THE PAUPERS - Canadian Psych Rock 1960's on Vinyl
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- The Paupers from Toronto released 2 albums in the 1960's and then broke up, typical of Canadian bands from this period. They had a chance in the US but blew it.
#thepaupers #skipprokop
I love that you're covering less widely known Canadian bands from the 60s and your memories of them. That's great!
Only got one more Canadian band to do from my teenage years
Listened to Canadian rock on CFOR regularly.
The Paupers were a band for their time,kind of a psychedelic folk band to my ear,Chuck was actually mine and my brother's manager in the seventies. Bob.
I still listen to that album occasionally, Chuck had an unique guitar style.
I have both of their albums and I never even realized they were from Canada. Live and learn!
I still listen to Magic People, got it when it was first released.
I remember Eric Burdon saying he loved The Paupers set at Monterey, they both played on the first day on the Friday and said there set was excellent, I brought the their first album many years ago in a 2nd hand record shop in London, it had an amazing cover improved by someone who must have been on acid, it looks so much better than the original cover! If you google ‘Anatomy of a love festival’ written by Robert Christgau, he tells how the Paupers bass player Dennis Garrard shows off his amazing feedback that freaked the audience out, pity it was never filmed! You should read his personal experience of being at the festival, I found it fascinating, he writes so much more detail about what went down at that epic festival 💐
I've got a record guide by Christgau and found him a reliable source for finding new music back in the 70's. I got the DVD of Monterey with the outtakes and would have loved to see the Paupers set at the festival. I will look up that article and thanks for the info. Just found it and bookmarked it and I'll read it tomorrow, thanks again.
Thanks for the info, will have to give The Paupers a listen!!
Great 1st album.
"Southdown Road" is legendary
Waiting for history of the Collectors
"Southdown Road" is legendary (second lp)
Yeah, loved The Paupers, expected them to break through big time at Monterey. Too bad they didn't bounce back from that. I still listen to Magic People, Think I Care, etc.
I literally wore out my copy of Magic People!
You might be interested in this little tidbit. My favorite galpal in the early teens claimed to be Skip's cousin and when I laughed, she said I'll prove it- and we walked ten miles to Skip's parents house and when we stepped into the living room Skip Prokop and the Paupers proceeded to kindly give Terry and I a private concert on their just released "Sooner Than Soon" and "Never Send You Flowers" and sent us home with records autographed by the Paupers. The year? 1965. Coolest thing to inspire my music too! and by the way my phone was silent when I saw you point at Chuck's white turtleneck and that's who I thought you were until I backed up the video.
Keep on rockin'.. and PEACE in Jesus Christ.
No Jesus?
No peace.
Silvermane Wesley John (songwriter of internet available mp3 single Weekend Warrior)
good info, I will check them out
Great band, at least the 1st album.
A sign of their lack of success... I have both albums, both cut-outs - the first one from a local drug store, the other one from Woolworths.
Search youtube and there are about ten non-album songs - singles or unreleased. I love the ballad "If I Call You By Some Name". Very unusual idea for a love song... what if I call you by my ex-girlfriends name?
Cool stuff, do you have any other Cdn psyche? I dig it
I remember Skip Prokop did an album with Al Kooper - can't remember which one right off hand - I believe a friend of mine had an album of theirs and it wasn't bad :)
Skip Prokop played drums on The Live Adventures of Michael Bloomfield & Al Kooper. On some of the tracks.
Im looking for Bentwind and Ellison.. do you have those ? Im in toronto.
Not familiar with either band. I grew up in Kingston but I don't think they made it to our area that I remember.
@@oldguysmusicstuff2896 Bent Wind was a Toronto band from 1969. Named their lone album “Sussex” after Sussex Avenue where one of the members lived. Sussex was released in a small run of 200 copies and has become an international Garage/Psych curiosity abroad. It’s gone on to be reissued but the original TREND press is now Canada’s most valuable vinyl ever sold (5000$-7000$). Great group, met the leader Marty Rosenthal.
Ellison is a Quebec Garage/Psych group whose lone self-titled album from 1971 is also extremely rare and decently good. 500 copy press on SUPREME, now sells for around 1500$. Here’s a song that I posted on my channel from it: m.ua-cam.com/video/DygR00oZpag/v-deo.html
I think the second one is better than the first