IMPOSSIBLY RARE 1966 ORIG THE STARLINERS "NORTHERN A-GO-GO" GARAGE Justice
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INSANELY RARE ORIGINAL 1966 RELEASE!
.. T h e S T A R L I N E R S ...Northern A-Go-Go
USA - LEJACK (PRIVATE PRESS)
CLEAN!
One of the RAREST Garage albums in existence !
Original 1966 Stillwater, Minnesota, garage-rock band recorded their only LP as a guitar trio on the private LeJac label, titled "Northern a Go Go", and is considered to be one of the rarest of all garage rock LPs. The album features an array of excellent tunes, with their super original, "Broken Engagement," thrown in! Because of a pressing plant error in 1966 - there were only 278 copies pressed! Good luck finding -or seeing- another copy! Current book value is $1000.00+, Acid Archives says their version of "Satisfaction" is better then the Rolling Stones version.
Keith Zeller – guitar, vocals
Jack Kollodge – bass, harmonica, vocals
John Rasnur – drums
The Starliners played most all of the local teen clubs in the ’62-’65 years. To name a few, Mr. Lucky’s, The Prom Ballroom, The Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Ballroom, YES Club in White Bear Lake (a teen club) and various armories.
Starliners guitarist Keith recalls playing at a Battle of the Bands at Aldrich Arena in St. Paul with legendary garage bands The Underbeats, The More-Tishans, and The Sting Rays.
July 11, 1966: The band plays their first job at Papa Joe’s Northern a Go-Go in North Minneapolis (323 West Broadway). The club features Go-Go Girls (billed as “Go-Go Dolls”) dancing on stage next to the band. The job is for seven nights.
August 5, 1965: The band returns to Papa Joe’s in Minneapolis for what will be a 22 week run at the club that will keep the band booked through the end of the year.
November, 1966: Starliners bassist Jack comes up with an idea to record the band live at Papa Joe’s and talks to local studio owner Ron Gjerde about production costs and pressing up an album of the band playing live. Jack also talks to Papa Joe Daszkiewicz, the club owner and gets the okay to do the recording. Papa Joe likes the idea and offers to loan Jack one half of the production costs. Jack purchases a new Sony tape recorder and has half track heads installed. For the recording, Jack uses a tap off of the PA mixer for one channel and uses a remote Altec studio microphone for the second channel. The two tracks are mixed at Agar Recording Studio. Jack records the band playing live during a week at Papa Joe’s. Over thirty songs are recorded and then ten are selected to be on the album. Among the ten songs are “Broken Engagement” written by Keith Zeller. Jack plans to press up 500 albums and sell them at three dollars a copy which would pay back his production costs. Rather than using the local Kay Bank plant for the pressings, Jack decides to have the pressings done at RCA’s custom record plant in Chicago thinking he might get a better product.
January 2, 1967: The band continues at Papa Joe’s. For the song “Little Red Riding Hood” (Sam the Sham and The Pharoahs), the band comes up with a stage show. As Keith sings the song, Jack (wearing plastic “vampire teeth”) takes on the role of the wolf in the song and chases one of the Go Go dancers around the stage.
February 8, 1967: The band has promo photos taken by a Twin Cities photographer, Alan Forrest. Alan Forrest had just received a contract to do several covers for the national publication, Musical Merchandise Review and decides to use a wide angle picture he had shot of the Starliners for his first cover. The Starliners take up the entire front cover for the March, 1967 issue, however, nowhere in the magazine is the name of the band mentioned and nowhere is the name of the photographer mentioned.
March 6, 1967: LeJac Records receives a shipment of 124 of the albums, called “Live at Papa Joe’s Northern a Go-Go.” The album is already two and a half months late and Ron Gjerde and Jack have to contact the pressing plant many times to see what is going on with the pressing. RCA assures them over and over again that all of the 500 albums will be shipped out in a timely manner. However, in one phone call, RCA admits they have misplaced half of the album jackets. After two more shipments from RCA, Jack receives a total of 278 albums. The balance of the order is never fulfilled by RCA. This causes problems as Jack’s production costs come to $1,018.86 which includes the loan already paid back to Papa Joe at 20 percent interest.
Flash forward 50 years...the band’s live album recorded at Papa Joe’s in Minneapolis has become a highly sought after album by record collectors.... one of the rarest garage albums in existence!
Midnight Hour
- Satisfaction My Girl I'm a Man Bo Diddley This Boy I Got You I've Got My Mojo Working Caravan Broken Engagement
CONDITION: The cover: rated: near M- a beauty when talking about a 50 year old teen-scene WHITE album! No dirt or soil or stains as might be expected... rather has a CLEAN fresh appearance -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... VERY collection worthy ...
The vinyl: Rated: visually: near "EX" (excellent) loads of shine, virtually clean grooves with only light top surface paper-type soft scuffs in a few places that are NOT affected by the clean (M-) audio throughout both sides. Both private press Lejack labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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