Showing posts with label Red Machine (Willie and the Red Machine). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Machine (Willie and the Red Machine). Show all posts

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Red Machine (Willie and the Red Machine) / Wayne Van Dam - I Wrote This Song For You / More Than You'll Ever Know. 1975 USA-Michigan


From Kalamazoo, Michigan. Red Machine (see Ownership notes below) is a super two sider. 'I Wrote This Song For You' is gorgeous - a sweet, soft, and sensual psychedelic ballad with fine lightly amplified guitar. I think they feature female vocals, but who is Willie? Could be a male soul singer. Beautiful in any case. The flip side is completely different. Starting with ripping fuzz, the track never lets up. Great example of hard psych. 

Just learned that Wayne Van Dam was in a band called The Scavengers that had one single on Fenton, that is highly sought after.


Ownership: SP: 1975 Red Machine. Online acquisition (2020). 

We added the following commentary in Discogs' Edit section: Wondering if the band isn't Red Machine? One side says Vocals Wayne Van Dam. The other side just says Willie and the Red Machine. There is nothing else on the label Red Machine, which also leads to it possibly being the band. Not going to change it yet, as not enough data to do so. 45Cat also lists it as a split release. They have a date of 1975, but not sure where they got that from. 

8/21/20 (first listen); 5/16/21 (review / new entry)

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