weekend b!+@#*$

weekend dock
Originally uploaded by third uncle.

the electric prunes
from the album
i had too much to dream (last night)
LISTEN/train for tomorrow
from the album
release of an oath
LISTEN/holy are you

the last few weeks have been kinda busy. the weekdays filled up by school and the weekends taken up with a lot travel as of late. after montreal was a trip to los angeles and just last weekend was spent on the jersey shore. off to dc this coming saturday and camping in eastern virginia the following labor day break. suppose i'm fitting in as much vacation time as i can before summer surely fades away.
picked up these two electric prunes lp's while in los angeles, fitting since they were from sunny la. there's a lot of strange history in this group, things like constant lineup changes and a start that was similar to a band like the monkees, in that they were basically fronts for working la songwriters/producers who held most of the artistic control. though they did play on their records and never went the tv show/kiddie pop route. after their first album they were given a little more say in the songs and were able to stretch out and work with other producers. the first of the tracks is one of the few off their first album that was actually written by the group. the second was composed and arranged by david axelrod and you can definitely hear the influence as their former psychedelic garage sound gives way to axelrod's heavy funk beats and evangelic baroque stylings.