The Tangerine Zoo
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Home Town: East Freetown, MA
Genre: Psychedelic
Posted By: Tiger
Joined On: March 6, 2004
Page Views: 11,743
Song Plays: 1,239
Current Rank: 871
Highest Rank: 41
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Albums
Tangerine Zoo 1st album, Outside Looking In, Uncaged
Similar Artists
Pink Floyd, Vanilla Fudge, Moody Blues,Yes
Group Members
Wayne Gagnon, Bob Benevides, Ron Medieros, Don Smith, Tony Taveira
Instruments
Guitars, Bass, Hommond Organ, Drums
Musical Style
Sixties psychadelic/garage
Influences
Pink Floyd, Vanilla Fudge, Moody Blues,Yes
Additional Info
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The Tangerine Zoo
Tangerine Zoo
Released 1968 on Mainstream
Reviewed by Certif1ed, 21/07/2008cc
Forced to change their name from "The Flower Pots", because of the "obvious" drug reference, The Tangerine Zoo missed out on a place in the history books by turning down the opportunity to play at the Woodstock festival in 1969.
Had they played there, we would have remembered them as, you know, they played at Woodstock, man - and their output may well have been something very interesting instead of, well, very interesting... certainly interesting enough to support acts such as Deep Purple, Van Morrison and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Opening the album with an intense cover of Van the Man's Gloria, reworked into a 6-minute epic, with swirly Hammond and feedback-drenched psychedelic noodling a-plenty doesn't seem like a good way to avoid the mainstream and do your own thing, but the band manage to stamp their own style on this classic, in a much more interesting way than... Read entire review »
| Tangerine Zoo - Outside Looking In
1968
Mainstream
Review:
Tangerine Zoo was a talented group from Newport, Rhode Island. They came together in the late 1967 and were rising fast in the Boston music scene, well-known as an exellent live band. Unfortunately the group released only two albums (on the Mainstream label) - a somewhat eclectic Tangerine Zoo - S/T (1967) and a more psychedelic Outside Looking In (1968) . The second album didn`t have much success and the band broke up, what is really pity as they would have developed very interestingly if they had remained together. The potential for moving into deep psychedelia or even prog is quite evident on their second album which delivers a "classic" psychedelic mesh of styles: elements of pop, jazz, garage and orchestrated psych are present on almost every track. At the same time Outside Looking In manages to retain a stylistic constinence, hold together by mighty omnipresent keyboards and a brilliant drum section. It is a strong,... Read entire review » |
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| | Posted on Jul 28, 2005 @2:00 PM | Rating: 10 / 10 | Tangerine Zoo is the best psychedelic band of every time.
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| | | Posted on Feb 3, 2005 @10:12 AM | Rating: 8 / 10 | A great example of psychedelic ingnuity, these guys really know how to take a groove and bend it round your brain like an unstoppable high-speed train. Every instrument is played with confidence and there are no weak points, especially when they take you on their "Trip to the Zoo" (dig that bass-line!). Procol Harum, The Doors, Pink Floyd - its all been thrown into this psyhedelic mixing bowl. Give it a whirl, and feel your brain twirl!
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