The Honeycombs • Eyes

Psychedelia before psychedelia. That's a good description of The Honeycombs third 45 from '64. Rumours say that the song actually is about loneliness in a gay bar when being gay was illegal. However, it's a very heavy song for coming from such a Pop oriented band. Mysteriously, the record flopped when it came out in '64, probably because the world wasn't ready for psych yet.

Joe Cocker • I'll Cry Instead

Love this early Joe Cocker cover of the Beatles track. Too bad he didn't kept this style.

Joe purchases a copy of his own record, 1964. Stupid watermark.

60's Pop Duos Part 1: The Merseys

Probably my favourite 60's duo, along with The Truth and Twice As Much. Evolving from The Merseybeats, featuring Billy Kinsley & Tony Crane.

Oh, now i know where Noel Gallagher got his look!

Hmm.. can someone please tell me what's going on here?

"And on the cover, one is going to sit in an armchair with a dog, and
the other one is going to stand beside! Right in the middle of a street!"
"You're a genius, Carl!"

Hume Paton R.I.P

And to continue the sadness, i newly read that Hume Patton, lead guitarist with the best Scottish 60's freakbeat/psych group The Poets, died from a heart attack in Grenada, 30th April.

Hume Paton, second from left 

Hume Paton 1944-2011

... and my favourite Poets track.

Cool ads & articles about 60's groups

Ad for 'Baby You've Got It' by The Action

Ad for 'Arnold Layne' by Pink Floyd

Ad for 'I Take What I Want' by The Artwoods

Concert ad for David Bowie & The Lower Third at The Marquee Club

Ad for 'Circles' by Les Fleur de Lys

Ad for 'A Memory' by Hljómar (Thor's Hammer) (Or possibly a concert ad, sorry i don't speak Icelandic)

Ad for 'I'm A Man' by The Spencer Davis Group

Ad for 'Gypsy Fred' by The Koobas

Article about The Move

Ad for 'My Friend Jack' by The Smoke

Ad for 'Painter Man' by The Creation

Ad for 'No Presents For Me' by Pandamonium

Drum ad for Rogers Drums, featuring Pete York from The Spencer Davis Group

Ad for 'Baby Don't You Do It' by The Poets

Article about The Pretty Things (Indeed, i would be worried if i were one of their parents too)

Ad for the Ready Steady Who EP by The Who

Ad for 'I Take It That We're Through' by The Riot Squad

Ad for 'I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Round' by The Shotgun Express

Ad for 'All Or Nothing' by The Small Faces

Ad for 'Sorrow' by The Merseys

Ad for some bands having gigs at the Tiles Club

Ad for 'Jingle Jangle' by The Truth

Ad for 'Substitute' by The Who

Ad for 'Girl' by The Truth

Cool 60's promotional posters for British Invasion 45 RPM's

Kinks - A Well Respected Man

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Small Faces - My Mind's Eye

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Rolling Stones - Get Off of My Cloud

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Yardbirds - I Wish You Would

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The Who - I Can't Explain

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Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home

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Spencer Davis Group - Somebody Help Me

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Moody Blues - Go Now

Pandamonium - No Presents For Me/The Sun Shines From His Eyes

Pandamonium - No Presents For Me/The Sun Shines From His Eyes (UK 1967)

Pandamonium started out around 1963 as The Pandas, and after signing to CBS in 1966, they changed their name to Pandamonium and recorded a cover of Donovan's 'Season Of The Witch'. This single was followed up by what often is called the group's best record, 'No Presents For Me'.

'No Presents For Me' is, with it's backwards fuzz guitar and distortion, a pure psychedelic masterpiece. Recorded at Pye Studios, the single was released in 1967, and has, just like 'Baby Your Phasing Is Bad', been included on numerous 60s psych complications, such as 'Nuggets II' (Disc 4), 'Psychedelic Archives: UK Psychedelia Vol. 1' and  'Electric Sugarcube Flashbacks 1'.

The B-side, 'The Sun Shines From His Eyes', is as good as 'No Presents For Me', and has been included on 'Rubble 20: Thrice Upon A Time (Nothing Is Real)'. 

However, a disagreement with CBS led to that the group faded out in obscurity, and all their three singles are today very rare and sought-after.

Hear 'No Presents For Me': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF4sMWP45qo

Hear: 'The Sun Shines From His Eyes': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RFGVMOiQaw

The Beathovens - Summer Sun/Tramps

The Beathovens - Summer Sun/Tramps (Sweden 1966)

Swedish 60s pop was largely a sad mixture of embarrassing amateurism, lack of supporting ideas and mediocre knowledge of the English language. However, there were some great bands like Tages, The Namelosers, Ola & The Janglers, The Steampacket (introduced as Steampacket II in Britain to avoid confusion with the R&B group featuring Rod Stewart, Long John Baldry, Julie Driscoll etc.), The Merrymen (No, not the calypso group) and The Beathovens.


This single of theirs, Summer Sun is simply pop perfection. With it's beautiful harmonies and chords, it's a perfect soundalike to The Kinks around Face to Face. This little group came from the small town Motala, on the eastern shore of the lake Vättern.  When they entered a contest in which Sweden's Beatles would be appointed, Tages won on the west coast and The Beathovens on the east coast. However, The Beathovens, mysteriously, never got the big break, and the highlights in their career was an appearance on the Swedish TV show Drop In and as an opening act for The Who in Örebro.

Hear 'Summer Sun': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zpnvmOUsQ