Editing Nazz (section)

===''Nazz''===

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| filename     = Nazz - Open My Eyes.ogg
| title        = "Open My Eyes" (1967)
| description  = Excerpt from the debut record by Nazz.
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The Nazz were approached at a [[Holiday Inn]] bar by manager/publicist John Kurland, who was looking for an act to manage and thought they looked like a band. After hearing them play in their space above the record shop, Kurland bargained with Warfield and Bartoff to buy the Nazz out.<ref name=OpenAnt/> Kurland and his assistant Michael Friedman marketed the Nazz in a teen magazine along with bands like [[the Monkees]]. However, the band preferred the heavier rock sounds of [[The Who]] and [[Cream (band)|Cream]].<ref name=StewMoonInt/> Since they actually played in both styles there may have been some conflict among fans about their image.

The band members often complained that Kurland restricted the number of concerts they played; Thom Mooney said in a late 1968 interview that "We haven't played a lot of dates yet, as our management didn't want us overexposed."<ref name=OpenAnt/> In a 2019 interview, however, Mooney challenged this complaint by the band, saying that they did have a reasonably loaded tour schedule and that the only reason management did not book them at more shows was because they could not play at bars, being underage.<ref name=StewMoonInt/>

The group signed with SGC Records, which released ''[[Nazz (album)|Nazz]]'' in October 1968.<ref name="Larkin"/> There was talk of putting the album out on the [[Colgems Records|Colgems]] label, but the band objected to this as they did not want to be seen as another Monkees, who recorded for Colgems.<ref name=OpenAnt/>