My dad is Mike Cooper, he was the guitarist for this band. The band is no longer around. They had a short stint in the music scene during the 1960's. My father formed a band after Beaver Patrol called Grand Larceny that ended in the early 1990's, based in South Florida. Mike Cooper retired from the music industry in the early 1990's to join the USPS but my father still is an incredible guitarist and still plays all the time. He went on to later develop a different style of playing from his bluesy, garage band, hard rock sound of playing while in Beaver Patrol, to a more technically advanced style in the vein of Heavy Metal guitarists such as Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch etc. Now he is reaching retirement this year from the USPS. Now that he has more time he will be getting back to jamming once again. He still has this 45 record and I might upload the B side if anyone is interested.
Floyd Humphreys is the guitar player on his 45. I was at a few of the band rehearsals of the beaver patrol. I was friends with Jim Bledsoe, the bassist and vocals. He went to Viet Nam and made it back in one piece. I remember Mike Cooper. I grew up in the 2400 block of Thomas street and became a working musician from 1966 to 2020. Still love the garage sounds of the 60's
@patm5086 .your info is wrong my friend.floyd was the rhythm player .i.was the lead guitarist of the band Mike cooper.i went to south Broward high with bledsoe.myself and Floyd had started the band and I asked Jim if he wanted to play bass and said yes.and that's the facts my friend...
This version is better than the Pretty Things original. I like the Pretties a lot, but this is so raw and menacing that it takes away any residual psychedelia.
Cool band name! I thought this was a fairly new term but apparently not lol! No wonder the older, straight-laced, generation, at the time, called them punks!
+Emit Flesti (Sexy Lexy) To hear where they likely ripped their name from, try "The Wilde Knights - Beaver Patrol" and to hear where they ripped this song off from listen to "The Pretty Things - LSD" - This is a pretty cool little gem despite its flaws, but those two above are stone cold 60's garage/punk classics from the same period and if you like this you'll love those. :)
This looks to be the earliest mention of Sire I've come across yet...years before it was Madonna's label...Richard Gottehrer was one of The Strangeloves and a producer/songwriter who formed Sire with Seymour Stein - didn't know they had productions out on other labels before they formed their own label.
The Bieber patrol all days they could be called the border patrol I love the Fuzz I better plan through Vox Super beetle amplifiers awesome this is really good music this is the kind of music I love
this songs right up there - one of the best of these music time a good song beyond belief its right on the psychedelic era or just before it started but a good book on australian bands like this is called mad about you or wild about you with all bands in it from this time - i think link wray invented this playing style in one of his songs they all took it from him
@@mikecooper8465 oh wow thanks mike, I’m going to cover the song on my TH-cam channel and when I get a band together to play live, would you happen to the guitarist for beaver patrol? I’m 22 from Australia and love your work. Also it would mean the world if you checked out some of my songs on my TH-cam channel and tell me what you think, I’ve just started recorded on my 4 track tascam and have written 100s of songs and I plan on recording the best of them.
its sounds a killer and it's a complete rip-off of pretty thing's lsd,but they weren't the first band to rip-off 'lsd' an obscure band from l.a. rain recorded 'esp' a few months before beaver patrol,in 1969 a band from santa barbara the giant crab also recorded it,in my opinion it's the best rendition of this song,when the giant crab disbanded, their guitarist ernie orosco became ernie joseph and formed the big brother(nothing to do with janis joplin band) and recorded it yet again(in 1970),a very similar rendition to the giant crab minus the organ.
It is a version of " l.s.d. and a killer version as well. My guess is they changed the title for airplay. Just the fact they were into the pretties shows how cool they mustve been. I met John Stax once. A mate introduced me and i was so freaked out that i spilt a whole pint of beer on my mates expensive mohair pants. Luckily he understood. Freinds like that are rare indeed.👍 Anyway John Stax got us some snacks from the bar and jumped on stage and played harp with the paramount trio and he was awesome. What a legend he is. A true r&b and garage punk god in my eyes! 🙄
My dad is Mike Cooper, he was the guitarist for this band. The band is no
longer around. They had a short stint in the music scene during the
1960's. My father formed a band after Beaver Patrol called Grand Larceny
that ended in the early 1990's, based in South Florida. Mike Cooper retired from
the music industry in the early 1990's to join the USPS but my father
still is an incredible guitarist and still plays all the time. He went
on to later develop a different style of playing from his bluesy, garage
band, hard rock sound of playing while in Beaver Patrol, to a more
technically advanced style in the vein of Heavy Metal guitarists such as
Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch etc. Now he is reaching
retirement this year from the USPS. Now that he has more time he will
be getting back to jamming once again. He still has this 45 record and I
might upload the B side if anyone is interested.
The1Jaguar Thanks for the info about your dad!
Wow thanks !
The1Jaguar
That's awesome. Tell your pops this is great stuff! I'm a player too. Glad he still plays.
Dude your dad rocks, only found this song today, sweeeet 🎶🤘🎶
The1Jaguar your dad is a truly guitar pioneer. A true legend.
Floyd Humphreys is the guitar player on his 45. I was at a few of the band rehearsals of the beaver patrol. I was friends with Jim Bledsoe, the bassist and vocals. He went to Viet Nam and made it back in one piece. I remember Mike Cooper. I grew up in the 2400 block of Thomas street and became a working musician from 1966 to 2020. Still love the garage sounds of the 60's
@patm5086 .your info is wrong my friend.floyd was the rhythm player .i.was the lead guitarist of the band Mike cooper.i went to south Broward high with bledsoe.myself and Floyd had started the band and I asked Jim if he wanted to play bass and said yes.and that's the facts my friend...
That is one MENACING guitar riff!!!!
Good call, it is menacing
nice Pretty Things "L.S.D." cover
Gotta admit that's a cool band name.
Now we know where grunge started
This song rules so fuckin hard!
Great fuzz sound!
This version is better than the Pretty Things original. I like the Pretties a lot, but this is so raw and menacing that it takes away any residual psychedelia.
Really good
Fantastic. .
Great piece love it!
Great! Was this released before "The Giant Crab" version?
Yes, two years prior Giant Crab.
Thank you. This is much better than "The Crabs"!@@Glendoras
Nasty stuff. Absoulutely rocking.
Fookin' glorious
Beaver Patrol: I was in the local chapter.😆
Loved when I heard it as 14 year old in '81, love it today. Epic.Savage guitar work.
Absolutely wild!
cool garage
thanks! love the photo of "record player" with record.......nice touch
Cool band name! I thought this was a fairly new term but apparently not lol! No wonder the older, straight-laced, generation, at the time, called them punks!
+Emit Flesti (Sexy Lexy) To hear where they likely ripped their name from, try "The Wilde Knights - Beaver Patrol" and to hear where they ripped this song off from listen to "The Pretty Things - LSD" - This is a pretty cool little gem despite its flaws, but those two above are stone cold 60's garage/punk classics from the same period and if you like this you'll love those. :)
Right on classic!
This looks to be the earliest mention of Sire I've come across yet...years before it was Madonna's label...Richard Gottehrer was one of The Strangeloves and a producer/songwriter who formed Sire with Seymour Stein - didn't know they had productions out on other labels before they formed their own label.
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I noticed it's produced by Richard Gottehrer of the Strangeloves, who later produced the first two Blondie albums.
The Bieber patrol all days they could be called the border patrol I love the Fuzz I better plan through Vox Super beetle amplifiers awesome this is really good music this is the kind of music I love
Tune!!
I love this stuff man
This is grunge nirvana bleach sounds
GR8
I would love buy this
Good luck finding one!
lsd by the pretty things but a great english band to copy lol or have as an influence great post peace...
Fuzzed in ! :)
dig it thx
patrollin for some beaver
WFMU sent me here
This is a cover of thr Pretty Things' LSD ...why would you change the tittle from LSD to ESP ?
John Gabriele All the lyrics are changed, not only the title.
Sounds like the Stooges before the Stooges.
this songs right up there - one of the best of these music time a good song beyond belief its right on the psychedelic era or just before it started but a good book on australian bands like this is called mad about you or wild about you with all bands in it from this time - i think link wray invented this playing style in one of his songs they all took it from him
Anyone happen to know what fuzz pedal was on used this track, it sounds unbelievable!
It was a Gibson maestro fz-1 fuzz pedal thru a 65 fender concert amp.i should know I
@@mikecooper8465 oh wow thanks mike, I’m going to cover the song on my TH-cam channel and when I get a band together to play live, would you happen to the guitarist for beaver patrol? I’m 22 from Australia and love your work. Also it would mean the world if you checked out some of my songs on my TH-cam channel and tell me what you think, I’ve just started recorded on my 4 track tascam and have written 100s of songs and I plan on recording the best of them.
@@mikecooper8465 heeey, that’s cool info! Thanks. You sure got a great sound off of that thing! Cheers from Stockholm, Sweden.
@@Glendoras thanks..I appreciate that...
E.S.P. much better than L.S.D.
its sounds a killer and it's a complete rip-off of pretty thing's lsd,but they weren't the first band to rip-off 'lsd'
an obscure band from l.a. rain recorded 'esp' a few months before beaver patrol,in 1969 a band from santa barbara
the giant crab also recorded it,in my opinion it's the best rendition of this song,when the giant crab disbanded,
their guitarist ernie orosco became ernie joseph and formed the big brother(nothing to do with janis joplin band)
and recorded it yet again(in 1970),a very similar rendition to the giant crab minus the organ.
if you're gonna rip a song it should be a good one.
and this is.
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Does anyone have the flipside? Thanks
B side is 'just like a lady'.
LSD!!!!!
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How do yiu transfer from vinyl?
rockabilly Page Got some sort of box that I connect between my 1200 and laptop and record with Audacity.
anybody know what the chords are
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It sounds killer. But, complete rip off of LSD, Wow.
Yes
It is a version of " l.s.d. and a killer version as well. My guess is they changed the title for airplay. Just the fact they were into the pretties shows how cool they mustve been. I met John Stax once. A mate introduced me and i was so freaked out that i spilt a whole pint of beer on my mates expensive mohair pants. Luckily he understood. Freinds like that are rare indeed.👍
Anyway John Stax got us some snacks from the bar and jumped on stage and played harp with the paramount trio and he was awesome. What a legend he is. A true r&b and garage punk god in my eyes! 🙄
who did LSD? the song I mean
no,they recorded it between december 65-january 66
@@MichaelHansenFUN pretty things
ALSO ALOT STRONGER THAN THE PRETTIES.
noisy cover !