THE ELECTRIC PRUNES - "Stockholm 67"
Recorded by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation in stereo on a four track machine, this is a live show from December, 1967 in Stockholm on the psychedelic band's one & only tour of Europe
1. You Never Had It Better
2. I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
3. Try Me On For Size
4. I Happen To Love You
5. I Got My Mojo Workin'
6. Long Day's Flight (Til Tomorrow)
7. Smokestack Lightning
8. Get Me To The World On Time
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Aside from "Metallic K.O." by Iggy and the Stooges, this is the best live recording from the 60's and 70's of a band at their absolute peak.
Bow down and worship the greatness of the Electric Prunes. No longer should they be regarded as one-hit wonders, or a band in a Nuggets collection. No. The Prunes prove here that they were one of the hardest, hardest working and tightest bands of the time.
Prepare for the long and non-lucid jams which twirl around and around and float up into the sky and explode with pure maniac excitement. To hear them performing "I Just Happen to Love You" or to encourage the audience to shout out curse words in their native language or apologizing for war is to get as close as any of us will ever get to those few shining moments of rock and roll when it seemed like even the little guys would succeed....
sadly, such is not the case, the prunes dissolved into a strange mess and then someone bought their name and made religious music with it. Go figure. So, do yourself and mankind a favor....buy this album, build the world's largest and loudest sound system and play this at maximum volume as the missles fall....
The Electric Prunes' December 14, 1967 show from the Concert Hall in Stockholm, originally taped for broadcast on Swedish radio, fully restored and properly remastered. The result is the finest record ever released by this band, and maybe the best live album of the psychedelic era. It was issued by a private label in England in a double-pocketed CD jacket with a beautifully illustrated booklet, complete with written reminiscences by the surviving members. The band's lineup is from their second album, Underground: James Lowe (lead vocals), Mark Tulin (bass, organ, vocals), Ken Williams (lead guitar), the late Mike Gannon (rhythm guitar, vocals), and Quint (drums). Calling them tight would be an understatement — the band does a 45-minute set, parts of which ("Try Me On For Size," "You Never Had It Better" ) display long instrumental passages showing off Williams' prowess on the fuzz-tone guitar and Quint's powerful drumming to great effect; "I Had Too Much To Dream Tonight" is here, along with "Long Day's Flight" and "Get Me to the World On Time" and solid covers of "Got My Mojo Workin'" and "Smokestack Lightnin'." This live show presents the group as much more of a garage-punk band than a psychedelic band, though they still traffic in the currency of the latter, including lots of distorted guitars and organ cadenzas — the snarl and energy keep things moving, however. Twice as valuable as their Edsel hits compilation
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