The Sanctions/Jim And The Lords ‎– Then Came The Electric Prunes

 

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Before evolving into The Electric Prunes, the band started life as The Sanctions and then Jim and The Lords. In March 1965, The Sanctions turned up at Russ Bottomley's house in Woodland Hills, California and recorded twelve classic surf / garage tracks on direct-to-disc acetate including Long Tall Sally, Money, Love Potion Number Nine and Louie, Louie. The line-up of The Sanctions was : James Lowe (b. San Luis Obispo, California, USA) - vocals, autoharp, guitar Mark Tulin (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) - bass, organ Ken Williams (b. Long Beach, California, USA) - lead guitar Michael Weakley aka 'Quint' (b. Kansas City, Missouri, USA) - drums. James joined up with Mark and Ken first. The latter two were still at Taft High School in the San Fernando Valley. According to Mark Tulin, the first drummer that James, Ken and Mark played with, in an incarnation or two before becoming The Electric Prunes, was a guy called Steve Acuff. He quit / was fired because surfing on Saturday was more important to him than practicing with the band. Following Steve's departure, Mike Weakley was then added on drums. By the time The Sanctions turned up at Russ Bottomley's house for the second time in November 1965, the band had evolved into Jim and The Lords. A new band member was added to make the band a quintet but very little is known about him :Dick Hargrave - Organ, D. Hargrave was brought into the band to make up the band from a quartet (James, Mark, Ken and Quint) into a quintet and the band thought an organ would help fill out the sound and Dick owned one. How he actually got involved with the band is now lost in time but it was probably through a friend of a friend. Four tracks were recorded during this session - Little (Li'l) Olive, I'm Free, I'm Down and Too Many People - again direct-to-disc. Sixteen tracks by The Sanctions and Jim and The Lords from 1965 remained unheard and unplayed for 35 years until Heartbeat Productions cleaned up the acetates and released them on vinyl and CD in June 2000 as ( Then Came Electric Prunes )

Information : http://www.electricprunes.com/

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