Audio, pics and more at the official MySpace page!
Click HERE to read a new feature article on the band... __________________________________
Thanks to the LITTLE STEVEN'S UNDERGROUND
GARAGE
national broadcast and satellite radio
shows
for featuring
THE PURPLE MERKINS as
"garage band of the week"
in November 2005!
THE PURPLE MERKINS:
Fuzz can be fun, in more ways than one !
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Photos to the right:
TOP (L to R): DEBRA DICKEY, TIMOTHY MERKIN,
RANDEL MERKIN, OZ.
BOTTOM (L to R): OZ, DEBRA DICKEY,
RANDEL MERKIN,
TIMOTHY MERKIN.
THE PURPLE MERKINS
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HERE'S A BRAND NEW OFFER TO GET THE PURPLE MERKINS CD & KNIGHTS OF FUZZ DVD AT ONE VERY LOW PRICE!
SEND US FUNDS VIA PAYPAL TO tgassen@purple-cactus.tv
OR VISIT THE ORDERING PAGE HERE
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about the PUPRLE MERKINS:
Using roughly the same lineup from The Marshmallow Overcoat, Timothy Gassen formed THE PURPLE MERKINS as a one-off "side-band." Despite all intentions, the '66-styled garage punk prank soon developed into a continuing project, with recordings and releases spurting out from 1992-1998.
THE PURPLE MERKINS created mainly crude, spontaneous home-made recordings, while their Marshmallow Overcoat counterparts explored a (hopefully) more sophisticated (and unfortunately more expensive) studio approach.
19 songs accumulated, resulting in the MERKMINMANIA! LP. The vinyl version was released in 1998 on Italy's Psych-Out Records and is long out of print.
We are proud to announce that Merkinmania! is finally available as a CD on Dionysus Records in the USA! The new CD has all new color artwork, complete liner notes and previously unseen photos. Original sessions producer Timothy Gassen has carefully remastered the audio to create the best sounding Merkins disc ever!
THE PURPLE MERKINS also have four 7" EPs to their credit and a couple more songs on the "Transworld Garage" compilation LP. (See the Timothy Gassen audiography for more details, COMING SOON).
The Merkinmania! LP collected all of these out-of-print tracks, and added another half-dozen unreleased songs. All were recorded in lo-tech "360 degree Garagadelic Stereo," for the optimum in fuzziness.
And if you haven't heard, a "merkin" is a pubic toupee. Yes, really. Imagine the merchandising and ad campaign for the CD release! And then hold on — Merkinmania! is inevitably on the way.
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New Releases:
A track from "Merkinmania" appeared on the Greek "Lost in Tyme" magazine CD in 2007, and another track appeared on the CD with the Greek "Rumble Skunk" magazine in 2007. Why do the Greeks support so much garage music? Because they are cool!
Also check out the fabulous Web site Thee Cave for a new interview and overview of the Purple Merkins and Marshmallow Overcoat... .
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