The Moontrekkers - The Bogey Man

[DoTheKelp]

Where can I get this song? I can't find it anywhere. Could you possibly eMail this to me? It's such a good song and way better than "Return of the Vampire". Thanks!

[scratchyoldies]

GREAT STUFF!

[RareNoiseUploads]

Are you aware of the slower version of this song by the same group? I have it on a Joe Meek comp and it's called "Night of the Vampire (The Bogey Man)". I personally like this faster version.

[SirBasildeBrush]

@RareNoiseUploads I am thank you, and like you, I (much) prefer this faster version.

[clashboy1977]

@RareNoiseUploads Night of the vampire's a different song. the slower one is called return of the vampire!

[BluesYourAss]

The Intro sounds exactly like The Sonics "Strichnine"..........

[SirBasildeBrush]

@BluesYourAss you're right it does...!

[crabula]

what's the name of the olde illustration @ :47? (the bat guy on the tombstone...)

[SirBasildeBrush]

@crabula You'll have too ask the bat guy, my eyes aren't up to it !

[Laceration242]

@crabula It's Spring-heeled Jack, a folklore legend from England in the Victorian times

[SirBasildeBrush]

@Laceration242 ah, interesting !

[crabula]

@Laceration242 Thanks!

[colindaleradiosutch]

OOH YOU ARE AWFUL ?. YOU NAUGHTY LADS. MORE LIKE PHANTOM OF THE OPREY, WINDFREE. YOUR HAVIN A LARF ? COLIN THE DALE ON RADIO SUTCH.

[RalfsLab]

"I know that I know nothing" -Socrates

OK,I'll shut up now.

[RalfsLab]

Awesome,I see you have pictures of the Boogey Man and other ghosts from 'The Real Ghostbusters' cartoon,my favourite tv show. Wow,that organ almost sounds like a synthesizer,I love it! Pretty other-worldly sounds for 1963,though I know Raymond Scott had been expirimenting with synthesizers since 1959 and people like Karlheinz Stockhausen and others made weird music concrete before that,but still,those sounds weren't as common in the 1960s as they are now. Or may be they were,I wasn't alive then

[Oni64]

sounds like something that might have inspired the banjo kazooie games

[brokenbeard1]

Im havin a great sunday afternoon listening to some of my all time fave/instros curtesy of Sirbasildebrush,thanks, again managed to see them at the Pipline convention a few years ago when they reformed jst for that day,i love this track they had a brilliant sound "somthing at the bottom of the well "was also agood Bside ,grtstuff sirB//

[SirBasildeBrush]

@brokenbeard1 Pleased to help out with your weekend. You're digging way back in my early posts. Impressed you've seen these guys, killer instrumental.

[Mitsumomie]

full a boogies :< ima so sick! boobooo :{

[dancub1]

Anybody know if the flip side Moondust is available on cd? A much better version of Sunday Sunset. Still gives me goosebumps

[dfeltch]

Anyone know if the intro's bassline is a bassline used often? Because the Clash just might have stolen that bassline in "Radio Clash."

[SirBasildeBrush]

@dfeltch I'd say quite a well-used intro, often used to impart a sense of theatrical drama.

[clashboy1977]

@dfeltch it's similar but its quite a generic pattern alright!

[dfeltch]

@clashboy1977 I thought so. Just don't know what else it's in.

[clashboy1977]

@dfeltch i've heard it in a few songs at different tempos but cant think of where off the top of my head either hahahaha!

[gh9448]

@dfeltch I forgot the name of the group, but in the mid 80's they put out on a song called Date With A VAmpire Girl-same opening.

[SirBasildeBrush]

@gh9448 The Moontrekkers also released a slower tempo version of this as "Return Of The Vampire".

[scotsongs]

Gary LePort (lead guitar and composer of most of the instrumentals) is still out there working... England's Django Reinhardt. Search him out and go and see his music today. His "Night of the Vampire" even featured in a Carnegie Hall classical performance by a well-known, classical string quartet.

[SirBasildeBrush]

Thanks for the info, I'll check him out.

[doctorelefun]

Thanks for introducing the Moontrekkers to me, Sir Basil. These guys rock!

[SirBasildeBrush]

My pleasure. If you click on 'return of the vampire' to your right you'll hear a different version of this!

[Chanitooo]

i only find few songs of Moontrekkers in Joe Meek's albums... did you find another albums wich contains it?

(sorry my english)

[SirBasildeBrush]

This is on a long-deleted instrumental compilation CD. But yes, I also have the Moontrekkers on Joe Meek albums, including the slower version of this.

[Teddyboy53Rocker]

Sure need to have some more of these guys tracks in my collection, thanks for posting, brilliant

[nubbyknob]

what this vid needs is two minutes of Frankenstein dancing on the beach.

[SirBasildeBrush]

That'd work.

[Keijz74]

Music is cool! Delicous weirdness. Joe Meek's one of those legendary nicely dirsturbed people.

[youvexme]

Cool! Ghost power on a surfboard!

[Chanitooo]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam

what a good song ! ! !!

[SirBasildeBrush]

agreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!

[watchoutbambi]

this is awesome!

thank you

[SirBasildeBrush]

Pleased to know it's being enjoyed in the Antipodes!

[FrawstbyteEXG]

dude. i discivered this band like 5 minutes. and this song is now one of my favorites already. thanks for uploading!

[SirBasildeBrush]

Thanks. Good to know others out there appreciate this great track.

[Keijz74]

The second song I discovered of this band. After Night Of The Vampire. The Moontrekkers knew how to make Halloween Music!

[aintellengreat]

Wow. Deffinately on of my favourite songs at the moment.

I've just worked this out on guitar SLASH keys for my final GCSE ensemble assesment on friday so if any one wants the tab Gimme a shout :)

Wish me luck :D

x

[SirBasildeBrush]

I wish you luck on Friday. Rock them!

[Keijz74]

Hope that friday ROCKED for you!

[jedwoods1]

Great track - one of the minor instrumental classics IMHO but cut after the group split from Joe Meek....

[SirBasildeBrush]

Hi - thanks for the info, didn't know that.