Big Boy Pete

This mysterious British guitarist (real name Pete Miller) cut some oddball non-hits within the ’60s which have amassed a significant reputation among psychedelic collectors. Getting started as an associate of minor United kingdom group Peter Jay & the Jaywalkers, he proceeded to go solo in later 1965 with “Baby I ACQUIRED News for you personally,” a Troggsish amount with wads of fuzzy electric guitar. Billed merely as “Miller,” Pete was supported on the documenting by Peter Frampton and associates from the Herd. For another couple of years he focused on composing for United kingdom music web publishers, and saving demos for himself. Another single, “Frosty Turkey,” this time around billed to Big Boy Pete, was released in early 1968. Using its eerie blasts of spaceship-elevator psychedelic guitars and biting mod-psych vocals, “Cool Turkey” completely deserves its traditional position, though few noticed it at that time. In an additional twist towards the currently odd Big Guy Pete tale, Miller refused to tour; an alternative singer was delivered in his place, resulting in a great deal of “who actually was Big Boy Pete” speculation among critical ’60s historians prior to the dilemma was solved. Miller/Big Boy Pete ultimately relocated to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA to are a manufacturer and engineer, sometimes launching albums on small labels. “Frosty Turkey” and (to a smaller level) “Baby I ACQUIRED News for you personally” had been reissued on compilations of ’60s United kingdom psych/mod rarities, as well as the Damned (beneath the guise of Naz Nomad & the Nightmares) protected “Frosty Turkey.” Many albums of unreleased past due-’60s Big Boy Pete demos have already been issued.