Flamin' Groovies

The Flamin' Groovies are a band who built a career out of demonstrating the positive aspects of living in the past. While they first rose to fame in San Francisco in the late '60s, they had little interest in the psychedelic music that was all the rage in the Bay Area. Instead, the Groovies celebrated the joys of first-era rock & roll and vintage R&B, as well as the greasy raunch of early-'60s rock. They came up with the classic tune "Teenage Head" from the similarly classic LP of the same name in 1971, but after some lineup changes, the band evolved into British Invasion obsessives whose songs echoed the glory days of the Beatles (with some of the Byrds' 12-string jangle mixed in). Their second classic song "Shake Some Action" -- which was the title track of their 1976 album of the same name -- is a chiming, elegiac ballad that helped define the softer side of power pop in the mid-'70s. Some form of band -- always helmed by guitarist Cyril Jordan -- continued playing on and off in the following decades and released what seemed like a final record, Rock Juice, in 1993. Jordan revived the group in the 2000s and various permutations of the classic line-ups played festivals and toured. In 2017, they released their first album in more than two decades, Fantastic Plastic.

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