The Litter – Wretch (1970/2018) Full Album [Heavy Psych/Hard Rock]

12 Previously Unreleased 1970 Recordings from The Litter.

“One of Minneapolis’ most popular ’60s bands, the Litter are most well-known for their classic 1967 garage rock single “Action Woman.” With its demonic fuzz/feedback guitar riffs and cocky, snarling lead vocal, it was an archetype of the tough ’60s garage rock favored by fans of the Pebbles reissue series. In fact, the single, which got some airplay in Minnesota in early 1967 and then was largely forgotten, didn’t reach an international audience until it became cut one, Side One on Volume One of Pebbles in the late ’70s. It now has a place of honor on the Nuggets box set. The Litter were a little more successful and long-lived than the average regional garage band, recording a few albums, the last one for a major label, and evolving into a more progressive hard rock outfit before disbanding around the end of the ’60s.

The Litter was formed by members of two Minneapolis area mid-’60s groups, the Victors and the Tabs. (A few songs recorded by the Victors in late 1965 can be heard on the compilation The Scotty Story.) Heavily influenced by the fiercest British Invasion bands such as the Yardbirds and the Who, they recorded their debut single, “Action Woman”/”A Legal Matter,” with local producer Warren Kendrick in late 1966. “Action Woman,” in fact, was not a Litter original, but a Kendrick composition. Bill Strandlof, who had played the searing guitar lead on “Action Woman,” was replaced by Tom “Zippy” Caplan in the spring of 1967, just before they recorded most of the tracks that comprised their debut album. Leaning heavily on covers of songs by British bands like the Yardbirds, the Who, and Small Faces, Distortions was nevertheless a prime example of ’60s garage rock at its most powerful. With the garage rock revival, this local release became a coveted collector’s item, and has since been reissued several times.

Like many bands in the late ’60s, the Litter subsequently went into a more psychedelic/hard rock direction. Their second album, $100 Fine, put more weight on original material, although their sound was growing more generic. Around this time, the Litter missed out on some potentially big opportunities, turning down offers from both Elektra and Columbia. They appear in a 1968 Chicago psychedelic nightclub scene in political filmmaker Haskell Wexler’s classic movie Medium Cool, but only super-briefly; although they’re shown playing on-stage, the soundtrack includes none of their music, with the Mothers of Invention’s “Flower Punk” overdubbed onto the scene. By the time they did get onto a major label for the 1969 album Emerge (on ABC), Caplan and original lead singer Denny Waite had been replaced, and their hard rock sound had become less distinguished. The Litter have reunited and sometimes continued to play and record, with different lineups, into the ’90s.” Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger at AllMusic(https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-litter-mn0000080149/biography)

1. End Of The Tape 00:00
2. A Lost Art 02:38
3. Trek Of The Mongoloids 08:09
4. Today 15:03
5. Cross-Over 18:38
6. O-Zone 23:37
7. Crazy Horse 26:19
8. Space A Comin’ 30:31
9. Puff The Magic Dragon 34:52
10. For Saddest Clowns 38:50
11. Space A Comin’ (version 2) 41:44
12. Puff The Magic Dragon (version 2) 44:41
13. Ungrateful Peg (Live) 47:41

Buy it: https://thelitter.bandcamp.com/album/wretch

The Litter is:
Tom Murray – Drums
Dan Rinaldi – Rhythm Guitar
Mark Gallagher – Vocals
Sean Jones – Lead Guitar

Released June 6, 2018 by Purple Pyramid Records.

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