GRAB IT HERE!Howdy folks! I was going through some of my singles and thought this would be a good garage romp. The Moving Sidewalks are fairly well known in the Psyche/Garage scene and for you Trivial Persuit fans out there; The band was founded by Billy Gibbons. Sound familiar? You may remember him from a fairly popular band called ZZ Top!!! Apparently The Moving Sidewalks had a couple of hits singles (This one hit #1 in Houston for 6 weeks in 1967!), merged with another band (American Blues) in 1969 and changed their name to ZZ Top. It's pretty typical fare for the time but since there is a historical factor concerning ZZ Top, I thought I'd share it with you.ENJOY!
GRAB IT HERE! So I've always had a thing for early electronic music. The Moog was an interesting take on adding an electronic element to your song and until they went space wild with the Moog, it really did sound cool. Guys like Jean-Jacques Perry (E.V.A. and the Happy Moog) really knew how to make a groove with these things. The Happy Moog coincidentally has the March of the Martians on it which was the theme song to one of my favourite childhood shows The Hilarious House of Frightenstein...but I digress.....I found this album (Rod Hunter) last weekend at a thrift shop and had to buy it. I love Soul Makossa and this is an interesting take on the
classic....actually considering this was done in 1974...that kinda makes it a classic as well right? Not everyones taste but let me know what you think...and if anyone has a copy of E.V.A. lying around, I'm still looking for it.... Enjoy!
***UPDATE!***
I've been getting requests lately to re-up some of the dead links on my blog. I've started doing that tonight and will try to keep them updated from now on. Feel free to message me if a link you want is down. I don't mind re-posting it. Unfortunately I use rapidshare because I'm not rich enough to pay for my own server space, so if you're patient, there is a lot of good stuff in the archives here at SHINDIGGIT!
