The Beaver Patrol - E.S.P. (FUZZ 60'S GARAGE)

Top notch garage raver released on Columbia in 1967. The flip side is Just like a lady. Audio transfered from original vinyl 45.

[@The1Jaguar]

My dad is Mike Cooper, he was the guitarist for this band. The band is no longer around. They had a short stint in the music scene during the 1960's. My father formed a band after Beaver Patrol called Grand Larceny that ended in the early 1990's, based in South Florida. Mike Cooper retired from the music industry in the early 1990's to join the USPS but my father still is an incredible guitarist and still plays all the time. He went on to later develop a different style of playing from his bluesy, garage band, hard rock sound of playing while in Beaver Patrol, to a more technically advanced style in the vein of Heavy Metal guitarists such as Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Van Halen, George Lynch etc. Now he is reaching retirement this year from the USPS. Now that he has more time he will be getting back to jamming once again. He still has this 45 record and I might upload the B side if anyone is interested.

[@Glendoras]

The1Jaguar Thanks for the info about your dad!

[@ayzka]

Wow thanks !

[@VIRGONOMICS]

The1Jaguar That's awesome. Tell your pops this is great stuff! I'm a player too. Glad he still plays.

[@iamnotanumber100]

Dude your dad rocks, only found this song today, sweeeet 🎶🤘🎶

[@paulchigbu2946]

The1Jaguar your dad is a truly guitar pioneer. A true legend.

[@bobbyhamblen2338]

Gotta admit that's a cool band name.

[@kiely]

nice Pretty Things "L.S.D." cover

[@blatantlocalism1041]

This song rules so fuckin hard!

[@chrisfrancz2014]

That is one MENACING guitar riff!!!!

[@patm5086]

Good call, it is menacing

[@patm5086]

Floyd Humphreys is the guitar player on his 45. I was at a few of the band rehearsals of the beaver patrol. I was friends with Jim Bledsoe, the bassist and vocals. He went to Viet Nam and made it back in one piece. I remember Mike Cooper. I grew up in the 2400 block of Thomas street and became a working musician from 1966 to 2020. Still love the garage sounds of the 60's

[@mikecooper8465]

@patm5086 .your info is wrong my friend.floyd was the rhythm player .i.was the lead guitarist of the band Mike cooper.i went to south Broward high with bledsoe.myself and Floyd had started the band and I asked Jim if he wanted to play bass and said yes.and that's the facts my friend...

[@lazlokovacs2263]

This version is better than the Pretty Things original. I like the Pretties a lot, but this is so raw and menacing that it takes away any residual psychedelia.

[@jools182]

Now we know where grunge started

[@balloonfarm5903]

Beaver Patrol: I was in the local chapter.😆

[@TDghf]

This is grunge nirvana bleach sounds

[@thiagocardoso5301]

Great fuzz sound!

[@harrymccabe6691]

Great piece love it!

[@AlexisOmnis]

Cool band name! I thought this was a fairly new term but apparently not lol! No wonder the older, straight-laced, generation, at the time, called them punks!

[@eternalise]

+Emit Flesti (Sexy Lexy) To hear where they likely ripped their name from, try "The Wilde Knights - Beaver Patrol" and to hear where they ripped this song off from listen to "The Pretty Things - LSD" - This is a pretty cool little gem despite its flaws, but those two above are stone cold 60's garage/punk classics from the same period and if you like this you'll love those. :)

[@FuzzyDancingBear]

Really good

[@philipking-s1n]

Great! Was this released before "The Giant Crab" version?

[@Glendoras]

Yes, two years prior Giant Crab.

[@philipking-s1n]

Thank you. This is much better than "The Crabs"!@@Glendoras

[@kc768]

Nasty stuff. Absoulutely rocking.

[@ChrisMezzolesta]

This looks to be the earliest mention of Sire I've come across yet...years before it was Madonna's label...Richard Gottehrer was one of The Strangeloves and a producer/songwriter who formed Sire with Seymour Stein - didn't know they had productions out on other labels before they formed their own label.

[@djbigleg3228]

lsd by the pretty things but a great english band to copy lol or have as an influence great post peace...

[@martinsplichal1581]

Loved when I heard it as 14 year old in '81, love it today. Epic.Savage guitar work.

[@MarkTLarry]

Fookin' glorious

[@stellaercolani3810]

Fantastic. .

[@kurtgottlieb4825]

thanks! love the photo of "record player" with record.......nice touch

[@johnrossini3594]

cool garage

[@jackjc1447]

its sounds a killer and it's a complete rip-off of pretty thing's lsd,but they weren't the first band to rip-off 'lsd' an obscure band from l.a. rain recorded 'esp' a few months before beaver patrol,in 1969 a band from santa barbara the giant crab also recorded it,in my opinion it's the best rendition of this song,when the giant crab disbanded, their guitarist ernie orosco became ernie joseph and formed the big brother(nothing to do with janis joplin band) and recorded it yet again(in 1970),a very similar rendition to the giant crab minus the organ.

[@mikemorris1280]

if you're gonna rip a song it should be a good one.

[@mikemorris1280]

and this is.

I noticed it's produced by Richard Gottehrer of the Strangeloves, who later produced the first two Blondie albums.

[@FantomasXZ7]

Absolutely wild!

Sounds like the Stooges before the Stooges.

[@philiphoward1731]

The Bieber patrol all days they could be called the border patrol I love the Fuzz I better plan through Vox Super beetle amplifiers awesome this is really good music this is the kind of music I love

[@gerardcousineau3200]

Fuzzed in ! :)

[@raimywinter2309]

I love this stuff man

[@pabloimireia]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@joe_chill1060]

Right on classic!

[@albluesfish7972]

dig it thx

[@blackquicksandmusic2365]

GR8

[@johngabriele6149]

This is a cover of thr Pretty Things' LSD ...why would you change the tittle from LSD to ESP ?

[@Glendoras]

John Gabriele All the lyrics are changed, not only the title.

[@ianharvey8025]

Tune!!

[@raimywinter2309]

I would love buy this

Good luck finding one!

[@nikjaric5442]

this songs right up there - one of the best of these music time a good song beyond belief its right on the psychedelic era or just before it started but a good book on australian bands like this is called mad about you or wild about you with all bands in it from this time - i think link wray invented this playing style in one of his songs they all took it from him

[@brucegordon7248]

E.S.P. much better than L.S.D.

[@Schodboyblves]

patrollin for some beaver

[@epiphonium]

WFMU sent me here

[@brunoguerineau8928]

LSD!!!!!

[@Trentonpage]

How do yiu transfer from vinyl?

[@Glendoras]

rockabilly Page Got some sort of box that I connect between my 1200 and laptop and record with Audacity.

[@StrawberryWindowpane]

Anyone happen to know what fuzz pedal was on used this track, it sounds unbelievable!

[@mikecooper8465]

It was a Gibson maestro fz-1 fuzz pedal thru a 65 fender concert amp.i should know I

[@StrawberryWindowpane]

@@mikecooper8465 oh wow thanks mike, I’m going to cover the song on my KZbin channel and when I get a band together to play live, would you happen to the guitarist for beaver patrol? I’m 22 from Australia and love your work. Also it would mean the world if you checked out some of my songs on my KZbin channel and tell me what you think, I’ve just started recorded on my 4 track tascam and have written 100s of songs and I plan on recording the best of them.

[@Glendoras]

@@mikecooper8465 heeey, that’s cool info! Thanks. You sure got a great sound off of that thing! Cheers from Stockholm, Sweden.

[@mikecooper8465]

@@Glendoras thanks..I appreciate that...

[@nic-ci_66-77]

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[@gerardkuijper6212]

111

[@lindah3954]

Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO!

[@renemies78]

Does anyone have the flipside? Thanks

[@jackjc1447]

B side is 'just like a lady'.

[@memoXX1]

anybody know what the chords are

[@christophernagy5603]

It sounds killer. But, complete rip off of LSD, Wow.

[@pictureisup1]

Yes

[@tigerbug69]

It is a version of " l.s.d. and a killer version as well. My guess is they changed the title for airplay. Just the fact they were into the pretties shows how cool they mustve been. I met John Stax once. A mate introduced me and i was so freaked out that i spilt a whole pint of beer on my mates expensive mohair pants. Luckily he understood. Freinds like that are rare indeed.👍 Anyway John Stax got us some snacks from the bar and jumped on stage and played harp with the paramount trio and he was awesome. What a legend he is. A true r&b and garage punk god in my eyes! 🙄

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

who did LSD? the song I mean

[@jackjc1447]

no,they recorded it between december 65-january 66

[@djbigleg3228]

@@MichaelHansenFUN pretty things

[@POPAVIDEO]

noisy cover !

[@matthewtaylor7355]

ALSO ALOT STRONGER THAN THE PRETTIES.