Great Sixties Bands - The Music Machine with Sean Bonniwell
"The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders" viewed the Music Machine as one of "the most loved" but "least played garage bands of the 1960s." - Source: LA Time obituary on Bonniwell's death last year at age 71. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sean-bonniwell-20111229,0,5675254.story December 29, 2011. Later covered by the Fuzztones, this band was influential.
The Music Machine - "Talk Talk" single from "Turn on the Music Machine" 1966. One of the classic Garage/Punk Psych bands, they had grunge sound back in the mid-1960s. This is actually live footage and rare. It was "the most radical single" then on Top 40 radio, "garagepsychedelia at its most experimental and outrageous," Richie Unterberger wrote in his 1998 book "Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll." Source: LA Times Bonniwell obit, see supra & infra.
The Music Machine "The People in Me" 1967.
The Fuzztones covered "The People in Me" in 1991 on their LP "Braindrops".
The Music Machine live on American Bandstand 1966 doing "Masculine Intuition". If you missed the Sixties, this is what they were like. Notice the band dressed entirely in black. The single glove became a joke recycled in Spinal Tap. And yes, that's the late Dick Clark there at the end of the clip. From the LP "Talk Talk".
Sources:
Bonniwell obit from LA Times, December 2011. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sean-bonniwell-20111229,0,5675254.story
Bonniwell obit from NY Times, December 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/arts/music/sean-bonniwell-singer-in-the-music-machine-dies-at-71.html?_r=1
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