Full Grown HeadRoy Loney & The Longshots Shake records SALD 210 July 1994
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Produced by Conrad Uno , Roy Loney, Scott McCaughey & Jim Sangster.
Engineered by: Conrad Uno
Recorded at: Egg studios, Seattle, Washington, January 1993
Art and Design by Pete Ciccone I/C
Photos by Erik Stuhaug
Cover Photo: Colleen Macklin
Roy Loney & The Longshots :
Roy Loney : lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Tad Hutchison : drums, percussion
Joey Kline : rhythm guitar
Scott McCaughey : bass guitar, vocals, organ, percussion
Jim Sangster : lead & rhythm guitars.
Harmony vocal on Neo Mondo and Tobacco Road: Rob Morgan
Big Thanks and Yahoos for:
Conrad Uno, The Young Fresh Fellows, The Squirrels, Captain Morgan, The Kinks, Ron Sanchez, Jud Cost, The A-Bones, Marie Hano, Teengenerate, Supersnazz, Patty “Ramona” Brady, Iain Walker, Renée Papillon, The Picketts, The Rat Bastards, Wade & Jeff, J and TJ., The Fablous Water Mice and Puffy’s Magic Army Members everywhere.
Roy met some guys from Seattle bands who said they wanted to play with him. Soon Roy was playing in Seattle with guys from The Young Fresh Fellows and The Squirrels, calling themselves Roy Loney & The Northwest Movers. Later they changed the name to Roy Loney & The Longshots.
1) Long Shot Theme (Sangster) The album starts out at great speed with an instrumental with lots of guitars close in sound. It sounds like a punk version of Dick Dale!
2) See Jane Goes (Loney – McCaughey) I remember how shocked I was when I heard this song for the first time. The tempo now increased further and the sound is quite wild with lots of energy!
3) Gentlemen Junkie (Loney) Now we calm down with a nice melodic Loney track. The sound is still very present with lots of guitars close in sound and a lot of feedback.
4) Get Off The Phone (Loney) A neat Loney-rocker with organ and a captivating melody.
5) Been Around Too Long (Loney) This is classic Loney! Nice melody with a captivating strutting pace and hypnotic rhythm. One of the disc's highlights!
6) Fool Proof (Loney) This is the coolest song so far, with its staggered pace and sparse accompaniment. This is not far from Loney's early works with influences from the Lovin 'Spoonful. Fantastic!
7) I'll Come Running (Berns – Stuart) A fine cover of a fine R&B-pop song that was a hit for Lulu in 1964.
8) Teeny Weeny Man (a.k.a. Teenie Weenie Man) (Danny Wheeler). This is just crazy pure fun. A crazy obscure old rockabilly song played in a wild tempo that increases until all collapses at the end!
9) Full Grown Head (Loney). A nice song in Buddy Holly-style with lyrics that relates to Teenage Head. Now Roy is a Full Grown Head! “Once upon a time a was a teenage head / And I had me a teenage style / Now I dig Sinatra and a weekend off / But I still manage half a smile”.
10) Just My Kind (McCaughey). Written by Scott McCaughey of The Young Fresh Fellows, Just My Kind is a great rocker with nice harmony vocal and slide guitar.
Neo Mondo (Loney). A great up-tempo rocker again with great rhyming lyrics.
11) Tobacco Road (Loudemilk). This is the only track on this album I can’t understand. It’s a good song and it’s well performed, but the song have beem covered by too many bands…
12) Slow Death (Loney – Jordan). This is the first studio recording with Roy on vocals. This is quite close to the original Flamin’ Groovies recording.
This disc has a Roy in top form with a new fresh backing band. The disc is very good with nice songs, many played at a furious pace! What pulls down the grade a bit is the unnecessary cover (Tobacco Road) and the little too unpolished (Teeny Weeny Man). I’ll give it 8/10.