Pugsley Munion – Just Like You (Full Album) Rare 70`s USA Garage Rock
Here is the rare incredibly underrated release on the small J&S New York label from US Garage Rock Band `Pugsley Munion` called `Just Like You` their only ever LP release, I have also added some extra demos: for more rare discoveries check out my other you tube videos
Side 1
1. What’s Right for Me
2. Second Time for Me
3. Take My Soul
4. Just Like You
5. Slumberland Blues
Side 2
1. No Time Tomorrow
2. Trouble
3. Collage Thought
4. I Don’t Know Who To Blame
Extra Tracks
1. Whats Right for Me (Alternative Demo 1970)
2. Second Time For Me (Alternative Demo 1970)
3. Whats Right For Me (Recorded Live 1971)
Started in mid 1969 under the guise ‘Mask,’ the members of Pugsley Munion – keyboardist/vocalist/main songwriter John Schuller, guitarist Ducky Belliveau, and drummer Ed Kelly – came together as a vehicle for their own original material, after years playing in high school cover bands. A homemade demo found its way to J&S Records, a small R&B label in New York City. The label put up some cash to cover recording costs and brought the band to the city to record an official demo tape, also signing them to a single album deal. Shortly after the demo was recorded, the label discovered the ‘Mask’ name had already been registered to another band, and the members started to consider new names. They took ‘Pugsley’ from a street sign outside New York, while ‘Munion’ was the name of a local cop who gave the band’s road crew dirty looks following a gig in a local donut shot. They put the two words together originally as a joke name to use for a single gig, but the name stuck. In mid 1970, Pugsley Munion began the two days of recording at Bell Sound Studios in New York City they had booked for their first album. They played as an organ/bass pedal, guitar, and drum trio, but they decided to use bass guitar in the studio to get a better sound. As they laid down the tracks, the band experimented with different bass parts with the intention of going back in during a later session to complete or replace them. Rough mixes were prepared of the songs after the two days, and trio assumed they would go back into the studio to overdub the bass tracks and polish up the vocals. To their surprise, however, the record company released the album in its unfinished form, without the original artwork selected by the band and with incorrect liner notes. The title of the album had been altered as well to Just Like You, after the song released as the first single. Pugsley Munion tried unsuccessfully to stop the album’s release.
