The Stingrays (1980s band)
The Sting-Rays, also Stingrays, were a UK psychobilly band which recorded on Ace Records' garage and psychedelic subsidiary Big Beat in the 1980s.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Discography
Most of the band's songs were written by Alec Palao:
- On Self Destruct EP : Dinosaurs / Math Of Trend / Another Cup Of Coffee / You're Gonna Miss Me 1983
- "Escalator" 1984
- "Don't Break Down" B: "Cover Version" 1985
- "Behind The Beyond"
Albums
- From the Kitchen Sink 2002
References
- ↑ David Stubbs, Rob Young Ace Records: Labels Unlimited 2008 p.87 "Another example of the type of group Big Beat worked with was The Stingrays. As Alec Palao, the American-based English expat, one time member of the band and subsequent Ace consultant, recalls: "The band was an amalgam of everything we were into, be it rockabilly, garage punk, 1970s punk, surf, northern soul, folk-rock; we were omnivores." The Stingrays were the classic example of a band who had supersized on Ace's ever-increasing and eclectic output of lost music."
- ↑ Martin Jones Lover, Buggers, and Thieves 1900486415 2005 p.153 "This, and the fact that Big Beat were releasing ... ...played a track by then-current psychobilly band The Stingrays."
- ↑ Marc Masters No Wave 2007 Volumes 287-292 p.267 "as punk rock mutated into psychobilly there was a demand for an outlet for the primordial rock music of such acts as Johnny & The Jammers, The Meteors, The Stingrays and The Cramps - and in 1980 the Big Beat label was born."
- ↑ George Gimarc Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982 1997 031216968X p.275 "The Stingrays are proponents of the "back to Billy Haley" sound that has been lurking in English basements for the last two years."
- ↑ The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul 1998 p.369 "...in the UK where his influence on 'trash' guitar groups, notably the Stingrays and Milkshakes, has been considerable."
- ↑ Maximum Rocknroll No.15 1984 "The STINGRAYS look rockabilly, act punk, and sound more 60s than anything else (note their covers ...)"