Northswest Movers January-February 1992

1. Intro
2. Panic To A Manic Degree
3. San Francisco Girls
4. Neat Petite (mp3)
5. Bip Bop Boom (mp3)
6. Evil Hearted Ada
7. Phantom Mover
8. Ruin Your Shoes
9. Emmy Emmy
10. Bop-A-Lena
11. Something Else
12. Return To Sender
13. Hey Waitress
14. Coming After Me
15. Here Comes Curly
16. Love Is A Spider
17. Have You Seen My Baby (mp3)
18. Sorry
19. Teenage Head
20. Slow Death
21. Roadhouse
22. Bye Bye Johnny (mp3)
23. Don't Believe Those Lies (mp3)
24. Second Cousin (mp3)
25. Don't Start Crying Now (mp3)

1-7, 19-20, aaand 24: Town Pump Vancouver 31 Jan, 1992
8-9, 17-19, 21-23, and 25: Harpo's Victoria 3 Feb, 1992
10-15: Buffalo Bill's Whistler 2, Feb 1992

The Cast

Roy Loney - acoustic guitar and vocals
Jim Sangster - guitar (day one)
Joey Kline - guitar
Scott McCaughey - bass
Tad Hutchison - drums
Rob Morgan - additional vocals
Kurt Bloch - guitar #25

Recorded and Compiled by RS

The first collaboration between Roy Loney and the Seattle crew went out under the name Roy Loney And The Northwest Movers. The Young Fresh Fellows headlined, and the Squirrels joined them for some of the shows.

The tour

30, January - The Crocodile, Seattle
31 Jamuary - The Town Pump, Vancouver
1 February - The Town Pump, Vancouver
2 February - Buffalo Bill's, Whistler
3 February - Harpo's Victoria

The compilation tape I made after the tour, collects the best performance of every song played. I think battery failure meant the second night in Vancouver wasn't recorded.

The set list is a collection of Groovies tunes, material from Roy's solo career and a few choice covers. By the time they played Garage Shock, they might have added some of the Full Grown Head material to the show, but at this point it was a deep look into the catalog. This is one of the few recordings of the original Longshots line up. The Live In Spain cd has the Mark 2 line up with Kevin Lee and Graham Black taking over the rhythm section.

More songs from this tour and from later shows will be posted over the next few months. Please enjoy them while waitng for the new album.

17 July 2006

The second addition to the down load page, are three great covers the "Northwest Movers" were playing that tour.

Have You Seen My Baby, the Randy Newman tune, was covered by the Groovies on the Teenage Head lp. Over the years this arrangement has become a sort of standard.

Chuck Berry's great Bye Bye Johnny has never been recognized for the great song it is. The Stones covered it early in their career. I'd think Roy would be thinking of that nearly as much as the original. I don't think it's ever reappeared in the Longshots set.

The first Them single was a cover of Slim Harpo's Don't Start Crying. Again this version owes much to that great cover version. The original was taken at a much slower tempo, unlike the rowdy Them version. This recording features Kurt Bloch on guitar, along with Jim Sangster. I believe it is the only time Kurt joined the band on stage. This actually may have been a Fellows encore, with Roy.... dig it.

Roy Loney
Piledriver - KGLT 9 June, 2006

Music and interview

Part 1 (mp3)

1. Panic To A Manic Degree
2. Love Is A Spider
3. City Lighs
   

Part 2 (mp3)

1. Teenage Head
   

While in Bozeman to work on Shake It, Or Leave It, I asked Roy if he'd like to sit in on my radio show and play a few songs. He was more than happy to oblige. He spent the whole week searching through the record library, looking for some things to spin. While we can't post the hour of songs he selected, we can post the interview and live songs.