I usually don't buy bootlegs or counterfeits, but sometimes issues appear that are just too good to pass. Here a French, limited edition (?), compilation of very rare US late fifties and sixties garage. All originally A or B-sides of non-selling 45:s, larger part one-offs recorded by then neglected outfits for small obscure labels. Most of the originals impossible to find today at even close to decent price, so for me it's lovely to get them all on one place for a fraction of the sum you'd pay for just one of them. Counting seventeen cuts from bands I know very little about it's hard to go into detail with any of them, but either the songs can be tagged early hard rock, soul or psych they all have about the same ambience. Up-tempo mostly carried by organ, tinny or fuzzy guitars, hard working drums and outbursting vocals. Recordings sound direct live-in-the-studio, unproduced and/or unembellished. Genuine and down to earth with flaws still in...heaven for the garage lover. Got many favorites here, but to pick a few from one-off 45:s - Gin Gillette "Train To Satanville" 1961 flip side bringing hard-core soul with female vocals, Mad Mike & The Maniacs "The Hunch" outrageously wild A-side of a 1961 45, The Motivations "The Birds" 1963 instrumental psych A-side slightly reminding of the Batman theme, The Crusade "Psychedelic Woman" fuzz-embedded A-side from 1967. Audio shifts a little depending on origin, but most of it surprisingly good. It came with blank labels as shown here and sleeve as simple as it gets - hard inner surrounded by two printed sheets. Rear sheet say this issue was limited to 500 copies and this has no. 238 hand written, but as it is a bootleg impossible to say if any of that is correct. (ÖRJ*) (ÖGÄ*) (MFÄX*) (SÄM*)
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