Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts comps - out now online/out soon on cassette

[The Raven]

Hey folks, i haven't been too active on the board for some time mostly because for the past year or so i've been working on a compilation series/blog archivinng rare garagey/"outsider" 90's music by a a wild group of teen weirdos. A'lot of it even features some of my own teenage work and the release also features liner notes that i wrote that are sort of a combination of memoirs and regular archival type info, so it's not your typical objective overview by a compiler who had little connection to the work being analyzed. The series is called Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts and for those of you with open minds this comp has a little bit of everything - heads who dig the outsider psych sound of Stone Harbour/Unsettled Society/Concrete Rubber Band, etc. will dig Glorious Fourlane ( http://nunsliketofence.bandcamp.com/track/glorious-fourlane-cosmic-cat ), The 6 O'Clock Alarm ( which features yours truly on vox http://nunsliketofence.bandcamp.com/track/the-six-oclock-alarm-ruby-menagerie ), and The Nudists ( http://nunsliketofence.bandcamp.com/track/the-nudists-betty-boop-eats-my-poop )....psych folk is most abley repped by Woe*Be*Gone ( http://nunsliketofence.bandcamp.com/track/woe-be-gone-landscape-of-manure ) and Hubcap whose track was actually recorded outdoors next to a babbling brook ( http://nunsliketofence.bandcamp.com/track/hubcap-daddy )...Lou & Chris deliver the tuff-but-tender folk rock sound with their song 'Drugs' ( http://nunsliketofence.bandcamp.com/track/lou-chris-drugs )...and the there's a band called Lesbian Chicken Magot Blasters (...uh, whaddya want me to say, it's goll durned friggin band called Lesbian Chicken Maggot Blasters, just giv'em a chance http://nunsliketofence.bandcamp.com/track/lesbian-chicken-maggot-blasters-i-just-dont-know ) ....whether you dig or not, i'd love to know whatcha guys think...

 

[HarvestmanMan]

My whole extended family is from Maryland...one side from Silver Spring, the other side from the Owings Mills area. I'll have to check this stuff out.

By the way, do you happen to know the name of a book about Baltimore/DC bands that was put out a decade or two ago? I remember that it had information on the Trespassers and Sound Experience, but can't remember the name f it.

 

[The Raven]

My whole extended family is from Maryland...one side from Silver Spring, the other side from the Owings Mills area. I'll have to check this stuff out.

By the way, do you happen to know the name of a book about Baltimore/DC bands that was put out a decade or two ago? I remember that it had information on the Trespassers and Sound Experience, but can't remember the name f it.

Harvestman, yeah, that book is called Baltimore Sounds; a *video* compaion piece is apparently in developement, though i have no idea how far along that is...

as for TGAF, no DC area bands are on my comps, but the band Glorious Fourlane is actually named after a jokey nickname given to the northwest expressway in Owings Mills, Md., though no bands on TGAF are actually from there (one G4L member had family out there, but didn't live there)

all the Towson-Glen Arm bands came from an area just north of Baltimore city in the York Rd. corridor.

so who was the Sound Experience?

 

[HarvestmanMan]

Apparently Sound Experience was an R&B group formed at Morgan State College from members of the Whatnauts. Arthur Grant, vocals, Reginald Wright/Melvin Miles on trumpet, Gregory Holmes on sax, James Lindsey on sax and flute, Johnny Forman on trombone, Leroy Frailing on organ, Everett Harris on lead guitar, and Rodney Parks on drums. Formed 1970, disbanded 1975.

They released 3 singles on Soulville in 1974 (one of which, "Don't Fight The Feeling," got onto the national R&B charts), and one each on Buddah (1975), GSF (1973), and Shield. They also made an LP, also called "Don't Fight the Feeling," on Soulville in '74.

I've got one of their Soulville records, "40 Acres and a Mule," and it certainly doesn't sound like it's from 1974. Hear it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXGlQ9VLAQ4 No idea how one of their singles ended up in Cincinnati.

Not garage, but still interesting.

Thanks for the book title, by the way. I'd love to get a copy.

 

[Such A Fool]

all the Towson-Glen Arm bands came from an area just north of Baltimore city in the York Rd. corridor.

looking forward to listening to these bands. I went to hs at Loyola and that was one hell of a dismal place (for me) in the early 90s.

 

[The Raven]

the Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts *double tape set* is out now, more info here: http://towsonglenarmfreakouts.wordp...len-arm-freakouts-compilation-record-out-now/

 

[HarvestmanMan]

I was just looking on the Baltimore Sounds webpage today and found a band that my dad was (sort of) a member of: Salt and Pepper (1970-72).

Evidently they were a bar band that would cover some pieces involving a flute, which is where he'd come in. His dad (my late grandfather) got the idea into his head that he shouldn't be doing it for free. So, of course, my dad asked the front man for payment per performance...and never played with Salt and Pepper again. :rolleyes:

 

[The Raven]

Can anyone out there suggest any obscure music bloggers or websites from *Gainesville Fla.* that might be down with hyping/reviewing the Towson-Glen Arm comps?

 

[Dave Baldwin]

the Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts *double tape set* is out now, more info here: http://towsonglenarmfreakouts.wordp...len-arm-freakouts-compilation-record-out-now/

I need to order this. I have several good friends in Glen Arm that I shoot with at the Loch Raven Skeet & Trap Club. 'The Lesbian Chicken Maggot Blasters' sound like they could be interesting.

 

[Rythmn Boy]

^ "'The Lesbian Chicken Maggot Blasters' sound like they could be interesting."​

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