The Litter (Medina Ballroom)
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King Boreas
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Thursday, October 16, 2003
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Minnesota, United States
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From: Denny Waite
Date: April 12, 2005 7:52:59 AM CDT
To: Doug Hassman
Subject: Re: question from a friend, etc.
Hi Doug,
No problem, as long as the huge fans treat our music with the awe and reverance that old farts who can still play deserve! In fact, you can give anybody, anywhere copies. It's more than I ever thought, that we'd be playing at all anymore (Litter-wise) and sounding halfway decent,(if you don't mind my saying so). Of course you and Kenny deserve much of the credit. You two sound great and boost the energy so much. ! ~< snip >~
Thanks again for making the cd's and letting me fix the vocals.
Denny
The Litter |
One of Minneapolis' most popular '60s bands, The Litter are best known for their classic 1967 garage rock single "Action Woman." With its demonic fuzz/feedback guitar riffs and cocky, snarling lead vocal, it was an archetype of the tough '60s garage rock favored by fans of the Pebbles reissue series. In fact, the single, which got some airplay in Minnesota in early 1967 and then was largely forgotten, didn't reach an international audience until it became cut one, Side One on Volume One of Pebbles in the late '70s. It now has a place of honor on the Nuggets box set. The Litter were a little more successful and long-lived than the average regional garage band, recording a few albums, the last one for a major label, and evolving into a more progressive hard rock outfit around the end of the '60s.
The Litter was formed by members of two Minneapolis area mid-'60s groups, the Victors and the Tabs. (A few songs recorded by the Victors in late 1965 can be heard on the compilation The Scotty Story.) Heavily influenced by the fiercest British Invasion bands, such as the Yardbirds and the Who, they recorded their debut single, "Action Woman"/"A Legal Matter," with local producer Warren Kendrick in late 1966. Bill Strandlof, who had played the searing guitar lead on "Action Woman," was replaced by Tom "Zippy" Caplan in the spring of 1967, just before they recorded most of the tracks that comprised their debut album. Leaning heavily on covers of songs by British bands like the Yardbirds, the Who, and Small Faces, Distortions was nevertheless a prime example of sixties garage rock at its most powerful. With the garage rock revival this local release became a coveted collector's item, and has since been reissued several times.
Like many bands in the late '60s, the Litter subsequently went into a more psychedelic/hard rock direction. Their second album, $100 Fine, put more weight on original material. Around this time the Litter appear in a 1968 Chicago psychedelic nightclub scene in political filmmaker Haskell Wexler's classic movie Medium Cool, but only super-briefly; although they're shown playing onstage, the soundtrack includes none of their music, with the Mothers of Invention's "Flower Punk" overdubbed onto the scene. By the time they did get onto a major label for the 1969 album Emerge (on ABC), Caplan and original lead singer Denny Waite had been replaced, and their hard rock sound had become less distinguished. The Litter have reunited and continue to play and record. The most recent show was at the Medina Ballroom in March. |
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