This is going to have to be a relatively
quick post for me, and ironically it's regarding The Quick. I just managed to grab my favorite LA freebie, The Weekly, and noticed at the top of the cover a highlighted story: LONG GONE: THE GREAT LOST QUICK ALBUM. I hurried inside the paper, pretty certain that this was a group I had thought had real potential when they were recording at Brother. I was pretty sure I'd noticed the one guy, Steven Hufsteter, who I remembered well, come up in recent years, but didn't ever see him mentioned in connection with this group.
Well, I knew I was right when I turned to the article & noticed Earle in the background of the groups photo! I'll excerpt the BB reference, then give a link to the story. I'm sure some here will have much to say about the album:
Long Gone: The Great Lost Quick AlbumBy Falling James Thursday, Mar 11 2010
In this nostalgia-mad music era, when seemingly everything worthwhile has already been ruthlessly exhumed, rediscovered and fully explained, it's more than a little ironic that a band called the Quick had to wait three decades for a vinyl reissue of their debut (and only) album, Mondo Deco, on Radio Heartbeat. It's even more surprising because Mondo Deco, originally released by Mercury Records in 1976, is more than just a great lost rock album. It's a great rock album, period — and certainly the most perversely intelligent power-pop record from the Los Angeles scene in the 1970s.
Despite the Quick's long, slow slide into semi-oblivion following their 1978 breakup, the quintet's initial rise to legitimate near-stardom was, indeed, quick. Not long after forming in late 1974, San Fernando Valley teenagers Steven Hufsteter, Danny Wilde, Danny Benair, Ian Ainsworth and Billy Bizeau drew the attention of Runaways manager Kim Fowley. At the time, in the dead zone between the end of glitter and the start of punk, there were only a few nightclubs — mainly for cover bands like Van Halen — so the Quick had to literally create their own scene from scratch.................
With Fowley's help, the Quick were signed to Mercury by A&R man Denny Rosencrantz, who'd previously inked the Runaways. Mondo Deco was recorded at the Beach Boys' Brother Studios by producer Earle Mankey, the founding guitarist of Sparks, one of the Quick's early influences. Perhaps out of sheer chutzpah, Mondo Deco starts with an astonishing, supersugary and superglittery remake of the Beatles' "It Won't Be Long," where Wilde's insanely high vocals make Lennon and McCartney come off like Barry White.................
..................Meanwhile, "In My Room"–style backing vocals hover in the reverb mist like a celestial choir, Hufsteter twists up the song's uncanny repeating guitar figure, dishes break and records are scratched, while Benair stomps through the flower bed with a loud, jackbooted beat.
http://www.laweekly.com/2010-03-11/music/long-gone-the-great-lost-quick-album/ 
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