Good Humor Ice Cream Truck
No mere footnote in surf music history, the Avengers VI were an exceptional group of clean-cut rockers in matching suits from Anaheim, CA, whose somewhat forgotten classic, “Time Bomb” was covered in recent years by both Man or Astro-man? and the Bomboras. This reissue of their first recording, which came out in 1966, was originally intended to be promotion for the Good Humor Ice Cream Company. The cover features them on top of and around an ice cream truck sporting matching aqua-colored suits. Nearby, an ice cream man displays a Popsicle. But the album is also a very impressive and enjoyable collection of originals and covers including a knockout take on “Downtown,” as well as Henry Mancini’s “Mr. Lucky” and more obvious choices like “Pipeline” and “Peter Gunn.” It’s the originals, though, that make the case for the band being a forgotten gem amongst the legions of ’60s surf groups. Featuring scintillating organ riffs and three guitars going berserk, songs like “None But the Brave” and “The Avengers Stomp” prove the Avengers VI to be a crucial, though mostly forgotten chapter of the surf music era.
Avengers VI – Real Cool Hits – 1964
Last weekend, on a blindingly sunny early November Sunday, CBS studios hosted the 2009 Great Chefs of Los Angeles to benefit the National Kidney Foundation of Southern California. George and Ann Lopez were honorary chair people lending their humor to the event and their visages to the red carpet. Chefs included Govind Armstrong of 8 Oz. Burger Bar on Melrose and Table 8 in NYC and Miami, Neal Fraser of Grace, Josie Balch of Josie in Santa Monica, Celestino Drago of Drago Ristorante, Enoteca Drago, and Drago Centro, my personal favorite Adam Horton of Saddle Peak Lodge who recognized me from commentary on KevinEats blog review of SPL *yay*, and many many more. So many more, and so many many chefs serving autumnally appropriate red meat under the hot Indian summer sun.
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