The Flamin' Groovies
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The Flamin' Groovies: Sneakers
Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, October 1975
BACK IN the heady days of the late sixties when it seemed that for several precious months San Francisco became the rock music centre of ...
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Report by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 24 November 1968
SAN FRANCISCO — In the heady first days of the "San Francisco Sound," someone dubbed the city the "Liverpool of the USA." The title, though ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Teenage Head (Kama Sutra)
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, The Rag, 12 April 1971
A FRIEND OF mine came over about three weeks back to play me this killer new album he said he’d gotten. So, sure, I said ...
The Flamin’ Groovies: Teenage Head (Kama Sutra)
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 27 May 1971
I’VE BEEN betting on the Flamin’ Groovies a long time. When they used to come on stage at Golden Gate Park love-ins and all the ...
Rock And Roll Dope: the Flamin' Groovies
Report by Frank Bach, The Ann Arbor Sun, 11 June 1971
DETROIT CITY was reelin' and rockin' last weekend to high energy blasts from the most unique and refreshing band to come out of San Francisco ...
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 May 1972
Maybe if you're young enough, from a dreary home environment with nothing but a soul destroying future, then maybe you could enjoy a festival like ...
Grateful Dead et al: Bickershaw Festival, Lancashire
Report by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, June 1972
BICKERSHAW, A SLEEPY little Northern town, had certainly never seen anything like it before. Coronation St had been invaded by the day glow kids and ...
Profile and Interview by Nick Kent, Friends/Frendz, 23 June 1972
AS I RECALL, it was the second week of July back there in 1970 — prime time for a righteous dose of dem ole Summertime ...
Man, The Flamin' Grooves: Lyceum, London
Live Review by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 1 July 1972
IT'S EASY TO sympathise with the aims of the Flamin' Groovies. All they want to do is play rock and roll and get people dancing. ...
Brinsley Schwarz, Stackridge, the Flamin' Groovies: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 30 September 1972
FIRST THE facts: Greasy Truckers are basically two people who wish to be known as Melvin and Fanny Hotrock (We all have our problems, I ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Grease; Alive Forever! (More Grease)
Review by Jonh Ingham, New Musical Express, 15 February 1975
SOME OF YOU may remember The Flamin' Groovies. ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Acid Hurt My Brain
Profile and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 2 August 1975
WHEN, TOWARDS the tail-end of 1969, the Flamin' Groovies' first Epic single 'Rockin' Pneumonia' crashed the American Hot 100 at No. 27 (with a bullet), ...
The Re-emergence of the Flamin' Groovies
Profile by Andy Childs, ZigZag, February 1976
ONE OF the many bright ideas that the collective brains at ZigZag have come up with lately is that of updating articles that appeared in ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (Philips) [Import]**
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 17 April 1976
IT'S HARD to imagine that the Groovies are ten years old, or that it's four years since they tried to enliven us in Britain. But ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (Phonogram — released very soon)
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, May 1976
I STILL CAN'T believe this album! In fact, I would go as far as to say it will be one of the most important and ...
Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (Sire)
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976
MAX BELL provides sleeve-notes for the new album ...
Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (Sire) ***
Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 3 July 1976
SEVERAL WEEKS ago I reviewed a French import of the above mentioned Groovies album, complaining about the terrible sound. It is my pleasure to announce ...
One Chew Tree Faw!! The Ramones/Flamin' Groovies: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 10 July 1976
Whadya want, good diction or good music? Giovanni Dadomo sees da Ramones an' da Groovies an' gets some good an' some bad a' both. ...
Flamin' Groovies/The Ramones/The Stranglers: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 10 July 1976
MAYBE IT WAS no accident that the hottest, steamiest, dirtiest night of the year was reserved for July 4. It's not every day that we ...
Flamin’ Groovies: It Ain't Much Fun Bein' In The Import Bins' Blues
Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 17 July 1976
SOMETIMES DEJA VU gets to choke you up. After ten years of trying to prove themselves the Flamin' Groovies must be wondering just what the ...
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, August 1976
A STUNNING album and a pair of London gigs last month heralded the return of the fabulous Flamin' Groovies, San Francisco legends still crusading for ...
Flamin' Groovies: Shake Some Action (Bomp!)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, September 1976
FOR THOSE OF YOU wondering where rock & roll has been all your lives (grew up on Jimi Hendnx and heavy-metal, didn't ya, bosco-brain?), well, ...
The Flamin' Groovies: "We're Just Trying To Bring A Little Innocence Back To Rock'n'roll"
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, September 1976
KRIS NEEDS corners Cyril Jordan, founder and leader of the Flamin' Groovies, in room 315 of the Agnew Hotel, and produces his tape recorder. ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Teenage Head
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976
I MUST confess that when I was first confronted with the Flamin' Groovies, I was not impressed. ...
Flamin' Groovies: Brunel University, Uxbridge
Live Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 27 November 1976
"WE WERE into punk a long time ago. but we've cleaned up a bit since then." The speaker was John Wilson, singer with the Flamin' ...
Review by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Waxpaper, 1978
NOW. That’s the title of the new Flamin’ Groovies album. Which is very ironic because the album just doesn’t sound like "Now." I dare anyone ...
Profile by John Tobler, Blank Space, 1978
"HOW DO these punks stop the bleeding when they stick pins through their flesh?" enquired a somewhat bemused Cyril Jordan, spending a fast three days ...
The Flamin' Groovies: "We're No Museum Piece"
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 7 January 1978
SOME BOXERS, if you believe what you see on the toob, just won't quit. Knocked down more times than they've slapped in their gum shield, ...
Flaming Groovies: A Thirteen Year Overnight Success Story
Profile and Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, April 1978
"Right Cyril...left foot forward, two steps back, and then turn around...and when we've finished this old Ike and Tina Turner Review bit we'll go into ...
The Flamin Groovies: Flamin' Groovies Now
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 15 April 1978
LIKE SO many other people, the first time I caught an eyeful of the Groovies in the flesh was when they were supported by The ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Rafters, Manchester
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 27 May 1978
ABOUT BEFORE 12.15...I don't want to talk about it. ...
Flamin' Groovies' Cyril Jordan Isn't Angry
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Trouser Press, July 1978
LIKE THE CITRÖEN, the Groovies have always been interesting, but never popular. Born amid the psychedelic rush of Haight Ashbury in 1965, the Groovies from ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Groovy Times On The Road!
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1978
UP AND DOWN the country over the last few weeks wide-eyed audiences have been driven past boundaries of passion they never knew could exist in ...
The Return of the Flamin' Groovies
Report and Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, September 1978
IT ALL BEGAN on a slow summer afternoon with a frantic phone call from Miriam Linna. The Flamin' Groovies (or someone speaking for them, perhaps ...
Flamin' Groovies: Now (Sire SRK6059)
Review by Wesley Strick, Rolling Stone, 7 September 1978
IT SEEMS PERVERSE, even mordant, to call the new Flamin' Groovies album Now. But since Low and Wow have been taken, Now must serve as ...
The Flamin' Groovies Come Home
Report and Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 October 1978
AFTER EIGHT YEARS of silence in the band's hometown, the Flamin' Groovies suddenly made two San Francisco performances in less than a month. "I'm stopping ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Jumpin' in the Night
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1979
HOT FROM their sizzling UK tour last June, the Groovies bombed into Eden Studios and laid down 16 tracks in a few days of midnight ...
The Flamin' Groovies/The Ramones: Live At The Roundhouse, London, Summer 1976
Retrospective by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 1985
AS SPRING turned into the long, hot summer of '76, the '60s in the bloated shape of The Rolling Stones self-parodied itself up its own ...
Flamin’ Groovies: Groove with another flamin’ cult band
Retrospective and Interview by Clinton Walker, The Age, 11 July 1986
THE FLAMIN’ Groovies are one of those bands that seems to have had the word "legendary" permanently affixed to the front of their name. So ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2005
Funny story... Though I had spoken to Flamin' Groovies founder in 1998, I held the article all this time hoping to speak to Cyril A. ...
The Flamin' Groovies: Flame On
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, December 2005
July 4, 1976: America is knee-deep in Bicentennial festivities, but across the pond in London a celebration of a different sort is underway. ...
Overview by Dave Laing (Australia), Ugly Things, August 2006
(Note: the following piece was written prior to the recent release of the wonderful UK 2CD set At Full Speed: The Complete Sire Recordings, which ...
Go All The Way: A Thing Called Power Pop
Overview by Dave Laing (Australia), I Like Your Old Stuff, 25 March 2017
"Pete Townshend coined the phrase [power pop] to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didn't stick to the Who, but it did ...
Memoir by Nick Kent, unpublished, 15 June 2020
IT'S BEEN FIVE hours now since I received the news that Marc Zermati died in his sleep and — as with all deaths of those ...
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