1967 GROOVEYARD LIVE FROM THE GROOVEYARD FUZZ GARAGE + BYRDS + PSOUL GARAGE

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• DOUBLE LP GATEFOLD VINYL ~ ORIGINAL 1967  FIRST PRESS ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
• Live! From the GrooveYard
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• NEW SYNDROME (MONO) -  1004
  

1. Vancouver had a happening R&B music scene in the pre-psychedelic 1960s. Bands like The Nocturnals and Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers managed to chart across the country, but many others were big draws locally. Numerous live music venues popped up to fill the seemingly insatiable demand of the local youth culture, and Live! From the GrooveYard is a classic recording capturing that period.
   
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3. Live! From the GrooveYard became a rare $$$ collectors item in original DOUBLE LP format. The album was even released as a limited edition CD some 16 years ago. 
   SEVERAL unknown GARAGE & PSOUL ROCK BANDS involved are competent and the music has a special Northwest "garage rock" sound. The Stags for instance did a fine cover of The Wailers' "Out Of Our Tree" as well as an innocent version of The Byrds' "It Won't Be Wrong", The Shockers could easily find place on any "Northwest Battle Of The Bands" volume and The Shantelles' cover of "Have Love Will Travel" leans more towards The Sonics than to the Richard Berry original (but in a smooth way). Live! From The Grooveyard is surely an artifact but also a hipshaker and quite good listen through.
   
   Despite its name, the music on the double album was actually recorded at a West Broadway studio and the “live” sound was a looped recording from a West 4th hippie club called Afterthought. A 1981 Sun article points out that the musical rivalry between soul/R&B and the Stones/Beatles rock sound comes across on this record.
   
   Live! From the GrooveYard was produced to promote the GrooveYard teen dance club at 759 Carnarvon in New Westminster. A Vancouver GrooveYard operated briefly on Davie Street in the old Embassy Ballroom, which later became Retinal Circus, Dante’s Inferno, and currently Celebrities nightclub. Tommy Chong operated a bottle club in the basement called the Elegant Parlour. One night in 1965, The Supremes visited the club and were sufficiently impressed with Chong’s band, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, that they helped get them a record deal on Motown. Bobby Taylor later did the same for the Jackson 5.
   
    It's hard to believe that New Westminster could be the heart of the R&B Scene, but there it was, the mid 60's, and IKE AND TINA TURNER were on the bill! The former Hollywood Bowl, under new ownership of Les Vogt and the management of Douglas Miller, became the short lived Grooveyard, and took its rightful place in local music history. MARVIN GAYE, ETTA JAMES, LITTLE JUNIOR PARKER, THE SPINNERS, and BO DIDDLEY performed there, as well as hot Northwest groups THE KINGSMEN, PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS, DON AND THE GOODTIMES, and even THE SONICS. Most importantly, The Grooveyard gave some of Vancouver's hottest acts a stage and, on some very special evenings, you could see up to ten live bands and dance 'til you dropped. It just didn't get any better. The original album was the brainchild of Les Vogt, band manager, concert promoter, rockabilly performer, and owner of the Grooveyard. He thought the album would generate more publicity for the club and the bands in his management stable. He took his idea to musician and song writer Tom Northcott and local entrepreneur Jack Herschorn at their offices, where they operated New Syndrome Records.
   All the songs on the album were recorded and engineered by Robin Spurgin at his studio. Oddly, the crowd noise that was added to the background was recorded at the Arctic Club (a Vancouver Jazz venue) and not at the Grooveyard!
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   Recorded in 1966 and released in 1967, the originals pressing of the double album was only 1000 copies (making it one of the most sought after albums in Vancouver record collector circles). Doug Cuthbert, the original drummer for the Night Train Revue, did the original cover design.
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   1. Epics - It's Growing
   2. Epics - Knock On Wood
   3. Night Train Revue - Letter Song
   4. Night Train Revue - 99-1/2
   5. Soul Unlimited - Get Out Of My Life Woman
   6. Soul Unlimited - Choo Choo
   7. Kentish Steele & The Shantelles - Have Love Will Travel
   8. Kentish Steele & The Shantelles - Land Of 1000 Dances
   9. Kentish Steele & The Shantelles - Leaving Here
   10. Kentish Steele & The Shantelles - Mercy Mercy
   11. Stags - It Won't Be Wrong
   12. Stags - Out Of Our Tree
   13. Shockers - You Don't Love Me
   14. Shockers - It's You Alone
   15. Nocturnals - Mustang Sally
   16. Soul Unlimited - Little Joe
   17. Soul Unlimited - Something You Got
   18. Night Train Revue - Sometimes I Wonder
   19. Night Train Revue - You Don't Know Like I Know
   20. Epics - Cleo's Back
   21. Epics - If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time
   22. Shockers - Don't Bring Me Down
   23. Shockers - You Better Run
   24. Nocturnals - Slow Down
   25. Nocturnals - You Make Me Feel So Good
   26. Nocturnals - Get On Back
   27. Stags - Drive My Car
   28. Stags - Everybody Knows (I Still Love You)
   
   Personnel:
   [EPICS]
   Jayson Hoover (vcls)
   Jim Harmata (gtr)
   Bob Kidd (bs)
   Bill Gibson (keyb'ds)
   Gunther Klaus (sax)
   Dave MacPhail (drms)
   
   [NIGHT TRAIN REVUE] incl.
   Chuck Flintroy (vcls)
   Sy Risby (vcls)
   Suzanne Cliff (vcls)
   Chuck Cliff (organ)
   
   [SOUL UNLIMITED]
   Carl Graves (vcls)
   Bob Nahirnak (gtr)
   Wayne Pealo (bs)
   Robbie Buchanan (keyb'ds)
   Al Lynch (trumpet, vcls)
   Bruce Norris (trombone)
   Ken Bronsch (sax)
   Stan Williamson (drms)
   
   [KENTISH STEELE & THE SHANTELLES]
   Kentish Steele (vcls)
   Paul Dean (gtr)
   Brian Pulham (bs)
   Brian Tingle (organ)
   Gary Greensword (trumpet)
   Warren Clarke (trumpet)
   Stu Meadows (trombone)
   Brian Tansley (sax)
   Glen Gish (sax)
   Jim Patterson (drms)
   
   [THE STAGS]
   Lloyd Manuel (gtr)
   Pete McKinnon (bs)
   Dan Hunt (organ)
   Norm Stacey (drms)
   
   [THE SHOCKERS]
   Keith Foreman (vcls)
   Mike Wilson (gtr)
   Carl Erickson (bs)
   Ed Coppard (keyb'ds)
   Dave Jonsson (drms, vcls)
   
   [NOCTURNALS]
   Ron Henschel (gtr)
   Wayne Evans (bs)
   Chad Thorp (organ)
   Roger Skinner (sax)
   Carl Erickson (sax)
   Bill McBeth (drms, lead vcls)

1.   CONDITION:
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3. The cover: rated: thick gatefold; strong VG+(+) (light shelf wear, nothing bad),  there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ...

1. The vinyl: Rated: from VG VG+ VG++ nothing strong just some light visible stuff, plays "EX" (excellent) AUDIO ....all 4 custom labels are clean