Freakbeat Garage Rock The Sorrows Live Video 1965 Freakbeats Best
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For any fans of Freakbeat and Garage Rock, here is a treat for you that I think you’ll all enjoy: The Sorrows live Video around 1965/66, excellent quality, over 9 minutes, performing: “You Got What I Want”, “No No No No”, “Take a Heart” (their big hit) and “Let Me In”. Before I give you any background about the Sorrows watch this incredible live performance. The drummer Bruce Finley is totally awesome. Turn the volume up and be amazed!
Ok, here’s some background on the Sorrows and Freakbeat. There are plenty of great Sorrows recordings on CD which I’ll get to in a bit. To quote Wikipedia, “Freakbeat is a primarily European rock music genre that peaked between 1966 and 1967. Elements of the freakbeat sound include strong direct drum beats, loud and frenzied guitar riffs, and extreme effects such as: fuzztone, flanging, distortion and compression or phasing on the vocal or drum tracks. Often used to describe the European counterpart to the psychedelic garage rock of American groups like The Seeds, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, and The Standells, freakbeat is most often applied to music originating in the UK, although many artists on the European continent also contributed to the freakbeat style. Some of the best-known examples of the freakbeat genre include the British hits “Take a Heart” by The Sorrows, “Making Time” by The Creation, and “I Can Hear the Grass Grow” by The Move.”
The Sorrows were formed around 1963 from Coventry, a gloomy industrial city of England. The original group (featured in the video) consisted of:
Don Fardon - (born Donald Maughn, 19 August 1940, Coventry) - Lead vocals
Philip (Pip) Whitcher - (born 1943, Coventry) - lead guitar and vocals
Philip (Phil) Packham - (born 13 June 1945, Bidford-on-Avon) - bass guitar
Wez Price - (born Wesley Price, 19 July 1945, Coventry) - rhythm guitar
Bruce Finley - (born 20 September 1944, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) - drums
The Sorrows music was raucious upbeat frenzied hard aggressive rock with great musicianship and an incredible drum beat. The original group recorded one album, “Take A Heart” and a bunch of singles, of which “Take A Heart” was their big hit. The CD I would recommend if you want to hear the original Sorrows at their best is “Take A Heart”, released in 2000 by Castle records and features 42 tracks including both Stereo and Mono Versions of the original “Take A Heart” album (I prefer the mono- it’s pokier), singles, some unreleased stuff and some of the later Sorrows stuff after lead singer Don Fardon left the group to go solo. Don Fardon incidentally had some solo hits including his biggest “Indian Reservation” which Paul Revere and the Raiders covered.
The Sorrows continued on after Don Fardon left- their story is too complicated to tell here but is stated excellently in a very good double CD compilation of the Sorrows Recordings after Don Fardon had left called “Old Songs New Songs” released in 2009 by Wooden Hill. This double CD features the remastered sound of the rare and legendary original Sorrows album “Old Songs, New Songs” released in Italy only in the late 1960’s, rare unreleased recordings, a unreleased demo album and the original Sorrows live minus Don Fardon when they temporarily reformed in the early 1980’s. As mentioned, the album comes with a detailed booklet that does an excellent job of explaining what happened to the Sorrows after Don Fardon left. You can buy both of these Sorrows CD album at discount by clicking here. I wish the Sorrows would reform and play some gigs in the United States like Seattle’s legendary Sonics did- all the original members are still alive, but in the meantime there’s this great Sorrows live video and the Sorrows great recordings. Please check out our large Online Discount Gift Store Click Here and our other Online Discount Stores below which helps support this politically incorrect blog. Thank you.
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