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| 1. Riot On Sunset Strip (Album Version) | |||
| 2. You Movin' (Album Version) | |||
| 3. You I'll Be Following (Album Version) | |||
| 4. Dr. Stone (Album Version) | |||
| 5. Go And Say Goodbye (Album Version) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. "Jump, Jive & Harmonize (Album Version)" | |||
| 2. Back Up (Album Version) | |||
| 3. To Die Alone (Album Version) | |||
| 4. Get On This Plane (Album Version) | |||
| 5. "Little Girl, Little Boy (Album Version)" | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. "Action, Action, Action (Album Version)" | |||
| 2. The Rebel Kind (Album Version) | |||
| 3. High On Love (Album Version) | |||
| 4. Fan Tan (Album Version) | |||
| 5. Halloween Mary (Album Version) | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Sit Down I Think I Love You (Album Version) | |||
| 2. Splendor In The Grass | |||
| 3. November Night (Album Version) | |||
| 4. Roses And Rainbows (Album Version) | |||
| 5. Lemon Chimes (Album Version) | |||
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In Los Angeles during the mid-'60s, music was everywhere--from the garages of Orange County, to the dingbat apartments of the San Fernando Valley, to the bungalows of Laurel Canyon. But without a doubt, the epicenter of the music scene was the Sunset Strip, where "freaks"filled the rock clubs lining the famed Hollywood thoroughfare.. Encompassing four discs arranged thematically to cover different aspects of the pop, rock, club and Top 40 sounds of the era, Where the Action Is! compiles 101 tracks that mix many of the city's brightest stars (The Byrds, Love, The Doors, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, Captain Beefheart, The Mama & The Papas, Lowell George, Iron Butterfly, The Monkees) with talented artists whose stellar songcraft sadly flew under the radar (The Seeds, Jameson, The Electric Prunes, Modern Folk Quintet, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Spirit, The Everpresent Fullness, Kaleidoscope, The Standells, The Bobby Fuller Four).
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Lenny Kaye can't have had any idea what he was starting when he compiled his original Nuggets album of psychedelic ‘artyfacts’ back in 1972. We've had two huge Nuggets sets, a Children of Nuggets box of disciples, and a San Francisco-specific collection – all of them treasure chests of proto-punk classics and cult obscurities.
Mid-60s Los Angeles being a hotbed of such music, Rhino's Andrew Sandoval now follows up 2007's San Francisco Nuggets with a compendium of LA's various exponents of psych-pop and garage punk. From masthead names like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield to no-hit wonders like Limey & the Yanks, Where the Action Is! is a one-stop tour of mood-altered SoCal teen rock of the period.
Sandoval divides his box into four platters. Disc one (‘On the Strip’) offers the names you'll know in a playlist that's like strolling into Gazzari's with a bell-bottomed babe on your arm. What you notice is how an almost generic style of edgy sub-British Invasion pop all but dissolves the differences between Love, Sonny & Cher, The Association and Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
More compelling for the cognoscenti are discs two and three. The first (‘Beyond the City’) focuses on roughly-recorded, primarily non-Hollywood acts from East LA's Premiers and Thee Midniters to Lancaster's Merrill & the Exiles; the second (‘The Studio Scene’) dips into the less punky pop of The Monkees, The Mamas & the Papas and the obscure Pasternak Progress. Opus 1's superb Back Seat '38 Dodge is like the Beach Boys on STP and the W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band's Hippy Elevator Operator is worth the price of entry for the title alone. Disc three treats include October Country's cult classic My Girlfriend is a Witch and the spooky waltz of the Garden Club's Little Girl Lost-and-Found.
Disc four (‘New Directions’) charts the evolution of the LA sound into canyon folk and country rock, kicking off with a Stephen Stills and Richie Furay demo of the Springfield's Sit Down, I Think I Love You and taking in Gene Clark, Van Dyke Parks, Harry Nilsson, Del Shannon's psych-tinged I Think I Love You, and an alternate take of the Beach Boys' Heroes and Villains and more – not forgetting a Warren Zevon/Bones Howe team effort as the Motorcycle Abilene.
This is where the action was, folks. Take a trip back in time and you too can ride so high. --Barney Hoskyns
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 [Box set] is a worthy addition to the growing "Nuggets" catalogue and covers the LA scene of the mid/late sixties. Like another reviewer I found the earlier SF collection slightly more to my old Hippie taste - perhaps the LA scene was just a little bit more commercial - but this collection does contain plenty of genuine nuggets!
It is very well presented in a 48 page book format with the 4 CDs slotted into recesses at the back - bit of a scuff risk if played a lot, but quite secure. The book has full track details as would be expected from the likes of Andrew Sandoval and Alec Palao, and featurettes on the LA radio stations and clubs of the era. It is well illustrated and very informative and will look very nice on your shelf!
The 101 tracks fill the 4 CDs and Amazon has provided audio clips for your delectation. Bill Inglot ferreted around in the tape vaults to find these gems and Dan Hersch and Andrew Sandoval remastered them to sound fresh and exciting. Where the Action Is! Is lovingly produced by people who have an obvious love of the music featured, and considerable knowledge of the era.
Don't be put off by the speculation and guesswork of the "reviewers" who "reviewed" this collection before it was actually released - it is a good sounding and good value set. Most of the material has been available before - but not these remasterings - but there are three previously unreleased tracks featured as well. Once Upon a Time by Tim Buckley, Sit Down I Think I Love You by Stephen Stills & Richie Furay and Words (Demo) by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart. You know you want to hear them!
Where the Action Is! Is probably not the best introduction to the Nuggets series, but if you have the others then it will not disappoint. Some great music, well presented and reasonably priced must deserve five stars even if it's not perfect!
It is very well presented in a 48 page book format with the 4 CDs slotted into recesses at the back - bit of a scuff risk if played a lot, but quite secure. The book has full track details as would be expected from the likes of Andrew Sandoval and Alec Palao, and featurettes on the LA radio stations and clubs of the era. It is well illustrated and very informative and will look very nice on your shelf!
The 101 tracks fill the 4 CDs and Amazon has provided audio clips for your delectation. Bill Inglot ferreted around in the tape vaults to find these gems and Dan Hersch and Andrew Sandoval remastered them to sound fresh and exciting. Where the Action Is! Is lovingly produced by people who have an obvious love of the music featured, and considerable knowledge of the era.
Don't be put off by the speculation and guesswork of the "reviewers" who "reviewed" this collection before it was actually released - it is a good sounding and good value set. Most of the material has been available before - but not these remasterings - but there are three previously unreleased tracks featured as well. Once Upon a Time by Tim Buckley, Sit Down I Think I Love You by Stephen Stills & Richie Furay and Words (Demo) by Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart. You know you want to hear them!
Where the Action Is! Is probably not the best introduction to the Nuggets series, but if you have the others then it will not disappoint. Some great music, well presented and reasonably priced must deserve five stars even if it's not perfect!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Cornish Deadhead
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Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Having been a fan of West Coast music for over 40 years, this was a must have. The packaging is book form again, and it makes a perfect partner for the San Francisco book box set, Love Is The Song We Sing. The book is a mine of information and includes a "time-line" of miscellaneous facts for the period in question.
The music contains nearly all the familiar bands that you would expect, but not necessarily the track or version that you might anticipate. Examples are Byrds: You Movin' (from the preflyte sessions);Beach Boys: Heroes and Villains (alternate take). One for the completists is the Tim Buckley track Once Upon A Time (previously unissued). Another early track is the Stills/Furey version of Sit Down I Think I Love You - classic West Coast!
Overall, this is a very good package with much music to enjoy, especially for anyone who loved the era. I don't consider it quite as good as the San Francisco set, hence only 4 stars, but this is a personal opinion on the music itself - it's still worth purchasing.
The music contains nearly all the familiar bands that you would expect, but not necessarily the track or version that you might anticipate. Examples are Byrds: You Movin' (from the preflyte sessions);Beach Boys: Heroes and Villains (alternate take). One for the completists is the Tim Buckley track Once Upon A Time (previously unissued). Another early track is the Stills/Furey version of Sit Down I Think I Love You - classic West Coast!
Overall, this is a very good package with much music to enjoy, especially for anyone who loved the era. I don't consider it quite as good as the San Francisco set, hence only 4 stars, but this is a personal opinion on the music itself - it's still worth purchasing.
By E B Cooney
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is a fantastic box set, the packaging looks great and the music is better than I expected. However I do leave the cds out of the book as they do get scratched. If you like 60s music then you will find plenty here to satisfy you, disc 4 is my personal favourite.
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NUGGETS LET DOWN
I originally purchased this title in Feb 2010 after enjoying previous sets released by Rhino in the long box format.
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Published on 30 Oct 2010 by MR COMEDY
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good package but not the best
Another in the line descended from the original Lenny Kaye Nuggets compiation.Packaging is not up to the same standard of the first 3 boxed sets and little thought was given to... Read more
Published on 8 Dec 2009 by Mark Andrews
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The 2nd Instalment
There's more 60s psychedelia out now than there was in the 60s and it keeps growing.
In the U K psychedelia meant the Beatles who laid down the blueprint and America... Read more
In the U K psychedelia meant the Beatles who laid down the blueprint and America... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2009 by Richard
3.0 out of 5 stars
A nice introduction...
This is a nice introduction to the L.A. scene, but it doesn't really contain a lot for the devoted L.A. music fan. I have pretty much everything on this box set. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2009 by Even Johan Ottersland
4.0 out of 5 stars
Additions to the first comment
An interesting choice, and since as a long-term music fan I've not heard of a lot of this stuff I'm sure it will be of benefit to most. Read more
Published on 14 July 2009 by C. Metcalfe
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