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Posted - 19/04/2014 : 15:02:36
...not garage band, because they never even made it out of the bedroom...
J.P. Sunshine - 1968 
J.P. Sunshine full album play--the first track actually builds to a really nice electric fuzz guitar break
...PSYCHEDELIC MAN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuG_QRN4nyk
Allmusic guide review--thanks to allmusicguide.com for all its great reviews!
To say that J.P. Sunshine was flower-power-era England's least-famous band would be an overstatement.
During the group's lifetime, its lo-fi bedroom recordings never actually made it out of the bedroom
...and it was only decades after London had stopped swinging that J.P. Sunshine's homemade pop-psychedelia was released. Formed in London in late 1967, J.P. Sunshine was the brainchild of poet George Duffell, also known as Jorgy Porgy (the J.P. in J.P. Sunshine). Duffell was keen to set his poems to music, and an opportunity to do so arose when he met Rod Goodway, a former member of the English pop group the Pack, who had a hit with the Lovin' Spoonful's "Do You Believe in Magic?" Goodway penned simple arrangements for acoustic guitar and a band coalesced around the duo. Duffell (bongos/xylophone) and Goodway (vocals/guitar) were joined by Adrian Shaw (guitar), Pete Biles (bongos), and Duffell's girlfriend, Pat Morphin (percussion). In early 1968, J.P. Sunshine went electric as Goodway recruited former Pack guitarist Andy Rickell (aka Android Funnel) and Shaw moved to bass. In keeping with the spirit of the times, J.P. Sunshine was as much a scene as it was a band; its members congregated in Duffell and Morphin's apartment to listen to the latest American imports (Love, Jefferson Airplane, Captain Beefheart, the Grateful Dead, among others) and to ingest chemicals. Then, under the influence of both, they would write and play music, recording on a primitive two-track machine. J.P. Sunshine's informal, proto-lo-fi identity especially suited Goodway and Rickell since it served as a recreational project away from their work as professional musicians. Concurrently with J.P. Sunshine, they were members of the psychedelic rock outfit White Rabbit. During this time, Goodway also sang with the Artwoods, who had briefly renamed themselves the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The demise of J.P. Sunshine was accelerated by the claustrophobic, chemically enhanced environment the band had created around itself in Duffell's apartment. Rickell became involved with Duffell's girlfriend and the increasingly morose Duffell wrote lyrics about that situation, which the band then used, only making a weird scene weirder. In late 1968, the band committed final versions of its tracks to tape and made a stab at success. Pink Floyd's management responded favorably, but suggested the material be re-recorded with a drum kit. The final nail in the coffin came in December when, following a protracted stakeout, the drugs squad put an end to the J.P. Sunshine scene. Shaw, Rickell, and Goodway went on to various bands, including the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Magic Muscle, Hawkwind, and the Bevis Frond. The long-lost J.P. Sunshine album eventually appeared on cassette in 1985 and on vinyl in 1996.
Great site for more...
http://www.achingcellar.co.uk/pages/SET02/jp.htm
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music".
-Aldous Huxley
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| lemonade kid |
Posted - 19/04/2014 : 15:05:13
JP SUNSHINE
Recorded in a London flat on a two-track machine in 1968, and released on cassette in 1985 and on vinyl in 1966 JP Sunshine is a forgotten treasure Of British pop-psychedelia. The band was formed at the height of Flower Power in 1967 with Rod Goodway (Guitar, Vocals), Andy Rickell (Guitar), Adrian Shaw (bass) and Pete Biles (percussionist), George and Pat Morphin Duffell (Lyricist).
His main inspiration came from American artists like West Coast, Jefferson Airplane, Love, and Tim Buckley. Written and performed under such influences, and under the influence of various substances, JP Sunshine is a fascinating album. "With its Spanish-style guitar and galloping rhythms, such as" This Side Up "and Hey Girl", the band JP Sunshine defines one of their styles. There are also more Bluesy styles , like the sublime (the spacy xylophone adorned) "Dirt Blues." Members of the band Pink Floyd were impressed by the tape and suggested that this album be re-recorded with more appropriate drums. Nevertheless, the tensions within the band and a drug bust caused JP Sunshine to end in late 1968. Buenos Appetite
Review thanks to:
http://periecosbrecho.blogspot.com/2011/09/jp-sunshine.html
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music".
-Aldous Huxley
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