POX: Garage rock compilations

> "buggets".

i'm sorry, i have a cold...

cherry red seems like the place

https://www.cherryred.co.uk/?s=psychedelic&post_type=product&et_search=true

Grapefruit seem to be specialising in doing compilations of great stuff from the era. & slightly later. I think I see this flowing into the early 70s hard rock scene which may have been a lot of teh same players a couple of years down the oine. So thinking a bit more in terms of continuum and finding purism a little out of place. Think the whole process of creating garage is anti purist almost inherently. Does seem to be players putting energy over technique to great degree and removing some degree of the reference points that the original UK blues purists etc were still incorporating.
Not sure how much of a distorted image one gets from seeing the 60s garage scene through the lens of teh 80s revival. Think everything was in a continual state of flux and one is getting a level of feedback to what teens were hearing from their influences. Which would probably be a bit different a couple of months further on from when recordings were done.

Anyway, do enjoy a bit of garage still. & the fashion has been one influence on me. along with that from various other eras.

I would also look into Freakbeat if its still called taht. Which at the time it was appearing under that name struck me as a UK equivalent of teh US garage rock but both were named years after the fact. I think it has been used as a term to incorporate some scenes from mainland Europe too, notably from the Netherlands and Germany. The Dutch scene seemed to pick up heavily on Pretty Things influences in a good way. Not sure if tehy were picking up much on the jazz influences I hear in mid 60s Pretty Things though. Hard hitting wild long haired stuff though.

I also like teh way taht garage like influences turn up in the rockier sides of what appears in the Ethiopiques series and later Zam Rock stuff. The Peace really sound like teh guitarist is chanelling early Jorma Kaukonen.
The early Turkish scene incorporated that mid 60s sound alongside more traditional indigenous stuff. The Turkish Delights set is pretty cool as is the volume from the Love, Peace and Poetry volume.

Japan's mid 60s Group Sounds are a pretty close garage equivalent too, Worth checking out The Mops among others.

(the Mops were recently in the Stray Cat Rock dvds i just watched)

https://letterboxd.com/film/stray-cat-rock-beat-71/genres/

I missed RSD this year, but my record store guy (who is a fan of psych and garage) recommended Behind The Dykes 3: Even More Beat, Blues And Psychedelic Nuggets From The Lowlands 1965-1972

https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/15755

He's also a proponent of the Wizzz French Psychorama comps.

https://wizzzcompilation.bandcamp.com/album/wizzz-french-psychorama-1966-1970-volume-1

if streaming works for you there are lots of comps on Spotify

Every Noise at Once and the related Particle Detector playlists are helpful for checking out sub-sub-genres

https://everynoise.com/engenremap-classicgaragerock.html#tunnel

a couple of prior recommendations jumped out at me and are available - uptight tonight and the acid dreams testament

i am out of the habit of buying music, need to get back on it

here's some regional stuff I've enjoyed over the years:

Monsters of the Midwest (four volumes)
Relative Distance (A Compilation Of New England Garage Bands)
Austin Landing - Vol. 2
Slitherama - Vol. 3 (Japenese)
Pebbles - Vol. 19, The Continent Lashes Back! Pt. 3 Denmark
Highs in the Mid Sixties - Vol. 15: Wisconsin Part 2
Brazil Guitar Fuzz Bananas

i went with the first grapefruit 1967 box, the year i was born. about 80 tracks, about 5 of which i've heard of, all lined up for tomorrow's walk.

oh, look... what's this on the quietus...

Reviews
Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967
Various Artists
Ned Raggett, October 25th, 2016 09:15

(and if i like this there's a volume two)