Wake Up Where You Are!

You're The Strawberry Alarm Clock. You got it all. Go-Go gigs on the Strip, movie appearances, hot singles, albums dressed nearly as great as you. And you can play your instruments. You're one lucky SOB. Oh, there are moments when you're a little pissed that the (finger-waggle) rock establishment doesn't take you seriously, thinks you're a "plastic LA band", but that's their loss right? How many of the cute chicks lining up around the block have even heard of Jann Wenner? [me neither - Ed.] How much more fun could you squeeze into your life? None to both, I'm guessing. Oh, and you have one of the greatest names in pop. You and the Chocolate Watch Band. If you had to be someone else you'd be them.

The SAC (as we fans like to call 'em) started off as Thee Sixpence, and their recordings are presented to you here in compact easy-to-use format that's sure to be the envy of the gang down at the soup kitchen! Then we rush headlong down the centuries through our own Irwin Allen-style Time Tunnel to end up at their last - and probably last - album, which you probably haven't heard of. Maybe having two titles confused people; it's called Wake Up Where You Are, or It's About Time, depending on which internet screed you're squinting at. No matter, it's a great album, one of the few essential re-union albums. Don't be put off by the few reworkings of their old hits - they're fantastic. There's an extended twelve-minute version of Sit With The Guru! Unfortunately it's extended by a drum solo. But never mind. Wander off into the kitchen and pretend it's the bar at a live gig until it's over, and go back to shout for an encore!