Favorite actually UNKNOWN legend from Richie Unterberger's Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll

Lee Hazlewood could probably have come off too, I guess.

Love and Roky are well known so i'll leave that for others and give The Creation a vote. I may have voted for The Fugs if they had been on it.

Strange poll, I voted Red Krayola.

I love a bunch of these, but the Collins Kids freak me out in a completely different way than most of them, so they get my vote.

Skip Spence I guess, but the hard thing about this poll is these artists are so singular that it's not so much like comparing apples and oranges, more like comparing among a cart full of previously non-existent and mind-blowing produce.

Skip nearly got my vote.

I wanna vote for The Monks, but I also don't want The Outsiders (from Holland) to go without any votes.

fankhauser

If I was going to vote for an act solely on the basis of fearing it might not get any votes it would def. be Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects.

Plastic People for me.

Graham Bond for the completely arbitrary reason that i got an LP of his today and am listening to it right now

Tomorrow!

I can safely narrow down to this (Misunderstood hardest cut def.), but beyond that is tough:

The Music Machine
The Deviants
Lee Hazlewood
Love
Francoise Hardy
The Outsiders (from Holland)
The Raincoats
X-Ray Spex
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects
Savage Republic/Bruce Licher
The Monks
Tomorrow
Young Marble Giants
Merrell Fankhauser

Is Randy Holden in that book or one of the other ones?

He's in the second book along with the Electric Prunes, Pretty Things, Tim Hardin, Joe Boyd, etc.

What's that one called again: Wayfaring Strangers and Urban Spacemen?

My mistake Joe Boyd isn't in the second book he just gets interviewed a bunch of times for the first one.

http://www.richieunterberger.com/urbtoc.html

The second book is weaker cuz a lot of the acts are frankly weaker, but it starts out strong: Pretty Things, Poets, Arthur Brown, Prunes are all really good.

"Reno, Nevada" on the CD that comes with that book sounds a lot better than on the Richard & Mimi comp where the sound has gone through one of those sonic cleaners.

Awesome stuff aplenty listed up there. Best of 'em all is Love, but the very notion of them being "unknown" around these parts is laughable.

Music To Eat is one of my personal touchstone albums, so Hampton it is.

I must confess: it took me until last year to discover the greatness of the Raincoats. As well as the less-than-great-but-still-pretty-goodness of the Great Society.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Gave my vote to Swamp Dogg. Love, Roky, and Lee I didn't really consider

The Outsiders (from Amsterdam)! C/D?

RIP Dave Day of The Monks

monks

Agreed that more people need to come off that list. I would narrow it down to:

Wanda Jackson
The Creation
The Music Machine
The Deviants
The Avengers/Penelope Houston
Savage Republic/Bruce Licher
The Hampton Grease Band
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester

Voted for Savage Republic myself

I don't really understand the criteria for inclusion or exclusion of any names on this list. They should have all been on there and people could just vote for their favorite off the list, the criteria of inclusion being that they are written about in the book. I mean, Skip Spence is hardly any more popular than the Creation, and he wasn't on the soundtrack of a Wes Anderson movie.

right, be the thread title emphasizes "ACTUALLY" unknown.

ACTUALLY unknown musicians don't exist on ILM.

Book has been around a while so many of the unknowns became known in the interim because of this book or through other means, if they ever were that unknown in the first place.

i learned so much from this book. some of my favorite artists i first heard about here.

i don't think Lee should be on here, but he would def get my vote if i thought he did. these are my faves of the bunch.

Joe Meek
Davy Graham
Swamp Dogg
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester
The Monks
Kevin Coyne

voting Aisha Kandisha

What name does Tim Ellison post under these days?

"I don't really understand the criteria for inclusion or exclusion of any names on this list."

I excluded four of the most famous cult acts of all time, the probably most well-known british folk vocalist and the a guy who is now so known that almost everyone who has seen a VW ad has heard of him. And the reason I did it (which should be painfully fucking obvious) was because I didn't want the poll to be a bunch of people voting for Can and Barrett and ignoring everyone else on the list.

I ended up voting for Aisha Kandisha because that's the record I listen to the most.

Savage Republic would be #2.

The shortlist, with a final decision to come later:

Henske/Yester
Holy Modal Rounders
Skip Spence
Davy Graham
Roky
Lee Hazlewood
Wanda Jackson.

Leaning towards a vote for the Rounders, even though only their first two albums are flawless (IMO.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Haha well that was well distributed.

To mark the publication of the expanded ebook version of my book "Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock," I'm presenting film clips of a dozen or so of the artists featured in the book at Oddball Films at 275 Capp Street in San Francisco at 8pm on Thursday, October 23.

ooh I like Oddball films a lot