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LIB 5059LP
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"One of very few recordings of Kim Fowley to survive and amazingly, he survived this show as the audience boo-ed him off the stage. The band hadn't rehearsed properly and mid-show, the organizer asked the audience if they wanted the show to continue and even though they emphatically said 'NO!!!!', Fowley and the band continued on, oblivious to the jeering audience. Eventually, he was 'removed' from the stage."
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MR 407LP
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2021 restock. This reissue is a collaboration between Munster Records and Disques Mono-Tone. With a career that includes hits as producer ("Alley Oop" by The Hollywood Argyles), songwriter ("Nut Rocker" by B Bumble & The Stingers), recordings with Gene Vincent, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, and countless others, his early management of The Runaways and plenty of glorious failures along the way, Kim Fowley has been a maverick presence in rock n' roll history for over fifty years. Living In The Streets (1977) is a compilation of his solo recordings, some of them dating back to the beginning of the decade. "Born to Make You Cry" and "Thunder Road" -- recorded in collaboration with Mars Bonfire -- had first appeared on a single on Original Sound in 1970. As had "Big Bad Cadillac" (a homage to Vince Taylor's "Brand New Cadillac") and "Man Without A Country", released under the name King Lizard, and recorded in Sweden while he was producing Wigwam's Tombstone Valentine album (1970). Originally released on Chattahoochee in 1973 under the alias Jimmy Jukebox, "Motorboat" is now regarded as a Fowley classic. That song and its B-side, "25 Hours A Day" was written and recorded in collaboration with his good friend Michael Lloyd, who Fowley had been making records with since the mid-sixties. "California Summertime" and "Hollywood Nights" were recorded in 1974 at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood and released as a single on the Now label under the unlikely sobriquet of Lance Romance. Three songs -- plus the spoken piece "Sex, Dope and Violence" -- made their debut on the album: "Summertime Frog", "Love Bomb", and "Living In The Streets". All are acoustic and show a certain Captain Beefheart flavor, the former, and some Dylanesque influence, the later. "Living In The Streets" remains a worthy monument to the seventies recordings of the Dorian Gray of rock n' roll, the human jukebox: the unstoppable Kim Fowley. Includes an insert with extensive notes by Mike Stax (Ugly Things Magazine) and features its original artwork.
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45 190EP
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"50th anniversary edition of 'The Trip' tips off the upcoming second volume of Kim's life story, THE TRIP -- stay tuned!"
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MRSSS 526LP
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I'm Bad was the first American album by Kim Fowley after 1968's Outrageous (with the Swedish LP The Day the Earth Stood Still in between). Released in 1972, it finds Fowley perfecting his wild, crazed, rock 'n' roll outlaw persona, at times invaded by the spirit of Captain Beefheart. He gathered a mighty fine set of musicians for the band, including Mars Bonfire (Steppenwolf) on guitar, and Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship, Hot Tuna) on bass.
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MRSSS 525LP
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After a relatively calm period in terms of his own releases between the late '60s and early '70s, Kim Fowley quickly followed 1972's I'm Bad with International Heroes the next year. Considered by many his strongest collection of songs (along with Outrageous [MRSSS 514LP] from 1968), this outstanding LP seems to channel Dylan through the prism of early British glam. On 180 gram vinyl.
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CED 384CD
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"The third volume of brain spraining, early, unheralded, under-worshipped, unknown Kim Fowley productions and manipulations. Kim's always stirring the pot -- this time he heaves the boiling stew right into the smug mugs of rock critics and musicologists with a third, full-on frantic foot-long fricassee guaranteed to cause the listener to rearrange the furniture... and other things! Collect the set and get a party started."
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ED 384LP
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2017 repress; gatefold LP version. "The third volume of brain spraining, early, unheralded, under-worshipped, unknown Kim Fowley productions and manipulations. Kim's always stirring the pot -- this time he heaves the boiling stew right into the smug mugs of rock critics and musicologists with a third, full-on frantic foot-long fricassee guaranteed to cause the listener to rearrange the furniture... and other things! Collect the set and get a party started."
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KB 005BK
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"Kicks Books presents the first of three volumes of Kim Fowley in his own writing - collecting poetry and anecdotes that create a unique autobiography of the greatest mover and shaker of our generation." 150 pages, paperback.
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CED 356CD
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Subtitled: Lost Treasures From The Vaults 1959-69 Volume Two. "Their mom dropped them off, just like the dad dropped off the Patterns the year before. I told them, 'Come on you bitches, get in there and sing, this is the last chance you'll ever have.' They complained and giggled and started singing, started getting excited, they all had orgasms I think....Forget the one hit wonders. The people on this record were dreamers in agony pouring their hearts out for your listening pleasure. Say a prayer for all of us, because in our dreams, we knew that one day, you guys would hear these records." -- Kim Fowley
Tracklist: Renegades - Geronimo; Kim Fowley - Big Sur, Bear Mountain, Ciro's, Flip Side Protest Song; Gamblers - Teen Machine; Vaqueros - Vaquero Beat; Players - Memories Of A High School Bride; Aston Martin And The Moon Discs - Fallout; Cover Girls - Gone But Not Forgotten; Daywins - Heartbeat; Rituals - Surfers Rule; Bonnie And The Treasures - Eleventh Commandment Of Love*; Renegades - Ghost Train*; Hollywood Argyles - Long Hair, Unsquare Dude Called Jack; Donnie And The Outcasts - Bounty Hunter; Althea And The Memories - Daddy Said; U.S. Rockets - March Of The Siamese Children; Rituals - Gone (* = previously unissued)
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ED 356LP
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2015 repress. Subtitled: Lost Treasures From The Vaults 1959-69 Volume Two. Gatefold LP version. "We were trying to do Dale Hawkins, trying to imitate Susie Q, on Geronimo. And we succeeded in getting that sound. Geronimo sounds great in a car or when you're having multiple sex with lesbians." -- Kim Fowley
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CED 355CD
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Subtitled: Lost Treasures From The Vaults 1959-69 Volume One. "One man's garbage is another man's gold! Norton presents a Golden Decade (1959-69) of Kim Fowley's elusive, previously properly unheralded visionary escapades that reinforce the fact that Kim is.... GODHEAD! Stand now and salute the man, and each of these great records which blast right today as they did back when the chicken was the egg!" Tracklist: Bruce And Jerry - I Saw Her First; Patterns - Late Late Show; U.S. Rockets - Bodacious; Rituals - This Is Paradise; Donnie And The Outcasts - Big Fat Alaskan; Renegades - Charge; Players - The Rebel; Kim And The Skippers - Daybreaker; Mo And Jo - The Yo Yo Song; Johnny C And The Blazes - Inferno; Kim Fowley - Music Is The Magic; Blue Bells - Moccasin; Althea And The Memories - Dedication Time; Kim Fowley - Underground Lady; Kim Fowley And Mars Bonfire - Surf Pigs*; Althea And The Memories - Worst Record Ever Made (* = Previously Unissued).
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ED 355LP
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2012 repress. Subtitled: Lost Treasures From The Vaults 1959-69 Volume One Gatefold LP version. "Am I a jerk? Yeah. I'm a real asshole. I'm an idiot, I'm a moron and I make fun of people and I'm a troublemaker. When I'm dead, my funeral will be a parody of life. Thank you very much for listening to this music." -- Kim Fowley
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