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Tracklist

A1	Cause I Need You
A2	Theme Of The Rhythm Checkers
A3	Said Oh Yeah
A4	On Your Way Down The Drain
A5	C'est Un Reve
B1	I Can't Dance With You
B2	Kansas City
B3	Long Tall Sally
B4	Land Of 1000 Dances
B5	Ouanita

Credits

• Bass – Danny Gentner* (tracks: A5 to B5), Kurt Horbach* (tracks: A1 to A4)
• Drums – Norbert Hohlweg (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B4), Roland Bauer (tracks: A5, B5)
• Guitar – Robby Stierheim (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B4)
• Keyboards – Jimmy Bock (tracks: A5, B5)
• Lead Guitar – Michaël Czeninga (tracks: A5, B5)
• Lead Vocals – Roland Bauer
• Mastered By – Nicolas Gentner
• Rhythm Guitar – Eddy Van Nelfen (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B4)
• Rhythm Guitar, Percussion – Bruno Euka (tracks: A5, B5)

Notes

The Rhythm Checkers were an exceptional beat group playing a raw mixture of rhythm and blues and rock and roll with a wild garage attitude. Maybe we can call them the european Sonics. Formed by musicians native from France, Germany and Holland with Roland “Bouboule” Bauer (vocal), the regretted Robby Sterheim (lead guitar) Eddy Van Nelfen (rhythm guitar), Kurth Horbach (bass) later replaced by Dany Gentner and Norbert Holweck (drums), they set the stage on fire during their shows in France between the years 1966 and 1967.
It is in Strasbourg where The Rhythm Checkers release their first EP with their powerful composition « Cause i need you » which is a real classic of European garage- rock. Their second EP is a unique document of their stage savageness thanks to these recordings captured live when they opened for Chuck Berry in Paris on February 1967.
The eight mythical tracks of their two rare records are present on this LP, and as bonus, both sides of their single recorded in 1972 during the reformation of the group under the name of Checkers in the prog pop style of the time. The record comes with an insert with all the history and never published photos of the band, both in English and French. Limited release of 500 copies only!