The Mods - Days Mind the Time

Info taken from DJ Danny Little's excellent blog-site: http://www.officenaps.com/

The Mods, Days Mind the Time (Cee Three)
We might be forgiven for momentarily thinking the Mods English. Listen closer and you hear it, though - that unmistakable lack of polish that persisted around even the most vigilant stateside Anglophile musician. Something like the reek of Baron Cologne and Budweiser. Americans!

The Mods, in fact, hailed from Ft. Worth, Texas, a scene that produced some amazing 60s garage bands. It was scene, too, that, for want of fuller description, lacked musical subtlety (well documented on Norton Records brilliant three-volume Ft. Worth Teen Scene series). Which makes 1966s Days Mind the Time that much more compelling. City elders fretted over wild-eyed Fort Worthians like Larry & the Blue Notes and the Barons, giving the Mods just enough time to record this class-act anomaly. For all of its clipped accents, Days Mind the Time is stunning, a blend of impeccable arrangements and soaring harmonies, all steeped in 12-string jangle.

Consisting of multi-instrumentalist Scott Frasier (drums), Chris Hawkins (guitar), Eddie Lively (vocals, guitar), and Don McGilvery (bass), Days Mind the Time would be the only 45 that the Mods produced, sadly. Frasier, along with Lively, would go on to record in the Texas band Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit, and Greenhill, who released an excellent, though wholly unrecognizable, album of psychedelic folk-rock in 1968 on the Los Angeles-based Uni label.

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Music

Tags:

• 1966
• Ft.
• Worth
• Texas
• 60s
• garage
• band
• 12-string
• jangle

[1975RStefan]

Wow what a timeless nice song! Very great! I wish I can get this single...

[revisann]

Wow! I knew these guys and have that old 45 packed away somewhere. My friends and I saw them perform a few times around Ft. Worth.

[daveuk655]

classic gem  ....

[smokeemonkee]

Your info blurb failed to mention that the Mods were mere junior high students when they recorded this classic. Musical whiz Scott Fraser came up with this song and came up with the arrangement for the flip-side, Lennon & McCartney's "It's For You", using only the sheet music, without ever hearing the actual song. There is also an acetate by the Mods of the Yardbird's "Evil Hearted You" and a different mix of "It's For You".

Scott Fraser also fronted a fantastic band called Space Opera.

[mixymasachan]

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[plastiqueadapte]

Not surprisingly I did not know that song but I was pleasantly surprise !

[merseymain]

good one. a British band from 20 years ago, The Mock Turtles, recorded very similar music.