Manual Scan: All Night Scan! 2013 + All Night Stand 1998

 

Manual Scan was an American mod and power pop group formed in the early 1980s San Diego,

active between 1981 and 1991. Releasing a string of singles beginning in 1981 and an album issued in both the U.S. and England in 1986, the band toured extensively throughout California and Arizona as well as England (the 100 Club and the Marquee, among other venues) and Mexico.  The group's song "Nothing Can Be Everything" was included in the 1990 Columbia Pictures release, A Girl To Kill For.
                         

The founding members of Manual Scan were guitarist / singer Bart Mendoza, guitarist Kevin Ring,

bassist David Fleminger and drummer Paul Kaufman, though within a few months of the band's formation Kaufman was replaced by Paul Brewin and singer Yvonne Simon was added on backing vocals and guitar. All except for Fleminger were former students of La Jolla High School .
                  

The band's lineup changed frequently during its existence, with Mendoza and Donaker-Ring as the core

members. Other notable players included drummer David Anderson and Tom Ward, both formerly of Voxx Records group Gravedigger Five. Guests of note include Anthony Meynell, frontman for British mod revival trio Squire, who the band backed in 1985 and Jeff Conolly of garage rockers Lyres who sat in with Manual Scan for six shows in 1989.
                  

Following the demise of the band Donaker-Ring co-founded power pop group, The Shambles in 1992,

with Mendoza joining shortly after. Manual Scan has reunited several times since 2005, recording a live session on 28 January 2010 with producer Alan Sanderson for San Diego-based radio station, KBZT (FM94/9). A best of collection, All Night Scan, was released only on vinyl and as a digital download, in September 2013 by Texas-based Cheap Reward Records.
                       

In early 2022, Mendoza reported "Manual Scan is playing at the Mods Mayhem Festival taking place

June 3-5 in Los Angeles. Other bands include The Untouchables, The Chords UK, The Odd Numbers etc. To coincide with the event there will be a 10-inch limited edition vinyl album of rarities from the bands performing. Manual Scan's contribution is an unreleased version of our song, 'Confidence and Love' recorded in 1985 at Circle Sound Studios."
                

In this sampler I give you tracks from both compilations of The Manual Scan: All Night Scan! + All Night Stand. I rejected the same songs.

                

MANUAL SCAN - ALL NIGHT SCAN!  2013
                       

Manual Scan – All Night Scan!
Label: Cheap Rewards Records – CRR-009
Country: US
Released: 2013
Genre: Rock
Style: Power Pop

TRACKS

                   

01. Nothing You Can Do    1:26
02. American Way    1:59
03. 31968    2:31
04. And We Still Feel The Same    1:42
05. Anymore    1:33
06. New Difference    1:41
07. Jungle Beat    2:06
08. She Said It's Too Late    1:52
09. Nothing Can Be    1:42
10. Ever Any Reason    1:18
11. I Can't Wait To    1:51
12. For Those    1:24
13. Plan Of Action    2:07
14. Come See Me    2:09
15. Confidence And Love    2:07
16. New Song    2:17
17. All Night Stand    1:51
18. The Bird    1:41
19. Woman (Live)    1:50

THE MANUAL SCAN - All NIGHT STAND  1998
  

Manual Scan – All Night Stand
Label: Get Hip Recordings – GH-1043 CD
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: Aug 21, 1998
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock, Power Pop, Mod

TRACKS

                      

20. She Said It's Late (Long Version)   1:53
21. The Bird (Demo)   1:42
22. Jungle Beat (Remix)   2:08
23. New Difference (Remix)   1:42
24. I Can Only Give You Everything   2:27
25. Shape Of Things   1:42
26. Delve Into Everything   1:58
27. I Want To Hold Your Hand   2:33
28. It's Alright With Me   1:34
29. Don't Know Where To Start   3:28
30. Fearless   3:28
31. I Want To Hold Your Hand   2:19
32. Don't Know Where To Start   2:54
33. Untitled   1:32

Flac Size: 516 MB

Roy Buchanan: Sweet Dreams: The Anthology 1992

 

Leroy "Roy" Buchanan (September 23, 1939 – August 14, 1988) was an American guitarist and blues rock musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound,  Buchanan worked as a sideman and as a solo

artist, and is considered a highly influential guitar player. "Guitar Player Magazine" praised him as having one of the "50 Greatest Tones of All Time." Roy Buchanan has long been considered one of the finest, yet criminally overlooked guitarists of the blues rock genre whose lyrical leads and use of harmonics would later influence such guitar greats as Jeff Beck, his one-time student Robbie Robertson, and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons.
                     

Although born in Ozark, AR, on September 23, 1939, Buchanan grew up in the small town of Pixley, CA. His father was both a farmer and Pentecostal preacher, which would bring the youngster his first exposure to gospel music when his family would attend racially mixed revival meetings. But it was

when Buchanan came across late-night R&B radio shows that he became smitten by the blues, leading to Buchanan picking up the guitar at the age of seven. First learning steel guitar, he switched to electric guitar by the age of 13, finding the instrument that would one day become his trademark: a Fender Telecaster. By 15, Buchanan knew he wanted to concentrate on music full-time and relocated to Los Angeles, which contained a thriving blues/R&B scene at the time.
                           

                             
Shortly after his arrival in L.A., Buchanan was taken under the wing by multi-talented bluesman Johnny Otis, before studying blues with such players as Jimmy Nolen (later with James Brown), Pete Lewis, and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. During the mid- to late '50s, Buchanan led his own

rock band, the Heartbeats, which soon after began backing rockabilly great Dale ("Suzy Q") Hawkins. Buchanan spent the '60s as a sideman with obscure acts, as well as working as a session guitarist for such varied artists as pop idol Freddy Cannon, country artist Merle Kilgore, and drummer Bobby Gregg, among others, before Buchanan settled down in the Washington, D.C., area in the mid- to late '60s and founded his own outfit, the Snakestretchers. Buchanan's life changed in 1971, when he gained national notice as the result of an hour-long PBS television documentary.
               

Entitled Introducing Roy Buchanan, and sometimes mistakenly called The Best Unknown Guitarist in the World, it earned a record deal with Polydor Records and praise from John Lennon and Merle Haggard, besides an alleged invitation to join the Rolling Stones which he turned down and which

gave him the nickname "the man who turned the Stones down". He may have turned the Stones down for two reasons. He may have feared abusing drugs and alcohol more if he joined them, and dying, like Brian Jones. And he may have felt that his own career as he was then pursuing it had promising directions that he could not follow as well if he joined the Stones. In 1977, he appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits during Season 2.
                   

According to his agent and others, Buchanan was doing well, having gained control of his drinking habit and playing again, when he was arrested for public intoxication after a domestic dispute. He was

found hanged from his own shirt in a jail cell on August 14, 1988, in the Fairfax County, Virginia, Jail. According to Thomas Hartman, who was in a cell near Buchanan's, the deputy sheriff opened the door early in the morning and found Buchanan with the shirt around his neck. His cause of death was officially recorded as suicide, a finding disputed by Buchanan's friends and family. One of his friends, Marc Fisher, reported seeing Roy's body with bruises on the head.
                       

Roy Buchanan – Sweet Dreams: The Anthology
Label: Polydor – 314 517 086-2, Chronicles – 314 517 086-2
Format: 2 x CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: Sep 20, 1992
Genre: Rock, Blues, Pop
Style: Blues Rock
                            

CD 1.  TRACKS

                 

01. Baltimore   3:31
Guitar – Charlie Daniels, Roy Buchanan
Producer – Charlie Daniels
Written-By – Charlie Daniels
02. Black Autumn   4:25
Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals – Charlie Daniels
Bass – Tim Drummond
Drums – Karl Himmel
Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Keyboards – Bob Wilson
Producer – Charlie Daniels
Timpani, Percussion – Ernie Winfrey
Written-By – Charlie Daniels
03. The Story Of Isaac   5:48
Bass – Tim Drummond
Drums – Karl Himmel
Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Guitar, Vocals – Charlie Daniels
Keyboards – Bob Wilson
Producer – Charlie Daniels
Written-By – Leonard Cohen
04. There'll Always Be   4:50
Bass – Tim Drummond
Drums – Karl Himmel
Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Guitar, Vocals – Charlie Daniels
Keyboards – Bob Wilson
Lead Vocals – Billy Price
Producer – Charlie Daniels
Written-By – Charlie Daniels
05. Sweet Dreams   3:32
Bass – Pete Van Allen
Drums – Ned Davis
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Peter Kieve Siegel
Rhythm Guitar – Teddy Irwin
Written-By – Don Gibson
06. Pete's Blue   7:15
Bass – Pete Van Allen
Drums – Ned Davis
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Peter Kieve Siegel
Rhythm Guitar – Teddy Irwin
Written-By – Roy Buchanan
07. The Messiah Will Come Again   5:53
Bass – Pete Van Allen
Drums – Ned Davis
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Peter Kieve Siegel
Rhythm Guitar – Teddy Irwin
Written-By – Roy Buchanan
08. Tribute To Elmore James   3:25
Bass – Don Payne
Drums – Jerry Mercer
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Peter Kieve Siegel
Rhythm Guitar – Teddy Irwin
Written-By – Roy Buchanan
09. After Hours   6:14
Bass – Don Payne
Drums – Jerry Mercer
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Peter Kieve Siegel
Rhythm Guitar – Teddy Irwin
Written-By – A. Parrish, B. Feyne, R. Bruce
10. Five String Blues   6:24
Bass – Don Payne
Drums – Jerry Mercer
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Peter Kieve Siegel
Rhythm Guitar – Teddy Irwin
Written-By – Roy Buchanan
11. C.C. Ryder (Live)   6:49
Arranged By, Vocals, Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Bass – Don Payne
Drums – Jerry Mercer
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Mixed By – Joseph Palmaccio
Producer – Bill Levenson
Rhythm Guitar – Teddy Irwin
Written-By – Traditional
12. My Baby Says She's Gonna Leave Me   3:21
Bass, Backing Vocals – John Harrison
Drums – Robbie Magruder
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Billy Price
Producer – Jay Reich, Jr.
Written-By – Billy Price, John Harrison, Roy Buchanan
13. Please Don't Turn Me Away   4:47
Bass, Backing Vocals – John Harrison
Drums – Robbie Magruder
Keyboards – Dick Heintze
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Billy Price
Producer – Jay Reich, Jr.
Written-By – Billy Price, Roy Buchanan
14. Country Preacher   3:28
Bass – Kenny Tibbetts
Drums – Bill Stewart
Keyboards, Arranged By – Neil Larsen
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Ed Freeman
Written-By – Joe Zawinul
15. Wayfaring Pilgrim   5:07
Bass – Kenny Tibbetts
Drums – Bill Stewart
Keyboards, Arranged By – Neil Larsen
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Ed Freeman
Written-By – Ed Freeman, Roy Buchanan

Flac Size: 830 MB

CD 2 TRACKS

               

01. Down By The River (Live)   9:17
Bass – John Harrison
Drums – Byrd Foster
Keyboards – Malcolm Lukens
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Mixed By – Joseph Palmaccio
Producer – Bill Levenson
Vocals – Billy Price
Written-By – Neil Young
02. I'm A Ram (Live)   4:24
Bass – John Harrison
Drums – Byrd Foster
Keyboards – Malcolm Lukens
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Jay Reich, Jr.
Vocals – Billy Price
Written-By – A. Greene, M. Hodges
03. I'm Evil (Live)   6:15
Bass – John Harrison
Drums – Byrd Foster
Keyboards – Malcolm Lukens
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Jay Reich, Jr.
Written-By – Roy Buchanan
04. Good God Have Mercy   4:05
Bass – John Harrison
Drums – Byrd Foster
Keyboards – Malcolm Lukens
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Arif Mardin
Written-By – Billy Roberts
05. If Six Were Nine   3:46
Bass – John Harrison
Drums – Byrd Foster
Keyboards – Malcolm Lukens
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Arif Mardin
Written-By – Jimi Hendrix
06. Green Onions   8:09
Bass – Donald "Duck" Dunn
Drums – Dan Garibaldi
Keyboards – Malcolm Lukens
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan, Steve Cropper
Producer – Stanley Clarke
Written-By – Jackson, Jones, Steinberg, Cropper
07. Soul Dressing (Live)   7:00
Bass – John Harrison
Drums – Byrd Foster
Keyboards – Malcolm Lukens
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Jay Reich, Jr.
Written-By – Booker T. Jones
08. Hey Joe (Live)   8:19
Bass – John Harrison
Drums – Byrd Foster
Keyboards – Malcolm Lukens
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Jay Reich, Jr.
Written-By – Billy Cox
09. Fly ... Night Bird   7:42
Bass – Willie Weeks
Drums – Andy Newmark
Keyboards – Jean Roussel
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Raymond Silva
Rhythm Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Ray Gomez
Written-By – Newmark, Roussel, Silva, Buchanan, Weeks
10. Turn To Stone   5:46
Bass – Willie Weeks
Drums – Andy Newmark
Lead Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Producer – Raymond Silva
Rhythm Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Ray Gomez
Written-By – Joe Walsh, Terry Trebandt
11. Dual Solioquy   12:06
Guitar – Roy Buchanan
Mixed By – Joseph Palmaccio
Producer – Bill Levenson
Written-By – Roy Buchanan

Flac Size: 846 MB

NOTES

CD 1.

                

Track 1-01 recorded October 1969, January 1970 & February 1971 at Woodland Studios, Nashville
Tracks 1-02, 1-03 recorded July 1970 at Woodland Studios, Nashville
Track 1-04 recorded July 1970, November 1970 & February 1971 at Woodland Studios, Nashville
Tracks 1-05 to 1-07, 2-11 recorded July 1972 at the Record Plant, New York
Tracks 1-08 to 1-10 recorded November 1972 at the Record Plant, New York
Track 1-11 recorded May 1973 at the Marquee Club
Tracks 1-12 & 1-13 recorded October 1973 at the Record Plant, New York
Tracks 1-14 & 1-15 recorded June 1974 at the Record Plant, Sausalito

Tracks 1-01 to 1-04 from the unreleased album The Prophet: The Unreleased First Polydor Album
Tracks 1-05 to 1-07 from the album Roy Buchanan
Tracks 1-08 to 1-10 from the album Second Album
Tracks 1-12 & 1-13 from the album That's What I Am Here For
Tracks 1-14 & 1-15 from the album In The Beginning

CD 2.

                       

Tracks 2-01 & 2-02 recorded November 1974 at Town Hall, New York
Track 2-03 recorded March 1975 at the Amazing Grace Club, Evanston, Illinois
Tracks 2-04 & 2-05 recorded 1974 at Electric Lady, Record Plant, Media Sound & Atlantic Studios, New York
Track 2-06 recorded March 1977 at Clover Studios, Los Angeles
Tracks 2-07 & 2-08 recorded June 1977 at Ubinchokin Hall, Japan
Tracks 2-09 & 2-10 recorded June 1978 at Atlantic Studios, New York

Tracks 2-02 & 2-03 from the album Live Stock
Tracks 2-04 & 2-05 from the album A Street Called Straight
Track 2-06 from the album Loading Zone
Tracks 2-07 & 2-08 from the album Live In Japan
Tracks 2-09 & 2-10 from the album You're Not Alone

The Collectors: The Collectors 1967 + Grass And Wild Strawberries 1968

The Collectors debuted in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1961 as a house band (the C-FUN Classics)

for CFUN radio, and renamed itself The Collectors in 1966. The band featured Howie Vickers (Howard Vickberg) on lead vocals, Bill Henderson on lead guitar, recorder, keyboards, and lead vocals (these last mostly on Grass and Wild Strawberries), Claire Lawrence on tenor saxophone, harmonica, keyboards, flute, organ, recorder, and vocals, Glenn Miller on bass and vocals, and Ross Turney on drums and percussion.
                              

In the spring of 1967, Howie Vickers was asked to put together a house band at the Torch Cabaret in Vancouver. Along with Claire Lawrence on horns, they recruited guitarist Terry Frewer, drummer Ross Turney and Brian Newcombe on bass. Within a couple of months, fellow Classics member Glenn

Miller replaced Newcombe on bass and Bill Henderson, a student at UBC, replaced Frewer on guitars, and with Vickers now handling vocals, they matured their sound, they gradually replaced the R&B sounds and the covers with their own material, and graduated out of that one club and began playing the rest of the west coast, on both sides of the border. They did particularly well in California, where audiences were warm to the complex arrangements mixed with harmonies and extended solos and musical ad-libs.
              

The Collectors' biggest hit was their first single, 'Looking at a Baby', released in March 1967 on the

Valiant label in the U.S. and on New Syndrome in Canada. It reached #4 on Toronto's CHUM-AM on April 24, 1967. Valiant was then acquired by Warner Bros. Records. In 1967 the group released its first album, The Collectors, on the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts label and appeared on sessions for the US group The Electric Prunes' album Mass in F Minor.
                          

During this time, they’d by now contributed to the soundtracks of three Canadian films, “Don’t Let The Angels Fall,” “Canada The Land,” and “The Land.” After parting ways with Warner Bros, they landed a

new deal with London Records by late ’69. But by this time Vickers was spending much of his time doing solo shows, and decided to leave the group. Henderson took over the vocal duties, and their new label released a pair of singles by the summer of 1970, “I Must Have Been Blind” and “Sometimes We’re Up.” The b-sides were parts one and two of “Beginning,” and the proposed new album was set to be an epic saga concept type record, which never materialized.
                      

In 1987 a renewed interest in The Collectors came about after Edsel Records in the UK released a

compilation of the band’s two albums, mixed in with their pre-lp singles, 17 tracks in all. Four years later, they were featured on a compilation documenting the West Coast scene’s evolution – The History of Vancouver Rock & Roll. In 2008 the original two albums were re-released on compact disc through Universal Music.
                            

THE COLLECTORS - THE COLLECTORS 1967

                   

The Collectors’ self-titled album hit the shelves in the fall of ’67 and featured the first single “Lydia Purple,” penned by Don Dunn and Lynda McCashen, which got huge airplay at home. But a mix of experimental studio techniques and attempts at translating the California flowers and beads scene to a Canadian flowers and sea shells vibe didn’t necessarily make for great album sales, according to the

label reps. With “What Love (Suite)” taking up the whole second side, some people just didn’t get it and the record stalled before cracking Billboard’s top 40. This is despite the fact the song was actually a hit in parts of Europe. Still, the album mixed a good deal of classical influences into the melodies and with good vocal harmonies, later became recognized by the critics as a groundbreaking record that attempted to cross several musical boundaries.
                  

The Collectors – The Collectors
Label: Linea Records – LECD 9.01009, Line – LECD 9.01009 O
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 1991
Country: Germany
Released: 1967
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                  

01. What Is Love    3:51
02. She (Will-O-The-Wind)    3:51
03. Howard Christman's Older    5:08
04. Lydia Purple    2:47
05. One Act Play    3:42
06. What Love (Suite)    19:06

LINE - UP

                   

Bass, Vocals – Glenn Miller
Cello – Jesse Ehrlich (tracks: 4)
Drums, Percussion – Ross Turney
Guitar, Recorder, Vocals – Bill Henderson
Lead Vocals – Howie Vickersll Henderson
Piano, Harpsichord – Larry Knechtel (tracks: 4)
Tenor Saxophone, Organ, Flute, Recorder, Vocals – Claire Lawrence
Vibraphone – Norm Jeffries (tracks: 4)
Written-By – Don Dunn (tracks: 4), The Collectors, Tony McCashen (tracks: 4)

Flac Size: 239 MB

THE COLLECTORS - GRASS AND WILD STRAWBERRIES 1968

               

Their follow up, again recorded in LA came in the form of GRASS AND WILD STRAWBERRIES in

the fall of ’68. A collaboration with the poet and playwrite George Ryga, the album was based on his stage play of the same name. The songs were shorter, more plentiful, a little more toned down and slightly less out in left field,making them more palatable to the general public. The single “Early Morning” was on the stands early the next year and other cuts like the title track, “Teletype Click,” and “Seventeenth Summer” showcased the band’s development and maturity.
                   

The Collectors – Grass And Wild Strawberries
Label: Linea Records – LECD 9.01013 O
Format: CD, Album, Reissue 1991
Country: Germany
Released: 1968    
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                 

01. Prelude    4:46
02. Grass & Wild Strawberries    2:08
03. Things I Remember    2:46
04. Don't Turn Away (From Me)    3:09
05. Teletype Click    2:55
06. Seventeenth Summer    3:28
07. The Long Rain    2:56
08. My Love Delights Me    2:23
09. Dream Of Desolation    2:34
10. Rainbow On Fire    2:52
11. Early Morning    3:32
12. Sheep On The Hillside    4:16

LINE - UP

                        

Bass, Vocals – Glenn Miller
Drums – Ross Turney
Lead Vocals – Howie Vickers
Lead Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards – Bill Henderson
Lyrics By, Liner Notes – George Ryga
Saxophone, Flute, Keyboards, Harmonica, Vocals – Claire Lawrence

Flac Size: 237 MB