The opening number, "Makin' Deals" by the Satans, is a mid-tempo rocker featuring a vocalist who snarled "Can you guess my name?!?" two years before Mick Jagger pranced through "Sympathy for the Devil." "99th Floor," an organ-driven stomper recorded in 1967, features ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons. TODD KRISTAL
Pebbles, Volume 2 is a compilation album in the Pebbles series that has been issued in both LP and CD formats. This album includes a song by The Moving Sidewalks; Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top was a member of this band. The first track, by the Satans has the same theme and even some of the same lyrics e.g., "Can you guess my name?" as the Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" that was released several years later. Three of the core members of The Choir would later form the Raspberries, with Eric Carmen as the lead vocalist; a second song by this band is included as a bonus track on the CD. Bobby Fuller would later have a national hit as the Bobby Fuller Four, with "I Fought the Law (but the Law Won)". "Feathered Fish" was written by Arthur Lee, and the band The Sons of Adam included Michael Stuart, who went on to join Lee in Love. An earlier line-up also included Randy Holden, later of Blue Cheer. As on Pebbles, Volume 1, Pebbles, Volume 2 includes a curiosity featuring a well-known band: in this case, a genuine radio commercial with the Electric Prunes supplying a demonstration.
A1. The Satans - Makin' Deals
A2. The Moving Sidewalks - 99th Floor
A3. The Sons Of Adam - Feathered Fish
A4. The Electric Prunes - Vox Wah-Wah Pedal Commercial (Bonus Track)
A5. The Road - You Rub Me The Wrong Way
A6. The Lyrics - So What!
A7. The Buddhas - Lost Innocence
A8. Zakary Thaks - Bad Girl
A9. Randy Alvey & The Green Fuzz - Green Fuz
B1. The Squires - Go Ahead
B2. The Little Boy Blues - I Can Only Give You Everything
B3. The Dovers - She's Gone
B4. Phil & The Frantics - I Must Run
B5. The Dovers - What Am I Going To Do
B6. The Choir - It's Cold Outside
B7. Bobby Fuller - Wine Wine Wine
B8. The Litter - I'm A Man