My Generation of Sunday 02 & Tuesday 04 December: The Merseys, Dino Coccia & Friends [Ed’s Show 2018-48]

NEW SHOW: The Merseys, Dino Coccia  & Friends (Shakey Vick, Rod Demick, Gordon Smith, Alan Glen, etc.) *** Repeated: Nirvana, Paul Butterfield, Michael Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop *** Sunday 02 Dec.., 12 noon till 12 midnight, repeated Tuesday 04 Dec. 12 noon till 20:00 hrs *** Time Zone: CET Brussels *** Ed’s Show, 2018-48, *** RADIO 68: all the sounds and all the voices that shaped the sixties ***

THE PLAYLISTS

1 MY GENERATION (NEW) SPECIAL SPECIAL The Merseys
LOVE & PEACE  H.P. LOVECRAFT:  Let’s Get Together  
FORGOTTEN & OVERLOOKED: THE WHO: Sad About Us + LES BAROQUES: Sure He’ A Cad + The McCOYS: Sorrow.
SPECIAL  THE MERSEYS: Sorrow, The Cat, Penny In My Pocket, Sad About Us, Rhythm Of Love, Honey Do [as The Crackers (singles A-side, 1966-68) + JOHNNY and JOHN: Bumper to Bumper + THE JOHNNY GUS SET: Sweet Day.
LONGLAYTIME BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY: Catch Me Daddy (Live) + JETHRO TULL (Cat’s Squirrel, LP ‘This Was’, 1968) + MOBY GRAPE (Murder In My Heart For the Judge, LP ‘Wow’, 1968).
FREE SPEECH Hippie Chick + Ken Kesey  on LSD.

2 BLUESIDE (NEW): SPECIAL  DINO COCCIA

LOVE & PEACE Guy Davis: Wear Your Love Like Heaven (cd ‘Kokomo Kidd’).
HOMAGE TO CATALONIA Blues de Picolat: Diumenge a la tarda (Carrer de l’Angel). 
THE ORIGINATORS  & INSPIRATORS : Huey Piano Smith & The Clowns.
SPECIAL  DINO COCCIA, drummer 
The Shakey Vick Blues Band feat. Dino Coccia + Chris Youlden: cd ‘Got Blues Of You Wannit’, 2007
Dino Coccia: cd ‘Widespace’ , 2001, feat. Gordon Smith and Rod Demick.
The Incredibe Blues Puppies, feat. Dino Coccia + Gypie Mayo, cd In The Doghouse, 2008
The Barcodes feat. Dino Coccia with Alan Glen & Zoot Money, cd ‘With Friends Like These’, 2006.
KEEPERS OF THE BLUES FLAME Starlite Campbell Band: Heart Of Stone (new single).
FREE SPEECH Barbara Dane: Join The GI Movement.
THANKS TO Dino Coccia for Dino Coccia’s ‘WIdepace’ and Shakey Vick Blues Band’s  ‘Got Blues If You Wannit + Alan Glen & Blake Powell of Note Records for The Incredible Blues Puppies and The Barcodes + The Starlite Campbell Band for the new single.  

3 MY GENERATION (repeated) SPECIAL : NIRVANA The Singles

LOVE & PEACE The Flower Pot Men: A Walk In The Sky 
HOMAGE TO CATALONIA: Llamp Te Frigui: La Marianna  (LLTF) http://llamptefrigui.fr/
FORGOTTEN & OVERLOOKED
DON CRAINE’s NEW DOWNLINERS SECT + HONEYBUS (demo, 1967) + MURRAY HEAD.
SPECIAL  NIRVANA: The 1967 & 1968 singles: Rainbow Chaser , Girl In The Park, Pentecost Hotel,  Tiny Goddess, Trapeze (B-side of ‘All Of us’), Flashbulb (B-side of ‘Rainbow Chaser’).
LONGPLAYTIME :  B.B. KING (, LP Blues On Top Of Blues’, 1968) + BAKERLOO (LP ‘Bakerloo’, 1969) + BILLY LEE RILEY (LP ‘In Action’, 1966) + TYRANNOSAURUS REX (LP ‘Unicorn’, 1969).
FREE SPEECH DE GEDACHTEN ZIJN VRIJ: Donovan + Boudewijn De Groot+ Bruce Kent

4 BLUESIDE (REPEATED) PAUL BUTTERFIELD & Friends

SPECIAL PAUL BUTTERFIELD & Friends : THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND feat. Elvin Bishop and Michael Bloomfield (First Album, 1965) + THE ELVIN BISHOP GROUP (Cranshaw, 1969) + MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD (Living In The Fast Lane) + AL KOOPER & MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD, feat. Elvis Bishop (The Live Adventures Of, 1969).
KEEPERS OF THE BLUES FLAME Wilson Pickett: Don’t Fight It (LP ‘Midnight Hour, 1965) + Robben Ford: Tangle With Ya (cd, Purple House, 2018) Rich Krueger: Girls Go for Arse’oles (CD NOWThen, 2018, https://www.richkrueger.com).
DE GEDACHTEN ZIJN VRIJ * FREE SPEECH Lefty Pritchett: Vietnam Rotation Blues + Vietnam War Protest in New York + Leuven Vlaams+
THANKS TO Tom Brumpton of Polymath PR for Rich Krueger + V2 Records Belgium for Robben Ford + Angel Air Records for Michael Bloomfield.
LOVE & PEACE Wilson Pickett We’ve Got To Have Love.
THE ORIGINATORS & INSPIRATORS : CHUCK BERRY + B.B. KING (Lucille, 1968).

ACHTERGRONDINFORMATIE ** BACKGROUND

THE MERSEYS
 

“The Merseys had a big pop/rock hit in the U.K. in 1966 with “Sorrow,” later covered by David Bowie on ‘Pin Ups’ – but never followed up on the promise of this successful debut. They were a spinoff group from The Merseybeats, who were one of the more popular Liverpool bands of the British Invasion although they never managed to land a hit in the United States (UK hits ‘ I Think Of You’, ‘Wishin’ and Hopin’). The Merseybeats split up in 1966, with lead guitarist  Tony Crane and bassist Bill Kinsley forming The Merseys”. (Quoted From / All Rights Reserved: Richie Unterberger, www.allmusic.com ).
RADIO 68 PLAYS: five singles by The Merseys + one as The Crackers plus two by groups led by former Merseybeats member Johnny  Gustafson + originals by The Who and The McCoys + cover by Les Baroques.

DINO COCCIA

Dino Coccia is a British freelance jazz and blues drummer , who has played with a wide variety of artists, but who was equally a member of groups like The Barcodes, The Incredible Blues Puppies and Paul Lamb & The Kingsnakes. He also recorded a few solo albums, notably ‘Widepace’ with a great number of guests (Gordon Smith, Rod Demick, Sonny Blak, Alan Glen…). Coccia has also  written or co-written a number of blues originals.
Follow Dino Coccia: https://www.facebook.com/WidespaceOriginal/
Biography: http://www.paullamb.com/The%20King%20Snakes/dinococcia.html
RADIO 68 plays tracks from Dino Cccoia’s solo album ‘Widespace’ , The Incredible Blues Puppies, The Barcodes and The Shakey Vick Blues Band.

NIRVANA

“This  Nirvana consisted of Irish musician Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Greek multi-instrumentalist Alex Spyropoulos. The pair met in London’s La Giaconda coffee bar in 1965 (a young David Bowie also frequented the place). They hit it off big time and became almost inseparable over the next few years—spending their time together continuously writing songs, performing, and digging the groovy scene of the capital’s swinging sixties nightlife. Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos became Nirvana. They were the core around which other sessions musicians did orbit. They signed to Chris Blackwell’s Island Records who released the band’s science-fiction concept album The Story of Simon Simopath in 1967.The band at this point was supplemented by Ray Singer (guitar), Michael Coe (French horn and viola), Brian Henderson (bass), Peter Kester, David Preston, and Patrick Shanahan (drums), and Sylvia A. Schuster (cello). A music press review at the time gave this album four stars and described the LP as “delightful,“tuneful,” “competent,” and “good listening.” While another review asked the prescient question “Nirvana is a rather nice name don’t you think?” (Quoted From / All Rights Reserved https://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_the_original_nirvana_a_pioneering_sixties_psychedelic_rock_duo

PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND

(…) “So anyway, Butterfileld’s Blues Band were formed around harmonica man and lead singer Paul Butterfield, and his guitarist friend Elvin Bishop, persuading some of Howlin’ Wolf’s rhythm section,including drummer Sam Lay, to join them for some live club gigs. It’s said that Paul Rothschild of Elektra records saw them and swiftly signed them on board. These were the first results of a career that lasted until 1971. The bulk of the lead guitar parts on this debut album, however, were played by new recruit Mike Bloomfield, with Billy Davenport substituting for the ailing Sam Lay, but, nonetheless, what they produced back then hinged upon a fairly robust round-up of such classics of the genre (…)”.  Quoted From / All Rights Reserved: Len Helsing, © Copyright http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2013

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