Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermints

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Um_wrZNnnmg

I used to listen to an oldies station in highschool before I discovered alternative music, but this is still one of my most favorite songs ever.

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time.

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, turn in, turn your eyes around.

Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, yeah
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, yeah, yeah!

To divide this cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do.
Beatniks and politics, nothing is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothin' to lose.

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define.
Occasion, persuassions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time.

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothin' to lose.

Incense and peppermints
Incense and peppermints

Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la

There's a band in San Diego called Cool Fever, and the drummer is Randy Seol, who was the drummer for Strawberry Alarm Clock when they recorded "Incense and Peppermints." We saw them in a free concert this summer in Balboa Park, San Diego, and they did that song, with Randy singing the lead vocals.

They're singing about drugs....:woohoo::hippie::toast:

Shoot, oldies rock-n-roll IS the new alternative!

Pretty sure one of the guys from SAC went on to play in Lynyrd Skynyrd. Weird!

talk about a long strange trip....

This band had several members of my high school music program including Steve Bartek. They played in our bands and orchestras! He was still in high school when the hit tune smashed. They actually performed a couple of times at the school. (Taft High, Woodland Hills, CA) Bartek later founded Oingo Boingo with Danny Elfman. They will be at the Malibu Inn September 15th, 2007(!). Seven of the original guys: George Bunnell, Lee Freeman, Gene Gunnels, Randy Seol, Howie Anderson, Steve Bartek, and Mark Weitz will play. No Ed King.

Here -an early video and Wolfman Jack intro! Groovy, man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZnukBRUSio

Gotta love the Wolfman, and I think if I do my research, Oingo Boingo has some connection to my RnR hero Johnny Thunders. There should be a six degrees of the Strawberry Alarm Clock game!

(and Wolfman did many events with Thunders NY Dolls, and the NY Dolls played several shows with Lynyrd Skynyrd!)

:hippie:

Just DON'T TAKE THE BROWN ACID, OK?????

:rofl:

Ed King was the guitar player for that band, and wrote the music for 'Incense and Peppermints'.

It was originally written as an instrumental, but the record company wanted it to have lyrics, so the band had to come up with some.

He was resentful of the record label ruining his song, so 7 years later, as a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, he wrote the music for 'Sweet Home Alabama' to get, in his words, "my money back". :-)

Every time I hear the solo in 'Peppermints' I always compare it to 'Alabama' to pick up clues on his style. King is from Glendale, CA, and was influenced by surf guitar, and later, jazz and blues. He's a great picker.