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Eddie Piller Presents The Mod Revival (4CD)
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Price: $42.00
Artist:
Various Artists
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1 COPY LEFT! In 1979, as a
15-year-old Eddie Piller was perfectly placed to be at the epicentre of the Mod
revival. An inquisitive passion for
music, a family connection to Mod royalty The Small Faces, and an attitude that
saw him travelling his home city, then the country and then the world to take
in the sounds that were emerging. In the years since, he has been a legendary
figure within the music industry setting up and continuing to own the
ground-breaking Acid Jazz label, signing multi-platinum artists such as Jamiroquai
and The Brand New Heavies collaborating on compilations with Martin Freeman and
as an award winning broadcaster even setting up his own Totally Wired Radio
station. Mod started as a 60’s youth
movement original built on sharp clothes, American soul music and nights on the
town, that has never really died. The originals added young British groups to
their likes and then moved on, but their influence echoed on through the 70’s
in Northern Soul clubs, and in the 60’s influenced bands of the pub rock era.
When punk arrived, it was supposed to sweep away the past, but instead the Sex
Pistols were covering the Small Faces. The Clash brought in Mod DJ Guy Stevens
to produce “London Calling”, The Buzzcocks sounded closer to the Hollies than
The Ramones and in The Jam’s Paul Weller there was a musical and sartorial nod
to the past of The Who, The Beatles and pop art arrows. In bleak late 70’s Britain, the glorious
optimism of the 60’s looked bright and shiny, and as it was only a decade or so
in the past, it was easy to pick up original records, clothes and books for
pennies, and as you bought these you met other like-minded souls who did the
same. Eddie never stopped being a mod and has a unique perspective having now
lived through four decades of being intimately involved in the music that has
emerged from the mod scene. In this 92 track, 4 CD box set, we are guided
through some of his favorite music from the scene by a plethora of bands whose
influences include The Who, The Kinks and the Jam, to sixties soul and R&B,
those with an eye on psychedelia. All have
a vitality and a certain stylish swagger to them, that marks them out as
Mod. Eddie has written an in-depth note
describing what it meant to him and has granted access to his own scrapbooks
from his many years of gig-going from which pages and memorabilia are
reproduced. ESSENTIAL IN OUR MINDS!! GREAT!!
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