(originally posted 11/17/09)
Sure, they wore matching suits and had great mod haircuts and, as this single (their third and last) shows they could rave with the best of them, the Liverpool Set were in fact...Canadian! To top it all off, the record was cut in Nashville.
In fairness, their drummer was a British emigre, and other members hailed from Latvia and Scotland. This 6 piece band also had THREE guitarists up front, years before southern rock.
The tightest connection to Liverpool, however, was that 14 years after this record was cut Liverpool Set bassist, Jack Douglas, produced Liverpudlian John Lennon's final LP, "Double Fantasy".
from 1966...
THE LIVERPOOL SET - SEVENTEEN TEARS TO THE END
3 comments:
Do you also have the two other singles of this amazing band ??
I'm from Canada and old enough to remember 1966 (great time to be a teenager, BTW) - and I don't remember this group at all. Love their sound.
Here's a "period" video: part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNZ6py3ovFM
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZSaS8wVtZ4
Love the photo montage in the first part, with the boys in the band cavorting around what looks to me like the Toronto Islands. Kind of a (very) low-budget "Help" or "Monkees" vibe. Some pretty competent Rolling Stone, Beatles and Kinks covers, too - how great is that?
Thanks for this, Derek!
33, very cool! fallruckzieher- I don't have the others.
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