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鶹ýӳWas Awesome: Live! From the GrooveYard, 1966

A 鶹ýӳtime travelogue brought to you by Past Tense . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpimauRoO68 鶹ýӳhad a happening R&B music scene in the pre-psychedelic 1960s.

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鶹ýӳhad a happening R&B music scene in the pre-psychedelic 1960s. Bands like and managed to chart across the country, but many others were big draws locally. Numerous live music venues popped up to fill the seemingly insatiable demand of the local youth culture, and Live! From the GrooveYard is a classic recording capturing that period. Despite its name, the music on the double album was actually recorded at a West Broadway studio and the “live” sound was a looped recording from a West 4th hippie club called Afterthought. A 1981 points out that the musical rivalry between soul/R&B and the Stones/Beatles rock sound comes across on this record.

Live! From the GrooveYard was produced to promote the teen dance club at 759 Carnarvon in New Westminster. A 鶹ýӳGrooveYard operated briefly on Davie Street in the old Embassy Ballroom, which later became Retinal Circus, Dante’s Inferno, and currently Celebrities nightclub. operated a bottle club in the basement called the Elegant Parlour. One night in 1965, The Supremes visited the club and were sufficiently impressed with Chong’s band, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, that they helped get them a record deal on Motown. Bobby Taylor later did the same for the Jackson 5.

Live! From the GrooveYard became a but was released on CD by in 2004.