COUNT FIVE "PSYCHOTIC REACTION" 1966 DOUBLE SHOT MONO LP-DSM-1001 NM-/NM- RARE

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ARTISTS: COUNT FIVE

TITLE: “PSYCHOTIC REACTION”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

Double Decker Bus

2:00

A2

Pretty Big Mouth

2:07

A3

The World

2:12

A4

My Generation

2:25

A5

She's Fine

2:12

A6

Psychotic Reaction

2:56

B1

Peace Of Mind

2:17

B2

They're Gonna Get You

2:25

B3

The Morning After

2:55

B4

Can't Get Your Lovin'

1:45

B5

Out In The Street

2:25

Companies, etc.

• Published By – Hot Shot Music

• Published By – Devon Music

Credits

• Bass – Roy Chaney

• Design – Bernard Yeszin Graphics*

• Drums – Craig Atkinson

• Guitar – John Michalski

• Producer – Hal Winn, Joseph Hooven

• Promotion – Irwin Zucker

• Vocals, Guitar, Music By – Sean Byrne*

• Vocals, Tambourine, Harmonica – Kenn Ellner

Notes

1st mono pressing. A stereo issue exist with the catalog # LP-DSS-5001

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched): DSM-1001-1 S-1246

• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched): DSM-1001-2 S-1247
  

LABEL: DOUBLE RECORDS

CAT. #: LP-DSM-1001

YEAR: 1966

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/NM- CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, LINES, ETC. BOTH LABELS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.NICE SHINEY LUSTER TO THE VINYL. SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN. THERE'S SMALL SMUDGE IN THE LETTERING/PRINT ON THE LAST SONG ON SIDE 2, OTHERWISE THIS IS THE CLEANEST COPY OF THIS I'VE EVER SEEN.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN EX/NM- CONDITION THERE'S NO WRITING ON THE JACKET. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, TEARS, WRINKLES OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC. THERE'S THE ONE SMALL SPOT IN THE BACK LOWER CENTER WHERE A PRICE STICKER OR SOMETHING SIMILAR LOOKS TO HAVE BEEN LIFTED OFF.

MORE: THIS RECORD IS OUT OF PRINT. NICE CLEAN MONAURAL COPY. MATRIX # DSM-1001-1 S-1246/S-1247

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Count Five was an American garage rock band, formed in San Jose, California in 1964, best known for their hit single "Psychotic Reaction".

Background

The band was founded in 1964 by John "Mouse" Michalski (born 1948, Cleveland, Ohio) playing lead guitar and Roy Chaney (born 1948, Indianapolis, Indiana) playing bass guitar. The two were high school friends who had previously played in several short-lived bands, most notably a surf rock group named The Citations. As the British Invasion's influence took effect, the band changed in musical direction. After going by the name The Squires for a short time, along with several line-up changes, the Count Five was born. John "Sean" Byrne (1947–2008, born Dublin, Ireland) played rhythm guitar and performed lead vocals, Kenn Ellner played tambourine and harmonica, while sharing lead vocals, and Craig "Butch" Atkinson (1947–1998, born San Jose, California) played drums. The Count Five were recognizable for their habit of wearing Count Dracula-style capes when playing live.

"Psychotic Reaction", an acknowledged cornerstone of garage rock, was initially devised by Byrne, with the group refining it and turning it into the highlight of their live sets. The song was influenced by the style of contemporary musicians such as The Standells and The Yardbirds. The band was rejected by several record labels before they got signed to the Los Angeles-based Double Shot Records. "Psychotic Reaction" was released as a single, peaking at number five in the U.S. charts in late 1966. The band enjoyed limited success for a short time, dropping out of view altogether when their only hit had fallen from public memory. Another setback to a potential career in the music business was the decision of the five members (who were between the ages of 17 and 19) to pursue college degrees.

By 1969, the Count Five had broken up, but their memory was immortalized in a 1971 essay by rock journalist Lester Bangs, entitled "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung." In the essay, Bangs credited the band for having released several later albums (after Psychotic Reaction): Carburetor Dung, Cartesian Jetstream, Ancient Lace and Wrought-Iron Railings, and Snowflakes Falling On the International Dateline — each displaying an increasing sense of artistry and refinement. However, none of these subsequent albums actually existed except in Bangs' own imagination.

The Count Five reunited only once, when they performed a concert on April 11, 1987 at a club in Santa Clara, California called "One Step Beyond". This performance has been released as Psychotic Reunion LIVE!.

The song "Psychotic Reaction" can be heard playing on the jukebox in an early scene in Wim Wenders' film Alice in the Cities (1974) and in the party scene in The Sense of an Ending (2017). It can also be heard on the season one finale of the HBO drama series Vinyl.

Craig Atkinson died on October 13, 1998. John "Sean" Byrne died on December 15, 2008 at 61 from cirrhosis of the liver.

Roy Chaney formed a new band in the 1990s called The Count (with Byrne and drummer Rocco Astrella (born Mar 20, 1951 – died Mar 1, 2014, who played in the last version of the original group). The Count released their debut CD, Can't Sleep, in 2002. In 2006, Count Five was among the first bands inaugurated into the San Jose Rock Hall of Fame.

Members

• John "Mouse" Michalski – lead guitar

• John "Sean" Byrne – vocals, rhythm guitar

• Craig "Butch" Atkinson – drums

• Kenn Ellner – lead vocals, tambourine, harmonica

• Roy Chaney – bass guitar

Discography

Studio album

• Psychotic Reaction (1966)

Psychotic Reaction is the only studio album by the American garage rock band Count Five, released on October 1966, through Double Shot Records DSS5001.

It features the hit single “Psychotic Reaction”, number five on the Billboard charts in October 1966, and The Who covers, “My Generation” and "Out in the Street".

Background

Previously to recording sessions, Count Five was rejected by several record labels before they got signed to the Los Angeles-based Double Shot Records in 1965. Double Shot was an independent label (active 1965-1972) owned by Harold "Hal" Winn and Joseph "Joe" Hooven, who were also songwriters and record producers.

The song "Psychotic Reaction" was released as a single, peaking at number 5 in the U.S. charts in late 1966, after its release on July 1966. To capitalize on the success of the single, Winn and Hooven at Double Shot immediately pressured the band to record a full-length album.

The songs' lyrics were written mostly by John "Sean" Byrne, and the music and vocals were recorded in a very short time, so deliberately included two covers of The Who band as filler songs, to complete a brief album of eleven tracks. Band members complained in later interviews that due to the hurried nature of the recording sessions, they never had the chance to shape the songs the way they wanted them to sound. The style of the album is fairly basic but effective, set to the rhythms and ways of garage rock.

Reception

With a low budget production and insufficient marketing, Psychotic Reaction peaked at number 122 on the Billboard 200. Other singles, released between 1966 and 1969, sold poorly and did not chart (some not included in the original LP).

The band enjoyed limited success for a short time, dropping out of view altogether when their only hit had fallen from public memory. Accordingly, Count Five had to break up in 1969, so its members could pursue college educations.

"Psychotic Reaction" is a song by the American garage rock band Count Five, released in June 1966 on their debut studio album of the same name It peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was among the first successful acid (or psychedelic) rock songs, containing the characteristics that would come to define acid rock: the use of feedback and distortion replacing early rock music's more melodic electric guitars.In Canada, the song reached No. 3 on October 31, 1966.

The song was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll".[4] In 2014, the song placed seventh on Paste's list of the "50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time"

History

In late 1964, Irish-born guitarist John "Sean" Byrne was sitting in a Health Education class in his freshman year at San Jose City College in California, learning about psychosis and neurosis. His friend Ron Lamb leaned over and whispered: "You know what would be a great name for a song? Psychotic Reaction!"Byrne had been writing a tune in his head that day, and used the title to finish it, with the entire band given writing credit.

According to an interview with Byrne, the rave-up solo section of the song was influenced by the Yardbirds' frenzied 1965 treatment of Bo Diddley's R&B classic "I'm A Man", while the rest of the song was contributed by the band.

When Count Five, managed by singer Kenn Ellner's dad, Sol Ellner, a successful South Bay insurance salesman, played the song live a few weeks later at a dance at the old West Valley College in Campbell, local KLIV radio disc jockey Brian Lord, emceeing the show, was very impressed. After a few pointed suggestions on rearranging the tune for even more punch, Lord soon put the band in touch with a couple of friends in Los Angeles, Hal Winn and Joe Hooven, about to start their own record label, Double Shot Records.

Although the song was a hit with local audiences, record labels were not interested and the band endured months of failed auditions. But Count Five pressed on, revising and reworking "Psychotic Reaction" until Double Shot decided to take a chance on the song, though it ended up hedging its bet with some last-minute cutting and splicing.

"Psychotic Reaction" is a garage rock, acid rock, psychedelic rock and proto-punk song. The song contains a repetitious rhythm that eventually changes to a faster beat, an electric guitar playing a hypnotic melody going up the scales. The record producers Winn and Hooven copied the rave-up section in the middle of the completed track and add it to the end as a fade out.

To capitalize on the success of the single, Double Shot immediately pressured the band to record a full-length album. As a strategic decision, their debut album was also titled Psychotic Reaction, released on October 1966. including seven new songs composed mostly by John Byrne.

Critical reception

Richie Unterberger in Allmusic said: "the verses are thus almost stereotypical sub-British blues-rock, yet have a hypnotic groove of their own, and the vocals have a respectably sullen power, if in a somewhat downer frame of mind (in accordance with the lyrics about being depressed and romantically rejected)".

Usage in media

This song appears in the games Battlefield Vietnam (2004) Mafia 3 (2016) and Far Cry 5 (2018)

"Psychotic Reaction" has been featured in films such as Marek Kanievska's Less Than Zero (1987), Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Paul Schrader´s Auto Focus (2002) and Randall Miller´s CBGB (2013), and has done very well on Classic Rock radio.

The song is also featured in the second-season episode "Bad Friend" from the HBO series Girls.

The song is also featured in an IKEA television advert on UK’s Channel 4 (May 2019)

Cover versions

Because of its inclusion on the original Pebbles compilation album, probably the best known of the many obscure covers of this song that were made in the 1960s is the one by Positively 13 O'Clock (i.e., Jimmy Rabbitt with members of Mouse and the Traps and others) in 1967. The song has been covered by Brenton Wood, on his 1967 album Oogum Boogum. It was also recorded by the 1960s studio-only band, The Leathercoated Minds, in 1966 on their album A Trip Down the Sunset Strip.

The song is one of the many songs quoted and parodied on the 1976 album The Third Reich 'n Roll by the avantgarde group The Residents. "Psychotic Reaction" was also covered during the 1970s by The Radiators from Space (B-side to "Enemies", 1977) and by Television, who included the song in their early sets which emphasized the "rave-up" section. Covers made during the 1980s include a live version by The Cramps on their 1983 live mini-album, Smell of Female and by artist Nash the Slash. The Nash the Slash version was released on his 1984 album American Bandages, inserting paraphrased excerpts of John Hinckley's letter to Jodie Foster, as well as lines from the movie "Taxi Driver", between the verses.

Horror punk/metal band Haunted Garage covered the song on their 1991 album Possession Park. Other cover versions include a live version by The Fuzztones and a version by The Vibrators on their album Garage Punk (2009). This song is also played live by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on the Playback box set and seen in the currently out of print concert video, "Take the Highway" sung by drummer Stan Lynch. The Night Beats from Seattle, Washington have claimed to have "psychically inherited" the song and have made it their own playing it most nights of their 2011 U.S. and European dates.

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