Back when psychedelia was first being rediscovered - immediately post-Nuggets - the correct attitude was to sniff at Ed Cobb's studio additions to Chocolate Watch Band albums. Dey wus fake! The Chocolate Watch Band was a snarling, biting proto-punk combo, and Cobb's dreamy and sophisticated confections were not welcome. They weren't even played by the band! BOO!
Yes, the Choccies (as absolutely no-one was calling them) were one of the great garage punk combos, and it's impossible not to love their Sunset Strip spin on the Yardbirds and the Stones. But I always dug (man) Ed Cobb's Fake Watch Band cuts quite as much - more, if I'm honest. So here's Dark Side Of The Mushroom And Other Trips On Gossamer Wings, the first album ever by the Fake Watch Band.
The three gorgeous numbers that made up the first side of The Inner Mystique (if there's a lovelier album side I've yet to hear it) are here in their perfect sequence, as side two. The six cuts on the first side are the remaining recordings of the Fake Watch Band, and I've snuck in a couple of tracks with original band members that sound more Fake than Chocolate to make up the running time, anticipating the snooty dismissal of the purists who consider them not genuine Fakes at all.
It's a totally groovy 'sixties psych album, a soundtrack to blissing out in the park on a hot summer's day. And credit where long overdue; to Ed Cobb, Richard Podolor, Bill Cooper, Wayne Proctor, Don Bennet, Ethan McElroy, and the nameless session musicians whose contributions created such an evocative - and superbly recorded - piece of work. All thirty delicious minutes of it.
Gee whiz, is this ever swell! So swell it be that I'm tempted not to let a buncha griftin' poolroom jockeys get their mitts on it. Make me reconsider by proactively involving yerself in the comments. Answer this simple question: when was the last time you used a moist towelette?
ReplyDeleteAbout 10 minutes ago😎
ReplyDeleteIt's this kind of commitment that makes th' IoF© the go-to choice for moist towelette enthusiasts coast to coast! Thanks, Paul Groovy!
DeleteIf creating one is using one, yesterday.
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DeleteDaily. You ask like that's a weird thing. Wash'n'Dri was always a go-to refresher.--Muzak McMusics
ReplyDeleteThere's a whole moist towelette community out there!
DeleteYou say "community," someone else says "way of life," I say . . . "cult." --Muzak McM.
DeleteCleansed my knife with one after carving a pumpkin about two hours ago...'
ReplyDeleteTrue story.
What did you carve a pumpkin out of?
DeleteUsed one this morning after getting a bucket of kibble from the barn. Thankfully those Randy alpacas were too knackered at the time to notice. Great album BTW! Fake watches like the Memorex watch sold almost exclusively from the Night Bazaar at Pat Pong Roads 1 & 2.
ReplyDeleteI bought some fakes from Sukhumvit Rd. which are still going twenty years later - an IWC, a Bulova, and a Cartier. There's a good chance the real ones aren't.
DeleteI use a moist towelette almost daily, most often at work. Espesially when I can not find a wet handkerchief
ReplyDelete*backs slowly away, avoiding eye contact*
Deleteerm .. every now and then!! ... a lil' earlier this fine morning!! .. and, by the by, I'm now Sicily Steve!!!
ReplyDeleteSteve is a gigolo, currently kept on a permanent world cruise by Mrs. Snooksie Von Krupps, elderly heiress to the Krupps Metalworks Corp., makers of the "Krupps Kibble Bucket - The King O' Kibble Buckets®" available in a hardware store near you. Ask for it by name!
Deletearen't moist towelettes just baby disinfecting wipes ???
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What in the name of Jumping Jehoshaphat is a towelette? More to the point, which parts is it applied to and used to disinfect? C’mon, as a war baby (1943 vintage) the possession of such dilettante nonsense would have been proof of deviation (at the least) and, depending on further evidence, full scale perversion and most probably an offence against humanity - not that there was much of that left after the bods over the pond had dropped a couple of bigguns on Japan. Having said all that, this Fake thing looks peachy, warm and cuddly - will explore further as and when I can extricate myself from the tangled web of confusion and catastrophe which is currently covering, jungle like, the environs of the hinterland within which I am incarcerated. Lawdy Miss Clawdy, it sure looks good(ish) to me.
ReplyDeleteIs a moist towelette like a wet wipe? if so I haven’t used one since Glastonbury Festival about twenty years ago. In the UK the water companies regularly pump raw sewage into our rivers and seas, and with that wet wipes and other things flushed away too - out of sight, out of mind.
ReplyDeleteYeah, dead right. Cretins, morons and others, ie millennials onwards have by and large never been housetrained (lack of parenting by mainly absentee mothers and fathers carrying on with their lives unaltered - ‘tis their human right, after all) and this has determined that many regard the toilet (bog) as a ready made facility to flush anything away whether it is appropriate or not. The result is megafatburgs causing untold damage to the sewage systems, particularly in large urban conurbations and cities. None of this matters as the planet has been totally bolloxed by the only living species to defile the it - homo sapiens. The human race is doomed, and once it is extinguished the planet itself will self-heal. So, let’s all enjoy ourselves until the whole shithouse collapses.
DeleteI downloaded the above deliverable back in 2022 when FT3 first lovingly curated it for the 4 or 5 guys, it remains on my player to this day (last played January 2025). This is a sign of just how good it is, as I’m always being reminded by my ancient Apple I-mac G4 that I am running out of disc space - you have been warned Hackney Diamonds.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't considered using one until just now, thanks.
ReplyDeletei think my supply was too old. they were a solid brick and of no help wiping up the blood.
ReplyDeleteMy band from college, "Marzipan Timepeace" released our ONLY album, "Moist Towlette None More Moist" in late 1966. The first ( and only) pressing came packaged with a moist towlette. Hence the rarity of any remaining existing copies. Those things are loaded with alcohol, whis is not the friend of vinyl!
ReplyDeleteWhat font do you use for the "False Memory Foam Records" logo? Can we get a higher-rez version of said logo?
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