Big Beat Records is a British record label and import distributor owned by Ace Records, specialising in garage rock.[1][2]
Roster
Releases include:
- Big Star
- Dean Carter
- The Chocolate Watchband
- Count Five
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- The Cramps
- The Damned
- Fifty Foot Hose
- The Flaming Stars
- Frumious Bandersnatch
- The Fugs
- Gosdin Brothers
- Guana Batz
- Dan Hicks
- Bert Jansch
- Janie Jones & the Lash
- Larry and the Blue Notes
- Mahogany Rush
- Mighty Baby
- Motörhead
- The Music Machine
- The Nightcrawlers
- The Rationals
- John Renbourn
- The Screaming Blue Messiahs
- She
- The Sting-Rays
- The Sonics
- Sharon Tandy
- The Zombies
See also
References
- ^ Colin Larkin The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music 1561591769 - - Volume 1 1995- Page 52 Ace Records Ted Carroll and Roger Armstrong, co-owners of London collectors' shop Rock On, established the Ace label in ... A subsidiary, Big Beat, was set up the following decade as an outlet for garageband and psychedelic material.
- ^ David Stubbs, Rob Young Ace Records: Labels Unlimited 2008 Page 87 Another example of the type of group Big Beat worked with was The Stingrays. As Alec Palao, the American-based English expat, one time member of the band and subsequent Ace consultant, recalls: "The band was an amalgam of everything we were into, be it rockabilly, garage punk, 1 970s punk, surf, northern soul, folk-rock; we were omnivores." The Stingrays were the classic example of a band who had supersized on Ace's ever-increasing and eclectic output of lost music.