Shindig! Issue 171

Features

The Monkees:  Micky Dolenz reflects on the audition that changed everything.

20 Questions: Brinsley Schwarz. Sixty years since Kippington Lodge formed and 50 since the pub-rockers that bore his name split up, the storied guitarist tells all.

Ann-Margret: The shy Swedish actress’s encounters with fame and notoriety as she embraced the counterculture and made forays into the music world.

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Caught up in the fertile pub-rock movement and early punk scene, the Essex lads who were always more MC5 than Feelgoods.

Bert Decoteaux: The hardest working, most unsung producer/arranger in late ’60s soul?

Grateful Dead: Changing their name from The Warlocks as 1966 dawned, the fearless San Francisco warriors embarked on the longest, strangest trip.

The Herd: How a south London mod band morphed into 56 goth-pop poster boys before crashing in a mire of business and personal upheavals.

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 a Morgan Blue Town vinyl haul.

It’s A Happening Thing: Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection, The Studio 68! & Dani Turner, The Decadent Dayze, Midlake, Trolley, Neil Soiland, Clémentine March, Jane Weaver, Mia Wilson, ROVR Radio with Keb Darge.

Family Album: The strange saga of The October Cherries, Truck and Col Truck.

Deep Cuts: “Buy me!” Psychedelia, garage and sunshine-pop in commercials and sponsorship.

Songbook:  Barbara Dane’s folk-jazz statement of empowerment ‘Way Behind The Sun’.

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

Prize Crossword: Win a copy of Ace’s superb Safe In My Garden: American Pop In The Shadows 1967-1972.

Vinyl Art: Spooky Tooth with Pierre Henry’s career-derailing Ceremony.

Vinyl Clicks: Derek Newark’s self-financed prog-pop odyssey Francesca Suite.