And now these bands are reuniting and doing gigs, a couple of them at least! Looking forward to seeing Rain Parade, Three O'Clock, The Dream Syndicate and the Bangles next month in LA!!! :)
Absolute magic! Thanks for posting this Bob. A friend on mine gave me a C90 in 1985 with Emergency Third Rail on one side and Medicine Show by the Dream Syndicate on the other. I don't think I ever properly thanked the guy. Still two of my favourite albums.
Its great to see an interview and performance with The Rain Parade,Emergency Third Rail/Power trip is an amazing album,also Steven Robacks brother David was in the band Opal which a little bit later included Hope Sandoval,and when Opal broke up David and Hope would then go on to form Mazzy Star,another amazing band!!!
my "Paisley Underground" manifesto would read: " A reinvention of garage riot strip garbage can neon syrup youth glucose swamp packaged in a plastic box of styrofoam coffee peanuts at Bob's Big Boy at 2am in the morning." Some bands not mentioned in this documentary, worth checking out, are....: the Bangs (before they became the Bangles), Salvation Army, 100 Flowers (or the Urinals), Invisible Chains, Green on Red, the Dream Syndicate, and early Red Cross (which became Redd Kross).....also Sun City Girls..... Pailey Underground was never just some tribute to the Stones but a continuation of the music that was happening on Sunset Blvd during 1965. The songs were brash, short, and filled with as much cynicism and negativity as optimism. The banks and real estate companies with local conservative officials succeeded in shutting down the strip in 1966 from live music after much protest. The focus then went to San Francisco where the music was more introspective and druggier with a veneer of rosey eyed optimism. Los Angeles had bands like the Doors, the Music Machine, and Love who were self destructive and a bit more complex than just incense and tie dyed shirts....not to belittle San Francisco who gave us Moby Grape and Anton Levay.
There was a band called Monochrome Set too, not sure if they could be categorised as Paisley underground band, but they were pretty good and made a good name for themselves for a short time.
Explosions In The Glass Palace, even though a mini album, surely must be in a real best albums ever list. I remember seeing them play 'You Are My Friend' then 'No Easy Way Down' not long after on The Old Grey Whistle Test and they blew me away. 'My Secret Country' and 'Depending On You' was a bit disapponting in comparison, not at the dizzy height of the stuff on Explosions.
I would imagine that Ride were fans of the Rain Parade. Though Ride were rooted in the noise/shoegazer movement, both shared an evident influence from the Byrds (and coincidentally both had a song on their debut LPs entitled 'Kaleidoscope').
@The096757 I agree even as you can hear in a couple of the biggest indie bands like The Shins and the New Pornographers the influence of the Paisley Underground bands is quite evident!!!
No money in rock n roll. Not to mention rap, on a percentage of whats out there. Pontiac Brothers aren't they from Detroit or Arizona or something. Too bad we couldnt see a whole gig.
No money in rock n roll. Not to mention rap, on a percentage of whats out there. Pontiac Brothers aren't they from Detroit or Arizona or something. Too bad we couldnt see a whole gig.
According to Wikipedia, Michael Quercio of The Three O` Clock & Salvation Army coined the phrase "paisley underground."
Amazing! So good to see Rain Parade (smokin hot live clip here!) and the LA of yore..thanks for posting!!
And now these bands are reuniting and doing gigs, a couple of them at least! Looking forward to seeing Rain Parade, Three O'Clock, The Dream Syndicate and the Bangles next month in LA!!! :)
Absolute magic! Thanks for posting this Bob. A friend on mine gave me a C90 in 1985 with Emergency Third Rail on one side and Medicine Show by the Dream Syndicate on the other. I don't think I ever properly thanked the guy. Still two of my favourite albums.
Its great to see an interview and performance with The Rain Parade,Emergency Third Rail/Power trip is an amazing album,also Steven Robacks brother David was in the band Opal which a little bit later included Hope Sandoval,and when Opal broke up David and Hope would then go on to form Mazzy Star,another amazing band!!!
my "Paisley Underground" manifesto would read: " A reinvention of garage riot strip garbage can neon syrup youth glucose swamp packaged in a plastic box of styrofoam coffee peanuts at Bob's Big Boy at 2am in the morning."
Some bands not mentioned in this documentary, worth checking out, are....: the Bangs (before they became the Bangles), Salvation Army, 100 Flowers (or the Urinals), Invisible Chains, Green on Red, the Dream Syndicate, and early Red Cross (which became Redd Kross).....also Sun City Girls..... Pailey Underground was never just some tribute to the Stones but a continuation of the music that was happening on Sunset Blvd during 1965. The songs were brash, short, and filled with as much cynicism and negativity as optimism. The banks and real estate companies with local conservative officials succeeded in shutting down the strip in 1966 from live music after much protest. The focus then went to San Francisco where the music was more introspective and druggier with a veneer of rosey eyed optimism. Los Angeles had bands like the Doors, the Music Machine, and Love who were self destructive and a bit more complex than just incense and tie dyed shirts....not to belittle San Francisco who gave us Moby Grape and Anton Levay.
There was a band called Monochrome Set too, not sure if they could be categorised as Paisley underground band, but they were pretty good and made a good name for themselves for a short time.
Explosions In The Glass Palace, even though a mini album, surely must be in a real best albums ever list. I remember seeing them play 'You Are My Friend' then 'No Easy Way Down' not long after on The Old Grey Whistle Test and they blew me away. 'My Secret Country' and 'Depending On You' was a bit disapponting in comparison, not at the dizzy height of the stuff on Explosions.
I would imagine that Ride were fans of the Rain Parade. Though Ride were rooted in the noise/shoegazer movement, both shared an evident influence from the Byrds (and coincidentally both had a song on their debut LPs entitled 'Kaleidoscope').
Why are the three oclock not in this
A criminal omission. Same regarding Game Theory.
I wonder if the English band "Ride" were fans of the Rain Parade, I hear similarities aside from the obvious 60's influence.
Can hear where BJM got some of their sound from
@The096757 I agree even as you can hear in a couple of the biggest indie bands like The Shins and the New Pornographers the influence of the Paisley Underground bands is quite evident!!!
It's a cheap VHS tape from 85 with lots of hiss. Sorry :)
No The Three O'Clock or Game Theory? Bummer!
anyone remember the transmission date? (month in '85?)
No money in rock n roll. Not to mention rap, on a percentage of whats out there. Pontiac Brothers aren't they from Detroit or Arizona or something. Too bad we couldnt see a whole gig.
No money in rock n roll. Not to mention rap, on a percentage of whats out there. Pontiac Brothers aren't they from Detroit or Arizona or something. Too bad we couldnt see a whole gig.