Classic 60s Bands - the Music Machine

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:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Machine

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

Music of the 1960s - West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band

Legendary Bands of the 1960s - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band -- 1967-69

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band -- "Shifting Sands" from the LP "Part One" 1967

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band -- "Anniversary of World War III" from "Volume III - A Child's Guide to Good and Evil" 1968.  This recording is actually two minutes of silence.  This LP was voted #31 in the top 40 psychedelic LPs of all time by Mojo Magazine in 2005.  source:  Wikipedia, see infra, below.


Wikpedia links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Coast_Pop_Art_Experimental_Band

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_One_(West_Coast_Pop_Art_Experimental_Band_album)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_3:_A_Child%27s_Guide_To_Good_And_Evil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol._2_(Breaking_Through)

Other links:

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, http://members.chello.nl/cvanderlely/wcpaeb.html

The Legend of the WCPAEB, article.  http://members.chello.nl/cvanderlely/wcpaeb/history/wcpaeb1.htm

the history of the first LP, which was originally issues in mono on FIFO records, only 100 known copies were issued.  It is one of the rarest LPs in existence from the 1960s.  A mint FIFO would be worth a considerable sum.  http://members.chello.nl/cvanderlely/wcpaeb/disco/disco1.html