Re: the Wild Thing on Elektra

["fbrandon" <cosmopop@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

i know i've written about them before on this list---first recording is on
one of the frank guida labels from virginia (SPQR?) a 45---i first
encountered them in boston in the summer of 68---they had a gig on revere
beach for the summer and played the free cambridge commons shows
often---sorta like a vanilla fudge cover band---tried to be heavy and with
it---competent but no commercial potential (as jac h found out)---they
appeared to be chicano/hispanic/latin of some sort with mondo teased
shellacked wayne cochrane pompadours that kept growing down their back with
grey sprayed in their black hair always accompanied by a couple of
outrageously fine ronnettes wannabe lookalikes---they disappeared from
beantown and then came the elektra lp---after that, who knows---now that is
a story i'd love to read almost as much as the nooney rickett one
-----Original Message-----
From: John Trembly <johntrembly@netzero.net>
To: bomp@xnet2.com <bomp@xnet2.com>
Date: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject: the Wild Thing on Elektra


>
>Does anyone know anything about this band and their record? I first heard
about them in The Book of Rock Lists under the list for "
>longest hair" then very recently I was checking out the webpage for Jac
Holzman's book and in the discography it says it's one album Jac wishes had
never appeared on his label.
>Then this morning as I open up Izzy's (after spending the night in the
Watchungs in a hotel because of the storm, but hey, D&B paid), there it is
sitting on the counter! Awful album ,all covers but I'm curious about them
now as they seem to have been a late-sixties version of a Sunset Strip house
band, like the Standells at PJs.
>John
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