For today I have for you one of the wildest covers of the Toggs classic hit Wild Thing. I believe thtat this version is one of the rawest I ever heard.
This cover is from The We Five from 1966 hailing from Athens, Greece.
This song was recorded in a theatre where the We Five performed live with audience for a radio show. So practically this is almost a live appearance showing the real capablities of the the "first
Greek Super Group". This version has a very garage feeeling with snotty raw vocals , organ anf fuzzy guitars.We Five are alleged to be the first super group in the history of Greek Rock-Pop as they featured talented musicians who used to perform at the most popular Athenian Groups like The Idols, The Minis, The Juniors, & The Stormies. In addition members of the We Five later followed a succefull carreer in Europe with most famous Demis Roussos. We Five had a short lived carreer from 1966 to 1967
Their members were during 1966-1967:
Demis Roussos(vocals, bass, 1966-67)
Alekos Karakantas (guitar)
Spyros Metaxas(guitar, 1966-67)
Lakis Vlavianos (organ)
Makis Saliaris (drums)
Giorgos Petridis (vocals, bass, 1967)
Dimitris Katakouzinos (guitar, 1967)
Download here
8 comments:
Not to de-mean this group. but this is NOT the famous WE FIVE group, that recorded two hits.The WE FIVE group recorded for the A&M Label.
Too bad this group wasn't caught back in the 60's. I'm sure they would have had to change their name.
The hit group WE FIVE were recording from 1965-1969. That superceeds this group by a couple of years!
To us 60's music fans...this is very frustrating to see these groups that infringed on the "Name" acts.
And.....Let me say, Great Blog!
Good one///
Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it seems to be down... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please reply to my post if you do!
I would appreciate if a staff member here at paradiseofgaragecomps.blogspot.com could post it.
Thanks,
Jack
Hello, loving the blog!
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Thanks for sharing this fantastic version... Did the greek We Five release anything else?
Yes, they had released other staff as well, officially 1 or 2 singles. This song and other staff were unreleased and came up from live recordings at a theatre for a radio station
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