Stonemen "Faded Colors" 1968 Canada garage Psych
- 9 years ago
The Stonemen "In the Evening / Faded Colors" single 45" Canada Psych Garage Fuzz
The Stonemen's lone single is criminally obscure, with only a handful of copies known to have survived the sixties, and with such a paucity of information about the band out there in cyberland that even the release date seems hard to pin down. A few sites list it as 1966, though it feels more like '67 or '68 with the seething guitar feedback on both sides. The label places the record from the East Coast - most likely Moncton, New Brunswick based - though the lads were actually from the rural Cap-Pele / Portage area up in Acadia. The nucleus of the group centred around the Leblanc brothers, from a well-known family of bricklayers, hence the name Stonemen.
As is often the case on these garage singles, the b-side is the better of the two. 'Faded Colors' is a lazy sort of psychedelic nugget, with some delicate guitar riffs showing that the lads might have given Hendrix's 'Hey Joe' a spin or two. A mere VG copy sold in 2014 for $1350 US, so punters out in Eastern Canada might not want to put off doing that spring cleaning much longer...
"Our crazed chainsaw-fuzz lumberjacks from Maritimes up north return to consider the detrimental effects that 76 trips to Lysergia has had on their ability to maintain normal relationships. As Hendrixy guitars howl away, a slobbering, obviously quaaluded vocalist laments that all he sees is faded colours. Maybe some STP could set him back on track". That is how this single is described on the Psychedelic Experience Comp Vol. 4., released on Mystic Records back in 2000.
Little is known of the Stonemen. What is know is that they were from Moncton, New Brunswick and that this, their lone single, "In the Evening b/w Faded Colors" is amongst the most desirable Canadian garage fuzz freak music artifacts on the planet. This single recently changed hands for a cool $4,000.00, making this single the second most valuable Canadian single of all-time, just behind The Fringe's "Canada's Next Number One Recording Group" promo.
-Robert Williston..
The Stonemen's lone single is criminally obscure, with only a handful of copies known to have survived the sixties, and with such a paucity of information about the band out there in cyberland that even the release date seems hard to pin down. A few sites list it as 1966, though it feels more like '67 or '68 with the seething guitar feedback on both sides. The label places the record from the East Coast - most likely Moncton, New Brunswick based - though the lads were actually from the rural Cap-Pele / Portage area up in Acadia. The nucleus of the group centred around the Leblanc brothers, from a well-known family of bricklayers, hence the name Stonemen.
As is often the case on these garage singles, the b-side is the better of the two. 'Faded Colors' is a lazy sort of psychedelic nugget, with some delicate guitar riffs showing that the lads might have given Hendrix's 'Hey Joe' a spin or two. A mere VG copy sold in 2014 for $1350 US, so punters out in Eastern Canada might not want to put off doing that spring cleaning much longer...
"Our crazed chainsaw-fuzz lumberjacks from Maritimes up north return to consider the detrimental effects that 76 trips to Lysergia has had on their ability to maintain normal relationships. As Hendrixy guitars howl away, a slobbering, obviously quaaluded vocalist laments that all he sees is faded colours. Maybe some STP could set him back on track". That is how this single is described on the Psychedelic Experience Comp Vol. 4., released on Mystic Records back in 2000.
Little is known of the Stonemen. What is know is that they were from Moncton, New Brunswick and that this, their lone single, "In the Evening b/w Faded Colors" is amongst the most desirable Canadian garage fuzz freak music artifacts on the planet. This single recently changed hands for a cool $4,000.00, making this single the second most valuable Canadian single of all-time, just behind The Fringe's "Canada's Next Number One Recording Group" promo.
-Robert Williston..