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Performer: The Flamin' Groovies
Producer: Cyril Jordan
Distributor: Allegro Corporation (Dist

Notes: Recorded between 1984 and 1989. The Flamin' Groovies: Bobby Ronco (vocals); Cyril Jordan (keyboards); George Alexander (background vocals); Jack Johnson, Paul Zahl. Personnel: Cyril Jordan (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, background vocals); Jack Johnson (vocals, guitar, background vocals); George Alexander (vocals, bass guitar); Bob Ronco (vocals, background vocals); Paul Zahl, John Mader (drums). Additional personnel: John Mader. Liner Note Author: Peter Noble. Recording information: Alpha & Omega Recording Studio, San Francisco, CA; Studio D, Sausalito, CA. Yet another one of the many Flamin' Groovies archival live sets issued in the '80s and '90s, a time when the group were touring occasionally but making very few studio records, 1997's STEP UP is frankly not much different from some of its companions. Recorded on various Australian and European tours in the mid-to-late '80s, these 13 songs are heavy on the covers, both expected (The Coasters' "Searchin'") and not (David Bowie's "1984"). Guitarist Cyril Jordan's originals are uniformly excellent, and the performances have the ragged-but-right spirit that is the Groovies' stock in trade. Maybe the best bar band of all time, the Flamin' Groovies are really something special.

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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