It turned out to be one of the defining albums of the 60s psychedelic pop experience
Ric Menck is a drummer, singer, and songwriter who lives in Los Angeles. He has been in bands since 1979, including the Drats, the Reverbs, Pop the Balloon, Bag of Shells, the Springfields, Velvet Crush and the Tyde. As a drummer, he has played on records by (and toured with) Matthew Sweet, Liz Phair, Aimee Mann, Willie Nelson, and Marianne Faithfull. He also runs a small record label dedicated to reissuing lost classics from the 60s and 70s, and he recently released a retrospective solo album The Ballad of Ric Menck, which PopMatters described as 'one of the best albums of 2004'.
In this volume of Continuum's 33 1/3 series, Ric (call him
Lightening) Menck rhapsodizes quite eloquently about what makes the
album so special, while looking under the hood, as it were, to
examine how each of the tracks came to be in the studio and putting
the album in the historical and psychological context of the
band.
*Ugly Things, Issue 25*
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