Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Present Day Pachuco Refuses to Die

Just a little followup to yesterday's item about Eddie James (Olmos) and Pacific Ocean -- from their sole (1968) album, here's the Olmos original "My Shrink."




It's a pretty good song, actually, but I think ultimately it (and the rest of the album) sounds just like every Hollywood hippie band you saw/heard in the club/party scene of any youth-oriented movie/TV show made in America between 1966-69.

Incidentally, I love that photo of the band if for no other reason than the fact that the two guys on either side of Olmos look rather eerily like members of Shoes.

11 comments:

steve simels said...

Note to self: Flogging Trivial Pursuit item about a B-actor's bullshit early rock band less interesting to readers than hoped.
:-)

FD13NYC said...

Well yeah, second Pacific Ocean post probably unnecessary.

Noam Sane said...

Tubbs!

Deserves equal time here, on the basis of the back-cover picture alone.

steve simels said...

Did you ever see the video from that Tubbs album?

It beggars description...
:-)

Nora Charles said...

OK, maybe song not called for, but photo slays for E J Olmos with the hair; he's rocking what hippie chicks used to call "wicked length."

Anonymous said...

Hollywood hippie bands you saw/heard in the club/party scene of any youth-oriented movie/TV show made in America between 1966-69.

If only there was a Listomania in the works for that category...

AP

Edward said...

On to Chameleon Church;>

steve simels said...

Oh, god -- I actually interviewed Chevy Chase in the late 80s, specifically about that band.

He was a real shit.

MBowen said...

Actually, I think Olmos is the guy on the left.

steve simels said...

Nope -- he's the singer in front of the piano.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Olmos looks just a little bit like Jim Morrison.

As for the music, I've definitely heard much, much worse than this! Sundazed Records, where's the reissue?