The Motives — “Ice Woman”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — September 16, 2024

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

1,337) The Motives — “Ice Woman”

This ’67 EP B-side about an ice woman whose spurned lover urges her to “come and look at the sun before it’s too late” is by a band composed of “British servicemen stationed in Germany . . . . [who ] recorded and financed an EP entitled The World Is a Trapezium: now regarded as one of the rarest UK psych artefacts, only 120 copies were pressed and then sold/given away to family and friends.” (David Wells, liner notes to the CD comp Let’s Go Down and Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967)

The band consisted of Clint Talbot (vocals/guitar), Tom Winter (lead guitar), Dave Field (organ), Barry Beaumont-Jones (bass), and John Redpath (drums). The liner notes to the CD comp Electric Sound Show: An Assortment of Antiquities for the Psychedelic Connoisseur tell us that:

They originally came together as a function band in late 1965 performing popular standards to other service personnel, but transformed into a creative songwriting unit with the addition of Tom Winter and drummer, John Redpath. Plenty of gigs ensued in military bases in Germany and Holland where the band funded their own recording session. A local entrepreneur from the Weert area of Holland, Johnny Hoes, released the band’s recordings on an E.P. on his Killroy label. The E.P. quickly sold out and was followed by a slimmed down version featuring two of the four tracks and again released on the Killroy label . . . . The group split in 1968 with three members joining other local guitarist, Bartie Newby to form Mr. Fantasy before gigging as Emergency with Tom Winter moving on again to form Opus 23 (Opus) in ’69. Tom Winter would go on to team up with Abi Reichstadt (aka Abi Ofarim [see #825] of Cinderella Rockefella fame from 1968) for a handful of releases in 1973 as Ofarim and Winter.

For a history of the band by Dave Field and a comment by comment “live-stream” of the band members reconnecting with each other, check out: https://garagehangover.com/motives/.

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