Fortuitously #8

Some days I consider ‘Shake Some Action’ by the Flamin’ Groovies to be one of the great works of art in pop culture. The trouble I would have in proving this to anyone is that whenever I play the song it never matches the one I hear in my head. I am not sure that makes sense. Nevertheless, personal quirks aside, it is an exceptional creation. And I kind of agree with Bill Drummond that Sire’s Seymour Stein should never have allowed them back in a studio. It would have been one hell of a way to go and would have preserved some sanctity. But life is rarely that simple. Unexpectedly I found myself thinking about Bill Drummond and the Flamin’ Groovies recently, and the other occasion that he mentions them in his immortal book 45. In my memory there was a reference to the Flamin’ Groovies and ‘Shake Some Action’ in the preamble to Neal Brown’s foreword at the end of the book. It was to do with liking something Neal had written elsewhere which mentioned the Groovies and Subway Sect which…