The Flamin' Groovies

By the mid-seventies, veteran San Francisco rockers the Flamin' Groovies had lost frontman
Roy Loney, who piloted the group's ferocious, Stones-y LPs Flamingo (1970) and Teenage
Head (1971). Seeking inspiration, leader-by-default Cyril Jordan trekked the band to the
U.K. The result was the keen neo-Merseybeat metamorphosis of 1976's Shake Some Action,
on which the Groovies wear their newfound influence on the sleeves of their m... More >