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April 12, 2008

Beat the Meatles

Ghost+Goes+Gear+psycho+shill.jpg Monster Movie Music unearths the rotting corpse of an almost-forgotten musical horror comedy starring Steve Winwood and the Spencer Davis Group, one of several cheesy Mod flicks that emerged in the wake of Hard Day's Night.

[Link: The Ghost Goes Gear]

Here's a couple of clips from the film that feature the SDG and a very young Winwood (in his pajamas) doin' their Sixties Groove Thang, along with a fine blue-eyed soul raveup from another band featured in the film, The St. Louis Union:







[Link: Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out]
[Link: When I Come Home]
[Link: English Tea]