It’s nearing the end of the year and I’ve exceeded my quota for inane words written so I’m just going to show a video from The Music Machine. They were a mid-60’s band from LA that played a garage-punk brand of music that characterized their biggest hit, the Top 20 Talk Talk. They were definitely products of the era with their helmeted hairstyles and their funky all black garb, complete with one single glove worn on the right hand of each band member, predating Michael Jackson by decades. They didn’t make it out of the 60’s, going through a couple of incarnations in the 4 or 5 years of their existence.
I was going to feature Talk Talk but I came across this little gem, their cover of Neil Diamond’s classic Cherry Cherry. It’s a surprisingly cool and restrained version. It’s got a little bit of everything. Jazzy flute solos. Go-go dancers in groovy threads doing some kind of swaying low-impact calisthenics. Neat 60’s backdrop.
Oh, it’s a happening.
But it somehow works.
Redtree Times 