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The Sonics and Burger Records, this week on ‘The Pharmacy’!
05.29.2015
03:40 pm
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Gregg Foreman’s radio program The Pharmacy is a music / talk show playing heavy soul, raw funk, 60′s psych, girl groups, Krautrock. French yé-yé, Hammond organ rituals, post-punk transmissions and “ghost on the highway” testimonials and interviews with the most interesting artists and music makers of our times…

This week in conversation with Gerry Roslie, keyboardist and vocalist of the highly influential garage band The Sonics, Lee Rickard and Sean Bohrman, founders of the cassette revival record label Burger Records and Jonathan Toubin, founder of New York Night Train and the “Soul Clap Dance Party.”


Photo by Jini Dellaccio
 
Mr. Pharmacy is a musician and DJ who has played for the likes of Pink Mountaintops, The Delta 72, The Black Ryder, The Meek and more. Since 2012 Gregg Foreman has been the musical director of Cat Power’s band. He started dj’ing 60s Soul and Mod 45’s in 1995 and has spun around the world. Gregg currently lives in Los Angeles, CA and divides his time between playing live music, producing records and dj’ing various clubs and parties from LA to Australia.

Set List:

The Fall - Mr.Pharmacist (Intro)
The Sonics - Shot Down
The Ideals - Go Get a Wig
Sonics Gerry Roslie Part One
Set Chosen By - Bobby “Pantichrist” Butler (The Voodoo Rhythm and Pantichrist Hardware Store / Bern Switzerland)
The Wailers - Out of Our Tree
Billy ‘The Kid’ Emerson - A Dancin’ Whippersnapper
Little Richard - Keep a Knockin’
Richard Berry - Louie Louie
Sonics Gerry Roslie Part Two
Set Chosen By - Mr.Pharmacist (The Pharmacy / Los Angeles, Ca)
The Ikettes - Don’t Feel Sorry for Me
Les Jaguars - Jaguar Shake
The Equals - Green Light
King Coleman - The Boo Boo Song
The Avengers - Be a Caveman
Burger Records Sean and Lee Part One
Set Chosen By - Victoria Rawlins (All Girls , All Vinyl / Los Angeles, Ca)
Small Faces - What ‘Cha Gonna Do about it ?
Johnny Kidd and the Pirates - Shakin’ All Over ’65
The Seeds - Can’t Seem To Make You Mine
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - Frenzy
Burger Records Sean and Lee Part Two
Set Chosen By - Mr.Pharmacist (The Pharmacy / Los Angeles, Ca)
Ike and Tina Turner - Strange
The Ideals - Go Go Gorilla
Etta “Miss Peaches” James - Tough Lover
Junior Wells - I got a Stomach Ache
Sonics Gerry Roslie Part Three
Set Chosen By - Rick Barzell (Green Slime / Los Angeles, Ca)
Don “Pretty Boy” Covay - Bip Bop Bip on Atlantic 1957
The Cadillacs - Holy Smoke Baby
The Rumblers - I Don’t Need You No More
The T-Bones - Rail Vette
Sonics Gerry Roslie Part Four
Set Chosen By - Jonathan Toubin (NYNT + Soul Clap / NYC)
Jenny Rock - Le Train Pour Memphis
Erma Franklin - I Don’t Want No Mama’s Boy
Lorenzo Holden - The Wig
What’s Happening - Hot Buttered Buns
Jonathan Toubin of Soul Clap

Outro

 
You can download the show in its entirety here.
 
Below, Sonics’ “The Witch”:

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05.29.2015
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Mudhoney’s album-length homage to Seattle’s garage rock heroes the Sonics
03.16.2015
02:34 pm
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In 2000 a temporary agglomeration of Seattle fuzz-rock talent coalesced in the form of the New Strychnines in order to pay homage to one of the city’s most revered godfathers of rock, the Sonics, who had been causing astounded listeners to shake their booties as early as 1960. Seattle’s fascinating musical lineage includes one of the most important early garage rock bands—the Sonics—as well as the world’s greatest rock guitarist while also being, of course, the epicenter of the global grunge movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The Sonics were actually from Tacoma but have long since been adopted by far larger Seattle as an important part of the city’s roots.

On Mudhoney’s website it even claims that the New Strychnines “are 75% of Mudhoney,” as it includes Mark Arm on vocals, Steve Turner on bass, and Dan Peters on the drums. The combo also includes Tom Price of Gas Huffer, Bill “Kahuna” Henderson of Girl Trouble, and Scott McCaughey of the Young Fresh Fellows.
 

 
The sole album of the New Strychnines was called The New Original Sonic Sound. The material was actually released multiple times in 2000 and 2001 and in some cases the name of the combo was given as The New Original Sonic Sound, which really just seems like someone fucked up somewhere. Either way the album boasts 16 impeccably turned-out Sonics classics turned out by most of Mudhoney and some of their talented friends. Every single track is credited to Gerry Roslie and Larry Parypa, respectively the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the Sonics.

You can’t see the New Strychnines perform but you can see the Sonics….

Continues after the jump…

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03.16.2015
02:34 pm
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