The Luv’d Ones are a crucial garage band from the 60′s. Led by guitarist Char Vinnedge, they arced from Beat music into Garage and finally fuzzed-out Psychedelia. Char’s relentless drive propelled the group, which she sang, wrote, drove, and made handbills for. They first debuted as the (All Girl) Tremolons, belting out Beat-style tunes and a killer version of “Whole Lotta Shakin’”. Steadily Char’s style changed; her voice became darker and her guitar tone more and more distorted. She was
US Psych from 1968. Boston’s Orpheus made four albums in the late ’60s and early ’70s that were something of an antecedent to soft rock. Although some of the members had roots in the folk scene, and although they were lumped in with the heavier and more psychedelic bands that comprised the short-lived “Bosstown Sound,” Orpheus was in fact much closer to the “sunshine pop” of the late ’60s heard on AM radio. Producer Alan Lorber (the key generator of
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