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The Moving Sidewalks - The Complete Collection (2012)

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 27 Mar 2024 15:45:30

The way musicians come together and create is something that can never be completely explained. It takes a lot of good luck and, usually, a healthy dose of fate to bring together all the elements at the same time. And even when those things are present, there comes a point when spontaneous combustion needs to happen as well. That is exactly what occurred when the The Moving Sidewalks, short but no less extremely electrifying life came into being, joining together brilliant young guitarist Billy Gibbons, innovative drummer Dan Mitchell, keyboardist extraordinaire Tom Moore and Don Summers with his thumping backbeat bass. This 26 track set features the compete recordings of both Billy Gibbons bands, the Houston Texas-based, Moving Sidewalks and The Coachmen with 5 tracks. Includes the 10-track 1968 album, "Flash" along singles, demos and alternate takes. A must have for '60s psychedelic garage rock fans.

The short-lived Houston, Texas late-'60s psych band Moving Sidewalks are generally best known as one of the first bands of Billy Gibbons, who went on to fame in biker-blues arena rockers ZZ Top. In their day, Moving Sidewalks recorded their sole LP, Flash, as well as a few singles of psychedelic blues-rock, before evaporating into garage rock history and seeing Gibbons off to radically different prospects. The Complete Moving Sidewalks collects all known studio work by the band as well as demos and unreleased tracks from the Coachmen, the Gibbons-fronted predecessor that came just before Moving Sidewalks. As an album, Flash is very much a product of its time. Gibbons' vocals, guitar playing, and songwriting are all under a heavy Hendrix influence, borrowing the stoned blues side of Jimi's nonchalant playing and electric hippie persona. This is punctuated further by audio snippets of Hendrix giving a shout-out to the band for opening for him, included as an unlisted track at the close of the collection. The parts of Flash that aren't steeped in Hendrix-isms are dated by goofy early psychedelic production, complete with backwards whispering, unwieldy stereo panning, and the obligatory "Revolution 9"-style sound collage in the form of two album-closing tracks, "Eclipse" and "Reclipse." That's not to say it's without merit. "Flashback" crackles with off-kilter energy and blown-out, hurried recording benefits the garage-fuzz of "Crimson Witch" as well as other standout tracks. The real gold on this collection comes with the non-album tracks and unreleased demos of its second volume. Kicking off with Nuggets-style garage classic "99th Floor," there's a more inexperienced energy with the singles than the sometimes self-indulgent wandering of the album. Organ psych-rocker "Need Me" is a ferocious romp somewhere between the Troggs and the 13th Floor Elevators, while different versions of "Every Night a New Surprise" and the band's incredibly trippy take on the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" reveal radically different sides of the band. The Coachmen tracks only run through several different recordings of both "Stay Away" and "99th Floor," offering the rawest and most caveman sonics on the entire set. Working backward from the half-baked psychedelia of the album to the singles and then the rudimentary 1966 demos, this collection shows a young Gibbons as an excitable player in rapidly changing times more than it offers any hints at the future that awaited him. The late-'60s Texas psych scene was a vibrant and largely underground collection of players, and Gibbons' work with Moving Sidewalks had more to do with the multicolored exploration of that place and time than the Top 40 blues-rock that he went on to make. As such, this collection will be essential for garage enthusiasts, but not so much for most ZZ Top fans.

~ Fred Thomas, All Music

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Track List CD1:

01. Flashback [4:50]
02. Scoun Da Be [2:09]
03. You Make Me Shake [3:05]
04. You Don't Know The Life [3:58]
05. Pluto - Sept. 31st [5:12]
06. No Good To Cry [4:39]
07. Crimson Witch [3:06]
08. Joe Blues [7:39]
09. Eclipse [3:37]
10. Reclipse [2:29]

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Track List CD2:

01. 99th Floor (Single) [2:16]
02. What Are You Going To Do (Unreleased alternate version) [2:50]
03. What Are You Going To Do (Single version) [2:32]
04. Headin' Out (Unreleased instrumental) [4:03]
05. Need Me (Single) [2:15]
06. Every Night A New Surprise (Unreleased version) [2:31]
07. Every Night A New Surprise (Unreleased version #2) [2:57]
08. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Unreleased alternate version) [3:11]
09. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Unreleased alternate take) [3:29]
10. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Single version) [3:28]
11. Flashback (Unreleased version) [4:48]
12. Stay Away (Unreleased) [2:10]
13. Stay Away (Unreleased instrumental version) [2:28]
14. 99th Floor (Unreleased demo) [2:12]
15. Stay Away (Unreleased demo) [2:16]
16. 99th Floor (Unreleased) / Jimi Hendrix Refers To 'The Sidewalks' (Hidden track) [3:06]

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