Supersneakers

Performer: The Flamin' Groovies
Producer: Jud Cost; Bob Irwin
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Personnel: Cyril Jordan, Tim Lynch, Roy Loney (vocals, guitar); George Alexander (vocals); Danny Mihm (percussion). Liner Note Author: Jud Cost. Recording information: Matrix club (1968); The Matrix, San Francisco, CA (1968). Photographers: Danny Mihm; Dennis Loren; Roy Loney. SUPER SNEAKERS is an essential document in the development of both power pop and the DIY underground. Self-released in 1968, when pretty much nobody was releasing albums on their own, the seven-track 10-inch LP SNEAKERS was enough of a success that Epic signed them for their 1969 full-length debut SUPERSNAZZ. Oddly, given the number of archival Groovies reissues, it took until 1996 for SNEAKERS to finally be reissued, in an expanded edition featuring 10 contemporaneous live recordings from original lead singer Roy Loney's private stash. SNEAKERS is very much a document of its time--there's a psychedelic vibe to songs like "Prelude in A Flat to the Afternoon of a Pud" that's missing from their later, poppier work--but all thelements that made the Groovies special are already here. The remastering, liner notes, and extras are all up to Sundazed's usual excellent standards.

Something of an American underground institution, San Francisco's the Flamin' Groovies started out in the mid 1960s as a Stones-tinged throwback to the early days of rock & roll. Although the band had its fans, they were too out of step with the Summer of Love to break through to the mainstream. Though this era would produce one of their two signature songs, "Teenage Head." By the '70s, the band switched up their sound and recast themselves as power-pop songsters. It was during this period that the Flamin Groovies would release their other beloved classic, "Shake Some Action," one of the all-time great power-pop tunes.

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