Hey -- what can I tell you; apparently, I was genetically bred to love that song. But still -- that's an exceptionally fab take on it.
In any case, those guys have been dispensing equally swell stuff for quite a while now, and you should order the aforementioned retrospective album over at their official website HERE now.
You'll also find information about their upcoming gigs -- hello, power pop fans in the Chicago area!!! -- and their new album (due in the spring) over there, so the proverbial word to the wise.
You're welcome very much. 😎
Have I mentioned -- The Spindles rule!!!
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I have a soft spot for that song. The Hollies 45 of it was the first record I ever bought. Nice cover of it!
As one can tell when looking at their site, this band has an association with IL power pop group (now retired) The Elvis Brothers.
They were an amazing trio; we used to hear them in the clubs playing the tunes that got them signed to Portrait. As a live band they were ferocious and funny as hell.
Drummer Brad (Steakley) Elvis is unreal; he held down the thrown for the Romantics for years.
Bassist Graham (Walker) Elvis has done a fine job archiving their live shows. Google these guys and be amazed.
Bob in IL
That song is just so special. It moves me every time I hear it, even now, after all these years - just like the first time.
Those guitars! Those harmonies! Aspirational sounds I’ve chased my whole life.
Jai Guru Dave
The Elvis Brothers and "Santa Fe." These guys are tight, road-tested and tearing it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6G2L9VHtnY
The Chicago area has always been a great breeding ground for power pop bands. From Cheap Trick, Pezband, Off Broadway, Shoes, Material Issue etc etc.
Bob in IL
love that song and that performance - i always think of billy j. kramer song written by paul mccartney 'from a window' another great song from those days - the titles are reversed from what you might expect in terms of looking in/looking out
That is some SERIOUS drumming there on 'Santa Fe'! Even Chicago's greatest punk band (Naked Raygun, of course!) had great pop sensibilities to go with their corrosive crunch.
C in California
There was a power pop band that i believe was also from chicago area called The Names "Why Can't it Be Me" that was in the Shoes/Pezband style that was a great single but I never saw anything else. With a stupid name like The Names it's very hard to google it.
I'm almost done with Past and Present, and it's great. It reminds me a lot of your fellow New Yorker Richard X Heyman, whom you discovered back in 2007. His sophomore effort titled Hey Man! from 1990 is a long time favorite, and his latest 67,000Miles An Album from 2022 is good. You may also know of him as the drummer in the Doughboys.
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