Rare Dallas Garage 45-EP THE RAIN KINGS Private Label *LISTEN*
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Rare Dallas Garage 45-EP THE RAIN KINGS Private Label *LISTEN*
ONE OF ONLY 100 PRESSED!
LISTEN: http://www.astimegoesby.com/audio/rain1.mp3
LISTEN: http://www.astimegoesby.com/audio/rain2.mp3
LISTEN: http://www.astimegoesby.com/audio/rain3.mp3
LISTEN: http://www.astimegoesby.com/audio/rain4.mp3
TITLE: LEWIS, LEWIS / EVERYBODY OUT OF THE POOL /LYDIA / I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO
LABEL: PRIVATE?
CONDITION: POOR...PLEASE LISTEN TO SAMPLES
HISTORY FROM GARAGE HANGOVER
If you go to see live music often, from time to time you will come across a kind of act that knows they're bad, that emphasizes their deficiencies and makes their ineptness the center of the show.
The Rain Kings from Dallas were such a band. Luckily for us they lived in a time when rock music was by its very nature amateur and obnoxious. Despite their best efforts to muck it up, they still managed to create listenable music, at least, listenable to my ears.
Rain Kings member Richard Parker gives all the details you could wish for, and more:
Richard Parker: Rebels Without Applause - The Rain Kings Story
The Rain Kings – a name that will live in anonymity. In 1964 our Dallas band began as The Imposters, a name that truly fit us, for our musical abilities were – at best – crude. We didn’t actually perform in person until 1965, after the name change to The Rain Kings, a name taken from a Saul Bellow novel – Henderson The Rain King.
We attended the same high school – Bryan Adams High – as Kenny and The Kasuals, Jimmy C and the Chelsea Five, members of The Chaparrals, Five of a Kind and many other pretty good bands that never recorded.
We simply weren’t as good as these bands so we made up for it by being stupid. Our stage acts were notoriously stupid, our original songs were downright dumb and yet our ability to draw a crowd was very good. We played at the standard affairs – high school dances, local teen clubs, private parties and so on. We actually hold the all-time attendance record at the famous Studio Club in Dallas outdrawing such bands as Kenny and the Kasuals, The Briks, The Chessmen and even The Yardbirds! (It’s true although I can offer no logical explanation.)
In 1965 after recording some truly dreadful demos in my living room, we headed for the well-known Sellers Studio downtown where everyone from Gene Vincent to Kenny and the Kasuals had recorded. We booked one hour, recorded four songs and ultimately released them on an extended-play 45. The results were pretty bad, but since our reputation was one of stupidity-with-a-beat, it didn’t matter. 100 copies were pressed and we sold them all.
In 1968 after another name change (to The Gretta Spoone Band) we released another 45 this time on the Pompeii label (internationally on the London label.) The record went nowhere fast and our band days ended. The record shows up regularly on Ebay, although it seems no one wants to buy it. I can’t blame them – I’ve heard it.
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