12.03.2008

The Zipps: Live & extremely rare... (Dutch live recordings-compilation)

Recommended for garage diggers. The quality `s not the best, but still great rare stuff here for collectors.

" Beginning with 1967's "Marie Juana" -- a record which required significant lyrical revisions before Relax censors would agree to its release -- the Zipps steered their garage-influenced sound towards psychedelia, and thanks in part to their hallucinatory light show, they earned the sobriquet "The Dutch Pink Floyd"; Elzerman openly espoused drug use in interviews, and stickers reading "Be Stoned! Dig: Zipps Psychedelic Sound" were distributed at live dates.



LINK: MARIEJuuANA
or
LINK: DUTCH MILK !

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Biography by Jason Ankeny

Dutch freakbeat band the Zipps formed in Dordrecht, the Netherlands in the fall of 1965. Lead guitarist Peter Nuyten and drummer John Noce Santoro previously teamed in the Moving Strings, who issued a pair of singles on the Delta label before dissolving, while singer/guitarist Philip Elzerman and vocalist Jan Bek came to the Zipps lineup from the Beat Town Skifflers, and bassist Theo Verschoor tenured in the Twilights. Bek quit the Zipps prior to the release of their debut single, "Roll the Cotton Down," issued in early 1966 on the Op-Art label; after signing to the Relax label, the group issued two more singles that year, "Chicks and Kicks" and "Beat and Poetry." Beginning with 1967's "Marie Juana" -- a record which required significant lyrical revisions before Relax censors would agree to its release -- the Zipps steered their garage-influenced sound towards psychedelia, and thanks in part to their hallucinatory light show, they earned the sobriquet "The Dutch Pink Floyd"; Elzerman openly espoused drug use in interviews, and stickers reading "Be Stoned! Dig: Zipps Psychedelic Sound" were distributed at live dates. After backing French pop singer Philippe Salerne on his singles "Elle" and "Venez Voir Comme On S'Aime," the group replaced Santoro with drummer Wim Klein, but after a December 1967 date in support of the Electric Prunes and the Soft Machine, the Zipps dissolved when Nuyten, Verschoor, and Klein all announced their exit. Elzerman and Santoro reformed the group in early 1968, adding guitarist Dick Visschers and bassist Ruud van Seventer for one final single, 1969's "When You Tell It, Tell It Well..!" The Zipps eventually disbanded for good, and in 1999, the Dutch label Pseudonym compiled all of their singles, the Philippe Salerne sessions, and a handful of live cuts for a retrospective titled Be Stoned! Dig: Zipps. In December 2001, a Zipps lineup consisting of Elzerman, Nuyten, Santoro, van Seventer, and former Heatwave keyboardist Janco Barut reunited for a hometown performance in Dordrecht; the following year, "Chicks and Kicks" was included on the second Nuggets box set.

Roadrunner said...

Hola Pablo,todavia no subiste el disco y ya te piden el password jajaja,che esto no lo conozco,veremos que tal y luego te cuento ,un abrazo

aldo said...

Hola Pablo,

muchas gracias por estas grabaciones de unos de los grupos más locos de Holanda!
Grande ZIPPS!
Me parece de haber escuchado algunos de estos temas que no estaban en BE STONED- DIG THE ZIPPS...(a parte Lotus love que me parece ser la misma del single...)
había un video en youtube de KICKS & CHICKS en vivo...lo viste?

Roadrunner: noté hace tiempo que tu blog llegó a ser un "asunto privado"¨...why?
curiosidad no más...

Anonymous said...

Please list password separately. I do not understand what it is in the paragraph it is mentioned. Thank you much. Tom

The Bomber said...

Passw: mza-garage.blogspot.com

(sory guys! uuoops!)

Roadrunner said...
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Robert Charbonnier said...

Very good bunch of songs. And thank for the lengthy story.

Perfect post !

Anonymous said...

hee hoo from Dordrecht!Zipps still alive and kicking!! In 2009 a brandnew Zipp song recorded in spring 1968 called THE SINGER WAS STONED is released. Ofcourse this song is about drugs and psychedelica, a real blow-out!
check also:

www.snow-flake.nl for more psychedelic sounds!!

Anonymous said...

Thanx!
Hallo

alienlover said...

hi there! million thanks for your in cre di ble uploads!

the files to this post have been deleted. could you please do something?

The Bomber said...

CHECK THE 2ND LINK alienlover
the links are working just fine.
here u have

http://www.megaupload.com/es/?d=S4B9U9SX

*passw: mza-garage.blogspot.com

Mateus Paul said...

Incrível!
Temas com sonoridade bem precária, o que para mim favorece o clima psicodélico!
"Mad Man's Diary" com seus quase 11 minutos é envolvente!
Gostei do timbre embolado da guitarra, como já disse, para mim, favorece bem o clima de loucura!

Anonymous said...

Thank you SO MUCH. I have literally been looking for an mp3 version of that uncensored version of Marie-Juana for YEARS, and this is the very first one I've found. Thanks a lot! :)

The Bomber said...

thanks for your kind comments...

Anonymous said...

new Zipps vinyl album EVER STONED coming up!! with some great alternates of Marie-Juana and Benzedrine Bassplayer!!!