Nuggets: Falling Sugar by The Palace Guard

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1. Typical 1960s pop rock, Not that it’s a bad thing .

   • It is a wee bit generic I think – less personality or edge than most of the Nuggets.

2. The harmony singing is pretty decent. I agree with you the song isn’t exactly earth-shattering but pleasant enough to listen to.

   • Yeah, I think it’s one of the lesser songs on Nuggets. I’m like 40 songs in and nothing has been that bad really.

3. I didn’t know they had anything to do with Emmett Rhodes. And I didn’t know that they used to wear costumes. I love it how a lot of those bands wore costumes. Especially ones that were some kind of uniform. These guys would have been good on a double bill with Paul Revere and the Raiders cuz they had the American Revolution army uniforms and these guys had the British uniforms. Between sets they could have done Revolutionary War reenactments like the way there’s people who do them now. The audience would have loved it. I actually did see one at Fort Niagara Canada and I loved it. They reenacted the Battle of Fort Niagara. They had cannons that fired real cannonballs and shit. And the uniforms were awesome. But it wasn’t actually a Revolutionary War reenactment, but The War of 1812, I think. I like this song cuz it’s nice and lively and has a snappy beat . And I like that kind of singing on this kind of record. I don’t understand the title though. How could something be like sugar falling? When does sugar ever fall? Why would sugar ever fall? It doesn’t, So what are they talking about?

   • Yeah, that Revere double bill sounds great. I don’t think these guys ever made it beyond local fame though.

4. I knew this band sounded familiar… I must have come across them while researching Emitt Rhodes. The song was alright…but those harmonies are impressive from a band that young. It’s much harder emulating that style than a rock/blues sound.

   • Yeah, I can’t sing harmony at all so I’m always impressed by people who can.

     • Listening to all of these bands from this collection…we fell into the Mick type sound when we started out…I found out later how hard harmony singing is…especially live.

5. Actually my friend just told me that Fort Niagara is in Niagara Falls, New York and not Niagara Falls, Canada, which is just right across the river anyway. I was thinking of Old Fort Erie which is on the Canadian side not too far from the other one. I went there too but unfortunately they didn’t have any battle reenactors at that one. So I liked Fort Niagara better. Lol. And Fort Niagara also had a really cool prison.

   • I’ve been reading another blog post about the Niagara falls yesterday, over on https://keepsmealive.wordpress.com/2022/07/09/til-niagara-falls/

6. Two kinds of Nuggets tune – poppy British Invasion and Yardbirds/Them. This is the former. Catchy. Overall ‘Nuggets’ is a fun album. I’d love to know what most of these guys are up to. Maybe they tumbled down like falling sugar.

   • Apart from Emitt Rhodes, all I could find out was that one of the three brothers started a commercial painting business.

     • “All the stars thar never were are parking cars and pumping gas.”