Castle Us
2006
Green Jeans
About This Album
Given how much of the music Joe Meek produced has been exhumed, reissued and remastered since the early '90s, it's a little surprising that it took this long to get a definitive Fabulous Flee Rekkers collection. The 1997 Fabulous Flee Rekkers CD gathered most of the band's officially released material, but leave it to Castle, who also released the thorough Heinz compilation Just Like Eddie, to come up with "Green Jeans," the Flee Rekkers anthology to end all others. While the Fabulous Flee Rekkers weren't as distinctive as the Tornados, who were responsible for the classic "Telstar" and were one of the other main instrumental rock bands that Meek produced, they worked well as a U.K. equivalent to Duane Eddy, Santo & Johnny, the Champs, the Hurricanes and the rest of the bumper crop of U.S. instrumental rock bands of the '50s and early '60s. The Fabulous Flee Rekkers never made any bones about being heavily influenced by those acts; they were even called "the Statesiders" in an earlier incarnation, and the first demo they recorded (included at the end of "Green Jeans") features their versions of the Hurricanes' B-side "Buckeye," and the Champs' "El Rancho Rock.
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