THE LOST DESERT TAPES: Merrell & Exiles, Velvetones, Fapardokly *Fankhauser*
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MERRELL FANKHAUSER PRESENTS
THE LOST DESERT TAPES
Morning Dew Records MDL 008
14 Songs from 1964-1966, unreleased and on the shelf for 50 years!
Including a reprint of an original handmade poster for a dance with MERRELL AND THE EXILES.
Brand new and just released on our own label!
180g LP, 500 copies made!
“I was surprised in October of 2013 when I got a call from Mac MacArthur the son of Glenn MacArthur who owned Glenn Records the label that recorded my group and many other high desert area groups in the late fifties and 60’s! Mac said he had found several boxes of my master tapes when they were cleaning out the 50 year old archives and would I want the tapes? We made the 200 mile trip from the California central coast to the high desert area of Antelope Valley, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing in the boxes on the floor at the MacArthur’s house! Glenn had died in 1999 and stored all of his tapes and records from over fifty years of recording in a freezer truck and parked it on his property way out in the desert near the little town of Rosamond.
I was amazed when I started playing the tapes and found unreleased songs from 1964 to 1966 that I had written and recorded and totally forgotten about! It featured future members of Captain Beefheart’s band, HMS Bounty and MU. There was also eight songs by a southern California instrumental Surf band called “The Velvetones” that never achieved much acclaim and only had a rare single released on Glenn Records around 1965, tracks 6. and 7. are very good vocals by the group. The last take is an out take by my band Fapardokly of “The Music Scene” that has a spoken intro that wasn’t on the original Fapardokly LP.
It was like finding a long lost buried treasure!”
Merrell Fankhauser
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