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  • Sean Bonniwell, one the artist that brought garage to the mainstream. Rest in Peace........

  • San Jose CA, native Sean Bonniwell RIP.

  • RIP Sean Bonniwell

  • I wonder where these guys are today? They were pretty GD good, but just lasted a short while. Probably playing casinos and second-line clubs in So. California if I have my guess! I remember watching this TV "performance" (it was lip-synch, too bad). The band in which each member wore a glove (black, of course!) on one hand, to symbolize their all belonging to a unit together, and no glove on the other hand, to symbolize their independence and individuality.

  • The best example of garage rock ever. I'll take the Pepsi challenge on this one.

  • just amazing. song  Leather pants why do we have to age. it sucks.

  • Awesome song/group. Man this song just hits ya in the gut and makes ya want to lift some serious weights or run ten miles. These guys were the epitomy of BAD. Awesome, just Awesome.

    Thanks for the post and memories.

  • @SgtRock57 You said it - GARAGE hit it big, if even for one hit - as so many did - PSYCHEDELIC - like the PUNK era, it lasted very shorly, but oh so good

  • Thanks for the clip! It's been 40 years since I bought the '45, and I never actually saw what they looked like. I heard about the black glove thing. Great drummer, when compared to most of his contemporaries. Too bad they didn't have much depth in the guitar area.............. they might not have faded so quickly.

  • we use to play this in our band. easy song. fun

  • Folks this is Proto Goth! Unfuckingbelievable performance.

  • I love the Residents' version on '3rd reich and rol'l, and now found the original. Both versions are fantastic!

  • The original punk band!!

  • The original gloved group. Rot in hell, michael jackson.

  • @almostacowboy77 YES!!!!

  • is this where Michael got his idea for the One Glove???

  • 2 minutes of intensity...yeah!

  • American Bandstand. I remember watching this when it was aired. Awesome song. Had this clip for 25 years and just recently got a clip of them doing "The People In Me".

  • i have their album with this song on it, there are a number of other really good songs on that album. i sort of consider this to be the first rap song.

  • Sean Bonniwell

  • It's easy to see these guys were a major influence on John Kaye of SteppinWolf...

  • One of the best old forgotten bands of yesterday... Luv it!

  • The only hit song they ever had...looking back on it, can it be described as psychedelic/punk?

    Whatever it was, it's pretty damn good.

  • @Steve915

    This awesome, underrated band enjoyed more hits (like "The Eagle Never Hunts The Fly") but only as local hits. I have always said that this amazing band spawned Punk AND Heavy Metal. I know Sean, he is a very nice guy.

  • Can You Believe this The King of Disco Gangbanger Art Laboe Produced this song?

    Priceless

  • @apple1953 yes took my words "Tight band" .Today they suck the Boom...

  • Fucking COOL!

  • That's pretty heavy for it's time...cool shit man.

  • I was in a band called the "Soundproof Cookie" Jar and we played as the warm up band for these guys at the "Hullabaloo" in Hollywood. I think we played they're tune and they got upset?! LOL.

  • I was in a band called the "Soundproof Cookie" Jar and we played as the warm up band for these guys at the "Hullabaloo" in Hollywood. I think we played they're tune and they got upset?! LOL

  • I was 16 when this came to the record shop, gardena ca bought it 75 cents still have it 45 records are great this band is right up there with the seeds pushin to hard. man things where simple back then!!!, loved this song

  • Wow, this is amazing "whigged out" garage rock as it was transforming into psychedelia and acid rock. And you can see where the Ramones got their look from.

  • I remember this song but, never seen or knew who sang it. Thanks for posting this video.

  • I remember this one as a kid ! Check out the new "fuzz-tone" sound of the guitar ! hahaha

  • Great song!

  • i'm a thinkin' this is the first heavy metal song ever..

  • One of the great lost gems of the 60s with a classic ending!

  • WOW! FAB STUFF!

  • Always loved the tough-as-nails, kick-ass sound of this tune...drums are awesome!!

  • This band rocks! They cut a lot of good songs. Dark and raunchy!

  • ...great tune..thanks for the video

  • The lyrics are relevant today as they were back then! This song is 1000% garage punk at it's finest!!!

  • this is the shit

  • I used to hear this song when I was a kid. It is the original 'Punk' song!

    Mike

  • wow. I remember this song... and these guys were the "bad boy band" before the Doors hit the airwaves... like the Troggs and even tougher, better than the Seeds! KILLER VID!

  • It's interesting to note that all band members have a glove on their hand,  someone famous also laid claim to that distinction. Never did like that guy much anyway.

  • That pedophile who od'ed just copied this clove thing like most of his singing style

  • That drummer was ahead of his time..No chance of it being Keith Moon is it?

  • No chance! Keith Moon used to play without Hi Hat and that's not the case as you can see.

    The name of the drummer is Ron Edgar.

  • I first heard this song in 1980 by Alice Cooper from his Flush the Fashion album. I always loved it and am surprised it was done about 15 years earlier. Was this '65 or '66?

  • @MrEvolution513 It was'66. Cooper's version was not as good as the original; however, he had a song called "Clones" on that LP which was a hit and I liked.

  • they tuned their instruments 1 +1/2 tones lower.

    Look the guitarist plays an E chord and it comes out C#... they always played like this... Guitar and bass 3 halftones down!!!

  • this is news to me. I learned the song in Eb and raised it to E during the middle....

  • yeah.

    You learnt it in Eb and that's the right tune and it goes E in the middle. But look at the fingering in the vid... when it sounds Eb he plays like it was F# and so when he plays E that's C#...

  • what I mean is that if you play with a standard tuning the fingering is tricky and you can't play it exactly like the Machine because you can't play the bass notes on the 6th (E) string

  • Great song. Can't believe how much the bass player looks like John Lennon in this video.

  • looks like a gretsch to me. man, just shows you dont have to have 2 acres of drums to get everything you need and then some. How tight is that groove?

  • Not punk, just good rock. What punk wished it could have been.

  • Man Ron is far one of the best drummers from the 60's he's very quick and still creative and just don't stick to the basic comps as all the other bands did. Music machine rocks and Talk Talk is one of the far best songs from this era, the two final notes in the first solo just sound so cool and the rest of the song is simply amazing! everything good happened in he 60's :/

  • sean has a martin electric guitar like skip spence had.

  • @Syndicate93 I was 14, and even then this song just blew my ass off. Still today, it's raw, edgy..almost ruthless. One of the greatest ever one-hit wonders...oh,oh..alright!!

  • Kick ass music!

  • Talk about early "Grunge' music 

  • The Music Machine and The Seeds were responsible for laying the groundwork for punk rock many years later. This is good stuff.

  • I agree!!! Loved this music when I was just a kid. Still love it & punk and am now approaching "senior" years!

  • Yeh man.....we're 'cool' seniors'

    I'll be playin' this in the oldpeoples home,

    (if I get there)

  • We played backup at a gig in Santa Rosa '66. Black duds, one black glove, they tuned down one note to e flat (guitars), all wore black wigs (I thought they were wigs) and were the first to break with fuzz tone on the base guitar. Early LA heavy metal. And they were great!

  • EXCELLENT STUFF thanX

  • I had this 45 rpm record. Great song!

  • More like early punk. Pre-dates Iggy & The Stooges, MC5 and the Ramones. Looks like a Gretsch or maybe a Rickenbacker he's playing? Can't get a good look. Wonder what year this is?

  • it's just rock n roll, which is all punk music is... everything else is sugar coated pop purposed tunage for the mall crowd. This is an excellent song.

  • Very early heavy metal. This was way before Page, Zeppelin, and the early pioneers.

  • Dig that electric Martin that singers playing!!!

  • Great track, great band. And one of YouTube's biggest mysteries. Why did the Music Machine guys wear one glove each? AND - why did the keyboards player wear his on his left hand, while the other guys wore theirs on their right? Yes, I know, I need to get out more.

  • Best song under 2 minutes ever recorded.

  • TOO fucking right

  • "I often wash my hands". I remember this song from when I was in Junior High School.

  • Sorry but it's "I've all but washed my hands"

  • They actually came to my high school, Reseda High School, up in the San Fernando Valley, for an assembly - guess that was before the "big time".

  • wow! very rare video

    thank you

  • if someone told me they had never heard a rock song and wanted know what RnR was all about, i'd play this song for them.

    then they would know what RnR was.

  • Wow! I had forgotten all about the Music Machine! My band did this song about 8 hundred gazillion years ago! "Talk Talk" is a great side, way ahead of its time. Thanks for posting!

  • I love the Music Machine. This is excellent! thanks forposting

  • "My social life's a dud, my name is really mud.." Classic!

  • OW, OH, ALL RIGHT!

  • "Turn On" was a great album for damn sure.

  • Cool video! A great and somewhat forgotten era in rock. I remember this song from June, 1966. Definitely "proto-punk". They beat Michael Jackson with the single glove feature by almost 20 years!

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  • The gloves! The gloves! The gloves!

  • As I recall, it's been way too many decades, thank you, the idea of one glove for them was to represent the earth and air (or the spirit). Like I said, it's been a long time ....

  • "Absolutely Positively"

    Another Bonniwell great.....

  • Despite the heavy, proto-punk thunder of this song, it's remarkably sophisticated. INcluding the odd rhythms and key changes mid-way through. One of the best of the 60s LA punk.

  • Thank you, Alice Cooper!

  • I remember these guys. Talk about "proto-punk"...bands like these invented it. They were from SoCal and this was their "hit". they had another that charted called "Double Yellow Line" in spring of '67. But this one was really their fifteen minutes of fame.

  • What is he playing? an electric viola?

  • Looks like an early Rickenbacker electric four string bass guitar. Similar to the one McCartney played with a bigger body.

  • I think that was a bass made by Eko. I don't know if it was exactly a Hofner knock-off, but there were a few of them around in the mid to late 60s.

  • Not exactly. They were The Music Machine for their first album, then all the members quit except Bonniwell. The second album was called "The Bonniwell Music Machine" and only Sean was left.

  • Up until a few years ago the keyboard player, Doug Rhodes, helped host a regular sunday night jam with Monte Nordstrom & the Belmonts for 11 years at the Brigantine pub on Belmont Road in Maple Bay, Vancouver Island. I attended for a few years as one of the many jam participants, before I accidentally found out the modest & soft spoken keyboard player was formerly of Music Machine. I think he now lives in Victoria, Vancouver Island.

  • Hi Smudgefizz, True enough except it was with The Beaumonts on Beaumont Avenue. We continue to regroup & perform at annual special events. Thanks for remembering, Monte

  • yeah man this slays.

  • Way Way ahead of their time.

    Almost all their music is great..

  • i am a musican who found this song as one of the most difficult to play. i really appreciate playing it back in the 60's-70's.

    ray

  • I love this song! The lead singer resembles Tex Watson,though. Scary!

  • This is one of those lost gems. It's right up there with Pushin Too Hard, Hey Little Girl and Too Much To Dream. I love youtube. keep em comming. Peace

  • One of the classic Nuggets-era garage punk bands. Really cool to see this.

  • i forgot about this really cool song. thanks for posting it.

  • I didn't know the Music Machine were British. After all this time I learn the truth. Oh, well! Haven't heard this one in eons, thanks!

  • They weren't. They were from Los Angeles.

  • That's strange. Wikipedia lists them as a British group.

  • That IS weird, because I just went to Wiki and this is the entry I found: "The Music Machine (1965--1969) was an American garage rock and psychedelic (sometimes referred to as garage punk) band from the late 1960s, headed by singer-songwriter Sean Bonniwell and based in Los Angeles." Maybe there's another, less known Music Machine, but it's not this band.

  • That IS odd. Perhaps there ARE two bands with the same name. It's not uncommon. I'll have to look up Wiki again... Thanks.

  • Blinky, You are correct. They are from Cali. And they each wore one black glove so as to have a unified image. Take Care... John

  • My name is really Mudd!!

    I've loved this song since I was 9 years old in 1966

  • Hey I was 9 in 1966 too and loved this song. Yay Bob!

    I'm a Mudd Woman!

  • Hey thats cool! My older sister had this on a 45 and we all used to dance around when Talk Talk played!

  • Sweet Doug.

  • I think Bonniwell plays guitar for Jesus now

  • Check out (if you can) The People In Me, thier follow up to Talk Talk. IMO a better song and it kicks ass!

  • never heard of this band or any of their music.. but this really got me into them. they sound GREAT i mean it

  • You would need a time machine back to 1966 in order to see or hear them again. They were actually one of those "one hit wonders" bands.

    I liked their music; but this is the only one that made it.

  • Too funny, they wear those geetars like necklaces.

  • And only one black glove. Like the Bizarro version of Michael Jackson.

  • Great clip, thanks!

  • I was actually in a band that opened for these guys back in 1966...what great memories!

  • Really?  Cool. I am into '60s Garage Music.

    Which group? Great song!

  • Actually, over the time span it two bands: Euphrates River Project and a band called Obeah, hard blues stuff. We had one single that never charted called Evil. No one alive has a copy. We were kind of a big fish in a little pond for a couple of years but got to open for some pretty cool groups, these guys, Sir Douglas Quintet, The Merry Go Round, Evergreen Blues Band. It sure was a lot of fun! I actually knew some of the guys in Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica lineup.

    Good times!

  • I still turn up the volume whenever I hear this song on the oldies station and that is very rarely. Sad but true

  • I believe Sean Bonniwell may have been slightly ahead of his time. How many freakin' bands came out of LA about the same time?

  • I have Alice Cooper's version on his album Flush the Fashion. In fact, it's the lead track. This doesn't sound anything like Alice's cover though.

  • Great song , with Garage attitude !

    How the hell did I end up in the French youtube ? À propos de cette vidéo . Yeah , we Texans just don't know much French , they made the right disission not to attack Iraq. and the neo-cons called them stupid. Music machine was big at this time , with many great hits.

  • reminds me of Love Arthur Lee.

  • Lip synched but still cool. Very good band. The gloves were the gimmick. Sexy! They did lots of good songs. Thanks for the posting! Where are they now? "Masculine Intuition" by them is one of my fave songs.

  • They in turn got inspired by The Sorrows,

    a Scottish band from '64,

    check 'm out and you'll see why.

  • Check 'm out in my favourites,

    the clip in question is very difficult

    to find .Because of copyright hassles,

    the poster made some adjustments.

  • Great song,but they never followed with another,I guess the one glove thing was a 'signature look'...??..maybe Michael Jackson was a MM fan,huh..??Har-har..

  • Check out "The People in Me," their followup song. In fact, try to find their albums...they're all great, and WAY ahead of their time.

  • Thank You, for posting. Heavy Metal, ONLY!

    Valkyrie Ziege Mourne

  • You can really hear their influence in Iron Butterfly, VU and Ramones.

  • fuck fuck fuck. sooo cool. these dicks invented metal

  • Cool stuff --- nope, they just don't make them like they used to!

  • Out of circulation ? no way ,Bonniwell . €;-]

  • We followed these guys from Hollywood to Sunnyvale to Yuma, Arizona in the 60's...they were so good! Boy I'm old!!

  • In their day, the Music Machine made a name for themselves with their black duds and leather gloves.

    The lead singer later became a Christian rocker.

  • The Gloved One

  • Y E A H  M A N

  • IS THIS COOL OR FUCKIN'WHAT ?

  • this song rocks

  • This miming has more energy than many live acts of today!

  • you got it -these guys are actually really good players ,and the drummer is better than some today.circa 1967 ? remember the blues magoos ? the beginning of harder edge stuff.

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