Legendary early garage rock outfit from Abilene Texas, The Continentals were all balls in an era of doo wop harmony bubble gum crap. I don't know the exact year on this one but its pretty early in the scheme of loud banging 60s proto punk rocknroll. I bought this at half price books knowing I had heard the name before but thinking it was probably another bad doowop record, but when I put the needle down it assaulted me, then I discovered it sells for about 400 in nice condition, mine is a little beat but the grooves are deep and the scratches are very light, so it sounds really fantastic. The line between fuzzed out garage rock and gene vincent rockabilly and doo wop harmony is so wonderfully blurred here it symbolizes the key transition in the formative years of rock music. I'm sure this has been comped but I'm not sure if its easy to find in the blog world so without further adieu, The Continentals - I'm Gone ( Gaylo Records)
IM GONE
BLUE VELVET
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Dan Wallace and Bob Lawless, guitarists for the Continentals, are good friends of mine, and I have played music with both of them for years. The Continentals reunited last August for the Garage Band Woodstock music exposition held in Abilene, Texas. I filled in on drums for them. Twins Tom and David McCall were also members of the band. Can you upload that single on YouTube? Thanks...
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Tom McCall is my father, David ~ my uncle. I would love if there was a way for you to put Blue Velvet on YouTube!!!
seems as though the div shares links are faulty...cant listen and the downloads dont play...please re-upload! as Dan Wallace has recently passed and I would like to share!
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