INCREDIBLE COMPACT DISC AND GORGEOUS VINYL REISSUES!! Sundazed Music is the home of amp-melting rock 'n' roll, reverb-drenched surf guitar, swivel-hipped rockabilly, mindbending psychedelic sounds, string-popping country music, ultra-suave jazz, fuzz-damaged garage rock and chart-topping pop!!
THe liverpool five The best of the Liverpool Five
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They weren’t from Liverpool… but they were 100% British! Liverpool Five forged their tough-as-nails R&B/Beat sound in the unforgiving clubs of London and Germany, and on concert stages across the Far East, before relocating to the U.S. West Coast, where they set about invading America from within.
Wes Montgomery Smokin' at the Half Note
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Smokin’ at the Half Note by Wes Montgomery and Wynton Kelly, originally released by Verve in 1965, shouldn’t need a build-up for anyone whose ears have been open for the last 40 years. When you begin a live session with 13 minutes of “No Blues,” a cornerstone of the Miles Davis Quintet with Hank Mobley, circa 1961, you’d better have your stuff together.
Wes Montgomery Movin' Wes
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Wes Montgomery demonstrates on his 1964 Verve debut album, Movin’ Wes, just what fabulous sounds he coaxes from his instrument, no matter how he gets it done. Wes is accompanied here by a 12-piece mini-big band...
Kenny Burrell A Night at the Vanguard
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Tracked for the Argo label in 1959, Kenny Burrell's A Night at the Vanguard is a prime example of the masterful art of this Detroit native. Accompanied by a superb rhythm section of bassist Richard Davis and Roy Haynes on drums, Burrell weaves his magic before a spellbound Village Vanguard crowd.
Kenny Burrell Blue Bash!
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Another side of the multi-faceted Mr. Burrell is fully revealed on Verve’s Blue Bash! by Kenny Burrell and Jimmy Smith, a 1963 set which finds the storied twosome focused strictly on blues-related material.
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE SPECIAL! Buy all six Sly & the Family Stone LPs for only $89.98!
Sly & the Family Stone was exactly the band America was supposed to have by the end of the '60s! This multi-cultural juggernaut, black and white, men and women, gathered up elements of the best music its native land had to offer—Soul, Rock, Funk and Jazz—and created something-freaking-else! Over his first six groundbreaking Epic LPs, Sly Stone—a maverick studio genius who heard things nobody else did—turned the worlds of R&B, Funk, Soul and Psychedelia completely upside-down with his breathtakingly innovative band, whose lyrics, deftly laced with political and social commentary, were woven through groovy rhythms and melodies so infectious, it made standing still virtually impossible. Each Sundazed title by this groundbreaking aggregation is sourced from the incredible, original Epic Records analog stereo masters. Ranking right up there with the Beatles, Elvis, Stones, Dylan and Hendrix, Sly is an obvious candidate for enshrinement on the rock 'n' roll Mt. Rushmore—if and when!
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NEW JIM FLORA DESIGN SUNDAZED T-SHIRTS
Jim Flora (1914-1998) created dozens of fun, yet diabolic album covers for Columbia Records and RCA Victor during the 1940s and '50s. His canvases pulsed with angular hepcats bearing funnel-tapered noses and shark-fin chins who fingered cockeyed pianos and honked lollipop-hued horns.
Flora has posthumously added Sundazed to his client roster: his heirs have authorized us to feature a vintage Flora rocket ship illustration on a special edition t-shirt. The space cruiser originally appeared on the back of a 1958 LP by guitarist Billy Mure.
These special edition t-shirts are available in two color combinations:
In conjunction with Sony-BMG/Legacy Recordings, Sundazed is proud to announce the issue of the gatefold triple LP edition of Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue on high-definition blue-colored vinyl!
The seductive warmth of vinyl: It's the way this music was meant to be heard! If you've always wanted to start a vinyl library of the very best in vintage rock and soul, here's a sweetheart deal you can't resist... Snag all 25 of Sundazed's top-selling LPs—including The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Love's Forever Changes, Otis Redding's The Dock Of The Bay and the Stooges' Funhouse—for an absolute eye-popping price... Add all 25 titles to your library now and save $50 off the regular price of these gems! All are exact repros of the classic original issues from Sundazed, the most successful vinyl-reissue label in the biz... Accurate and beautiful albums, one and all... Welcome to the vibrant world of Sundazed vinyl!
LOVE - Forever Changes THE STOOGES - Funhouse THE BYRDS - Sweetheart of the Rodeo THE STOOGES - The Stooges BOB DYLAN - Nashville Skyline THE SONICS - Introducing The Sonics BOB DYLAN - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (mono edition) MC5 - Kick Out the Jams (uncensored version) THE PRETTY THINGS - The Pretty Things BOB DYLAN - Bringing It All Back Home (mono edition) VAN MORRISON - Blowin’ Your Mind! BOB DYLAN - The Times They Are A-Changin’ (mono edition) MOBY GRAPE - ‘69 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - The United States Of America VARIOUS ARTISTS - Ain’t it Hard! ‘60s Garage & Psych From Viva Records JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Surrealistic Pillow (mono edition) LOVE - Love MC5 - Back In The USA OTIS REDDING - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul OTIS REDDING - The Dock Of The Bay ALBERT KING - Born Under A Bad Sign GABOR SZABO - Spellbinder BOOKER T. & THE MG’s - Green Onions BETTYE LAVETTE - Do Your Duty THE INTERNATIONAL SUBMARINE BAND - Safe At Home
(featuring Gram Parsons)
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Albert King, Mike Bloomfield, Lowell Fulsom, Otis Rush and Earl Hooker! Five certified Hall of Fame blues-wailing guitar heroes, packaged together to punch you right in the chest with their amp-busting greatness! Where else could you possibly get this much PURE JOY for a mere $69.98! You'll not only get the blues, you'll lose 'em too once you've heard this funky quintet!
From the incorrigible garage fanatics at Sundazed Records comes this raging set of ten essential slabs of classic '60s garage rock, presented the way they were originally meant to be heard—on 7" vinyl!!! This is the real stuff, from the golden age of hormone-driven teenage American rock 'n' roll. These ten classic singles and EPs feature a total of 31 classic garage-rock tracks, from the snotty swagger of the Headstones' "24 Hours (Everyday)" to the raucous blueswailing of the Remains' "Diddy Wah Diddy" to the raging raunch of the Bad Roads' "Blue Girl" to the modified Merseybeat of the Spiders' "Why Don't You Love Me" to the frantic intensity of the Shady Days' "I'll Make You Pay." The perfect soundtrack for any turntable-powered rock 'n' roll throwdown!
Following hot on the heels of our groundbreaking Lost Legends of Surf Guitar series, Sundazed's earth-shaking compilations, Dancehall Stringbusters! Crunchy Guitar Instros from the '60s — Volumes 1 & 2, are an instant Friday afternoon kegger that feature a stunning array of hallowed, guitar-slinging heroes. From the paint-blistering sounds of Link Wray to the reverb-swamped work of Al Casey, Stringbusters spotlights wall-to-wall, rawboned instrumentals from revered guitar heroes like the Fireballs, Wes Dakus, Phil Baugh and Roy Buchanan (undercover here as the Secrets). And we've also added a large helping of forgotten wirebending warriors that are every bit as devastating; Teddy and the Rough Riders, the Riptides, Kathy Lynn and the Playboys, Alan Pierce and the Tone Kings, Bobby Wayne, the Fugitives, the Belmont Five and Jay Bee and the Kats take a back seat to no one. Remarkably, these 20 track compilations, chock-full of growling fretboard mojo, form a cohesive statement through the very attribute they all share: they just can't be pigeon-holed. Rare photos, detailed notes and absolute killer fidelity. No lyric-sheet enclosed.
If you could swing a deal to get a short stack of killer records by your favorite Sundazed artist, all at the same time, that would have to be a big improvement on buying them individually, right? Well, start swinging for the fences, slugger, because that's exactly the kind of base-clearing deal we have in mind for you.
THE REVOLUTION STARTS NOW: AUDIOPHILE-QUALITY
TURNTABLES AT SENSIBLE PRICES!
Vinyl sales are positively booming, so much so that we here at Sundazed can barely keep up with the demand. Music fans continue to enjoy their LP and singles collections while maintaining a hearty appetite for new vinyl releases. The vinyl junkies here at Sundazed know what makes a great turntable, and we value a bargain as much as anyone. So we've scoured the world for the best values in audiophile-quality turntables, and we're now ready to begin offering them to you! To sweeten the deal and enhance your listening pleasure, we're adding in THREE FREE CLASSIC LPs from the mighty Sundazed catalog with each turntable purchase! ::Click here for turntables from Sundazed!
Sundazed is proud to offer the Nitty Gritty Model 1.5 Cleaning Machine and accessories
One of the most exciting things about the recording industry has been the exhilarating evolution of user-friendly technology that just arrives on your doorstep one day, like a large check from a long-lost uncle. Remember a couple of decades back when the compact disc showed up to nestle comfortably alongside those shelves stuffed with cherished LPs? That's just the way we feel today about downloading: It's a vibrant part of our new world...and Sundazed intends to use it in the very best way possible! Rest assured, we will never slacken our torrid release schedule, featuring the coolest vinyl and compact disc releases by artists both revered and rediscovered. Now, we have also started to make choice Sundazed releases available via several prolific online digital retailers. In addition to select Sundazed releases, we'll also offer individual rare and unreleased tracks for downloading, whenever possible. We'll also be creating unique, online-only compilations. And we'll make the downloading process dead-easy for you, too. All you'll have to do is click a button on our website and you'll be instantly transported to your choice of digital retailers ready to take your order. Let's go! ::Click here for a full listing of all titles available for download
Our customers are asking...
What is the source material you've used for your mono 13th Floor Elevators LP???
Bob Irwin replies: Many, many years ago - in fact, during the earliest years of Sundazed - I had extremely brief access to a 1:1 (Summit Sound) copy of the original mono master for the Elevators album; myself and another producer-friend were digging deep in a major label's vault and came across a huge load (hundreds?... thousands?) of ancient analog tapes, all undocumented, that were apparently intended for record-club use, (or had been submitted to the label/club for release consideration). Thankfully - with a wonderfully cooperative librarian's help - I quietly copied the reel (to 30ips 1/2" analog tape), because when I went to see if I could again extricate it just a few months ago, I was informed that all of those particular record-club tapes had been "scrapped nearly 15 years ago"... (And you can't believe some of the other things that were in there - it would make you cry...)
Admittedly, the reel was in less-than-stellar shape in some spots, ie: due to an improper wind, some of the endings of songs by the leader tape exhibited oxide-loss issues, etc.. When mastering our album, rather than pulling the fader early (as I believe has been done on all other versions of this release currently available), I sourced and attached approximately four endings/fade-outs, each less than 6 seconds, from a mint, mono, original I.A. pressing of the album.
As far as we're concerned, our new mono vinyl version is the best sounding Elevators master currently in existence. By far. The release, which KILLS in mono, to the best of my knowledge, has NEVER been reissued in anything but the less-powerful, less-exciting stereo mix. Again, we feel that the Sundazed mono vinyl of the Elevators album is positively DEADLY! Mono, mono, mono!!!
UPCOMING RELEASES
June 2008: High-Definition Vinyl 3-LP Set:
• DENNIS WILSON: Pacific Ocean Blue
High-Definition Vinyl LP:
• THE ASTRONAUTS: Competition Coupe
TRASHMEN UNLEASHED ON UNSUSPECTING EUROPEANS
Those Minneapolis wildmen, the Trashmen, are getting ready to stow their gear (including their much-traveled "Surfin' Bird" in a crush-proof airline cage) for their first-ever full-blown European tour (see dates below). Dal Winslow, Tony Andreason, Bob Reed and Co. have been playing landlocked surf 'n' drag since the birth of the super-charged, ultra-reverbed twin genres 46 years ago. And, take it from us, nobody has ever done it any better!
Here are the dates: April 17 - Cologne (Köln), Germany
April 18 - Tielen, Belgium
April 19 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 20 - Diksmuide, Belgium
April 21 - Eindohoven, Netherlands
April 22 - Hamburg, Germany
April 23 - Berlin, Germany
April 24 - Stuttgart, Germany
April 25 - Piacenza, Italy
April 26 - Feldkirch, Austria
June 17 - Barcelona, Spain
June 18 - Madrid, Spain
June 19 - Gijon, Spain
June 20 - Galicia, Spain
June 21 - Andoain, Spain
June 28 - Paris, France (Verneuil-Sur-Seine)
MOBY GRAPE
Sundazed Music, along with the members of Moby Grape and their management, regret to announce that Sundazed has discontinued the sale and distribution of the first three Moby Grape titles, "Moby Grape," "Wow" and "Grape Jam." The two remaining albums, "Moby Grape '69" and "Truly Fine Citizen," will continue to be available from Sundazed.These titles were manufactured under license for Sundazed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. It was Sony BMG Music Entertainment's decision to cease production of the first three titles, as a result of a longstanding and ongoing dispute over control of the Moby Grape album catalogue between Sony BMG Music Entertainment and an outside party.As Moby Grape's fans are well aware, the band's career has long been dogged by business disputes far beyond the musicians' control. These issues have contributed to keeping the band's music out of print for lengthy periods—a situation that Sundazed Music had hoped to redress with its exhaustive Moby Grape reissue series.Sony BMG's decision comes as a surprise to Moby Grape and Sundazed, to say the least. Both band and label had invested considerable time, energy and attention into reissuing these albums with the respect and loving care that they have always deserved, and were excited to have the opportunity to make this music available once again to old and new fans.We at Sundazed are disappointed to be unable to continue to distribute the first three Moby Grape titles, but we remain honored to have "Moby Grape '69" and "Truly Fine Citizen" as part of the Sundazed catalogue.
7" VINYL!!!
The 45 RPM single — a revered record format that Sundazed will keep functional forever! Micro Grooves spinning on a turntable with fuzzed-out mayhem blurting from your tiny speakers. How good can it get?
Stephen McParland is a well-known and well-respected figure in both the record collecting and musical research and documentation fields - an acknowledged worldwide expert on surf music and its related musical offshoots.
Currently, Stephen operates California Music, incorporating CMusic Publishing and CMusic Archives; the former responsible for publishing Stephen prodigious output of books; and the latter a resource for record companies, print media, film, and TV companies needing material in the field of surf and hot-rod music.
The Technicolor Web of Sound is a leader in playing the best 60s psychedelic rock music ever recorded, from the obvious classics to incredibly obscure gems that have long been forgotten. To complement the comprehensive playlist, TWOS also includes authentic, vintage 60s period radio commercials, news bites and DJ drop-ins. While you're listening, be sure to visit the TWOS website at www.techwebsound.comto look up artist info, chat in the forum, sign the guestbook, or surf our links page.
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE A Whole New Thing
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By the time Sly Stone, former producer/talent scout for Tom Donahue's Autumn records, decided to step out front and form his own band in 1967, he knew exactly what the music business needed...
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Dance to the Music
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When the irresistible sound of "Dance To The Music" lit up the nation's airwaves in early 1968, it was obvious that Sly Stone's "whole new thing" was about to blow everyone's mind sky-high... ::More info & ordering!
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE LIFE
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By late 1968, the third album by Sly & the Family Stone absolutely blew the roof off the building. Life sounded so tangibly real it almost seemed like it was cut live. The title track, along with "Love City,"...
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Stand!
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Stand!, the fourth album from Sly & the Family Stone, could have almost pulled double-duty as a greatest hits package for the band. Laced with sure-fire winners, this 1969 LP put Sly and Co. firmly on the road to...
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE There's a Riot Goin' On
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Since it took almost two years to make, the fifth album by now bonafide superstars Sly & the Family Stone had everyone salivating in anticipation. Needless to say, Sly did not disappoint! 1971's... ::More info & ordering!
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE Fresh
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Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973's Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & the Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross... ::More info & ordering!
VARIOUS ARTISTS Don't Press Your Luck! The IN Sound of 60's Connecticut
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The pounding garage-rock din emanating from the jungles of deepest Connecticut could overwhelm the senses, causing the weary NY commuter to become disoriented!
Who knew that the...
VARIOUS ARTISTS Don't Press Your Luck! The IN Sound of 60's Connecticut
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Limited edition, numbered pressing of 1000! Also contains five exclusive LP-only bonus tracks!
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The United States of America
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The United States of America, led by respected modern classical avant garde musician Joseph Byrd, cut a wide swath through the 1968 world of rock, just then comfortably settling in to its backwoods dreams of... ::More info & ordering!
THE PRETTY THINGS S.F. Sorrow
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By 1967, the Pretty Things, the long-haired English group whose shocking, maraca-rattling, R&B-fueled sound and outrageous antics had made parents of teenage music fans long for the good old days...
THE DEL-VETTS The Del-Vetts
10" Vinyl EP
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While the Windy City produced plenty of pop chart acts in the sixties, the real story of Chicago’s garage band era golden age was rock-hard suburban teen club heroes like the Del-Vetts. Under the guidance of...
THE DRUIDS OF STONEHENGE The Druids of Stonehenge
10" Vinyl EP
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The unearthly, savage, Rolling Stones/Pretty Things-inspired treatment of R&B classics as interpreted by the Druids of Stonehenge on SUNDAZED ten-inch vinyl is a phenomenon that...
THE HEADSTONES THE HEADSTONES
24 Hours (Everyday) b/w Bad Day Blues
7" Vinyl Single
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Of the countless studios cranking out garage band crudity coast to coast circa 1966, few were as off the beaten path as Jimmy Nicholls' 2-track studio in McAllen, Texas, near the Mexican border...