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Militaria and “Fuck Me Jesus” 35th anniversary artefacts to debut at Beyond the Gates Festival in Norway Available to order now exclusively via Down With The Most High Productions Black metal titans Marduk will release two premium collections in collaboration with record label and creative house Down With The Most High Productions. Moving completely away from conventional band […]

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What’s better than one day at a festival when you can’t do them all? The answer from the team at the Airlie Beach Festival of Music is to come for two out of the three days from November 6-8. Festival founder Gavin Butlin says offering a limited number of two-day passes for $250 is the […]

Conflux Collective has unleashed a blistering new drum playthrough for their track “Reincarnation,” premiering now on Sick Drummer Magazine’s YouTube channel. Performed by drummer Tommy McKinnon, the video showcases the track’s intricate rhythmic architecture, explosive transitions, and the uncompromising technicality that defines the band’s sound. “Reincarnation” stands as one of the album’s core compositions, an embodiment of rebirth, resilience, and the project’s […]

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Equal Vision Records/Civilians and Quicksand are excited to announce the release of Bring On The Psychics, the first studio album in five years from the iconic post-hardcore band. Marking an entirely new era for the storied three-piece – guitarist/vocalist Walter Schreifels, bassist/vocalist Sergio Vega and drummer Alan Cage – Bring On The Psychics serves as […]

Ohio-based instrumental post-rock outfit If These Trees Could Talk return with their fourth studio album, The Hidden Hand. Formed in Akron in 2005, the band has built a reputation for crafting thoughtful instrumental records that, in a broad sense, will appeal to fans of bands like Long Distance Calling. The new album features nine tracks and once again… Continue Reading →

Sydney punk rockers Dear Seattle recently shared news of their extensive regional Australian headline tour with special guests Seahaven (US). Today, the band reveal the addition of Lucky, Bad Neighbour and Late 90s, who will join the tour as alternating supports across select dates. Tickets are on sale now via Destroy All Lines. Kicking off […]

This group of Misfits came out of Dallas and North Texas State University in nearby Denton. They cut a fine original folk-rock song, “No One Else” backed with a good version of “Route 66” on Repent 520 in August, 1966.

This was not the same Misfits who became the Lost and Found. The Misfits who became Lost & Found were from Houston, and, according to an old interview with Jim Frost, never played in Dallas, and never recorded as the Misfits.

This news clipping shows all the members’ names are different than any in the Lost & Found.

The Dallas News ran a photo of Joe Daughtery, the writer of “No One Else” performing with the Misfits and a short article on the group:

If you drive around the shore of White Rock Lake on almost any Sunday afternoon, you’ll come to a brown-rock picnic building where a controlled riot seems to be getting out of control.

But ask any of the mob of teen-agers standing and jumping around and you’ll be assured it’s really just a Sunday concert in the park.

The picnic building has grown in the last few years into a kind of proving ground for the detonations of ambitious and un-shy teen-age combos.

Sunday a sign in front of the band said: “The Misfits. Open for engagements. Call FL2-4046.”

But when the Misfits began blasting something called “Dirty Water,” the sign disappeared in a flood of weaving and bobbing couples.

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“We get a lot of engagements this way,” said Joe Daugherty, the 21-year-old guitarists and singer who runs the Misfits. “A fellow from a fraternity just asked us to play a party.”

Daugherty and two other Misfits – drummer Rick Price, 22, and bass guitarist Mark McLane, 20 – are North Texas State University business students. Lead guitarist Jim Adkins, 23, works in a Dallas bank.

“We cut a record of a couple of my songs but nothing much happened,” said Daugherty.

Hundreds of kids sometimes mob the picnic building. Nobody seems to be in charge or worried about the noisy blowout. Policemen stop and watch a bit then move on …

Like any musician, Daugherty observed, “The acoustics are pretty bad in that building. Sometimes it gets kind of deafening.”

Joe Daugherty formed another group called the Bitter Ende, but I don’t have any info on the membership of that group.

Thank you to Patrick Daugherty for contacting me about his father’s band, and sending in the news clipping and photo of the Bitter Ende.

Following their unforgettable performance at Adelaide’s Beer & BBQ Festival, TSIM have added two new dates to their first national tour in over 30 years. With their recent Adelaide set dubbed “an unforgettable show“, the performance also enamoured long-time fans and first-timers alike, with The AU Review praising the set as having “so many crowd […]

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The Grapes of Wrath cut one 45, “For Every Year” / “Cause it Was Her”, both written by Ralph Sias.

The group came from San Pedro, California, in the South Bay of Los Angeles.

Members were:

Brian Magnan – lead vocals
Bill Lichty – drums
Ralph Sias – guitar
Danny Morrow – bass
William Doheny – keyboards

H. Eugene MacDonald produced their record, released on Vita Records V-005/V-006 with an address of 301 S. Western Ave, San Pedro, CA.

The San Pedro News-Pilot profiled the group twice, first on May 17, 1967 with an article written by the group’s bassist!

Grapes of Wrath band makes recording noise

By Danny Morrow

“This is it, boys. What’s it going to be next year.- trucks or Cadillacs?” With these words of encouragement from producer, Mr. Roth, and “unknown” teenage band called, hauntedly … “The Grapes of Wrath,” began its first recording session at American Recording Studios in Studio City.

The band is made up of five “crazy” individuals named Ralph Sias, Brian Magnan, Bill Lichty, William Doheney and myself, Danny Morrow.

Ralph writes the songs, plays lead guitar and gets nervous. Brian sings lead vocal and smiles at girls. Bill plays organ and wears leather boots. Williams plays drums and loves drums. I play bass and get in and out of trouble.

At the session, two songs written and arranged by Ralph, were taped in a stretch of nervous sweaty work that lasted five hours. The two songs, “For Every Year,” and “Cause It Was Here,” can presently be heard on the local rock station with a little patience and luck.

With the number of teenage bands easily numbering in the tens of hundreds in California alone, how did this group … manage to talk the Sunburst Record Company into backing a recording session?

First, a few months before the session a rough “demo” (45 RPM recording on a six-inch disk) was recorded at a small recording studio, and the manager, U.L. McDonald took the demo to different recording stations.

The vice-president of Sunburst, Mr. Roth [sic – Adam Ross], was impressed both with the band and the recording …

The next step is up to the “hippies” who buy the records.

The record did not come out on Sunburst, the label that released the E-Types “She Moves Me” and the Zoo’s LP The Zoo Presents Chocolate Moose, as well as a number of pop singles produced by Ed Cobb, but instead saw a release financed by the band under the auspices of H. Eugene MacDonald (the U.L McDonald cited in the article, presumably).

The second article came on September 4, 1967:

Folk-rock group wins popularity

By Rita Pedersen

A San Pedro rock ’n’ roll band has proved long hair and unconventional clothing are not necessary to become popular.

The band, the Grapes of Wrath, is a “short hair” outfit, and wears burgundy-cherry dinner jackets.

Despite their neat appearance, the group leaves Saturday for a week-long tour of Northern California.

The five-member band will appear on a Fresno television show and play in Redding, Red Bluff and North Sacramento Valley.

Members of the band are Ralph Sias, Bill Doheney, Danny Morrow, Brian Mangan and William Lichty, all of San Pedro. They are all San Pedro High School graduates, except for Lichty who will graduate next year.

The tour was arranged when a recording by the band, “Cause It Was Her,” became popular in the Redding area.

Doheney, an amateur radio operator, began talking to a Redding disc jockey Ian Evans, and he offered to play the group’s recording for a trial period.

Listener reaction was good, according to Doheney, and the band was signed for personal appearances.

The group was organized last summer when the youths were on the high school gymnastics team. Only Lichty was not on the team.

Doheney described their style as folk-rock and said Sias and Mangan write many of their songs, including “Cause It Was Her.”

There was a great profile of the band and interview with Bill Doheney, that didn’t include these news clippings, at www.westcoastfog.com/the-grapes-of-wrath/index.html, but unfortunately that site is now defunct. A version of that article was also in print in Ugly Things issue #39.

I see that Achille Brunet has just added a profile of the band at his site, Strange Lights, with more info than I have here. I’m sorry for the duplication, Achille, but glad to see someone else working the ’60s garage beat! It’s been quiet for a long time.