[bomp] Buzzy Linhart & The Wayoutz & The Fifth Estate

[Louis Shukat <louis_shukat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Buzzy Linhart says HI to everyone.

His "Buzzy Linhart Presents The Big Few Album" will be
out in a month or so

http://www.buzzylinhart.com is under renovation but

http://buzzylinhart.blogspot.com/  still functions.


THE WAYOUTZ

Anyone who doesn't have the sunshine pop Wayoutz album
SOMETHING NOW doesn't know what they are missing

Vh1.com   write to Lenny  wayoutz@gis.net

http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/wayoutz/738768/album.jhtml

WAYOUTZ on MP3
http://www.mp3.com/albums/602259/reviews.html


Critic's Review

Joe Viglione, All Music Guide

Psychedelic is the mantra here on this very cool
recording by Boston area band Wayoutz, from the
glorious eight-page photo booklet drenched in pastels
to the 16 selections of explosively fun garage rock.
Scott Damgaard's "Galaxies Away" is the longest song
at seven-plus minutes, and is one of the CD's
highlights with its pop aggression and spacy sounds.
The beauty of this collection is that these clever
guys are never redundant, and the material comes off
with a freshness and an "I don't care" attitude that
is the opposite of what is really going on. The fact
that they do care is displayed by their in-tune
backing vocals, Lenny Scoletta's solid early-Charlie
Watts' drumbeat, and their ability to take a topic
that seems unbelievably silly, as Rich Mirsky does on
"Donuts R Life," and make it work. It's quite a bit of
material to tackle in one setting and keep the
listener's attention, but as they shift alternative
rock genres from sunshine to British pop, the music
here keeps reinventing itself. The smart guitar riff
of bassist Tom Abbott's "Clover" is a contrast to the
driving cover of Lennon and McCartney's "And Your Bird
Can Sing," while his "Path of Wire" sounds like a
second cousin to Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot."
With bubbling precision they somehow keep the fun
quotient up, "Memories of the Future" another
science-fiction epic from Damgaard, again injecting
that happy-cosmic element back into the mix. There's a
hidden bonus tune not listed in the tracking on the
CD, Tom Abbott's "Drag Race in Outta Space" in MP3
format, and also a CD-ROM portion that includes
photos, lyrics, bios, and related items. Something Now
is an ambitious project that is light years beyond
what many Boston bands were releasing at the end of
the 1990s, and is highly recommended


THE FIFTH ESTATE is a group that SHOULD HAVE been on
NUGGETS.  I hear there's a double disc about to be
released - all unreleased tracks...

bio by Jason Ankeny on AMG

http://www.mp3.com/the-fifth-estate/artists/13796/biography.html


Fifth Estate Out Of Print
DING DONG THE WITCH IS BACK
http://www.mp3.com/albums/30631/summary.html



Critic's Review

Joe Viglione, All Music Guide

In the mid-'60s, Wayne Wadhams performed in a band
called the D-Men that evolved into the Fifth Estate.
They went Top 15 in 1967 with a novelty remake of the
Wizard of Oz tune "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead!."
Their only hit on Jubilee Records is very misleading.
This group should be as sought after as Moulty & the
Barbarians. This is a very generous collection of
demos: songs they wrote for the Righteous Brothers and
Cilla Black, and covers of Buddy Holly's "It's So
Easy''" and John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom." This album
really goes across the '60s spectrum, which makes it
so fun and so unique. The rhythm tracks to "I Wanna
Shout/Tomorrow Is My Turn" sound like the Ventures
performing in your living room; the second portion of
the song descends into a dirty
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"-type riff. With all the cult
fascination for Roky Erickson and the Chocolate
Watchband, it is amazing what the 64-plus minutes on
this disc reveal, and even more amazing that this
music isn't as sought after as so many other bands
from that era. A novelty hit, after all, hardly has
the lustre of a Standells riff or ? & the Mysterians'
organ passages. The unreleased 1966 single "How Can I
Find the Way" sounds like Barbara Harris of the Toys.
The liner notes on the back of the CD call this "A
real first: the complete recorded output and memoirs
of a group who recorded for four labels between 1964
and 1967." The demo for their breakthrough hit, the
cover from The Wizard of Oz (as well as the hit
version) is here, and when you play that next to "Love
Isn't Tears Only," their demo for the Righteous
Brothers, the abilities of these New Englanders comes
totally into focus. It would've been perfect for the
Walker Brothers or Tom Jones. The McGregor Clothes
jingle is lifted carefully from Chad & Jeremy's 1964
hit "Yesterday's Gone." Murray the K even makes an
appearance -- a tape from his WINS-AM show recorded in
1964 appears in between songs four and six. Early work
by future producers Bill Szymczyk and Phil Ramone are
also included; the liner notes by Joe Tortelli are as
thorough as his lengthy essay in the Delaney & Bonnie
package for Rhino. The 28 tracks, featuring 26 songs,
the Murray the K bit, and the clothing jingle would be
a good study course in the life of a rock band who hit
it big, and all their work that went in between. Wayne
Wadhams is a major producer who has worked with jazz
act Full Circle on Columbia, among many others. As
producer David Foster emerged from the Canadian band
Skylark, the history of producer Wadhams compiled here
with his Fifth Estate is more than just a good study.
As stated, this is a real period piece for collectors
of vintage '60s music. 



		
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