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Instagram post 2198091081783419601_8004421595 The Residents : Fingerprince 1976. This was first Album of theirs I bought, then I began buying all the others via their mail order catalogue (Buy Or Die). EATB Fun fact- On a Bunnymen trip to San Francisco early 80s me and Jake Brockman decided to call round at 444 Grove Street - the Residents HQ. They welcomed us in and showed us round the inner sanctum. While we were alone in a side office I managed to get an eyeball head on and Jake took a crafty snapshot. I’ve got it somewhere but can’t find it at the moment. They had an large industrial unit with an area for shooting Videos, a recording studio, art studio, workshops and lots of shelves of records for the mail orders. Very cool set up, a cottage industry. #theresidents #experimentalmusic #avantgardemusic #sanfrancisco #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #punk #newwave #spacejunkradio #
Instagram post 2196426756698115818_8004421595 Riot On Sunset Strip : Soundtrack. 1967. Various Artists come to the freak out. Including The Standells and the Chocolate Watchband two of my favourite Psyche / Garage bands. EATB fun fact - For our covers set on the 1985 Scandinavian tour we learned to play The Chocolate Watchband’s version of ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’ not from Mr Dylan. I can still remember trying to work out the little sparkly guitar riff in our old flat by Sefton Park Liverpool. EATB fun fact 2 - Our first LA shows were at the legendary Whisky A Go-Go on Sunset Strip. 6 sets! over 3 or 4 days in April 1981. I was honoured when the beautiful gentleman Ray Manzarek popped backstage to say hello. #riotonsunsetstrip #thechocolatewatchband #the #standells #sunsetblvd #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #spacejunkradio #psychedelicrock #whiskyagogo #thedoors #recordcollector
Instagram post 2195812200221095328_8004421595 Iron Butterfly : In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. 1968. Very pleased to have found this in a vintage store in the Mohave Desert, for a mere 5 dollars! Title track is an epic trippy / prog freak-out. These flower power heads wheel out the Hammond Organ, along with thick fuzzy guitar leads plus a tolerable drum solo too (yippee!). More well known in the States than the UK. Oft used as a ‘psychedelic’ go to soundtrack for film makers. I think this would sound cosmic wafting through the foliage in the Garden Of Eden. #ironbutterfly #psychedelicrock #classicrock #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #spacejunkradio #
Instagram post 2193453454119567729_8004421595 PIL : Metal Box 1979. Great design. This is not in my collection but I wish it was. It belongs to Adam Peters the Bunnymen’s first and best orchestra arranger from Back of Love, Ocean Rain Album, Never Stop, Evergreen etc etc. Post Pistols the Boy Rotten and new chums get pretty far out on this record. Punk rock seems a distant blip in the creativity of this mob. More akin to experimental Krautrock. I have got the cd version somewhere...so sad. #publicimageltd #experimentalmusic #sexpistols_official #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #spacejunkradio
Instagram post 2192056714925699421_8004421595 Easy Rider Soundtrack: Electric Prunes, The Byrd’s, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Steppenwolf, Roger McGuinn, Fraternity of Man, Holy Modal Rounders, Smith. 1969. One of the best soundtracks of all time, also one of the best biker movies of all time. It makes me want to fire up my bike and head out to the desert. Point the beast towards the horizon and thunder down a dusty highway with an America football helmet on, just like Jack Nicholson’s. #easyrider #jacknicolson #peterfonda #dennishopper #chopper #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #spacejunkradio #classicrock
Instagram post 2190893828639412258_8004421595 Yes : Close To The Edge 1972. Juxtaposed to my last post of the Ramones first album. I thought I would hit you with the other end of the spectrum. My favourite Yes album. Just like punk, progs not dead either. #yes #jonanderson #rickwakeman #progressiverock #rogerdean #chrissquire #classicrock #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #spacejunkradio
Instagram post 2190100838610273281_8004421595 The Ramones: First Album 1976. Dave (Maz) Mazenko from over the road from my Dad’s house was the first of our mates to buy this. He must have read about them in the music papers or heard them on the John Peel show. That was pretty much the only way you heard about new bands back then. Wasn’t long till word spread and we were all Ramones fans. At that time punk hadn’t really hit the sleepy village of Melling. We all still had long hair, jeans and biker jackets hence we fitted in nicely with the Ramones version of punk. Fast, new, fresh and tough. #theramones #ramones #punk #punkrock #newyork #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #spacejunkradio
Instagram post 2188678595699202293_8004421595 David Bowie : Aladdin Sane.1973. This cassette is a veteran of many a Bunnymen slog up and down the motorways of the UK. The recorded memories in my mind from these days, rise above the tape hiss, wow and flutter of the world today and fill me with wonder of how lucky I have been. #davidbowie #aladinsane #mickronson #glamrock #motorways #classicrock #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #spacejunkradio #postpunkmusic #postpunkrevival
Instagram post 2184850573095083037_8004421595 The Doors : Morrison Hotel. 1970. I got into the Doors round about 1970. The first LP I heard was Strange Days, at my brother Steve’s flat in Pinner. After that I was hooked. EATB fun fact- Being born of the Punk Rock movement the rest of the band didn’t like them at all, but I played the tapes so much on long Van journeys I think it seeped into their minds and they got used to them. #thedoors #jimmorrison #classicrock #raymanzarek #robbiekrieger #johndensmore #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #spacejunkradio #
Instagram post 2184225404760879867_8004421595 The Clash : London Calling. 1979. I managed to pick this up from an Local antique shop yesterday. This Double LP will be 40 years old next month!!!! EATB fun fact - Les Pattinson took some great photos of the Clash from when they played at Eric’s Club Liverpool in 1977. I’ve seen a couple of them, Will the rest ever be seen? I hope so. #theclash #ericsclubliverpool #echoandthebunnymen #spacejunkradio #willsergeant #punk #punkrock #1977 #classic-rock
Instagram post 2181968006322864211_8004421595 Harmonia : Live 1974. Man interacting with machine. Managed to get to see Micheal Rother the guitarist from Harmonia a couple of months back at Gorilla Manchester. Member of Neu, Early Kraftwerk, Harmonia and mates and worked with Cluster, Conny Plank, Eno, the man is a living legend # harmonia #krautrock #electronicmusic #neu #michaelrother #roedelius #moebius #spacejunkradio #brianeno #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #experimentalmusic
Instagram post 2181200440293999374_8004421595 Eno : Another Green World. 1975. On the turntable today my original copy of Another Green World. Been one of my faves for an incredible 44 years. Listening to this takes me right back to the little back room in my Dad’s house in the small village of Melling a mere 8 miles from Liverpool town centre. 8 miles was enough for Melling- ites to be cast as the derogatory term ‘woolybacks’... ha ha I’ve been called worse, so it was all water off a Woollies’ back. At this time I was still a trainee Chef in the Henderson’s department store restaurant on Church Street Liverpool. This album and the appearance of punk was complicit in the unexpected direction of my life. I bought a drum machine because of this album. I also bought a reel to reel tape recorder from Mrs Mazenko’s Freeman’s Catalogue because of Eno. And in 77 I bought a Fender Telecaster because of punk. Bunnymen fun fact...a couple of years later EATB was born in this same back room. Me Mac and the drum machine known as Echo a mini pops junior, stolen years ago. #brianeno #eno #anothergreenworld #echoandthebunnymen #spacejunkradio #willsergeant #electronicmusic #classicrock #postpunkmusic
Instagram post 2179767312526388650_8004421595 Wire : 154. 1979. Wire take a much darker road with this effects heavy album. Their third LP following Pink Flag and Chairs Missing. I saw them at Liverpool Eric’s club summer 77. The band sarcastically goaded the crowd with “ too slow...TOO SlOW!” Following the sudden stop of many of the more punk driven songs. It was a only a tiny hesitation, a millisecond of silence before the clapping started...Zero patience! I liked that. I still love their more aggressive side 1-2-X-U and all that, but this is my favourite Wire Album. #wiretheband #punkrock #postpunkmusic #ericsclubliverpool #echoandthebunnymen #spacejunkradio #willsergeant
Instagram post 2179082298285401159_8004421595 The Durutti Column : Lips that Would Kiss and Madeleine. 45 rpm 12 inch Single 1980. Vini Riley skilfully navigates the lonely purity of a guitar, a delay pedal and a ticking drum machine to wash me and wake me. This mystic combination somehow drifts my mind on to ponder things that have been, things that might have been and things yet to come to pass. It’s just a handful of notes, small vibrations floated in the Sunday morning air. Music is a powerful mind altering weapon. Vini Riley Guitar Master. #viniriley #durutticolumn #echoandthebunnymen #spacejunkradio #factoryrecords #postpunk #darkambientmusic #willsergeant #manchestermusicscene
Instagram post 2178369968228579174_8004421595 Johnny Remember Me : John Leyton. 1961. The great Joe Meek produced this 7 inch a few years before the rather unfortunate turn of events in his Life. Madness murder and suicide. Check out the film of his life ‘Telstar The Joe Meek Story. https://youtu.be/od94Gcg9McI Bunnymen fun fact... We come off stage to this little gem. #joemeek #johnleyton #telstarthejoemeekstory #spacejunkradio #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant #rocknroll #classicrock
Instagram post 2176968644601715307_8004421595 Today’s Recommended Reading coffee table selection. #spacejunkradio #echoandthebunnymen #classicrock #willsergeant #jenniferotterbickerdike #captainbeefheartandhismagicband #thepinkfloyd #davidhepworth1971
Instagram post 2174670721251761830_8004421595 Kraftwerk: Radioactivity. 7 inch Issue 1976. From a TV show. One for the jukebox. Strong message from these German knob twiddles. Still as relevant as ever it was...Atomkraft Nein Danke! #kraftwerk #krautrock #electronicmusic #classicrock #echoandthebunnymen #spacejunkradio #willsergeant
Instagram post 2172820014483502879_8004421595 Devo : Live On Site. 1978. Unofficial release on Cyber Records. Live recordings from gigs in San Francisco, Cleveland & Akron. Devo Played At Liverpool’s Erics club around about the time I bought this. The day after their gig me and Paul Simpson saw Mark Mothersbaugh in be the Famous Army and Navy Store on Lime Street. He was eyeing up some masive black plastic sewerage worker trousers. The very grumpy old geezer that worked there said to him... “Eh you don’t want those... they’re too big for ya, the jeans are downstairs lad” To which Mothersbaugh replied “I like them big!” Me and Paul where pissing ourselves laughing pretending to be looking at a rack of donkey jackets. The old geezer just looked at him very confused. #devo #markmothersbaugh #ericsclubliverpool #punk #echoandthebunnymen #spacejunkradio #willsergeant #thewildswansband
Instagram post 2170367552690451720_8004421595 The Rolling Stones : Their Satanic Majesties Request. 1967 Mono. These Cockney merry pranksters flip the emergency psychedelia switch up to maximum! Bunnymen fun fact... Pete bought me this back in 1985 when we all (except Mac) shared a flat in Sefton Park. Think it was for my birthday. It’s one of my most prized Albums and comes in the groovy 3D cover. Always think of Pete when I see or hear this. #rollingstones #mickjagger #keithrichards #brianjones #spacejunkradio #classicrock #psychedelicrock #echoandthebunnymen #willsergeant
Instagram post 2168194893705717123_8004421595 The Sonics : Here Are The Sonics 1965. Influential Garage rockers from Tacoma Washington. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Witch’ stand out tracks. #thesonics #garagerock #psychedelicrock #classicrock #willsergeant #echoandthebunnymen #spacejunkradio
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