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The long out-of-print CD by the SRC. One of Michigan’s psychedelic gems, the band remains a favorite along side MC5, The Amboy Dukes, and the Stooges. Lots of sustain laden guitar and spacey lyrics to keep you awake. Tracks: Black Sheep / Daystar / Exile / Marionette / Onesimpletask / Paragon Council / Refugeve / Interval / Black Sheep (Live)
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Roger from Wrexham
VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
In its quirky disjointed way this first album of SRC's is something of a lost minor classic. Originating in the 1960s Michigan scene amongst other such luminaries as MC5 and The Stooges and championed by John Peel, SRC had a distinctive sound based on an ominous keyboard and a gloriously handled minimal chord fuzzed guitar of Glen and Gary Quackenbrush while Scott Richardson sang high and quavering ethereal vocals.
This is something of an SF concept album, whose storyline is a bit vague to the first time listener, but rich in space opera references. You've just got to love lines like "stripped of his power by nuclear wizards" (Exile) "Rainbow fire scorched the land / Warwheels filled the sky (Paragon Council) and the very spooky images of "Marionette". Basically someone is on the run across the galaxy and there's a link to our very deep past. I think that's all we need to know, because each track is a tuneful and singable example of late 1960s pop and rock. Actually "Refugeve" does some serious Rock! (Yes, some might say the album's concept jarring and juvenile in its delvery then go on to cite the ponderous and morbid efforts of the of some of the british prog' rock outfits). Well folks this is light, easy to listen and enjoyable music and that is fine by me (very fine infact) and I know which I would choose to unwind to of an evening.
Sadly SRC never did manage to consolidate their potential and so convey their uniqueness to a wider audience which is why an overview of all their work is difficult to categorise, but this first album promised so much and I cheerfully bought the first three albums.
Glad to see this one back on sale.
This is something of an SF concept album, whose storyline is a bit vague to the first time listener, but rich in space opera references. You've just got to love lines like "stripped of his power by nuclear wizards" (Exile) "Rainbow fire scorched the land / Warwheels filled the sky (Paragon Council) and the very spooky images of "Marionette". Basically someone is on the run across the galaxy and there's a link to our very deep past. I think that's all we need to know, because each track is a tuneful and singable example of late 1960s pop and rock. Actually "Refugeve" does some serious Rock! (Yes, some might say the album's concept jarring and juvenile in its delvery then go on to cite the ponderous and morbid efforts of the of some of the british prog' rock outfits). Well folks this is light, easy to listen and enjoyable music and that is fine by me (very fine infact) and I know which I would choose to unwind to of an evening.
Sadly SRC never did manage to consolidate their potential and so convey their uniqueness to a wider audience which is why an overview of all their work is difficult to categorise, but this first album promised so much and I cheerfully bought the first three albums.
Glad to see this one back on sale.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's 1968, OK! Hopeful/Naive/Magical . . .
24 Nov 2006
By M Mom WRUW
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Format:Audio CD
This album is quintessential 1968 w/its magical lyrics and intense music . . . it's so fragile that you can't take it from its time w/out it falling apart. Lyrics reference literature, mythology, physics, metaphysics, and mathematics (the space between two points w/in the boundary of time is only numbers on a clock, a never ending line . . . Interval). CD also includes Morning Mood (classical Peer Gynt) and the 45 version of Black Sheep . . . I first heard this alternate version when my exhusband and I were testing directionality of a rotor he'd installed on a huge antenna on our apt bldg. We dialed into a tv test pattern at 3 am and SRC blasted from the channel . . . Honey, I think we dialed into Heaven? SRC #1 is so hippie/sixties in the very best way, the stuff that school systems now ridicule ala "Brave New World"/Aldous Huxley lest a new generation find it too appealing.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the 1st great Michigan bands of the 60's
15 Jun 1998
By A Customer
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Format:Audio CD
The SRC (Scott Richard Case) was one of the finest Michigan groups during an era of great regional garage-rock groups. This LP was released in 1968 after their regional hit single, "I'm So Glad." The group featured the piercing sustained notes of Gary Quackenbush and the pulsing organ of Gary's brother Glenn. Most young garage groups featured the SRC's powerful single, "Black Sheep" as part of their set lists. The singer, Scott Richardson, went on to marry Robert Mitchum's daughter, write a couple of screenplays (including one made into a movie with Bob Dylan as the featured actor), and also write a novel called "King of the Shadows." This is a must LP for fans of late 60's garage pop!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Way More Than Psychedelic Ear Candy
24 Oct 2005
By Cthulhu
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Format:Audio CD
One might almost dismiss this band as psychedelic bubblegum, so unaccustomed are we to unvarnished, naked offerings of truth, whimsy, beauty, fantasy. But a serious listen will show that this first album by SRC goes deeper than such a lah de dah genre with a cohesive kick-ass resolve. All the musicians knew their licks well and the music at times surges with epic power. Not Led Zeppelin, and yet... In some ways more listenable.
These bold companions helped carry the great burden without guidance a ways along the road, with a lead guitar that soared from the heights like a great eagle and pierced the heart like Elvish steel. This is a child's garden of stories, evoking thoughts of frost glittering under starlight, autumn leaves blowing across the moon, distant gilt-edged clouds, Maxfield Parrish afternoons, rainbows, magic pools, the music complemented by airy and exuberantly youthful vocal harmonies backing the singular voice of the minstrel tale spinner.
One of my favorite cut-out lp discoveries, this relatively obscure 60s band from Ann Arbor produced the ultimate anthem for the archetypal underdog, a melodic rolecall, a mantra for the damned.
"Blacksheep, outcast, misfit, Ishmael,
Every stranger each his own tale,
Fear of the unknown diminish,
Inside outside start to finish..."
How could anyone not recognize these heroes of Middle Earth, that place which breathed as a shimmering vision throughout the 60s and beyond? March steadfast into the sun with sword in hand, the truth shall be revealed, and courage be exalted even unto the stars... How I missed these intrepid travellers and their tales in the long interval between vinyl obsolescence and their reincarnation on compact disc.
SRC (this first album) could be the message on our next projection into the interstellar void following Voyager. We mean well and hail all starfarers, but are not to be trifled with...
And the torch was lit to guide us into Valinor...
****************************************************************
Ungh... My head hurts... Gotta remember not to drink like that... Still, I'll stand with what I wrote...
© 2005 RAPWreckerds
These bold companions helped carry the great burden without guidance a ways along the road, with a lead guitar that soared from the heights like a great eagle and pierced the heart like Elvish steel. This is a child's garden of stories, evoking thoughts of frost glittering under starlight, autumn leaves blowing across the moon, distant gilt-edged clouds, Maxfield Parrish afternoons, rainbows, magic pools, the music complemented by airy and exuberantly youthful vocal harmonies backing the singular voice of the minstrel tale spinner.
One of my favorite cut-out lp discoveries, this relatively obscure 60s band from Ann Arbor produced the ultimate anthem for the archetypal underdog, a melodic rolecall, a mantra for the damned.
"Blacksheep, outcast, misfit, Ishmael,
Every stranger each his own tale,
Fear of the unknown diminish,
Inside outside start to finish..."
How could anyone not recognize these heroes of Middle Earth, that place which breathed as a shimmering vision throughout the 60s and beyond? March steadfast into the sun with sword in hand, the truth shall be revealed, and courage be exalted even unto the stars... How I missed these intrepid travellers and their tales in the long interval between vinyl obsolescence and their reincarnation on compact disc.
SRC (this first album) could be the message on our next projection into the interstellar void following Voyager. We mean well and hail all starfarers, but are not to be trifled with...
And the torch was lit to guide us into Valinor...
****************************************************************
Ungh... My head hurts... Gotta remember not to drink like that... Still, I'll stand with what I wrote...
© 2005 RAPWreckerds
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