I went to the fortune teller....
Jul. 28th, 2006 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredxmertzthere are at least 4 versions of this song, the stones, the who, the original by "Benny Spellman" and THE THROB!
THE THROB
By Ian D Marks
Pic 1: The Throb tear it up in 1966
The Throb are mostly famous for their better-than-the-Stones cover version of Fortune Teller, but to my ears the band’s finest recorded moment came six months later, when they transformed the bittersweet traditional folk song Black into a violent feedback-laden Gothic masterpiece. Unfortunately Black was not a substantial hit and the band soon disintegrated. Nonetheless, the Throb still had one of the best band names ever, and even better... they looked exactly liked they sounded!
In April, Geoff Doyle and the Resonettes released a second single entitled Broken Toy; but as with their first effort it failed to sell so the band were dropped by Linda Lee. Unperturbed, Geoff Doyle and the Resonettes continued to play the Sydney stomp hall circuit and within no time they scored a record deal with Polydor. However the record company decided that the band’s name was a little passé.
“...we got a record contract through Philips records and they thought that the Resonettes was a silly name, so they ended up making us change...to the No-Names, which we thought was much sillier.”
Peter Figures, Born Loser #3, 1991.
The Throb, 1966
The new line-up of the No-Names played at Suzie Wong’s Café, the Beatle Village and at various University shows. It was during one of these gigs that an anonymous punter made an aside that would change matters considerably...
“One night someone said — and they were really trying to put us down — that our sound was just a big throb. We thought that sounded great! We’d been looking for a new name, and there it was… I got a lot of my inspiration from Eric Burdon & the Animals. They were my favourite band at the time. I always liked that raunchy sort of stuff. I was into what the Missing Links were — really raging, jumping around. Getting the crowd right into it.”
THE THROB
By Ian D Marks
Pic 1: The Throb tear it up in 1966
The Throb are mostly famous for their better-than-the-Stones cover version of Fortune Teller, but to my ears the band’s finest recorded moment came six months later, when they transformed the bittersweet traditional folk song Black into a violent feedback-laden Gothic masterpiece. Unfortunately Black was not a substantial hit and the band soon disintegrated. Nonetheless, the Throb still had one of the best band names ever, and even better... they looked exactly liked they sounded!
In April, Geoff Doyle and the Resonettes released a second single entitled Broken Toy; but as with their first effort it failed to sell so the band were dropped by Linda Lee. Unperturbed, Geoff Doyle and the Resonettes continued to play the Sydney stomp hall circuit and within no time they scored a record deal with Polydor. However the record company decided that the band’s name was a little passé.
“...we got a record contract through Philips records and they thought that the Resonettes was a silly name, so they ended up making us change...to the No-Names, which we thought was much sillier.”
Peter Figures, Born Loser #3, 1991.
The Throb, 1966
The new line-up of the No-Names played at Suzie Wong’s Café, the Beatle Village and at various University shows. It was during one of these gigs that an anonymous punter made an aside that would change matters considerably...
“One night someone said — and they were really trying to put us down — that our sound was just a big throb. We thought that sounded great! We’d been looking for a new name, and there it was… I got a lot of my inspiration from Eric Burdon & the Animals. They were my favourite band at the time. I always liked that raunchy sort of stuff. I was into what the Missing Links were — really raging, jumping around. Getting the crowd right into it.”
