Artist's albums
Turn It Up
2023 · album
Stoked on Christmas Medley
2022 · single
Cyclelogical
2021 · album
Neon Lights
2020 · album
Retrophonic 6
2019 · album
Retrophonic 5
2018 · album
Devil's Rumble: Anthology '64-'68
2017 · album
Is the Grass Really Greener
2017 · album
Showcase
2017 · album
The Mini Album
2016 · album
50th Anniversary
2015 · album
King of the Fuzz Guitar
2015 · album
Retrophonic 4
2013 · album
Retrophonic 2: The Home Demos
2010 · album
Retrophonic
2009 · album
The Remixes
2009 · single
From Paradise To Hell: 1982 - 1987
2009 · album
Fuzz Fest
2008 · album
Restless In L.A.
2008 · album
Moving Right Along
2008 · album
Fuzz For the Holidays 2
2007 · album
Apache '65
2006 · album
Blues Theme
2006 · album
Cycle-Delic Sounds
2006 · album
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Biography
Based in Los Angeles, USA, this quartet, Davie Allan (lead guitar), Paul Johnson (rhythm guitar), Steve Pugh (bass) and Larry Brown (drums), arrived in the wake of fellow instrumental stylists Dick Dale and the Ventures. Allan’s distinctive, ‘heavy fuzz’ sound was already prominent on ‘Apache ’65’, a feature that remained constant despite a fluctuating Arrows line-up. This exciting single was a regional hit, prompting a hurriedly recorded album of the same name. The set was produced by Mike Curb, who was well known for supplying soundtrack music for the numerous movies emerging from the AIP film studio. Allan contributed to several subsequent Curb-instigated albums, usually as a member of the many pseudo-groups Curb organized around Hollywood-based session musicians. However, the guitarist received full credit for ‘Blue’s Theme’ culled from the 1966 film The Wild Angels. Allan and the Arrows were rewarded with their sole US Top 40 entry when this track was issued as a single. The Cycle-delic Sounds Of Davie Allan And The Arrows captured the group at a creative peak, blending hard riffs and tight melodies with a dash of acid rock. By the end of the 60s Allan’s sound had become passé, but he remains one of the decade’s finest exponents of the guitar instrumental.