Even before we had records on the radio, we would play there on Friday and Saturday nights and stay all weekend. We loved to play there more than any other place. It was out in the country a few miles from the city. Our favorite place to play was a little club called Brickies near St Cloud Minnesota. They didn’t come to be entertained… they came to be part of the entertainment. At those venues the people were as much a part of the entertainment and as we were. We most enjoyed playing the smaller clubs where it was hard to tell where the dance floor ended and the stage began. One might think that the highlight would have been when we played for thousands of people with acts like Freddie Cannon, (Palisades Park) the James Gang or Kenny Rodgers. I am not sure I could point to any one single highlight as this was a multi-year non-stop party. Where and when was your most memorable gig? We were playing that weekend at a club/bar/pub in St Cloud Minnesota at a place called Brickies (it is still there).” Ken Erwin “We knew this would be the last chance that we would ever have to create something” ![]() If it were not for this record we never would have been able to go one and create the ‘Trip Thru Hell’ album and the other recordings. So we thought it might be cool to put it up on the channel with a slight remix as a thank you to all the people that have kept our music alive all these years…. “It was this exact week 55 years ago that this song (our first record ) started playing on radio stations in Minnesota and the Midwest of the United States. Today, 55 years after the release of their single ‘Mickey’s Monkey’ we continued our conversation. I first conducted an interview with Ken Erwin more than a decade ago. There are three live albums (from the 1971 performance), several record releases and 1995 CD (only legitimate releases other than the 1969 album are on Sundazed record label). ![]() Although the band originally began as a standard R&B garage combo, by the time of recording the album the group began experimenting with creepy ideas including screams, and themes about marijuana and the devil. One of the most unique records from the 60s garage rock explosion, ‘Trip Thru Hell’ showcases incredible ideas by this creative bunch of teenagers. Quintet with its cult classic ‘Trip Thru Hell’ recorded a psychedelic holy grail that’s every bit as darkly terrifying as its title and apocalyptic front cover art imply. ![]() Quintet | ‘Mickey’s Monkey’ 55 Years Later Minneapolis’s mysterious C.A.
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