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Where The Action Is - LA Nuggets - New 4 x CD Box Set

Artist: Where The Action Is
SKU: SKU6113

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Rhino mines Los Angeles Nuggets for 'Where The Action Is' - 4CD box set excavates more than 100 nuggets from Los Angeles’ eclectic music scene from 1965-68, spotlighting Sunset Strip gems and psychedelic cult classics.
In Los Angeles during the mid 60's, music was everywhere - from the garages of Orange County, to the dingbat apartments of the San Fernando Valley, to the bungalows of Laurel Canyon. But without a doubt, the epicentre of the music scene was the Sunset Strip, where 'freaks' filled the rock clubs lining the famed Hollywood thoroughfare. Rhino continues the storied Nuggets tradition with a four-disc boxed set that mines the city's rich musical history for unsung gems.
Andrew Sandoval, one of the collection's producers, explains the set's concept in its liner notes: "…the Nuggets series is something of the alternative musical history of the 1960's. Not so much a survey of what happened, but more what could have happened had music charted on merit alone". 

 

Where The Action Is! compiles 101 tracks that mix many of the city's brightest stars (The Byrds, Love, The Doors, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, Captain Beefheart, The Mamas & The Papas, Lowell George, Iron Butterfly, The Monkees) with talented artists whose stellar songcraft sadly flew under the radar (The Seeds, The Electric Prunes, Modern Folk Quintet, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Spirit, The Everpresent Fullness, Kaleidoscope, The Standells, The Bobby Fuller Four).
Where The Action Is! encompasses four discs arranged thematically to cover different aspects of the pop, rock, club, and Top 40 sounds of the era. The first covers some of the most notable bands that performed in the clubs of Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Disc 2 features a sampling of the musicians who began life in South LA, East LA, and such far-flung suburbs as Riverside and Bakersfield. Disc 3 delves into the artistry of LA's producers, arrangers, and Wrecking Crew of studio players. The final disc takes us from the nascent seeds of folk rock to the first blooms of canyon rock, country rock, and full-blown psychedelia in the region. It also shows how rock pioneers such as Del Shannon and Rick Nelson took their own stabs at fitting in with 'the kids'.
Among the many highlights are an alternate take of The Beach Boys' 'Heroes And Villains', Warren Zevon and producer Bones Howe performing '(You Used To) Ride So High' as The Motorcycle Abeline, 'Take A Giant Step' by The Rising Sons, 'Acid Head' by The Velvet Illusions, local scenester Kim Fowley's 'Underground Lady', Jan & Dean's 'Fan Tan', The Monkees' 'Daily Nightly', Jesse Lee Kincaid's 'She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune', 'Come To The Sunshine' by Van Dyke Parks, 'Sister Marie' by Nilsson, and 'Hippy Elevator Operator' by The WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band.
The set also offers a trio of previously unreleased tracks: a recently discovered demo version of 'Sit Down I Think I Love You', recorded by Stephen Stills and Richie Furay shortly before they formed Buffalo Springfield; a demo of 'Words' by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, one of the West Coast's most successful songwriting teams; and 'Once Upon A Time', a collaboration between Tim Buckley and lyricist Larry Beckett.
Beautifully packaged in a coffee table book resembling the San Francisco Nuggets collection from 2006, the set provides a wealth of information about Los Angeles' music scene, including a comprehensive timeline, unpublished photos, new quotes from many of the artists, a listing of the clubs and who performed there, an essay about the LA radio stations that defined the era, plus a track-by-track commentary with detailed session info on each song.

 

TRACKLISTING:

 

CD1) 1 Riot On The Sunset Strip - Standells, 2 You Movin' - Byrds, 3 You I'll Be Following - Love, 4 Dr Stone - Leaves, 5 Go & Say Goodbye - Buffalo Springfield, 6 Zig Zag Wanderer - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band, 7 Gentle As It May Seem - Iron Butterfly, 8 Candy Cane Madness - Lowell George & The Factory, 9 If You Want This Love - West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, 10 Baby My Heart - Bobby Fuller Four, 11 All Night Long - Palace Guard, 12 It's Gonna Rain - Sonny & Cher, 13 For My Own - Guilloteens,

14 Take A Giant Step - Rising Sons, 15 One Too Many Mornings - Association, 16 Time Waits For No One - Knack, 17 Take It As It Comes - Doors, 18 Pulsating Dream - Kaleidoscope, 19 Tripmaker - Seeds, 20 People In Me - Music Machine, 21 Saturday's Son - Sons Of Adam, 22 Eventually - Peanut Butter Conspiracy, 23 Swim - Penny Arkade, 24 Third Eye - Joint Effort, 25 Girl In Your Eye - Spirit,

 

CD2) 1 Jump Jive & Harmonize - Thee Midniters, 2 Back Up - Light, 3 To Die Alone - Bush, 4 Get On This Plane - Premiers, 5 Little Girl Little Boy - Odyssey, 6 Hideaway - Electric Prunes, 7 Listen Listen - Merry Go Round, 8 She Done Moved - Spats, 9 Grim Reaper Of Love - Turtles, 10 See If I Care - Ken & The 4th Dimension, 11 He's Not There Anymore - Chymes,

12 Back Seat '38 Dodge - Opus 1, 13 Eternal Prison - Humane Society, 14 Revenge - Others,

15 Come Alive - Things To Come, 16 Acid Head - Velvet Illusions, 17 Guaranteed Love - Limey & The Yanks, 18 Love's The Thing - Romancers, 19 Underground Lady - Kim Fowley, 20 Pretty Little Thing - Deepest Blue, 21 You're Wishin' I Was Someone Else - Whatt Four, 22 Hippy Elevator Operator - WC Fields Memorial Electric String Band, 23 That's For Sure - Mustangs, 24 Tomorrow's Girl - Fapardokly, 25 Everything's There - Hysterics, 26 Our Time Is Running Out - Yellow Payges,

CD3) 1 Action Action Action - Keith Allison, 2 Rebel Kind - Dino Desi & Billy, 3 High On Love - Knickerbockers, 4 Fan Tan - Jan & Dean, 5 Halloween Mary - PF Sloan, 6 Somebody Groovy - Mamas & The Papas, 7 Daydreaming - Thorinshield, 8 Just Can't Wait - Full Treatment, 9 Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon, 10 Times To Come - London Phogg, 11 No More Running Around - Lamp Of Childhood, 12 Little Girl Lost And Found - Garden Club, 13 Mothers And Fathers - Moon, 14 My Girlfriend Is A Witch - October Country, 15 Montage Mirror - Roger Nichols, 16 Flower Eyes - Pasternak Progress, 17 Come Down - Common Cold, 18 Jill - Gary Lewis & The Playboys, 19 Daily Nightly - Monkees, 20 Night Time Girl - Modern Folk Quartet, 21 Don't Say No - Oracle, 22 Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down) - Hearts & Flowers, 23 Rainbow Woman - Lee Hazelwood, 24 Poor Old Organ Grinder - Pleasure, 25 Baby Please Don't Go - Ballroom,

 

CD4) 1 Sit Down I Think I Love You - Richie Furay & Stephen Stills, 2 Splendor In The Grass - Jackie DeShannon & The Byrds, 3 November Night - Peter Fonda, 4 Roses And Rainbows - Danny Hutton, 5 Lemon Chimes - Dillards, 6 Here's Today - Rose Garden, 7 I Love How You Love Me - Nino Tempo & April Stevens, 8 Words - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart, 9 Your Used To Ride So High - Motorcycle Abeline, 10 Los Angeles - Gene Clark, 11 Once Upon A Time - Tim Buckley, 12 Darlin' You Can Count On Me - Everpresent Fullness, 13 I'll Search The Sky - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 14 Come To the Sunshine - Van Dyke Parks, 15 Heroes And Villains - Beach Boys, 16 She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune - Jesse Lee Kincaid, 17 Sister Marie - Nilsson, 18 Last Night I Had A Dream - Randy Newman, 19 Life Is A Dream - Noel Harrison, 20 Marshmallow Skies - Rick Nelson, 21 I Think I Love You - Del Shannon, 22 Change Is Now - Byrds, 23 Truth Is Not Real - Sagittarius, 24 You Set The Scene - Love, 25 Inner-Manipulations - Barry McGuire.

 

Release Date: Monday September 21st 2009