The Ultimate Turn On

The Music Machine: Sean Bonniwell (vocals, guitar); Mark Landon (guitar); Doug Rhodes (organ, background vocals); Keith Olsen (bass, background vocals); Ron Edgar (drums).
Personnel: Keith Olsen (vocals, guitar); Doug Rhodes (vocals, flute, horns, keyboards); Sean Bonniwell (vocals, horns); Ron Edgar (vocals, drums); Mark Landon (guitar).
Liner Note Author: Alec Palao.
Recording information: Cosimo's, New Orleans, LA; Original Sound; RCA Hollywood; Studio 76, New York, NY; The San Pedro Garage.
Authors: Doug Rhodes; Brian Ross; Keith Olsen ; Sean Bonniwell; Mark Landon; Ron Edgar.
The first album by The Music Machine is an archetypal garage rock document. It consists of the group's sole hit--the incomprehensibly weird, aggressively snotty two-minute wonder "Talk Talk"--a few less distinguished but oddly compelling originals, and the exact same covers as nearly every other garage band: "96 Tears," "Cherry Cherry," "Taxman," "See See Rider" and--yes, you guessed it--"Hey Joe."
Bandleader Sean Bonniwell and group recorded the album in one 10-hour session, and the lo-fi but rocking results sound like a very good bar band on a particularly hot night. "The People in Me" and "Masculine Intuition," two more stomping Bonniwell originals, were released as singles, but the band broke up even before the album was released. A new lineup's 1967 album on Warner Brothers called BONNIWELL MUSIC MACHINE disappeared almost immediately. Bassist Keith Olsen later produced classic albums by Fleetwood Mac, Heart and others.