They Never Made It volume 2

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They Never Made It volume 2 PR1015

Who would believe we have published 15 records! This one is a special release with a friend of Psychotron, Timo Paakko.  Following on from the first volume of rare original artefacts from the golden bygone era of pschedelia, garage & all other things wierd this record is also compiled & edited by Timo. The covers are handmade artwork by Linda with a lot of encouragement from Pete for both!

Side A

1. Peter Timothy Willful – Don’t Vent All Your Frustration On Me, Girl 4.00
2. Concentration Storage Five – Bearded Jack 3.57
3. The Bavarian Illuminati – Strange Meeting 6.03
4. Intergalactic Guitars Unlimited – Chase Around Sirius 4.20

Side B

1. The Devilment – UAP 3.00
2. The N-Sults – Magick Is Found Within 5.50
3. Thymothys Yn Unig – All My Bullies 12.23

All written, recorded, produced & from the vivid imaginings of Timo Paakko. Mastered by Tyko Tuulivaara

Peter Timothy Wilful was just another mid-sixties wannabe-popstar from a tiny little town of Brushpower in Idaho, Midwest, USA. He immigrated and tried to find stardom in the remote little Scandinavian country of Finland. Signed a one-off single deal for a major label and was backed on his only recorded output by the members of the local top prog group ”Teepee”. After some serious incidents involving heavy drug abuse he was deported back to his homeland where he ended up in the Brushpower Mental Asylum for the rest of his life…  but you gotta dig this motown-influenced dancefloor filler!  ‘Don’t vent all your frustration on me, Girl/ The midnight sun is driving me nuts’ ( Finlevy FISH-269051)

Concentration Storage Five give us the sad story about Bearded Jack who stood in the shower for exceptionally long times and eventually got ran over by a truck which is said to have really taken place. Again, we are taken to the midwest town of Brushpower (seems It really had a thriving rock scene in the late sixties) where these guys worked at the local copper smelter. Their favourite pastime was to play rock n roll on weekends and intermittent gigging and rehearsing made the band a really tight and disciplined unit, and thus they secured a recording deal on a small local label, Shift Number Two Records. Full blown popsike with backwards guitars and all, this killer track should have been recorded years ago! Better late than never though. The band consisted of Ichabod Noble, bass and vocals; Eric Willowy, drums; Raymond Rugged-Oliver, guitars, Ascot Strong Crop, keyboards. Hopefully the future volumes of this series will see the release of the B-side , ”The Burbot” (SNTR – 003)

Bavarian Illuminati was an early seventies German hard rock power trio in the vein of Uriah Heep or Leafhound. Consisting of guitar slinger/narrator Adam Weishaupt and the rhythmic background of Thomas Maria Baron der Bassus on bass and Frans Xaver von Zach on drums. Obsessed with WW1 poetry the band dressed up as German troopers of 1914 with spiked helmets (check the rare footage online which should be found in the depths of YouTube, unless removed for copyright issues). Their ultra rare sole offering was a private pressing 7”EP called ”Pickelhaube, Skull and Bones” (Schabernack Schallplatten EP-1918) only 100 copies of which is said to exist. Their unique style was to narrate poems on a heavy/hard rock backing track. In 2020 a copy of the EP surfaced and fetched a staggering £6989 at an online auction!

Intergalactic Guitars Unlimited is Jakub Henryksiewicz who was Eastern Blocs answer to Electric Gypsy. A self-taught guitar virtuoso who was said to be able to play guitar any way round!!! Completely unknown to the rest of the world and actually quite little was ever heard of him even in his native Poland. Only this incredible slab of furious psychedelic space funk has so far surfaced from his rumoured LP sessions …a reel-to-reel tape of ”Chase Around Sirius” was said to have been smuggled out of the recording studio by his manager Tomasz Kierownik. Big bucks offered for the person who will present the full session tapes to the undersigned! And Jakub, what ever happened to him? Gave up music completely disillusioned in the rock business, emigrated to Australia, and started sheepfarming … and claims to have no idea of those elusive LP tapes… We can only wish!

The Devilment was a sharpie band from Melbourne and is the one and only garage punk track on this compilation. The mainman of this unit was singer Mark Coilskerry who claimed having seen an unidentified flying capsule while walking home from the confirmation class. This incident and the religious teachings had a huge effect on his mental stability, and he was later heard telling his family that he descended from a wooden horse! He was often seen walking on plimsoles marked ”left hoof” and ”right hoof”. Sadly, his mental health never recovered… and the rest of the band? There is no info unfortunately …

The N-Sults hailed from Knackwurst town near Hamburg. And what an ugly bunch they were! The line-up was as follows: Peter Rosa on bass, Ralf Unter-Pfarrhaus on drums, Walter Espe on vocals and guitar. This wonderful stream of consciousness filled hypnotic track only ever surfaced on a rehearsal tape salvaged by the son-in-law of their manager Stefan Stur after he suffered a stroke. His next of kin were just about to dispose his massive collection of demo tapes until the son-in-law ‘in the know’ decided to keep them himself. Indeed, we are very happy he did! The N-Sults themselves perished in a terrorist bomb attack in the early seventies while returning from an extensive tour of Germany.

The person performing under the moniker “Thymothus Yn Unig” is a multi-instrumentalist folkie from rural Wales. His real name and hometown are not known to the general public. Sort of a Banksy of the rock business, as he has never let anyone know his true identity. This epic folk jam with the blistering guitar solo was recorded in 1969, but it is rumoured that Thymothus will release a completely new album in the next few years!