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This is a different version than the one on their second LP, 'Back in the USA', Jan 1970 / * = IF you consider "producing" to let the VU meters stay mostly in the red ...) / 500 copies pressed; only 250 with picture sleeve;
Click the Link above, left, to view the the ultra-rare picture sleeve
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5:30
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The Modern Lovers [Often billed as 'Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers']
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Roadrunner [Rolling Stone "500 Greatest Songs" #274]
Producer - Don Gallucci; he played piano on The Kingmen's version of 'Louie Louie'!! / FUN FACT about this album: Radio Birdman chose their name based on mishearing the line "radio burnin' up above" in the song "1970". / Click the Link above, left, to view the original LP cover
Live at the Monroe Civic Center, Monroe, Louisiana, April 15th, 1978 // Reportedly, "Maggot Brain" was original guitarist Eddie Hazel's nickname (Michael Hampton played on this version)
... Recorded live at the "Big Day Out" concert in Melbourne, January 24th, 1993; released ONLY as a Promotional 7", 33 1/3 rpm single distributed with some Australian copies of the " Dirty" album / Click the Link above, left, to view the single
Many songwriters have cited "God Only Knows" as their personal favorite song, including Paul McCartney and Jimmy Webb. // Click the Link above, left, to view the the original German single, with a full-color picture sleeve
In 1999, John Lurie (founder of the Lounge Lizards) created the fictional character of the work of an African-Jewish musician "Marvin Pontiac" and released a posthumous collection of his work. It includes a biographical profile describing the troubled genius's hard life, and the cover shows a photograph purported to be one of the few ever taken of him, because he thought that taking a photograph sreals a person's soul.
This was the only album from the Experience produced by Hendrix, and also the band's most commercially successful release / #53 on the "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", 2020.
Paul Revere & The Raiders released their version of this on March 1964, as the B-side of their second CBS single, ' Louie - Go Home'. Though they had no national hits yet, they were very popular live in the Pacific Northwest.
