Boy, What'll You Do Then?

Here's a rare gem I picked up the other day from Borracho Muchacho. I try not to post stuff I've recently acquired from other blogs, but this song is so great my impulse control is totally shot.

Denise and Company was an all-girl garage-rock band, led by Denise Kaufman, aka Mary Microgram of the Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey's army of hippies. From what I can tell, they were only together for a short while in 1965. But in that time managed to record at least one totally rocking song, this raw, snotty, sexy slice of garage heaven.

She went on to form the SF band Ace of Cups, a band with a lame, new-age Tarot thing going. Thereafter she became that most frightful of zoological oddities, the aging hippie. Whatever magic she had in 1965 is clearly gone now.

Denise and Company - Boy, What'll You Do Then?

I'm pretty sure the photo above is not actually Denise, but who cares, really.