Lenny Kaye Presents Lightning StrikingVarious ArtistsInitial release : 2021Ace A 2 CD compilation released to coincide with, and act as a soundtrack to, Lenny Kaye's book Lightning Striking. The compilation includes a 1960's San Francisco section with tracks by the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother & The Holding Company.
Tracks
CD 1:
- Lightnin' Strikes (Album version) - Lou Christie
- Rock And Roll - The Boswell Sisters with Jimmy Grier & His Orchestra
- Sixty Minute Man - The Dominoes
- I'm So Happy - Danny Cobb with the Paul Williams Orchestra
- That's All Right - Elvis Presley
- I'm Gonna Murder My Baby aka Cheating And Lying Blues - Pat Hare
- Dog Me Around aka How Many More Years - Howling Wolf
- High School Confidential - Jerry Lee Lewis & His Pumping Piano
- Good Rockin' Tonight - Roy Brown with Bob Ogden & Orchestra
- Look What You're Doin' To Me (Ooh-Wee, Baby) - Professor Longhair
- Tutti Frutti - Little Richard & His Band
- Walking To New Orleans - Fats Domino
- Marcella - The Castelles
- Tiger - Fabian
- A Boy Without A Girl - Frankie Avalon
- Move It! - Cliff Richard & The Drifters
- I Hear A New World - Joe Meek & The Blue Men
- Cavern Stomp - The Big Three
- Stupidity - The Undertakers
- Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers
- Pride Of Man (Demo) - Quicksilver Messenger Service
- Someone To Love - The Great! Society
- 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds - Jefferson Airplane
- Cream Puff War - The Grateful Dead
- Coo Coo - Big Brother & The Holding Company
- Crazy Like A Fox - Link Cromwell
CD 2:
- Looking At You (Stereo version) - MC5
- Leavin' Here (Version 1) - The Rationals
- Black Sheep - SRC
- 1969 - The Stooges
- Piss Factory - Patti Smith
- Rockin' On The Bowery - Startoon
- Beat On The Brat - Ramones
- Down At The Rock and Roll Club (Alternate) - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
- Once I Had A Love (aka The Disco Song) (1975 version) - Blondie
- Orgasm Addict - Buzzcocks
- Your Generation - Generation X
- Oh Bondage Up Yours! - X-Ray Spex
- Garageland - The Clash
- Lightnin' Strikes Again - Dokken
- Edge Of A Broken Heart (Album version) - Vixen
- Freezing Moon - Mayhem
- Gimme Chocolate!! - Babymetal
- Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
- Anaconda - Melvins
- Jinx - TAD
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Mark Lanegan
- So You Want To Be (A Rock 'n' Roll Star) - Patti Smith Group
Related releases
Cream Puff War is taken from one of the following:
The demo version Pride Of Man was possibly taken from:
Someone To Love was originally released on a single:
- Single (Someone To Love / Free Advice), The Great Society, 1965
3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds was originally released on:
Uncertain of the source of Coo Coo. It was originally released on a single:
- Single (Coo Coo / The Last Mile), Big Brother & The Holding Company, 1968
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