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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: #28
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: MAG
Price: $8.95
Catalog #: UT 028
208 pages, perfect bound, full-color glossy cover. "We have several glamorous big-name cover stories this time around, along with our usual quota of obscure but happening sounds. First up, an exclusive interview with Trevor Burton of The Move, including lots of wickedly cool and rare photos. Also, a feature on Roky Erickson's pre-psychedelic adventures in Austin with The Spades, along with a big feature review on the upcoming 13th Floor Elevators 10-CD box set. Plus the great but terminally neglected Dave Clark Five, including interviews with Dave Clark and Lenny Davidson. Sixties garage rock predominates as always with stories on The Good Feelins, The Daughters of Eve, The Boy Blues, The Living Children and TV's Shindogs. We also reveal the strange but true tales of '70s Parisian proto-punks Angel Face, the Northwest's once mysterious New Dawn, hard rockers Troyka, and New York cult underground heroes Hackamore Brick. Not to mention the bizarre saga of Philippe Debarge, the millionaire French playboy who made an amazing 1969 psych album backed by his favorite band, The Pretty Things. And that's not all: Jon Savage takes a look at the history of rock fanzines, Aaron Milenski gives us 50 reasons not to hate the synthesizer, and of course there's our extensive review section, covering all the latest reissues and music-related books and DVDs."


Artist: UGLY THINGS
Title: #29
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: MAG
Price: $8.95
Catalog #: UT 029
"Contents: Our biggest and best issue yet! Our top cover stories include a huge feature on Australia's mighty Masters Apprentices as well as a tribute to the late, great Sky Saxon of the Seeds. We also have in-depth stories on '60s beat group The Fenmen (featuring pre-Pretty Things members), UK pop-psych faves the West Coast Consortium, outrageous LA proto-punks The Imperial Dogs, and seminal California garage folk-rockers The Wildflower. Also, Doug Sheppard unravels the twisted tale of '70s hard rockers Stepson, Ron Ryan reveals the juicy details of his role as the ghost writer of some of the Dave Clark Five's biggest early hits, and Phil Milstein relates his experiences with doomed junkie chanteuse Nico. All this plus Midwest garage combo The Nomadds, Ollie Halsall and Timebox, French Riviera punks Dentist, The Remains, The Shadows of Knight, and an exclusive chat with Tony Cahill of The Easybeats. Not forgetting our famously extensive review section covering all the latest reissues, and R&R-related books and DVDs." 224 pages, perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. Cover price: $8.95


Artist: UGLY THINGS
Title: #30
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: MAG
Price: $8.95
Catalog #: UT 030
"Contents: Issue #30 is a Kinks special, featuring an extensive, no holds barred interview with Ray Davies by Kinks biographer Jon Savage, along with various sidebar articles and a host of rare and previously unpublished photos, all focused on the band's 1964-68 heyday. Also in this issue: The Masters Apprentices, Ollie Halsall and Patto, '60s garage punks The Hysterics, girl garage rockers The Bittersweet, Dutch beat icons Q65, '70s Texas punks The Nervebreakers, a rundown of the greatest '60s punk compilations by Johan Kugelberg, Cromagnon, The New Nadir, and lots more, including, as always, our extensive review sections covering all the latest reissues, rock'n'roll books and DVDs." 176 pages, perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. Cover price: $8.95


Artist: UGLY THINGS
Title: #31
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: MAG
Price: $8.95
Catalog #: UT 031
"Three big cover stories dominate Issue #31. First, we have the first ever major interview with Billy Harrison, guitarist and founder member of Van Morrison's seminal R&B group Them, and the man behind one of the greatest riffs of all time: 'Gloria.' Second: The Norton Records and Kicks magazine story; a celebration of a quarter-century of Norton with exclusive interviews and photos. And third: The Pleasure Seekers starring Detroit's girl garage queens the Quatro sisters. All the scoop on this great group (and their hard rockin' successors Cradle) illustrated by loads of gorgeous pix. Also in this issue: The final installments of our stories on the Masters Apprentices and Ollie Halsall; James Williamson and the Stooges; a revelatory no-holds-barred interview with Prince Stash de Rola (swingin' 60s confidante of the Stones, Beatles and others); a listeners' guide to Wreckless Eric, Jimi Hendrix: The Dead Hendrix albums; Cleveland '60s punks the Missing Lynx, the 40 Fingers, surfin' with the Sentinals, and lots more. Plus our extensive review sections covering all the latest reissues, rock 'n' roll books and DVDs." 200 pages, perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. Cover price: $8.95


Artist: UGLY THINGS
Title: #32
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: MAG
Price: $8.95
Catalog #: UT 032
"In our killer new issue, our intrepid writers take a look at Paul Revere & the Raiders in the psychedelic era. Mark Lindsay opens up to Doug Sheppard about the making of their underrated late '60s albums, while Bill Kopp examines the post-Raiders adventures of Drake, Fang & Smitty and their experimental psych-pop project the Brotherhood. Moving across the pond, we celebrate the world of Freakbeat with exclusive interviews with Dee Christopholus of Wimple Winch and Don Fardon of the Sorrows. And there's more: Part 2 of our interview with Billy Harrison of Them, big stories on'60s garage punks the Sloths, the Contrasts and Limey & the Yanks, psychedelic magic with the Creation of Sunlight and the Finchley Boys, and a lengthy story on the early years of '70s UK punks, the Vibrators. Add in pieces on the likes of $27 Snap On Face, the Rolling Stones, Valiant Little Tailor, '60s Virginia's Raven Records, Bob Desper and Sir Royal Da Count and you may be looking at our best and most eclectic issue yet. Not forgetting our extensive review sections covering all the latest reissues, rock'n'roll books and DVDs." 176 pages, perfect bound/full-color glossy cover. Cover price: $8.95.


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: PRETTY THINGS, THE
Title: Philippe Debarge
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: CD
Price: $14.00
Catalog #: UT 2207CD
"1969: S.F. Sorrow is done and dusted. Parachute is yet to come. The Pretty Things are at their creative peak... with no outlet in sight. Enter Philippe Debarge: Frenchman, playboy, and Pretty Things superfan. He commissions the band to write and produce an album for him. Debarge and the five Pretty Things duly enter Nova Studios, one of London's first eight-track facilities. With access to this new technology they experiment with multi-tracking and an array of psychedelic effects. Debarge sings lead, and the Pretty Things play and sing everything else on a stunning set of 12 May/Waller originals in the classic late '60s Pretty Things style, many of them never recorded by the band before or since. Acoustic, fuzz and backwards guitars abound, along with Mellotron, harpsichord and the unmistakable heavenly three-part harmonies of Phil May, Wally Waller and Jon Povey. The album is completed, but never released. Until now. 16-page CD booklet with rare photos and full liner notes by Mike Stax. Cover art by Phil Smee. Includes exclusive bonus track 'Monsieur Rock (Ballad of Philippe).' Fully re-mastered in magnificent full stereo hi-fidelity sound with the close collaboration of original co-producer Wally Waller. Fully sanctioned and approved by the Pretty Things.""


Artist: PRETTY THINGS, THE
Title: Philippe Debarge
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: LP
Price: $34.00
Catalog #: UT 2207LP
Repressed. "1969: S.F. Sorrow is done and dusted. Parachute is yet to come. The Pretty Things are at their creative peak... with no outlet in sight. Enter Philippe Debarge: Frenchman, playboy, and Pretty Things superfan. He commissions the band to write and produce an album for him. Debarge and the five Pretty Things duly enter Nova Studios, one of London's first eight-track facilities. With access to this new technology they experiment with multi-tracking and an array of psychedelic effects. Debarge sings lead, and the Pretty Things play and sing everything else on a stunning set of 12 May/Waller originals in the classic late '60s Pretty Things style, many of them never recorded by the band before or since. Acoustic, fuzz and backwards guitars abound, along with Mellotron, harpsichord and the unmistakable heavenly three-part harmonies of Phil May, Wally Waller and Jon Povey. The album is completed, but never released. Until now. Limited edition deluxe vinyl edition. Just 1,000 pressed. Heavy duty glossy color LP jacket with insert and full liner notes by Mike Stax."


Artist: FENMEN, THE
Title: Sunstroke
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: CD
Price: $14.00
Catalog #: UT 2208CD
"Prior to joining the Pretty Things in early 1967, Wally Waller and Jon Povey were members of another group from the same neighborhood, the Fenmen. Throughout 1965 and '66 the Fenmen crafted a strong harmony-based sound influenced by California groups like the Beach Boys, but retaining a strong English flavor. Their outstanding harmonies attracted the attention and praise of Graham Nash and Andrew Loog Oldham, who frequently employed them as backing singers on his sessions. Sunstroke presents a treasure trove of rare and unreleased Fenmen tracks, including 1965 demo recordings, a 1966 BBC radio session, a raw early 1963 acetate, and seven new tracks by Waller and Povey in the harmony-rich tradition of the Fenmen and the 1967-71 Pretty Things, including a breathtaking new arrangement of 'The Sun.' Old and new material flow together seamlessly to create a diverse listening experience in the tradition of your favorite classic albums. You'll want to file Sunstroke somewhere between Pet Sounds, Parachute, The Beach Boys Today and The Hollies' Greatest Hits."


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 passé 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: SCHEELINGS, PIM
Title: Q65
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: Book
Price: $17.00
Catalog #: UT Q65
"The five original members of Q65 first banded together in The Hague in the Netherlands in 1965. Joop Roelofs, Frank Nuyens, Willem Bieler, Peter Vink and Jay Baar were an unlikely, often volatile gang of outcasts and misfits, but with their raw, unconventional music and rowdy, unkempt image they quickly built up a large and fiercely loyal following. Their first record, You're the Victor, kicked off a string of hit singles for the group including 'The Life I Live,' 'From Above' and 'World of Birds.' Their 1966 debut LP, Revolution, sold over 50,000 copies, topping the Dutch album charts ahead of new releases by the Rolling Stones, the Troggs and the Animals. By 1969 it had all fallen apart, but in the few short years they were together Q65 recorded some truly extraordinary music. They continue to be regarded, quite rightly, as one of the great, unsung bands of the era. Pim Scheelings has captured their story in all its strange, stoned, comical, complicated, tragic glory -- the drink, the drugs, the fights and, of course, the music -- all discussed and dissected in frank, often brutally honest words by the surviving band members and their collaborators. This is the story of Q65: no punches pulled -- the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 208 pages with tons of rare photos, interviews and discography."


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."


Artist: NASHVILLE RAMBLERS, THE
Title: The Trains/Fragile Child
Label: UGLY THINGS
Format: 7"
Price: $6.50
Catalog #: UTS7 001EP
"Recorded in 1985, 'The Trains' by the Nashville Ramblers is one of the greatest pop songs of the entire era. Aided and abetted by ace producer Mark Neill (Black Keys), the band expertly channeled their key influences--Beatles, Remains, Hollies, Everly Brothers, and others--and shaped them into something fresh, urgent and breathtakingly original. A heart-stopping melody, evocative lyrics, a driving beat, soaring harmonies, a dynamic, reverb-soaked production--to hear 'The Trains' was to fall in love with it. And every time you heard it, you fell in love again. Many discovered the song for the first time in 2005 when it was included on Rhino's Children of Nuggets box set--by then it was almost 20 years old. Fully remastered by Mark Neill directly from the original vaccum tube analog 3-track master tape, this shiny black 45rpm single and packaged in a deluxe hard cover picture sleeve, it's paired with a terrific, previously unreleased version of the Golliwogs' 'Fragile Child' recorded at the same session."

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