Friday, 21 September 2012

morning dew

"The Morning Dew's body of work provides a compelling object lesson in how far into the ether the average American rock dude would drift over the course of the 1960s." AllMusic.com
From the early days of sneering garage rock in 1966 within a year or two they become a psychedelic fuzz.
The American cities must have been heaving with now ex-high school bands or their members following the progress of their favourite bands as the last 5 years of 1960's music seemed to be changing overnight. Very often to the pace of the Beatles ever evolving rock kaleidoscope plus the changes in recording technology with its newly discovered effects in stereo. Occasionally a band would hit lucky and rise above the mass, others sunk with at best an undiscovered classic waiting for another generation to discover, and all be it with the slightly confusing name of 'Morning Dew' which was obviously taken from the then contemporary song of the same name, achieved an album and a few singles before they packed it all in by 1970.
But their effort was not in vain, the single 'Young Man' is as good a piece of garage psyche as you'll hear. Oddly, in the lyrics these young men were looking back at being young men in a sort of before and after event. Maybe it was before and after the psychedelic experience? Either way the tripped out rumble they set up on the single with it's feedback intro, phased vocal and panned guitar solo is a great track to leave us with.