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    Flamin’ Groovies, The

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    Beginning life as a flower-power band in San Francisco during the psychedelic rush of Haight-Ashbury, The Groovies came to define the true spirit of good time rock & roll and pop.

    The Flamin’ Groovies brought Anglophile flash and San Francisco stoner cool to the desolate early 70s music scene. They were a great garage band and wrote a slew of memorable songs.

    Teenage Head (1971) was the last album to be recorded by the original lineup and the tensions between guitarist Cyril Jordan and singer Roy Loney were reflected in the record’s tough, rumbling sound.

    The few reviews the album attracted were good, but the Groovies – playing short pop tunes in the style of the British rockers – were out of place in an America obsessed with guitar-soloing rock bands.

    Roy Loney left, disillusioned, only a few months after the album’s release. Jordan reshaped the band – feeding his transient co-members a diet of British Beat and R&B blended with Byrds/Beau Brummels throughout the 70’s – and shifted them to England to record Shake Some Action under Dave Edmunds at Rockfield.

    You Tore Me Down shines like a polished diamond with evocative Byrds-style acoustic guitar overlays and Hollies-standard harmonies.

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    Cyril Jordan
    Guitar, vocals
    Roy Loney
    Vocals, guitar
    Tim Lynch
    Guitar, vocals
    George Alexander
    Bass, vocals
    Danny Mihm
    Drums
    Chris Wilson
    Vocals
    James Farrell
    Guitar
    David Wright
    Drums
    Terry Rae
    Drums
    Mike Wilhelm
    Guitar
    Jack Johnson
    Guitar
    Paul Zahl
    Drums

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