So I got an email a woman named Glenda Tamblyn the other night that started out like this: “I am an (Auburn) alum (’83) and my husband’s rock group, The Standells, love Auburn.”
The Standells, if you didn’t know, are a pioneering garage rock band from L.A. They formed in 1962. Four years later came the hit: “Dirty Water,” a garage classic, one of the 500 songs that shaped rock ‘n’ roll, and for 15 or so years the victory anthem of the Boston Everythings… (the “dirty water” was Boston’s).
So you know, seeing as how I have “Dirty Water” on a mix CD in the car right now, that was kinda of an awesome email to get. And Glenda wasn’t kidding—founding keyboardist Larry Tamblyn, her husband (and uncle of Two and a Half Men’s Amber Tamblyn, by the way), and the rest of the band love Auburn. They really love Auburn. So much they wanted to make a video of them loving Auburn to prove it.
Ladies and gentleman, The Standells!
Think they’re also doing some promo drops for WEGL.
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So, that would also make him Russ Tamblyn’s (West Side Story, Twin Peaks and lots of other films) brother?
Yes indeed.
Love it. Jeremy, could you possibly start linking to YT videos below where they’re embedded, for Android fogies like myself who can’t view the embedded videos due to the platform not supporting Flash?
Also, check out the comment in the Plainsman. Glenda (I presume) commented two years ago, wishing to book the band in Auburn. Let’s make it happen, people!
Whoops.http://www.theplainsman.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Auburn+lacks+amphitheater-+proper+venue+to+attract+major+music+acts%20&id=15221095