. But they can't identify with me if I'm wearing a tie and a jacket and if I have my hair short.”
Fitzmorris, a native of Buffalo, but a resident of San Diego, started wearing his hair long in 1965, approx imately the same time he began composing songs. He started singing a few years earlier in high school.
The hair, of course, is a frequent topic of discussion. Fortunately for Fitzmorris it isn't also a frequent object of disagreement.
“Earlier in the season our previous Manager [Charlies Metro] said to trim it up,” the 6‐foot‐2 inch, 185‐pound right‐handler related. “He said, ‘do you want to be a clean‐shaven major leaguer or a grubby minor leaguer?’ but over all they've been pretty good to me. They like you to keep it short, but I like to wear it as long as pos sible. Last winter it was down to my shoulders.
Been Trimmed Twice
“But during the season I don't let it get out of hand. If they ask me, I trim it—I've trimmed it twice this season—but there's no way they could ever get me to really cut it. There's too much emphasis put on ap pearance. If a fella can do the job, if I can win ball games [he has a 7‐3 won‐lost record], what difference does it make how long your hair is? They kind of have a double standard. They short of step on you if you're not a big star. But you remember what Ted Williams said? He said Ken Harrelson could run round naked as long as he hit home runs and drove in runs.
“I'm not influencing any one else on the team. I'm not causing anyone else on the team to wear their hair long. I've always dressed the way I wanted to and I spoke out for it. I'm not doing it to go against any tradition. But it's the way things are. It's just where things are at. You see lawyers and other professional people with long hair and bells and double breasted jackets. I can't see a lawyer with long hair com ing to a game and saying my hair is too long.”
If kids identify with Fitz morris because of his hair and clothes, they very likely will identify with him even more when they discover he's also a singer with a rock group called Ice, which has recently made a record. The songs—“Locked In” and “The Winds of My Life”—were written by the pitcher.
Two members or the group have left Kansas City, but Fitzmorris plans to reorgan ize the Ice for a Sept. 13 appearance between games of a double‐header with Oak land. He also hopes to get some work lined up for Ice in New York this winter. “When the season's over, I'm going to New York and try to get something going.” he said. “New York is where it's at.”
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KANSAS CITY, Aug. 29, 1970
The first thing you notice is the long, straight, reddish blond hair that hides the top rim of his shirt and the top of his ears. Then you look past the hair and the bushy sideburns that drop below the ears, look into the locker, and you see the burgundy shirt hanging next to the striped bellbottom slacks, the pink stripes and the lavender stripes, the green and the orange.
The sandals are there, too; so are the beards. But the guitar isn't. The guitar is at home with the motorcycle and the rest of the sincerely mod wardrobe that sets Al Fitzmorris of the Kansas City Royals apart from most of the rest of his fellow baseball players, who dress with wild and colorful clothes because it is the way to dress right now.
Al Fitzmorris is a pitcher, a 24‐year‐old pitcher who should not be a pitcher. He should be baseball's ambassador to the young fans the game tries so hard, but so often unsuccessfully, to at tract.
“Sometimes on a road trip,” Fitzmorris was saying the other day before facing the Yankees, “I wish I had brought along jeans and clothes like that because young people would be leery of me if I walked up to them and started talking to them. But I'd like to dress in jeans and just rap with them about things. But we have to wear a tie and a jacket on the road.
Attracts Young Fans
“It's too bad because I find a lot of young kids interested in baseball and they come up to me and say they like the way I dress and look. Kids say they can identify with me. But they can't identify with me if I'm wearing a tie and a jacket and if I have my hair short.”
Fitzmorris, a native of Buffalo, but a resident of San Diego, started wearing his hair long in 1965, approx imately the same time he began composing songs. He started singing a few years earlier in high school.
The hair, of course, is a frequent topic of discussion. Fortunately for Fitzmorris it isn't also a frequent object of disagreement.
“Earlier in the season our previous Manager [Charlies Metro] said to trim it up,” the 6‐foot‐2 inch, 185‐pound right‐handler related. “He said, ‘do you want to be a clean‐shaven major leaguer or a grubby minor leaguer?’ but over all they've been pretty good to me. They like you to keep it short, but I like to wear it as long as pos sible. Last winter it was down to my shoulders.
Been Trimmed Twice
“But during the season I don't let it get out of hand. If they ask me, I trim it—I've trimmed it twice this season—but there's no way they could ever get me to really cut it. There's too much emphasis put on ap pearance. If a fella can do the job, if I can win ball games [he has a 7‐3 won‐lost record], what difference does it make how long your hair is? They kind of have a double standard. They short of step on you if you're not a big star. But you remember what Ted Williams said? He said Ken Harrelson could run round naked as long as he hit home runs and drove in runs.
“I'm not influencing any one else on the team. I'm not causing anyone else on the team to wear their hair long. I've always dressed the way I wanted to and I spoke out for it. I'm not doing it to go against any tradition. But it's the way things are. It's just where things are at. You see lawyers and other professional people with long hair and bells and double breasted jackets. I can't see a lawyer with long hair com ing to a game and saying my hair is too long.”
If kids identify with Fitz morris because of his hair and clothes, they very likely will identify with him even more when they discover he's also a singer with a rock group called Ice, which has recently made a record. The songs—“Locked In” and “The Winds of My Life”—were written by the pitcher.
Two members or the group have left Kansas City, but Fitzmorris plans to reorgan ize the Ice for a Sept. 13 appearance between games of a double‐header with Oak land. He also hopes to get some work lined up for Ice in New York this winter. “When the season's over, I'm going to New York and try to get something going.” he said. “New York is where it's at.”
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Cool song, same thoughts here upon listening. Wonder who Ice were...
captainsalty
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a missed chance. songwriting, playing and mood are STRONG! the weak part is the vocal.
then, there's the horrible guitar solo and the pretty bad break before it.
other than that, a great song!
then, there's the horrible guitar solo and the pretty bad break before it.
other than that, a great song!
Hicksville Hogwash
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The thrift stores have been good to me the last few weeks. OK not really much garage except Emergency Exit - Why Girl on Dunhill (one buck) but some good 60s obscurities.
Picked up 4 Unplayed copies of Mountaineer Twist/Mountaineer Mashed Potato by Frank Virtuoso (Frank Virtue)which is a really good crazed Dance craze thing. Some great obscure soul. The Sunn 45 I shared recently.
My last grab came out of a retro clothes shop that just opened up nearby. Hanging in the window were 45s tied on string, all exposed to the sun. The Busters - All American Surfer caught my eye. So I went in and asked if the shop window display was for sale. The assistant said she'd call her boss.
A little later and a bit more than I'd usually spend The Busters, a hard to find soul 45 and 3 copies of a band called Trinity on Blackbird Records. I found one (on my phone) had sold for 100 bucks for a g copy classed as psychedelic rock. On playing it and some more research I believe it to be late 60s / early 70s psychedelic rock? Maybe, pre Crack The Sky who are WVian based and got Best Debut Album In Rolling Stone in 1975.
Really not my cuppa tea but it'll be to someone's liking here I'm sure!
Here is both sides -
Picked up 4 Unplayed copies of Mountaineer Twist/Mountaineer Mashed Potato by Frank Virtuoso (Frank Virtue)which is a really good crazed Dance craze thing. Some great obscure soul. The Sunn 45 I shared recently.
My last grab came out of a retro clothes shop that just opened up nearby. Hanging in the window were 45s tied on string, all exposed to the sun. The Busters - All American Surfer caught my eye. So I went in and asked if the shop window display was for sale. The assistant said she'd call her boss.
A little later and a bit more than I'd usually spend The Busters, a hard to find soul 45 and 3 copies of a band called Trinity on Blackbird Records. I found one (on my phone) had sold for 100 bucks for a g copy classed as psychedelic rock. On playing it and some more research I believe it to be late 60s / early 70s psychedelic rock? Maybe, pre Crack The Sky who are WVian based and got Best Debut Album In Rolling Stone in 1975.
Really not my cuppa tea but it'll be to someone's liking here I'm sure!
Here is both sides -
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Hicksville Hogwash
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Had to go pick up a mower miles away, so made a plan to hit some junk shops.My first stop was a pretty good stop. Had no idea what I'd got, well except for the Mountaineer Twist (my fifth now).
Je-Rons is pretty cool n' crude garage. The Carpetbaggers a snotty punker. Raw Edge is speedy psychepop.
Been a long while since I've found any proper garage out in wilds of WV. Came home with a decent pile of R&B and Soul too.
A good day. And the mower is pretty sweet too.
Outside_Lookin_in
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You didn't know the Carpetbaggers? Well, very nice find then!
Hicksville Hogwash
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Nope, I didn't. I mostly stopped buying garage comps when I started buying garage 45s.
Hicksville Hogwash
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Je-Rons seems a rather hard 45 to find.
Here are both sides I'm Going Home / Chains.
Uploaded for y'alls.
Edit - searched google for the vocalist found this - "Ron Bailey grew up in Leominster, MA -- a small town outside of Boston. He met his wife Joanne in Iowa while performing with the rock band, "The Je-Ron's."
Here are both sides I'm Going Home / Chains.
Uploaded for y'alls.
Edit - searched google for the vocalist found this - "Ron Bailey grew up in Leominster, MA -- a small town outside of Boston. He met his wife Joanne in Iowa while performing with the rock band, "The Je-Ron's."
capedcrusader
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Much delayed response in regarding the band ICE:
They were a short-lived hard rock/psych band from Kansas City in the late '60s/early '70s - no other known recordings other
than the Al Fitzmorris single, as far as is known. Their biggest claim to local fame was being the opening act for Canned
Heat at the inaugural show at Freedom Palace, the first local hippie concert venue, in May, 1970. (Freedom Palace
lasted less than 2 years, it was the predecessor to Cowtown Ballroom, which is much more well-known in the national
consciousness. The most famous show at FP was the Who in July, '70 - the air conditioner went on the fritz and the
place was a boiling steam bath, resulting in numerous power failures. Of course, Roger Daltrey was the main contributor
to the fuse box being overloaded - according to the FP co-owner, Daltrey kept plugging a fan in to give his hair a
windblown look and that was what caused all the power failures. )
Incidentally, the Fitzmorris 45 is crazy hard-to-find, even in this part of the world - I have never run across a copy of it
myself and do not know of any other local collectors who have the disc.
Hicksville Hogwash
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This one was turned up in WV.
capedcrusader
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You just never know where '60s small label discs will turn up. Several years back a copy of the Bees Voices Green And Purple (sans PS)
was found locally here.
Hicksville Hogwash
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Drove over the mountain in the snow today had to go Beckley WV. My last stop on a not so good thrifting day was a new antique store. There was no records but I asked as the basement was closed. The lady said she had a box in the back.
Out came a wonder box.
The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard,
Can't Seem to make You Mine pic sleeve
A Thousand Shadows pic slv
The Wig/Wags - I'm On My Way Down The Road
The Knack - Softly Softly
And this piece of weirdness.
Tony Harris - Super Man.
I picked a few other beat 45s i didnt have
How much?
How much you think?
Well I got... 21 dollars in my wallet?
Out came a wonder box.
The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard,
Can't Seem to make You Mine pic sleeve
A Thousand Shadows pic slv
The Wig/Wags - I'm On My Way Down The Road
The Knack - Softly Softly
And this piece of weirdness.
Tony Harris - Super Man.
I picked a few other beat 45s i didnt have
How much?
How much you think?
Well I got... 21 dollars in my wallet?
