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THE PURPLE MERKINS as
a "garage band of the week"!
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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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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PURPLE MERKINS DISCOGRAPHY
"Purple Merkin Power" b/w "Get On This Plane" vinyl 45, 1992
What Wave Magazine, Canada
"Ain't Got Enough" b/w "The Wind Blows Your Hair" vinyl 45, 1994
Rockadelic Records, USA
Dig It! 4 song 7" vinyl EP, 1995
Dionysus Records, USA
Baby's Got Kinks! 4 song 7" vinyl EP, 1996
Doctor Vinyl Records, Belgium
Transworld Garage (compilation) vinyl LP, 1996
Misty Lane Records, Italy
"My Flash On You" (mistakenly credited to The Overcoat)
Battle Royal (compilation) vinyl LP/CD, 1998
"Cock-A-Hoop"
Blood Red Records, USA
Merkinmania! 19 song vinyl LP, 1998
Psych-Out Records, Italy
Merkinmania! 19 song CD, 2005
Dionysus Records, USA
Lost In Tyme Magazine (compilation CD), 2007, Greece
"She's Coming Home"
Rumble Skunk Magazine (compilation CD), 2008, Greece
"Ain't Got Enough"
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