Where The Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggest New Rhino Boxed Set

Submitted by Samantha Stephens on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 3:22pm

Boxed Set Excavates More Than 100 Nuggets from Los Angeles’ Eclectic Music Scene From 1965-68, Spotlighting Gems from The Byrds, The Beach Boys and Love, Plus Cult Classics by The Standells, Spirit, The Seeds, The Electric Prunes and More

Four-Disc Set Will Be Available from Rhino September 22

In Los Angeles during the mid-’60s, 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 epicenter 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. WHERE THE ACTION IS! LOS ANGELES NUGGETS 1965-1968 will be available September 22 from Rhino Records for a suggested list price of $64.98.

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 Mama & The Papas, Lowell George, Iron Butterfly, The Monkees) with talented artists whose stellar songcraft sadly flew under the radar (The Seeds, Jameson, 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 two features a sampling of the musicians who began life in South L.A., East L.A. and such far-flung suburbs as Riverside and Bakersfield. The third delves into the artistry of L.A.’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 W.C. 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, a listing of the clubs and who performed there, an essay about the L.A. radio stations that defined the era, plus a track-by-track commentary.

*Previously unreleased

TRACK LIST

Riot On Sunset Strip - The Standells
You Movin’ - The Byrds
You I’ll Be Following - Love
Dr. Stone - The Leaves
Go And Say Goodbye - Buffalo Springfield
Zig Zag Wanderer - Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Gentle As It May Seem - Iron Butterfly
Candy Cane Madness - Lowell George & The Factory
If You Want This Love - The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Baby, My Heart - The Bobby Fuller Four
All Night Long - The Palace Guard
It’s Gonna Rain - Sonny & Cher
For My Own - The Guilloteens
Take A Giant Step - The Rising Sons
One Too Many Mornings - The Association
Time Waits For No One - The Knack
Take It As It Comes - The Doors
Pulsating Dream - Kaleidoscope
Tripmaker - The Seeds
The People In Me - The Music Machine
Saturday’s Son - The Sons Of Adam
Eventually - The Peanut Butter Conspiracy
Swim - Penny Arkade
The Third Eye - The Joint Effort
Girl In Your Eye - Spirit
Jump, Jive & Harmonize - Thee Midniters
Back Up - The Light
To Die Alone - The Bush
Get On This Plane - The Premiers
Little Girl, Little Boy - The Odyssey
Hideaway - The Electric Prunes
Listen, Listen! - The Merry-Go-Round
She Done Moved - The Spats
Grim Reaper Of Love - The Turtles
See If I Care - Ken & The Fourth Dimension
He’s Not There Anymore - The Chymes
Back Seat ‘38 Dodge - Opus 1
Eternal Prison - The Humane Society
Revenge - The Others
Come Alive - Things To Come
Acid Head - The Velvet Illusions
Guaranteed Love - Limey & The Yanks
Love’s The Thing - The Romancers (a.k.a. The Smoke Rings)
Underground Lady - Kim Fowley
Pretty Little Thing - The Deepest Blue
You’re Wishin’ I Was Someone Else - The Whatt Four
Hippy Elevator Operator - The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band
That’s For Sure - The Mustangs
Tomorrow’s Girl - Fapardokly (Merrell & The Exiles)
Everything’s There - The Hysterics
Our Time Is Running Out - The Yellow Payges
Action, Action, Action - Keith Allison
The Rebel Kind - Dino, Desi & Billy
High On Love - The Knickerbockers
Fan Tan - Jan & Dean
Halloween Mary - P.F. Sloan
Somebody Groovy - The Mamas & The Papas
Daydreaming - Thorinshield
Just Can’t Wait - The Full Treatment
Yellow Balloon - The Yellow Balloon
The Times To Come - London Phogg
No More Running Around - The Lamp Of Childhood
Little Girl Lost-And-Found - The Garden Club
Mothers And Fathers - The Moon
My Girlfriend Is A Witch - October Country
Montage Mirror - Roger Nichols Trio
Flower Eyes - Pasternak Progress
Come Down - The Common Cold
Jill - Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Daily Nightly - The Monkees
Night Time Girl - The Modern Folk Quintet
Don’t Say No - The Oracle
Tin Angel (Will You Ever Come Down) - Hearts And Flowers
Rainbow Woman - Lee Hazlewood
Poor Old Organ Grinder - Pleasure featuring Billy Elder
Baby, Please Don’t Go - The Ballroom
Sit Down I Think I Love You - Stephen Stills & Richie Furay*
Splendor In The Grass - Jackie DeShannon with The Byrds
November Night - Peter Fonda
Roses And Rainbows - Danny Hutton
Lemon Chimes - The Dillards
Here’s Today - The Rose Garden
I Love How You Love Me - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
Words (Demo) - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart*
(You Used To) Ride So High - The Motorcycle Abeline (Warren Zevon & Bones Howe)
The New Age - Jameson
Los Angeles - Gene Clark
Once Upon A Time - Tim Buckley*
Darlin’ You Can Count On Me - The Everpresent Fullness
I’ll Search The Sky - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Come To The Sunshine - Van Dyke Parks
Heroes And Villains (Alternate Take) - The Beach Boys
She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune - Jesse Lee Kincaid
Sister Marie - Nilsson
Last Night I Had A Dream (Single Version) - Randy Newman
I Think I Love You - Del Shannon
Change Is Now - The Byrds
The Truth Is Not Real (Single Version) - Sagittarius
Marshmallow Skies - Rick Nelson
You Set The Scene - Love
Inner-Manipulations - Barry McGuire

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Other than the Doors this looks pretty cool. Glad to see Rhino still can pull something like this off.

So - Beatles rereleases on 9/9/09 (I’m in for the mono box and Abbey Road).

Big Star box the following week (more than half of it previously unreleased)

Now the Nuggets box the week after that.

Plus I’m behind one Motown singles set… there will probably be another one out by September.

At least the library got the Neil Young Archives set, so I can hold out until I get a Blu-ray player for the BR edition.

You don’t need more Beatles! You ain’t need no motown! Forget all that noise! Just get the 13th Floor Elevators box! Whoo hooo! We’re listening to it right now and you know….it really is freaking psychedelic. I was expecting to spend a lot of time rolling my eyes when this arrived. Instead, we’re listening to some live 66 stuff and it’s FREAKING ME OUT. Seriously. SERIOUSLY.

Don’t ever say that, Jimmy - not even as a JOKE!

Yes, there’s that damn Elevators box, too. I figured I MIGHT be able to live without it, seeing as I never dove into a lot of their released material - but a recent Mojo comp featured two advance tracks from the set, including one of those live ‘66 tracks, and I was pretty stunned. At least now I know where I can “give it a listen” - though I know the beauty of its physical presentation can’t be replicated.
This year has been brutal on me where reissues are concerned. This spring alone, I made a trade for the Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians Luminous Groove CD set (I’m determined to get the Hitchcock solo box on LP before it goes OOP, but want to trade for that too), grabbed the deluxes of R.E.M.’s Murmur and Costello’s This Year’s Model (second deluxe version!!!), as well as the Bowie Santa Monica ‘72 set, cheap through the BMG club (closing shop for good in two days), sprung for the debut Elton John deluxe at a used price, and was grateful for my local library for making the recent Replacements deluxe editions, new Beach Boys comp (with some new stereo mixes and a long-unavailable Dennis Wilson track), Neil Young Archives, and Chuck Berry ‘60’s Chess Masters, available to me for “listening pleasure”. I’m behind one Motown singles set, the recent Who Sell Out deluxe reissue, two Dukes of Stratosphear reissues, am waiting for 3 XTC deluxe editions promised in April, as well as the library’s order of two recent Buddy Holly collections yet to be processed, am trying to forgive myself for missing out on the Bo Diddley complete ‘55-‘58 masters set (sold out at Hip-o Select - the 2-disc set now selling for $60 and up through third-party sellers), am on the fence about the 3-disc Bee Gees Odessa set (in red velvet box!), and am now preparing myself for the September onslaught, which may wither in rank of importance as Kap’n Jr. begins the kindergarten adventure.
I hate music - got too many notes!

It;s not new Beatles! It’s all the same stuff being packaged over and over and over and over! I guess I’m just getting pissed off at how often the record companies believe that we’re going to repurchase stuff just because there’s a new photo on the cover or whatever. I’m jsut feeling feisty and argumentative. it’s that damned summer heat!

;)

In all fairness - I think the Beatles have been among the least repackaged and/or sonically upgraded major rock acts in the CD era. (For example - Beatles’ Please Please Me has had 1 CD release vs. Costello’s My Aim Is True’s 4 CD editions!)

That said - if you have Beatles records you’ve always loved, in good shape, and still have a turntable on which to play them, I don’t think you ever need to rebuy the Beatles again.
If you bought the Beatles CDs the first time around, and are happy with the way they look and sound, you’re OK too.
If you bought any of the first four Beatles UK LPs on CD, and were pissed that they were in mono, this will be your first opportunity to get official stereo CD issues of those titles.
If you wanted any of the Beatles UK LPs between Help! and the White Album in mono on official CDs, getting the mono box is your first opportunity to have them.
If you’re so OCD that you can’t live with the hushed mastering levels, butchered LP graphics, and total lack of decent liner notes on offer amongst most of the Beatles CD issues you already have, you may opt to pick and choose your faves from the new editions.
If you predict that, in 2013, when the first Beatles LP has its 50th anniversary, the first of a series of 50th anniversary deluxe editions, featuring mono and stereo mixes, as well as extra tracks like contemporaneous single sides and Anthology outtakes, will be released, and you’re a Beatlemaniac with incredible patience (and faith that you’ll live long enough to have them), then save your money for those 50th anniversary editions… I predict they’ll happen, so I’ll meet you back here in a few more years for more kvetch/counterkvetch!

I’m interested enough in the mono Beatles stuff that I would at least let the Kapn burn me a copy….

In November!

http://myvinylreview.blogspot.com/2009/05/beatles-remastered-mono-and-stereo.html

I am going to let Kap and Dingey discuss the Beatles topic. Now about that 13th Floor Elevators set. As cool as it looks isnt it like 10 CDs???

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You do realize that CDs at the moment are like 8 tracks, right? Says the guy that just bought the Elevators Box.

And also,

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That’s freaky. I am posting from two locations at once.

Also, the call came from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!

And just in case you were wondering, yes. I DO live inside your brain, where I spend all day attempting to BLOW YOUR MIND.

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You didnt think I was going to miss out on all the fun now did you?

Reading and typing all that is making my vision funky though.

no comment.

… any of you who have heard a third of the songs on this upcoming Nuggets set to continue to crap on this thread. If you have, congratulations, you are too cool for school, may we redirect you to an even more esoteric site?

Other sites ban members who so regularly shit on threads they find not to their liking. Just go to another site which caters to your more esoteric tastes, and leave the depletion of this site’s data capacity to uncaring bots and friendly overtypists.

I don’t think it was necessarily this thread that was being crapped on. I think it was the level of monotony and predictability provided by the now-dominant poster that was being crapped on. Witchcraft has driven everybody out of the clubhouse!

I’m gonna concur with Dingey here 100%.

Hey, has anyone heard about the new coffee table book featuring all the Beatles Master Tape Boxes? All the original notes from the time of the sessions. Can’t wait to see the Let It Be section….

Oh, the Let It Be boxes.

“The Long And Winding Road” comments: SCRAP IT.

There’s a lot about LET IT BE that I actually like, probably because, strangely enough, it was the first Beatles album that I ever heard. “ROAD” however has always made me queasy. It sounds like the the reeking gasses released by popping, bloated corpses of stringed instruments covered with sugared lyme.

‘Let It Be’ was the first Beatles album I owned (actually it was the second or third album I owned period, along with ‘Portrait’ by the Fifth Dimension, ‘The Best of The Guess Who’ and possibly ‘Cosmo’s Factory’. The radio station in Jackson that was more light music and talk (WKHM) played ‘Road’ all the time. My question though is: from whence does the queasiness emanate? Is it the lush Spector arrangement or is it simply an early incarnation of the cloying insipid crap for which McCartney became so well known for a little later on? I have heard the ‘naked’ version of ‘Road’ which by no means reveals a lost masterpiece if you know what I mean.

[quote=Kapn]… any of you who have heard a third of the songs on this upcoming Nuggets set to continue to crap on this thread. If you have, congratulations, you are too cool for school, may we redirect you to an even more esoteric site?

Other sites ban members who so regularly shit on threads they find not to their liking. Just go to another site which caters to your more esoteric tastes, and leave the depletion of this site’s data capacity to uncaring bots and friendly overtypists.

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I’m not crapping on Nuggets. Only trolls.

Pay no attention to the angry evening post. I got way overemotional when one of my own esoteric posts refused to take when I got disconnected from the web, which led to some really unreasonable behavior on my part that sent family members running from the room. The ruckus the Jackson 5 were making on the stereo probably didn’t help matters. I’ve no right to dictate tones of response from anyone except myself.

Dusty - is that “coffee table book” for real? Though it’s funny either way, it’s especially funny if it’s not. I’d probably buy one at a remaindered price.
Macca has always hated the Spector string and choir overdubs on “Long and Winding Road” - Lennon and Harrison probably didn’t raise a fuss about Spector’s work on their LIB tracks since they were working with him on their solos by that point. That, and they were sick of the Beatles.
I have a sentimental attachment to the song (I remember getting the 45 at the store with my mom and grandma), so it’s not as easy for me to dislike it, though I like other Macca ballads more (and there are many waaaaay worse from his pen). I think if they’d arranged it like “Here, There, and Everywhere”, with a little more pep in the tempo and some nice three-part vocal harmonies in the background every once in a while, it would come off better. The band is obviously not into the song, so it shows in the sluggish performance (especially on film). Throwing the Spector orchestration on top of it kinda hides the sloppiness, but adds its own issues. Strangely enough, ELO copies that sound on a lot of their ballads, and I love those… but we’re straying quite far from ‘66 L.A. (sorta).

What happened to all my hilariously sarcastic friends?
(Don’t make me tease you about your cosplay Beatle boots!)

In my (unenlightened) opinion, most of them Nuggets boxes are boring.

This place has been dead forever, and the minute someone livelys up the place with an opinion or two, people start to bristle.

“Nuggets, Pebbles, I Dream Of Jeanie,” that’s sarcasm, and it’s a lot funnier than “Fucking Troll.”

The unappreciated post is usually less annoying to me that the passively aggressive (or overtly aggressive) response it elicits.

This Doctor’s prescription for our ailing form is:

1. Excersize it often
2. Make light and/or stealthy fun of (or ignore completely) the inane
3. Chill pills for our more curmudgeonly members
4. Quanum Noise as needed

The prescription for more enjoyable in-person gatherings is honesty. Confront, don’t hide.

Tree is the voice of goddamned reason. And you’re WRONG about those Nuggets boxes! At least the first one…

So I fabricated a new Beatles book this morning to lighten up and possibly confuse the discussion. I think that counts as “stealthy.”

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reading your article enlightened me to many ideas about home refinancing.

And Mr. Ed.

Well, at least we’re talking about it. I’ve been pissed off at what the forum’s become, too, and I’ve been trying to take it back. Thanks to those who’ve been helping. As a prime passive-aggressive type, I apologize for any whiny stupidity. I, too, have been thinking that to ignore what irritates is probably better than to bother responding. If that which irritates you shows up at the top of the page, start a new thread. DOMINATE!

Extinction in psychology refers to the lowering of the probability of a response when a characteristic reinforcing stimulus is no longer presented. In classical conditioning, this refers to the decline of a conditioned response when a conditioned stimulus repeatedly occurs without the presence of the unconditioned stimulus it had been paired with. In Operant conditioning, extinction is the decline of an operant response when it is no longer reinforced in the presence of its discriminative stimulus.

Quantum, are we talking “babies” or something more like this? Either seems quite valid.

Johnson City has good deals on bulk Depends!

I think the thing to remember is that we are all friends and we all bring diversity to the table.

And by diversity, you mean the same old hackneyed arguments and pissing contests, right?

I think that is what he meant by friends. Not diversity.

But suddenly shy, and ridiculously busy for someone who doesn’t have a “job” (but really does). I’ve been very proud of everyone for the last week. Take that, facebook!

I’m more of a sub, myself, so maybe uhhh … what’re you doin’ for dinner tonight?

So… does this mean discussion of the set is over?… is no one else excited by the unreleased Boyce and Hart demo?… or wondering how a Randy Newman single version fares against an LP version?… not fascinated that Iron Butterfly was part of this scene?…

I miss the conversations about the music chosen for discussion, even more than I miss the sarcasm…
And the Kap’n’s got plenty of Nuggets to share, if ya know whudd’ah mean…

To be honest with you, I hadn’t even looked at the list due to…well, you know. Witchcraft. Dusty thought it was a collection of DVD’s of bands lip-synching to their songs on “Where The Action Is.”

I WOULD be curious to hear this. Let me know when you get a copy so I can burn it HAW!

boringly,
dingey who needs waaaaay more coffee this morning….

Maybe we should add a new category to this forum called ‘Witchcraft’ and it can be Mickey’s corner and then the resot of us can enjoy conversation.

[quote=Herb Tarlick]Maybe we should add a new category to this forum called ‘Witchcraft’ and it can be Mickey’s corner and then the resot of us can enjoy conversation. [/quote]

Care to explain

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[quote=Kapn]So… does this mean discussion of the set is over?… is no one else excited by the unreleased Boyce and Hart demo?… or wondering how a Randy Newman single version fares against an LP version?… not fascinated that Iron Butterfly was part of this scene?… [/quote]

I personally would prefer if these rare tracks were packaged in some other way, though I don’t know how exactly. It’s one thing to package music by city when the city in question really was a scene that embodied a certain aesthetic. But Los Angeles in the 1960s was more like a mishmash of different scenes and straight up music biz stuff. It was home to all kinds of bands that had nothing at all to do with each other.

There is a lot on here I have already heard, there is a lot I would like to hear, and there is a lot I don’t care to hear.

I don’t know. I think these latter Nuggets boxes are reaching for narratives that just aren’t there.

These sprawling box sets seem to me more and more irrelevant when online music consumption is bringing back the viability and importance of the single track, which I’m all about. Of course, I would make an exception for single artist collections, like that 13th Floor Elevators set. But this L.A. box is all over the map musically. I just assume extract from it what I want and leave the rest, like a buffet.

Delicious sweet and spicy meatballs: Bobby Fuller 4

Pudding/cookie dessert that you would expect to be absolutely terrible but turns out to be complex and crazy delicious: The Turtles

Pound cake with lime and chili pepper glaze: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band

Mayo-based slurry “salad” that’s been sitting under a heat lamp for too long: Kim Fowley

Pretty but horribly bland fondant-covered cake: Peter Fonda.

Some kind of crab dip that everybody else appears to just absolutely adore but you can’t seem to taste at all: LOVE

I agree. plus, in a time when the economy has tanked, I’d rather spend my money on stealing free mp3s and listening to them on my ipod thingy. I have enough clutter as it is and don’t need more box sets, cds, vinyl or 8 tracks. music is and should be about the sound waves and not the packaging.
and jeez, there’s enough new music being made now to keep my ears ringing for the next few lifetimes…why look back?

Which reminds me, sort of, as a girl who has been shamed out of many music discussions and record stores, what IS the difference between a box set and best of collection? The fancy packaging is what I see, but there must be something else that makes best ofs for your mom and dumb girls, and the box sets for awesome dudes and collectors. Are you feeling misled by the “best” terminology? Box sets are more expensive?

And I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately, but I’m over all of the reunions. Unless they come with time machines to take me back to that actual time, I’m not going anymore. Not that any of them have been terrible, I just don’t feel that’s what I need at this particular time.
Signed,
Ms. Crabbypants.

But LIZ! I just got off the phone from my arranging to get Dee-Lite back together just for you!

I think the difference between “best of” and “box set” is that box sets are generally pretty exhaustive. The box set will, ideally, provide you with every single thing you could possibly want by a much-loved artist or genre, with all kinds of ridiculous and fascinating tidbits of infromation and ephemera that you might not have known. Box sets are, indeed, for the fanatic. Sadly, I am one of them, sometimes. The problem is that if you love the group or genre enough, you probably already have a lot of the stuff contained n the box set, but DON’T have another certain percentage of what’s included in the box set. It is this, it is this that makes palms sweat. The double-edged SWORD.

That said, I also totally love lots of “best of” collections because there’s a lot of groups whose entire albums I don’t really need. For example, aside from “Paul’s Boutique” and maybe “Check Your Head,” I don’t really need Beastie Boys albums, so the “sounds of science” collection was PERFECT! Except it includes to many stupid one-offs like Mike D’s cowboy whatever.

Just play bolth sides of the musical fence and ignore the slings and arrows of more scornful collector whore types. It’s not their music collection, it’s yours. Fuggem. Mind your own tastes.

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