A four-hour, 90-track overview of the Los Angeles music scene between 1965 and 1968. Featuring a dazzling combination of major league LA players, enduring cult acts and ultra-rare garage punk 45s. Housed in a stylish clamshell box that includes a heavily illustrated and annotated (more than 20,000 words) 80-page bound booklet, 'Heroes and Villains' is a fascinating four-hour trip into the heart of the late '60s LA music goldmine. After The Beatles captivated a generation with their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Los Angeles music scene moved beyond the previously-dominant surf, hot-rod and girl group discs to fashion a spirited response to the British Invasion. Hollywood studios and the Sunset Strip teen clubs played host to a thrilling assortment of bands, with such names as The Byrds, Sonny And Cher and the increasingly ambitious Brian Wilson leading the charge as LA established itself in 1965 as America's leading music city. The scene moved on to encompass Psychedelia, Sunshine Pop and Proto-Hard Rock before August 1969's horrific Tate-LaBianca murders traumatised LA's music community and brought the freewheeling '60s to a shocking, apocalyptic end. 'Heroes and Villains: The Sound of LA 1965-68' charts the entire cataclysmic scene, with classic hits from The Monkees, Paul Revere And The Raiders, The Association and The Grass Roots joined by vital cuts from Love, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Mothers Of Invention, Captain Beefheart, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas And The Papas. Featuring enduring cult names (Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Seeds, Electric Prunes), the new breed of Singer-Songwriter (Tim Buckley, Nilsson), the emerging wave of Heavy bands (Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly), nascent Country-Rockers (Gene Clark, Stone Poneys, Gram Parsons' International Submarine Band) and studio-based, Beach Boys-inspired harmony Pop acts (Sagittarius, The Millennium, The Parade). In among the unreleased-at-the-time demos, alternative versions and first-time releases, there's a raft of hugely obscure Garage Punk 45s - many from bands now stepping forward to tell their story for the first time, including The Satans (the notorious 'Makin' Deals'), Somebody's Chyldren (Hollywood legend Mae West's backing band on her brace of 1966 albums), The Prophets of Old, The Heros and The Odds And Ends.

Tracklist:

Pleasant Valley Sunday (Single
Version) - the Monkees
Kicks - Paul Revere and the Raiders
Let Her Dance - Bobby Fuller Four
But You're Mine - Sonny and Cher
Tomorrow's Girl - Merrell and the 'Xiles
Sand - Lee Hazlewood with Suzi Jane Hokom
Acid Head - the Velvet Illusions 8 Along Comes Mary - the Association
Don't Say No - Ruthann Friedman
Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon) -The Mamas and the Papas
I Cried My Eyes Out - the Misunderstood
Our Love Should Last
Forever - the Whatt Four
Wanted: Dead or Alive - the Rogues
The Wind Blows Your Hair (Demo Version) - the Seeds
My Baby's Barefoot - the Syndicate
Point of No Return - the Music Machine
Chicanery - the Royal Teens
Keep Your Mind Open -Kaleidoscope
A Child's Guide to Good and
Evil - West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
Floating Downstream on An Inflatable Rubber Raft - the Second Helping
Let's Live for Today - the Grass Roots
She Sends Me - the Roosters
(Cause) You Don't Love Me - the Odds and Ends
Help Yourself - the Sanctions
I'm Going Back to New York
City - Somebody's Chyldren
The Trip - Kim Fowley
Say What You Mean - Glad
Come Looking for Me - Diane Hildebrand
Where Do We Go from Here -The New Wave
New Hard Times - Stone Poneys
Hungry Freaks, Daddy - the Mothers of Invention
Zig-Zag Wanderer - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Computer Girl - Urban Renewal Project
The Most Up Till Now - the Peanut Butter Conspiracy
It Won't Always Be the Same -The Millennium
The Music Scene - Fapardokly
Just Can't Wait - the Prophets of Old
She Got Me - the Misunderstood
Makin' Deals - the Satans
Viet Nam - Bobby Jameson
With None Shoes - the Leaves
Be Happy, Baby - the Odds and Ends
Tears in My Eyes - the Royal Teens
Sunshine Girl (Promo-Only Stereo Mix) - the Parade Mr Richland's Favorite Song- Nilsson
Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock) - the Beach Boys
Always You - Roger Nichols and the Small Circle of Friends
Carnival Song - Tim Buckley
Fire Engine Sky - Michael Blodgett
I'm Not Living Here -Sagittarius
Don't Turn the Light Off -The Churchill Downs
No Shame - the Touch (Hunger)
Uncle Jack - Spirit
August Mademoiselle -Children of the Mushroom
Long Time - the Rose Garden
Run- the Candy Company
Too Many People - Jim and the Lords
Just Wanna Be Myself - the No-N-Mees
Say It with a Smile - the Heros
Move with the Dawn - Mark Eric
Yellow Brick Road - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
She Comes in Colors - Love
Time Will Show the Wiser
(Album Version) - the Merry-Go- Round
John Works Hard - the Laughing Wind
Calm Me Down (Promo Single Version) - the Human Expression Why (Alternative Version) - the Byrds
I Can Only Give You Everything-The Heros
Golden Apples of the Sun -Grains of Sand
Yesterday Holds on - Moorpark
Intersection Windy - Ruthann Friedman
Do I Have to Come Right Out
And Say It - Buffalo Springfield
Drivin' Sideways (On a One-Way Street) - Merrell Fankhauser and H.M.S. Bounty
9 O'Clock Business Man - the Peppermint Trolley Company
The Great Banana Hoax (Extended Mix) - the Electric Prunes
Isha - Chris and Craig
Sit with the Guru - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Trip on Me - the Forum
Road to Nowhere - Hearts and Flowers
So You Say You Lost Your
Baby - Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers
Luxury Liner - International Submarine Band
Runnin' on Back - Del Shannon
She Sleeps Alone - the Parade
Pipe Dream - Chad and Jeremy
End of the Line - Boystown
Summer Magic* - the Paper Fortress
Cut Your Lawn - the Chyldren
A Girl I Knew (Single Version) - Steppenwolf
Flowers and Beads - Iron Butterfly
Black Roses - Clear Light
Hippy Town - Georgy and the Velvet Illusions

UPC: 5013929190900
Label: Grapefruit
Release Date: 5.27.22
Format: CD

Heroes & Villains: Sound Of Los Angeles 1965-1968 - Heroes & Villains: Sound Of Los Angeles 1965-1968 (CD)