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Shake Some Action

By the mid-seventies, veteran San Francisco rockers the Flamin' Groovies had lost frontman Roy Loney, who piloted the group's ferocious, Stones-y LPs Flamingo (1970) and Teenage Head (1971). Seeking inspiration, leader-by-default Cyril Jordan trekked the band to the U.K. The result was the keen...

2008 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Shake Some Action

2008

The Best of the Flamin' Groovies: Oldies But Groovies

1997

Teenage Head

1971

Supersnazz

1968

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Biography

Some of the greatest riffs of the '60s garage-rock revolution were written in the '70s by San Francisco's Flamin' Groovies -- a disconnection that severely curtailed their popularity in their own time but only augmented their legend as the garage scene swelled into an obsessively historicized revival in the '80s and '90s. Their rediscovery led to literally dozens of reissues and bootlegs of live c...

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