Post by zaval80 on May 25, 2024 12:42:16 GMT
A 10" acetate with "Harmony Records" on label, from 1965.
1. Ego King
2. Praying Mantis Mother
3. Indiscribably [sic] Down On The Way Up
4. Big Time Generals
David Kent - piano
Dave Stewart - bass
Robby Krieger - guitar
Bill Wolff - guitar, harmonica
Jim Shankheim - drums
Above is the description from Rainer Moddemann's "The Doors" German book from 1991, which AFAIK is the only source for this information. (Probably in his TDQ fanzine, I haven't checked.) It looks like the info above was on the acetate label and there was no name of the group, because in Rainer's book it said "probably by The Back Bay Chamberpot Terriers". But that jug band, Robby's first one, had a different line-up per Robby's book.
So it's not by Terriers, it's by The Clouds, the band around David Kent, the actor from "Leave It To Beaver" TV series, etc. In his book, Robby says he was a pretty decent songwriter. Looks like it was a vehicle for this "singer-guitarist", but I was not able to find anything on his musical career. Nor on Dave Stewart or Jim Shankheim.
The acetate was recorded at Gold Star, Robby says. The only bit Robby remembers is something like this:
Oh you praying mantis mother
With your wings of silver silk
Trying to feed your babies
But you used up all your milk
Robby says John invited Bill Wolff and him to audition for The Doors, and then "The Clouds slowly dissipated as they always do" (they did not play concerts). So it looks like this is Robby's last band before The Doors. It's interesting that the intermediate band with Robby and Wolff and Densmore, The Psychedelic Rangers, recorded a tape with their "Paranoia" song in the first week of October 1965, but who knows when The Clouds acetate was recorded.
Robby says it took him less time to decide to be exclusively in The Doors than his friend John Densmore, who drummed also for one other band at least, some time into 1966 it seems.
1. Ego King
2. Praying Mantis Mother
3. Indiscribably [sic] Down On The Way Up
4. Big Time Generals
David Kent - piano
Dave Stewart - bass
Robby Krieger - guitar
Bill Wolff - guitar, harmonica
Jim Shankheim - drums
Above is the description from Rainer Moddemann's "The Doors" German book from 1991, which AFAIK is the only source for this information. (Probably in his TDQ fanzine, I haven't checked.) It looks like the info above was on the acetate label and there was no name of the group, because in Rainer's book it said "probably by The Back Bay Chamberpot Terriers". But that jug band, Robby's first one, had a different line-up per Robby's book.
So it's not by Terriers, it's by The Clouds, the band around David Kent, the actor from "Leave It To Beaver" TV series, etc. In his book, Robby says he was a pretty decent songwriter. Looks like it was a vehicle for this "singer-guitarist", but I was not able to find anything on his musical career. Nor on Dave Stewart or Jim Shankheim.
The acetate was recorded at Gold Star, Robby says. The only bit Robby remembers is something like this:
Oh you praying mantis mother
With your wings of silver silk
Trying to feed your babies
But you used up all your milk
Robby says John invited Bill Wolff and him to audition for The Doors, and then "The Clouds slowly dissipated as they always do" (they did not play concerts). So it looks like this is Robby's last band before The Doors. It's interesting that the intermediate band with Robby and Wolff and Densmore, The Psychedelic Rangers, recorded a tape with their "Paranoia" song in the first week of October 1965, but who knows when The Clouds acetate was recorded.
Robby says it took him less time to decide to be exclusively in The Doors than his friend John Densmore, who drummed also for one other band at least, some time into 1966 it seems.
