William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: Vampires, Cowboys, Spacemen & Spooks - The Very Best of Joe Meek's Instrumentals ; Year: 2007 (1963); Genre: Rock/Surf Rock With tomorrow being Halloween and all I thought I'd choose another song in the spirit of the holiday. I absolutely love the mix of Moog synthesizer with surf rock in this one, it adds a great spooky atmosphere. Hear Return of the Vampire (The Bogey Man) on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - Confusion My song pick 2 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Lap of Luxury My song pick 3 years ago today: Victor Wooten - You Can't Hold No Groove If Ya Ain't Got No Pocket My song pick 4 year ago today: The Spooks - The Spook Walks My song pick 5 years ago today: Midnight Oil - Drums of Heaven My song pick 6 years ago today: Irving Berlin - Alexander's Ragtime Band   My song pick 7 years ago today: Queensrÿche - Della Brown My song pick 8 years ago today: Van Halen - Unchained My song pi...

From: Vampires, Cowboys, Spacemen, and Spooks: The Very Best of Joe Meek's Instrumentals ; Year: 2007 (sometime in the 1960s originally); Genre: Surf Rock The other day I had a bunch of '60s surf rock on my mind and I really wanted to add one to my song a day blog. This is rather fun and catchy instrumental track with a lot of great musicianship throughout; a very underrated band, the Moontrekkers. Hear Dance Legless, Russian on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Larry Graham and Graham Central Station - Groove On My song pick two years ago today: Primus - Tommy the Cat My song pick three years ago today: Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer My song pick four years ago today: Fleetwood Mac - Dragonfly My song pick five years ago today: Queen - Good Company My song pick six years ago today: Wolfsheim - Über's Jahr My song pick seven years ago today: Alice in Chains - Man In The Box My song pick eight years ago today: INXS - Disappear

1143 The Moontrekkers - Night of the Vampire Trying to get a seasonal mood going with this neat instrumental from the early '60s that could be described as spooky surfer music. This one of the tracks produced by the legendary producer and original Space Rocker Joe Meek. A while ago I watched a documentary on Joe Meek; it was interesting seeing all the weird contraptions he made to get the sounds he wanted on different artists' records. One of my favourites was the "bass drum" that was nothing more than a microphone wrapped in tape and a blanket pounded on the bathroom floor or his use of his toilet flushing to emulate the sound of a rocket launch on his hit Telstar . From what I understand musicians and producers spend countless hours and dollars trying to re-create the sound of the "bass drum" he made. Hear Night of the Vampire on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Maddy Prior - Cold Flame My song pick two years ago today: Savatage - Foll...