Browse by Label: UGLY THINGS

Artist:	UGLY THINGS
Title:	#22
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	MAG
Price:	$6.95
Catalog #:	UT 022

"200 page monster edition / perfect bound / full-color glossy cover. Inside: the third epic installment of The Misunderstood Story. Torn apart by the Vietnam draft, the band members continue their various struggles. We follow steel guitarist Glenn Campbell's days with Rod Piazza's Dirty Blues Band, Juicy Lucy and Joe Cocker, and Rick Brown's fugitive adventures on the run from the US military and the FBI. PLUS: revelatory interviews with Ace Kefford of The Move and Chris Youlden of Savoy Brown. Fly around the world and visit The Matadors from Czechoslovakia, The Speakers from Colombia, The Wild Cherries and The Creatures from Australia, Prudy from Bratislava and Belgium's Plastic Bertrand. Johan Kugelberg interviews DIY cult icons The Popes and explains the joys of 'Primitive Sh*t Music'. We also have stories on the very early Prehistoric Pretty Things, Brian Jones, Mel Lyman, Wild Bill Kennedy & The Twiliters and lots more, including our massive review section covering hundreds of vinyl and CD reissues, music related books and DVDs."

Artist:	UGLY THINGS
Title:	#24
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	MAG
Price:	$7.95
Catalog #:	UT 024

208 pages, perfect bound, full-color glossy cover. "This time it's a Southern California '60s garage rock special with big feature stories on The Bush and The Mustangs. But that's not all, we also have stories and articles on The Flamin' Groovies, The Rubber City Rebels, German Beat savages The Phantom Brothers, a salacious interview with Willie Alexander & The Boom Boom Band, a look at the '60s band scene in Peru, Sweetwater, and the inside scoop on the making of Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum. Also on board are the continuing stories of Mike & The Ravens and Mike Sheridan & Rick Price (this time: The Move Years!). Patrick Lundborg reveals 20 Ultra-Rare LP Reissue Candidates, and Johan Kugelberg defines a new genre: Australian Grillfat Rock. Also read the story of Dean Kohler & The Electrical Banana, who recorded one of the first Velvet Underground covers, in 1967... in the Vietnam jungle! And LOTS MORE, including more than 50 PAGES of music reissue reviews, plus music-related books and DVDs. It's our biggest issue yet!"

Artist:	UGLY THINGS
Title:	#25
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	MAG
Price:	$7.95
Catalog #:	UT 025

"224 pages! Perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. Our big cover story this time is on The Music Machine, a lengthy feature including interviews with once-silent members Keith Olsen and Mark Landon, plus tons of amazing photos, many previously unpublished. We also have a major feature on California garage-psych group The Light, plus stories on Swedish R&B hooligans The Namelosers, South African acid rock pioneers Freedom's Children, British freakbeat icons The Attack, Chicago garage rockers The Dirty Wurds, Ohio rock & roll punks The Rubber City Rebels, and mysterious acid folksters Pat Kilroy & The New Age. We also investigate the Latino garage and R&B scene in Colton, California, featuring The Peasants and The Premiers, and the greatest '60s productions of Brian Ross. Also featured are the concluding installments of our stories on Sweetwater and Mike & The Ravens, and exclusive, insight-laden interviews with Rob Younger of Radio Birdman, Don Galluci of The Kingsmen, Jackie DeShannon, and writer Jon Savage. Plus LOTS MORE, including hundreds of music reissue reviews, plus music-related books and DVDs. Last issue was our biggest yet -- this one is EVEN BIGGER!"

Artist:	UGLY THINGS
Title:	#26
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	MAG
Price:	$7.95
Catalog #:	UT 026

224 pages, perfect bound, full-color glossy cover. "This issue is sure to make a big splash with our big MC5 cover story, featuring a lengthy, previously-unpublished interview with Rob Tyner and some incredible rare photos. Our other features include the story of '66 Sunset Strip rockers The Sons of Adam, English folk-rock outfit Trees, the Norwegian beat scene in the '60s, and British punk rock & rollers The Pop Rivets (Billy Childish's first band, 1977-1979). There's also an extensive pre-punk feature by Johan Kugelberg, with a foreword by Jon Savage. We also have articles on California garage band The Floggs (who featured a pre-Kaleidoscope Chris Darrow), legendary Ohio psychsters The Tiffany Shade, and the amazing tale of The Cedars from Lebanon. There's also exclusive interviews with The Pretty Things, Arthur Brown, Dave Lambert (of UK freakbeat icons Fire: 'Father's Name Was Dad'), Art Wood, Zappa associate Jeff Simmons, and much more, including of course, our massive review section covering all the latest reissues and music-related books and DVDs."

Artist:	UGLY THINGS
Title:	#27
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	MAG
Price:	$8.95
Catalog #:	UT 027

"Co-headlining our big cover story this time are The Who and The Small Faces as Andy Neill reports on their controversial '68 tour of Australia and New Zealand, complete with an array of WOW-inducing unpublished photos. Also, for the first time anywhere, the story of Garden Grove garage rock teens The Spats ('She Done Moved,' 'Gator Tails & Monkey Ribs'), Brooklyn, NY psych rockers The Koala, and '70s NYC punks The Victims. Also on tap, Jon Savage's revealing interview with Beatles publicist Derek Taylor about Brian Epstein, a conversation with Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine, drop-dead delicious '60s beat girl/style icon Gillian Hills, R&B songwriting genius Alonzo B Willis, Mike Hudson of the Pagans, and Johan Kugelberg's countdown of the best junkshop glam rock discs. And there's more. '60s garage rock a-go-go with The Heard ('Stop It Baby'), The Persuaders, The Lost Souls, plus more garage rock history from California's Inland Empire. Also: exotic beat music from Chile and Venezuela, Jack Downing & the Other Side, and Ade Blackburn of Clinic picks his all-time Psychedelic Top 10. All this and more -- including, of course, our extensive review section, covering all the latest reissues and music-related books and DVDs."

Artist:	MISUNDERSTOOD, THE
Title:	The Lost Acetates 1965 - 1966
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	UT 2201CD

"14 amazing, newly discovered, unreleased tracks; High quality sound restoration and mastering; CD package includes 12 full-color pages with full liner notes by Mike Stax. The Misunderstood may just be the greatest lost band of the 1960s. They had the gifts, the creativity, the chemistry, the ambition, the drive -- all the ingredients to make it, plus that extra indefinable 'magic' in their sound, which in its purest moments seemed tuned to a wonderful and strangely magnetic frequency. Torn apart by the Vietnam War draft the band was denied the breakthrough they deserved. Through reissues of tracks like 'Children of the Sun' and 'I Can Take You to the Sun' their name has become a legend with connoisseurs of sixties garage and psychedelia. However, until now nobody has heard this amazing set of unreleased tracks recorded in Riverside, California and London, England in 1965-66. The only surviving acetates were carefully stored away by drummer Rick Moe after the original band broke up. They were only recently rediscovered. These historic discs contain some of the most exciting music they ever recorded, from raw, pounding garage blues to electrifying psychedelic rock. Lavishly packaged and lovingly remastered, The Lost Acetates is guaranteed to blow the minds of all fans of sixties garage and psych."

Artist:	MUSTANGS, THE
Title:	Riverside Garage Legends... and That's for Sure!
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	UT 2203CD

"Two minutes and five seconds of tough fuzz, stomp and bad attitude, the Mustangs'1965 single 'That's For Sure' is considered one of the Holy Grails of sixties garage rock. That one, hopelessly rare 45 would be their only release. However, in January 1966 the Mustangs went into Locy Sound in Riverside, California, where they recorded 14 more songs, demonstrating not only their dynamism and versatility as a live cover band, but also their remarkable talent for original material, from wailing rockers to haunting Beatlesque ballads. Those tracks are presented here for the first time, along with 'That's For Sure' and its grooving instrumental flipside 'Nova Blues.' This CD only release includes a full-color 16-page booklet packed with rare photos of the band, plus full liner notes by Mike Stax."

Artist:	BUSH, THE
Title:	Got Bush If You Want It!
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	UT 2204CD

"In 1965-66, The Bush ruled the teen scene in California's Inland Empire with smash hits on the local charts and throngs of fans flocking to their gigs. Originally called the Bushmen, they were the first band in their area with the longhaired Rolling Stones look. After they opened for The Stones in 1965, they became local superstars almost overnight. Girls wanted to sleep with them while envious guys either wanted to beat them up or be them. The CD features 27 tracks including all The Bush's 45rpm releases along with 21 amazing unissued tracks unearthed from lead singer Steve Hoard's personal archive of master tapes and acetates. The deluxe CD packaging includes a 20-page booklet with full liner notes and tons of vintage photos. One of the most hotly anticipated '60s releases of the year, Got Bush If You Want It! is a treasure trove of killer sounds from a band that utterly epitomized '60s teenage garage rock cool."

Artist:	LIGHT, THE
Title:	Turn On... The Light
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	UT 2205CD

"The Light was a dynamic, multi-talented supergroup from California's Inland Empire. Formed in early 1967, the group united the brightest talents from two of the area's most popular garage bands, the Bush and the Northside Moss. After attracting the attention of Music Machine producer Brian Ross, they recorded a single for A&M Records, a Jekyll & Hyde pairing featuring a gorgeous Left-Bank-style A-side, 'Music Box' and a fuzz-guitar monster flipside, 'Back Up.' By the end of the summer, they had evolved into an incendiary West Coast psychedelic rock ensemble comparable to the Buffalo Springfield or Moby Grape, but with the dual lead guitar firepower of the Beck-Page Yardbirds. Turn On... The Light is the first ever collection of The Light's music. It includes their sole 45 release plus 23 previously unreleased live and studio cuts."

Artist:	1-2-6
Title:	Graveyard Paradise
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	UT 2206CD

"Hailing from the coldest, northernmost region of Norway, 1-2-6 (One-Two-Six) were inspired by the sounds of The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who and Bob Dylan, but blended these influences with an approach that was distinctly European. The brilliant original songwriting of Asa Krogtoft allied simple beat group arrangements and melodic psychedelic pop with a unique, often surrealistic poetic sensibility. This 28-track CD anthology includes their complete works: the Curtains Falling album, non-LP singles, demos and rarities, and both singles by Asa's post 1-2-6 band, Taboo, all from the original master tapes. Graveyard Paradise is the first time this material has been released outside of Norway. It includes an amazing array of original music: raw beat group rave-ups, dark folk-rock excursions, post-Revolver/Pepper psychedelic moves, gorgeous orchestrated pop, and heavier freakbeat sounds. The deluxe 16-page CD booklet is loaded with rare pix and full liner notes."

Artist:	STAX, ANDY NEILL AND JOHN BAKER, MIKE
Title:	Don't Bring Me Down... Under: The Pretty Things
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	Book
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	UT PT

...in New Zealand, 1965; Two Weeks of Mayhem with Viv Prince, The King of the World. "In 1965, while other British groups set their sights on America, the Pretty Things invaded New Zealand, a culturally sheltered colonial outpost 12,000 miles from their home. A disparate bunch of art student malcontents, brought together in one unholy collision of no holds barred '60s rhythm 'n' blues and self-expression, the Pretty Things were the most extreme band of their day. Fueled by a baiting, sensationalist tabloid press, their loud, anarchic music and outrageous antics on and off stage -- particularly those of drummer Viv Prince -- ignited a national scandal and a public outcry that would spread from the newspaper headlines to the Houses of Parliament. Today, so-called bad boy 'rock star' behavior has gone beyond pass� to being almost expected. But in the Swinging Sixties, in not-so-Swinging New Zealand, for a bunch of longhaired musicians who looked as though they'd beamed down as emissaries from Mars, garnering inflammatory column inches in a remote Colonial outpost for being nothing but themselves was absolutely the real deal. No parachutes. No safety nets. No bodyguards. No lawyers. No PR people providing 24-hour spin control. 'It really was about five young guys on the road,' remembers singer Phil May, 'with the rest of the country, apart from the kids, completely against you. It was like being a platoon behind enemy lines.' Or as guitarist Dick Taylor puts it: 'The whole trip for me was like waking up in a Dali painting with no exit to reality.' More than ten years in the making, Don't Bring Me Down...Under documents the Pretty Things' surreal, outlandish and frequently hilarious exploits in New Zealand through interviews with most of the major participants, press clippings and more than 180 rare photographs, including 8 pages in full-color. Don't Bring Me Down....Under is a must-read, not just for Pretty Things fans, but for anyone fascinated by an era when rock 'n' roll was not only outrageously FUN but also a force of subversion and ultimately liberation for an entire generation of young people around the world." 8 1/2 x 11 sized, 112 pages / perfect bound / full-color glossy cover + 8 pages of color photos.

Artist:	BROWN & MIKE STAX, RICK
Title:	Like, Misunderstood
Label:	UGLY THINGS
Format:	Book
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	UT RB/MS

"A gripping autobiographical novel about the early life of Rick Brown, detailing the story of the Misunderstood and their evolution from local garage band heroes to trailblazing psychedelic icons living in the heart of Swinging London. Read how the band's heart was ripped out on the eve of their success when Rick was drafted into the U.S. Army, about his daring desertion from boot camp, his escape to a new life in a primitive ashram in North India, and his subsequent adventures as a hunted fugitive. Befriended by India's elite but forced from sanctuary as U.S. authorities close in, he climbs the Himalayas, taking shelter in a secret ruby mine guarded by 115 year-old Kali Baba. Torn between the love of two competing gurus, as well as Kali Baba and beautiful Tanny, he is driven over the edge into the mysterious Asian underworld. Bummer! This is NOT the same material that appeared in Ugly Things magazine, but a humorous and thrilling first person narrative in Rick Brown's own words, written with the collaboration of UT editor Mike Stax. This beautifully presented 567-page hardcover book was printed in a limited first edition of just 950 copies, so it's sure to become an instant collector's item."

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