A 60's Psychedelic Reunion!
The Electric Prunes / Strawberry Alarm Clock
with guests Smash Fashion
No less an authority than Little Steven has called the Electric Prunes’
classic “I Had too Much to Dream Last Night” the National Anthem of
garage rock. The singular, stinging guitar buzz that opened the tune
was a clarion call to a new direction in rock songwriting, performance
and production. The band recorded some groundbreaking albums through
the mid-Sixties, including one of the first concept albums, their “Mass
in F Minor.” Broken up by the end of the Sixties, the band reformed
with all original members to play Little Steven’s Underground Garage
Festival at Randall’s Island in New York in 2004 and were an
overwhelming success. The revived band is touted as playing at the top
of their game, and given their reputation, that’s a hefty statement.
Expect to reach the outer realms of consciousness.
Remembered four decades after their initial impact primarily as a
one-hit wonder, the truth about the Strawberry Alarm Clock is much more
complicated. Formed in Glendale in the mid-'60s, the band originally
known as the Sixpence was a hard working club band who got a local
singles deal and had a b-side explode nationally after the single was
picked up by Uni records. Originally an instrumental, the band's
producer had some lyrics written up and the sleeper b-side became the
international top-ten hit "Incense and Peppermints." The band went on
to make four full-length albums, tour with the likes of Hendrix, Beach
Boys, Buffalo Springfield and the Who. They even appeared in two of the
'60s most mind-numbing films, Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the
Dolls and Richard Rush's Psych-Out. Band members Ed King went on to
southern glory as one of the guitarists in Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Steve
Bartek ended up in Oingo Boingo and working alongside film composer
Danny Elfman.
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