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The Green Pajamas are a musical group from Seattle, Washington. They formed in the spring of 1984 when Jeff Kelly and Joe Ross recorded and released their first album, ''Summer Of Lust''. They are probably best known for the regional hit single "Kim the Waitress".〔Humphrey 1995, p.106. 'Tom Dyer's Green Monkey label released ... the group that became Dyer's principle interest, Green Pajamas....Led by the delightful acid-pop vocals and lyrics of Jeff Kelly (with bassist/co-songwriter Joe Ross (later in 64 Spiders), Steve Lawrence, Bruce Haedt and Karl Wilhelm), the Pajamas first made the self-released tape ''Summer of Lust'', the hooked up with Dyer and scored a regional hit in 1984 with the dreamy love-ode "Kim The Waitress", clocking in at over six minutes of ethereal innocence. (Dyer mixed a shorter version for airplay on KJET, whose automation equipment couldn't play tapes longer than five minutes.) The Pajamas followed it up with a live-in-the-studio tape, the lapsed-Catholic-themed single "Sister Anne" (no relation to the MC5's "Sister Anne" or The Flop's later "(Sister) Anne") and the singer-songwriter-y ''Book of Hours'' and ''Ghosts of Love'' LPs, the latter released through L.A.'s Bomp label. The group broke up during the ''Ghost'' sessions. Kelly next recorded solo material, sold only on self-released tapes. The Pajamas reunited in 1994, after Seattle's Sister Psychic and Chicago's Material Issue released simultaneous covers of "Kim".'〕 The band released 33 albums between 1984 and 2014. The band has never been picked up by a major label. == History == Joe Ross and Jeff Kelly met at a party and discovered a common interest in 60s psychedelia. Inspired by 1983's Los Angeles "paisley underground" music scene the duo decided to start a similar scene in their home town of Seattle. By spring of 1984 they had recorded and released a homemade cassette called ''Summer of Lust'';〔 it was described by one U.K. journalist as "British-style psychedelia similar to Dukes of the Stratosphear but more off-center and less pastiche". The 7" record "Kim the Waitress" attracted regional college radio airplay in the mid-80s,〔 and the band went on to record "Sister Anne", and the albums ''Book Of Hours'' and ''Ghosts of Love'', before breaking up during the sessions for ''Ghosts of Love'' (released 1990 to some critical attention on the L.A. label Bomp!). During the next few years, Jeff Kelly released solo recordings on cassette. The band re-united in 1994 in the wake of "Kim The Waitress" covers released that year by Material Issue〔 and the Seattle band Sister Psychic.〔Humphrey 1995, p.156. '(Sister Psychic album ) ''Surrender, You Freak'' ... () a sweet cover of the Green Pajamas' "Kim The Waitress" (with Jeff Kelly's original lyrics, unlike the better-selling cover by Material Issue)'〕 A third single, "Song for Christina", was released. (The Green Pajamas' early singles, including "Kim The Waitress", can be heard on the 1997 anthology ''Indian Winter''.) With the 1999 release of ''Seven Fathoms Down and Falling'' on Nick Saloman's Woronzow records, they played the 1999 Terrastock 3 festival in London. They have been Terrastock regulars, playing at Terrastock 2 in San Francisco, #4 in Seattle and #6 in Providence, RI. In 2009 the band returned to the Seattle record label where they started and has been putting out a steady stream of releases, both reissues and new material. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Green Pajamas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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