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• The Other Half - Mr. Pharmacist

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
    Listen - The Other Half perform Mr. Pharmacist Los Angeles 1966. I would have loved to been there at that time. Love, Byrds, Doors, Chocolate Watchband, Standells, Sons of Adam all playing the strip. Add to that, The Other Half. Here they are doing their original, Mr. Pharmacist. Jeff Nolan, th...

• Barbarians - Hey Little Bird

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - The Barbarians perform Hey Little Bird From Cape Cod, Massachusetts, come The Barbarians. They are probably best known for their two later songs, Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl and the novelty song, Moulty, an auto-biography of their one-armed drummer (waaaaay before Def Lepperd thought ...

• The Sparkles - No Friend of Mine

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - The Sparkles perform No Friend of Mine Lubbock is, of course, home to one of the all time greats, Buddy Holly. But the west-Texas town produced another great band that actually started playing the same time as Holly and his Crickets,The Sparkles. The Sparkles changed line-ups a bazillion ...

• The Squires - Going All The Way

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - The Squires perform Going All the Way   The jangly guitar, the lonely bird chirp of the far off organ, the lyrics that exude cockiness, the blazingly fast guitar lead that takes up nearly 1/4 of the entire song. The singer's scream that leads us into said guitar solo. It is perfect. Perfec...

• Zakary Thaks - Bad Girl

  by On The Flip-Side November 4, 2011
  Listen - Zakary Thaks performs Bad Girl. I probably looked like Linda Blair from the Exorcist the first time I heard this some 25+ years ago. It is simply an amazing song with a killer Kinks-inspired riff, great guitar lead and perhaps my favorite key change in the history of music. The band is Co...

• The Runaways perform Cherry Bomb

  by On The Flip-Side June 3, 2011
    Listen/Download - The Runaways perform Cherry Bomb   This group and song are sooooo different than last week's SoTW. Where the last song was a nice cheese and olive plate with some prosciutto and a chardonnay, this one is more corn dog and a Coke. The song is the enduring, highly entertaining, a...

• Josh Rouse performs It's The Nighttime

  by On The Flip-Side June 3, 2011
    Listen/Download - Josh Rouse performs It's the Nighttime   Sometimes we just dig songs because we just like the way they sound. That's the case with our SoTW, It's The Nighttime, by singer and songwriter, Josh Rouse. We flipsters first learned about the native Nebraskan when Rouse opened for ano...

• Bob Dylan performs Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (demo)

  by On The Flip-Side June 3, 2011
      Listen/download - Bob Dylan performs a demo version of Don't Think Twice, It's Alright   Happy 70th Bobby D. 

• Bettie Serveet performs Kid's Allright

  by On The Flip-Side May 10, 2011
  Listen/download - Bettie Serveet performs Kid's Allright   The amount of information I know about this early 90's band whom hailed from the Netherlands, could fill a thimble. I know the band name, Bettie Serveert, translates, roughly, as "Service to Bettie" and was taken from the auto biography of...

• The Bold perform Gotta Get Some

  by On The Flip-Side April 25, 2011
    Listen/Download - The Bold perform Gotta Get Some     "Gotta get some. Yeah baby!" The year is 1966. The town is Springfield, Massachusetts. Four college kids living in nearby Amherst stride into a studio and spew onto wax their love of college girls, sexual voyeurism, and the need to let it erup...