THE WHEELS Road Block LP Limited Vinyl 1965-67 + Rarities Rare UK Freakbeat NEW

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THE WHEELS Road Block LP WIKD305 LP ACE / BIG BEAT

Limited Edition UK Vinyl issue. The Wheels LP may be 45 years in coming, but it is well overdue. The Phil Smee-designed sleeve has such a classic period look that you would swear it came out at the time.

‘Road Block’ by The Wheels is one of the all-time great (and expensive) freakbeat /garage 45s. The Wheels were contemporaries of Them’s lead singer Van Morrison who almost joined the band several times.

Both the wilder demo version of ‘Bad Little Woman’ (the one the Shadows of Knight covered) and the UK version are also high up on the list of screaming 60s punk.

These are the complete Wheels sessions – a lesson in British (and Irish) beat music of the time.

Rave ups don’t come any wilder than ‘Road Block’ by the Wheels, who keep the party going on this album of their complete output, 1965-1966. Tough, shouting R&B vocals and crunching riffs from Belfast’s other great combo.

‘Road Block’ and ‘Bad Little Woman’ are garage-beat classics of which anyone raised on American “Pebbles” albums will be very familiar. The Wheels, however, were not American; they were from Northern Ireland. Yet their band original ‘Bad Little Woman’ was picked up by Chicago garage deities the Shadows Of Knight, and in contrast they covered Paul Revere & the Raiders’ ‘Kicks’. Don’t even get me started on the feral intensity of their beat-punk opus ‘Road Block’.

Big Beat’s new Wheels collection comprises the A and B-sides of their three singles, released across 1965 and 1966, plus the remaining sessions they cut at Regent Sound; this is their album, its great period design making up for the fact that these talented young men didn’t get to release one first time round.

Like many who have bought Big Beat releases over the past 20 years, I came to the label knowing I would find great garage, beat and psych. Now the Wheels are in the company of the Beau Brummels, the Chocolate Watchband, the Zombies and Thor’s Hammer. And by heck, they deserve it. Anyone who has bought releases by those artists will adore the Wheels. Steaming out of Belfast’s Maritime Hotel (an R&B hotbed on par with the Crawdaddy in Richmond and Newcastle’s Club A’GoGo), where they graced the stage with friend Van Morrison and his similarly clued-up Them, before moving on to an obsessive following in the glamorous environs of Blackpool.

The Wheels lived their lives to the full, playing wild shows, popping pills and adapting R&B to their own means. Under the tutelage of industry bigwig Phil Solomon and producer Tommy Scott, they issued singles on Parlophone and turned heads with their long hair (or, in Brian Rossi’s case, bald head). It looked as if the charts would be theirs. Unfortunately, their sound and songbook may have shared too much with Them’s; Van and his gang stole the Wheels’ thunder and fashions changed fast.

In hindsight, the magnificent punk/R&B attack of ‘Road Block’ rivals anything the toughest US garage bands recorded, ‘Bad Little Woman’ was a really decent song, their choice of covers was inspired and there’s no denying their musicality or Rod Demick’s wild-but-soulful vocals. Okay, the Wheels were a beat band versed in R&B and they didn’t make an album like “Revolver” or sell many records, but by Jove they were exciting. The 12 tracks here are testament to that

Track’s

Side One

ROAD BLOCK                                 

I'M LEAVING                                    

BAD LITTLE WOMAN                    

SEND ME YOUR PILLOW             

DON'T YOU KNOW                         

CALL MY NAME                              

KICKS                                               

Side Two

TELL ME (I'M GONNA LOVE AGAIN)                  

YOU GOT ME DIZZY                       

GLORIA                                            

MONA (I NEED YOU BABY)          

BAD LITTLE WOMAN (U.S. VERSION)               

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