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From: chris@pyuxc.UUCP (R. Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Group Names
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 10:17:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 10:17:39 1985
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1.  The Strawberry Alarm Clock did "Incense and Peppermints,"
   as someone has already pointed out on the net.  I'm not altogether
   convinced that they were a real band or an attempt to cash in on
   flower power.  The reason I say that is because I remember them
   being aggressively fashionable, i.e., Indian smocks/shirts, love bead,
   Sonny Bono/Imogene Coca haircuts.  Also, I seem to remember them
   performing "Incense and Peppermints" in a movie called "Psych-Out,"
   a Dick Clark-produced movie about hippies, made around 1967.  If
   Dick was in on it, chances are good that the Strawberry Alarm Clock
   were never intended to be more than one-hit wonders (remember,
   Dick Clark is the man who brought us Fabian and other Philadelphia
   luminaries).  Incidentally, Psych-Out is a really neat movie,
   starring, of all people, Jack Nicholson and featuring Jack in
   a band that plays Purple Haze backwards.
   It's on Channel 7 late at night now and then - check it out.
2. Blue Cheer named themselves after a type of LSD popular in the
  60s.  Their big hit was a very loud version of Summertime Blues.
3.  Paul Revere and the Raiders were, as someone has already pointed
   out, the house band on "Where the Action Is."  They played 
   the hits of the day whenever the bands that actually had the hits
   couldn't (wouldn't?) be on the show.  Then they had some hits of
   their own, "Kicks," "Hungry,"  "Good Thing," "Just Like Me,"
   and, in the early 70s, "Indian Reservation."



Chris Hollenbeck
Old enough to remember all this stuff