Shindig! Issue 143

Features

The Stooges Photographic eyewitness accounts from their incendiary live shows

Grand Drive  The out-of-time UK Americana act finally gets it dues

Graham Bell Troubled, fearless, talented, yet doomed to remain a nearly-man

KPM Behind the golden age of the British library music institution

Joe Meek The final group productions: How the genius producer crafted some of the wildest records of the Beat era

Ronnie Bird  : The raw, authentic sound of French  anglophile ’60s beat

Regulars

Thoughts & Words  Your letters, tweets and emails

Shindiggin’  What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable

Subscribers’ Prize Draw  Subscribe now and you could win the monster new Stooges book

It’s A Happening Thing 10 Uni Boys, Thomas Walsh, Large Plants, Say She She, exotica/lounge revival, Reflective Detectives, Essential Forever, Adam Camm, Vinny Peculiar, Tele Music, Marvelous Kid

Family Album Moby Grape’s 1968 sophomore outing Wow

Deep Cuts Syd Barrett soundalikes from across the musical spectrum

20 Questions Journalist and editor Allan Jones reflects on 50 years

of prog, punk and the printed word.

Reviews The best in reissues, new releases, books and live shows

Prize Crossword Win The Creation’s complete ’60s recordings on CD

Vinyl Art How CA Quintet recreated Hell in 1969

Vinyl Clicks Mike Absolom’s Hector And Other Pecadilloes