Randy Alvey & Green Fuz

In honor of my cable modem being up and working again, im going to do a post about the inspiration for this site's name. Also I'll need to do some explaining on how to download the song samples. As a note, I totaly support you checking out these bands, and then going out and buying the albums. Im shooting for sticking only to rare stuff anyways, so hopefully you'll find a vinyl copy and screw what ever record label out of moneyFuck them. Go buy the bands t-shirt, thay make more money off that any ways. I'll fill these posts with links for good measure.

To download the songs, just click on the link and look for the free download button (or regestar if you want, otherwise i think it limes how many downloads you get per hour). After that you'll go to another page, with a time ticker at the bottom. Wait for it and ender the code it give you. Its stupid, but it's also free. Anyways:




Randy Alvey & Green Fuz

1 - Green Fuz - mp3
2 - There is a Land

I got this song from the real nice 5-disk Pebbles Box, as well as a few other Pebbles comps. For thouse of you who don't know, Pebbles is the evil red headed step child of the Nuggets comp series, which was the first compilation series to repackage old and forgoten garage rock track from the mid to late 60's (released by Lenny Kaye the guitarist for Patty Smith in 1972). Pebbles features even more obscure, more demented, more raw, tracks from this first wave of proto-punk bands. Here's a list of most everything Pebbles.


But back to Randy Alvey. Like most unknown bands from this era, little is know about them (duh!). Apparently the band wan't too pleased with the quality of the recording, which is ironic because it was exactly that raw grungy sound that lead to this track not only resurfacing on the Pebbles series, but also to the Cramps doing a cover version.

If you listen to the song, you'll see that its supposed to be the bands theam song, or their gang, or what ever, warning others that "We're not to fast/ we're not to slow/ Come along baby, to see where we go/ Jump your [???], let us get your high/ We're the Green Fuz"

Zoinks!!
buy a copy of the single at Norton Records here for only 4 bucks!