And don't even get me started about "Secret Agent Man."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
An idiosyncratic blog dedicated to the precursors, the practioners, and the descendants of power pop. All suggestions for postings and sidebar links welcome, contact any of us.
Contributors
PowerPop Fund
Blog Archive
-
▼
2015
(264)
-
▼
November
(23)
- Your Monday Moment of Words Fail Me
- Pining for the Fjords
- It's Turkey Day!!!
- From the Land Down Under
- Hey -- These Guys Are Good!!!
- The Last Time I Saw Paris
- Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi -- You're My Only Hope
- Closed for Monkey Business
- Steve Deaton is Not Fucking Around
- P.F. Sloan 1945 -- 2015
- Monday Video Roundup
- We Are All Eagles of Death Metal Today
- The Kids Are Alright -- NOT!!! Part Deux: Those Yo...
- There Must Be Something in the Water
- Allen Toussaint 1938 -- 2015
- The Kids Are Alright -- NOT!!!
- The Family That Plays Together
- Friday Entertainment News
- The Kids are Alright
- Cleveland Rocks: Special Words Fail Me -- Clothes ...
- Cleveland Rocks: Special Words Fail Me -- The Offe...
- Cleveland Rocks: Special Your Tuesday Moment of Wo...
- Cleveland Does Indeed Rock....
-
▼
November
(23)
Music Resources & Blogs
- .
- Absolute Power Pop
- AMG
- Aversion.com
- Basshead
- Bedazzled!
- Dewey Beach PopFest
- Fingertips
- fluxblog
- For the Records
- Glorious Noise
- Hooks and Harmony
- IPO Festival
- Little Hits
- Lost Bands of the New Wave Era
- Music Web Express 3000
- New Wave Outpost
- New York Power Pop
- Obsessed with Music
- Perfect Sound Forever
- Pitchfork Media
- Pop Narcotic
- PopMatters
- Post Punk Junk
- Power Pop Lovers
- Powerpopaholic
- Powerpopulist
- Ready Steady Go
- Rick Redux
- Seattle Power Pop
- Sheer Golden Hooks
- Smother.net
- The 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s of Power Pop!
- The Cure for Bedbugs
- The Mod Pop Punk Archive
- the old punks blog (inactive, but great archives)
- Trouser Press Online
- TweeNet
Bands We Love
- 20/20
- Apples in Stereo
- Barenaked Ladies
- Beat, The
- Brinsley Schwarz
- Cheap Trick
- Couple
- Dave Edmunds
- Dressy Bessy
- Elvis Costello
- Fountains of Wayne
- Lolas, The
- Matthew Sweet
- Move, The
- Myracle Brah
- New Pornographers, The
- Nick Lowe
- Portastatic
- Records, The
- Redd Kross
- Richard X. Heyman
- Robert Pollard
- Rockpile
- Shoes
- Sid'n'Susie
- Starjets
- Superchunk
- They Might Be Giants
- Velvet Crush
- XTC
Other Good Blogs on Progressive Politics & Culture
- Adventus
- Americablog
- Atrios
- Bitch, PhD
- Blah 3
- Blast Off!
- Bouphonia
- Cab Drollery
- Corrente
- Dependable Renegade
- Dohiyi Mir
- Echidne of the Snakes
- FireDogLake
- First Draft
- Gardner Writes
- Great Orange Satan, The
- Huffington Post, The
- Hullabaloo
- I speak dog
- Jesus' General
- My DD
- New Pairodimes
- No Capital
- No Pants Productions
- Online Blogintegrity
- Opinions You Should Have
- Pax Americana
- Poor Man Institute, The
- RawStory
- Rising Hegemon
- Rising Hegemon After Dark (NSFW)
- Stayin' Alive
- SteveAudio
- Suburban Guerrilla
- The Kenosha Kid's Blog
- The Supreme Irony of Life
- Thje Rude Pundit
- Welcome to Pottersville
- Whiskeyfire
- Wolcott
- Wordshed
- Zen Cabin
11 comments:
Always one of my faves, a very good body of work. The first Grass Roots album and The Fantastic Baggys, great stuff. Sad loss.
Thanks for posting this. Great song. Sad loss.
Steve,
Sad, unexpected news, Steve.
In the early 80s, when you wrote about their album in STEREO REVIEW, you turned me on to the Red Rockers' cover of Sloan's "Eve of Destruction" (yes, he wrote that song, too). I still have the 45 in my collection.
Sloan's album "Measure For Pleasure" on ATCO is one of the great Buried Treasure LPs of the 1960s - it was out on CD a few years ago on the now-defunct Collector's Choice label; one hopes another label will license it and get it back in circulation.
The Fantastic Baggys' "Wax Up Your Board" and "Surfin' Craze" are two of the coolest surf songs ever.
I live in Canada and Sloan and Steve Barri, while they were at Dunhill, wrote a bunch of the hits ("Unless You Care", "Little Liar") that Canadian artist Terry Black had in the '60s - again, good commercial-pop with a folk influence, you still hear them on oldies radio in southern Ontario, where I live.
Sloan put out a book (an autobiography) in the last year or two that I need to track down.
Thanks for posting this news, Steve.
J. Lag
Sloan died after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.
J. Lag
Sloan added a lot of fuel to a mid-Sixties music scene which was already on fire.
The book is called What's Exactly the Matter with Me: Memoirs of a Life In Music. He was signing copies at local book outlets not that long ago.
My first exposure to him as a singer was The Sins of the Family, which got a lot of airplay in Berdoo circa summer 1965. Sounded kinda folk-punk to my ten-year-old ears, which was definitely a good thing. His solo version of Let Me Be was pretty good too.
Saw him at a little place in Altadena that Peter Lewis often plays. This would be 2007 or 2008. He sounded terrific.
Another Wrecking Crew member bites the dust. Sad.
VR - I mean really. How many songwriters have songs written about them?
Not only did Sloan write 'Secret Agent Man' but he played the immortal riff!
P.F. Sloan was to the Turtles like Graham Gouldman was to the Hollies. Just thought I'd get that out there.
And what most people don't know is that he also played the guitar intro on "California Dreaming".
He was also really sweet to me when I met him in London. I'm so sad about this.
One of the all-time greats.
Unfortunately many people just go "Who?" when you mention his name. Even The Association, who recorded Jim Webb's "tribute" to him, P.F. Sloan, had no idea it was an actual person they were singing about until much later. But thankfully most people know at the very least a couple of his songs.
The bio someone mentioned here earlier is an absolute must. A bit strange, much like the man himself, but a riveting read nonetheless.
R.I.P.
http://rnrloveletters.blogspot.is/2014/09/pf-sloan.html
'The Wrecking Crew' movie disabused me of some hype that I bought into long ago: that The Association were themselves a collective of session cats. Silly me.
Greg Shaw and Bomp! mag probably turned me on to looking for the P.F. Sloan label credit on 45's. The Terry Black stuff is really good, nice electric 12-string. "He's My Man" by Ann-Margret is really great too.
P.F. Sloan, backed by members of the Wondermints, Andrew Sandoval and other locals, did an in-store appearance/performance at Amoeba Records in Hollywood in 2009. The Los Angeles Nuggets box set had just come out and Amoeba had Sloan, Jackie DeShannon (who did Splendor In the Grass), The Standells, Danny Hutton, Keith Allison and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy perform for the occasion.
Here's one of the songs in P.F.'s short stand-out set. Without a doubt, Mr. Sloan sounds terrific. More folk-punk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DAw90DiXnQ
VR - Kick that little foot, sally ann
Bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA0GYJZYPEw
Post a Comment