The Arrows Featuring Davie Allan - Cycle-Delic Sounds [2005 Remaster] (1968) FLAC REUP!

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The Arrows Featuring Davie Allan - Cycle-Delic Sounds [2005 Remaster] (1968) FLAC REUP!

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Providing the soundtrack to numerous biker and teen exploitation movies in the mid- and late '60s, Davie Allan & the Arrows bridged the surf and psychedelic eras. Their driving, basic instrumentals featured loads and loads of fuzz guitar, as well as generous dollops of tremolo bar waggling and wah-wah. The guitarist and his band first made their mark with the minor hit "Apache '65," a version of the Shadows/Jorgen Ingmann's instrumental classic "Apache." Hooking up with notorious exploitation movie producer Mike Curb, the Arrows provided the soundtracks to numerous B-movies on the Tower and Sidewalk labels; their greatest success, "Blues Theme" (from The Wild Angels starring Peter Fonda), made the Top 40 in 1967. Curb abandoned racy movies for the Osmonds and purged MGM Records of their psychedelic acts, but the Arrows continued to play and record for various labels during the '80s and '90s. A slew of reissues during the new millennium broadened the group's appeal, and they returned in 2003 with ~ Richie Unterberger

Link Wray invented the vocabulary of modern electric guitarists, but Davie Allan was a minor pioneer in his own right. He is often overlooked, chronologically caught between Wray's more innovative work of the late '50s and early '60s, and Jimi Hendrix's unrivaled technical brilliance of the late '60s. Allan's most notable contribution is the creation of the fuzz sound. While Link Wray was the pioneer of guitar distortion, Allan pushed it to a new level, distorting his signal so much that his guitar sounded raw and overpowering, almost “fuzzy.” Guitar sounds along similar lines would become a staple of '70s rock and Allan's penchant for extreme, heavy, noisy guitar work displayed on tracks like “Devil's Rumble,” “Cycle-Delic” and “King Fuzz” presaged 1980s acts like Sonic Youth. Allan is also notable for being what has been called the missing link between surf music and the likes of garage rock, '60s punk and whacked-out psychedelia. By fusing the simple, clean, guitar-focused musicianship of surf with these heavier, tougher, more vocal-centric styles, Allan, in his own manner, helped pave the way for the “guitar hero” idiom of rock music that dominated the '70s and '80s.

For the most part, this LP contained the best of our 1960's recordings. Unfortunately, the wrong versions of the "Devil's Angels Theme" and "Cody's Theme" were used plus a classic piece called "We Tune Because We Care" was omitted. Where is that tape? More importantly, where are the multi-track tapes of that era?

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The Arrows Featuring Davie Allan - Cycle-Delic Sounds [2005 Remaster] (1968) FLAC REUP!

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