Dog & The Acid Bunnies Release Catalog!
On Armistice Day 1984, Dog & the Acid Bunnies entered the appropriately labeled White Dog Studios, and recorded two short tracks which eventually surfaced on their 1988 single. The band for this recording bore a striking resemblance to another Newton, Ma band, The Trodds. But that flash of familiarity ended with this session. Over the next several years Dog (Scott Ferguson) and Tom Kelly would periodically ensconce themselves in several recording studios and wound up producing more than 20 additional tracks that owe a great debt to the best of the mid to late-60s garage, psych and folk-rock sounds. Not content with the common guitar, bass and drum instrumentation favored by many bands, the astute listener will detect various Acid Bunnies sprinkling flute, bagpipes and even a train into regions of their repertoire. Rumors of a rogue Acid Bunny utilizing a vacuum cleaner in a song have been confirmed, although this not so subtle nuance was left out of the final mix.
Alas, for more than 35 years, all this has been a closely guarded secret. Only one release, the aforementioned single, has surfaced from this elusive combo. No shows, no press, no screaming fans chasing Dog in his 1965 Volvo. No, they have remained an enigma. All that, however, is about to change. Dog and various Acid Bunnies have reviewed the results of those long-ago recording sessions, and have just released them to various streaming sites for your enlightenment! Fans of the Beatles, Syd Barrett, the Byrds and other like-minded bands rejoice! You will surely find something of interest from these tracks. It’s almost like the sixties never ended. Or…
Where is Stanton Park?
Exactly where Stanton Park is doesn’t really matter. What it is, though, matters a great deal.
While Stanton Park was created solely to release a record the Trodds in 1981, it grew over the next few years into a bona fide independent label releasing records by bands such as: Willie Alexander, the Bags, the Brood, Head and the Hares, Kenne Highland, Medicine Ball, Rising Storm, Voodoo Dolls, World of Distortion and many others.
A small mailorder catalog and this web site quickly followed to help spread the word to enthusiastic record collectors around the world. The focus was vinyl, and for several years, no CDs were listed. During the nineties, the catalog, Vinyl Injections took on a life of its own growing to nearly 1500 titles at its peak.
After 2000, with the general shift to the web, this site took over the entire distributon of the label and non-label mailorder items. And today, our store on Discogs handles all orders.
This site is now dedicated to telling the Stanton Park story, from the bands, to the label to the ups and downs of running a small label.