San Francisco pre-punk band The Flamin’ Groovies are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year with a new song ‘Crazy Macy’.
Cyril Jordan founded The Flamin’ Groovies in 1965. Punk was years from being “invented” so the band was attracted to the generic ‘Rock’ genre. The Flamin’ Groovies were also considered by the emerging term of the day ‘Power Pop’.
The band’s first album ‘Supersnazz’ was released in 1969. By the mid 70s, as the term ‘Punk’ started to populate in the language, The Flamin’ Groovies found themselves signed to Seymour Stein’s new home of “New Wave” Sire Records. The fourth album ‘Shake Some Action’, produced by Dave Edmunds, was released on Sire in 1976.
The Flamin’ Groovies split in 1992 but reformed in 2004, again in 2008 and then again as an on-going concern in 2013 after Australia’s The Hoodoo Gurus enticed Jordan out of retirement to guest on the band’s Australian Dig It Up tour in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
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