The History of the Chrysanthemums
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This band was formed by Alan Jenkins and Yukio Yung in 1986. They made this album...
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..."Is that a fish on your shoulder or are you just pleased to see me?". |
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Zajkoweicz joined on bass and they made this one...
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..."Little
Flecks of Foam Around Barking", a double album and a lost psychedelic
classic.
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And they made this one... ..."Odessey and Oracle". This is a cover version of a whole album by The Zombies, which is also a lost psychedelic classic. But not as lost as The Chrysanthemums one. |
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So
then they added a keyboard player called Johnny Lemon and a drummer called
Robyn Gibson and went on a twenty five date tour of Europe - and after
that they never played together again. But while they were in Europe they
recorded this...
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...there are two different versions of this one. The L.P. is called "Two Thirty -Gallon Drums of Banana Puree" and the CD is called "Insect Insect". |
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After
that Alan, Vladimir and Robyn joined The Creams, Lemon went to live in
America and Yukio went solo using the modified band name "Chrys&themums".
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Here are The Chrysanthemums playing a concert at the Szene in Vienna in 1991. From the left we have: Lemon, Alan, Robyn, Vladimir and Yukio.
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Here's another picture of them, I think probably in Frankfurt.
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Here is an artist's impression of what they would have looked like if they'd all lived till 2007. |
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(I think I'm right in saying that all the photographs on this page - of The Chrysanthemums in Austria in 1991 - were taken by Klaus Totzler)
