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Mephistopheles - In Frustration I Hear Singing (1969 us, remarkable classic...
Taking its name from 16th century Faustian legend—Mephistopheles was the devil to whom Faust sold his soul—this six-piece outfit emerged from the psychedelic underground and recorded one album, the...
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Children Of The Mushroom - Children Of The Mushroom (1968 us, incredible...
Back in the mid '60s there were lots of garage/psychedelic bands, that only released one or two singles and among them there were kids that apparently found out about psilocybin very soon. Children Of...
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Space Opera - Space Opera (1972 us, superb post psych prog rock, 2014 korean...
An obscurity from day one, Space Opera is an overlooked classic-rock wonder. Three of the four members of Space Opera (Philip White, Scott Fraser, David Bullock) had previously recorded a stellar...
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Jack Bruce Band - Live At Manchester Free Trade Hall (1975 uk, magnificent...
This double-CD set was one of the unexpected bonuses of the 2001/2002 remastering of Jack Bruce's RSO/Polydor catalog -- amid a search of the vaults, a tape of this performance, the only official live...
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Amazing Blondel - Mulgrave Street (1974 uk, wonderful folk silk rock with...
Originally released in 1974. First band album without John Gladwin and along a more commercial line. Long sought after.With the departure of John Gladwin in 1973, Eddie Baird and Terry Wincott decided...
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Roxy - Roxy (1969 canada / us, beautiful groovy west coast psych, 2005 edition)
Roxy might be best known as the group from which a more widely known Elektra band emerged, as principal singer-songwriter Bob Segarini and Randy Bishop went on to found the Wackers, who issued three...
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Damon - Song Of A Gypsy (1959-68 us, gorgeous acid folk psychedelia, surf...
Damon was born in Rochester, New York. His parents owned a beauty shop with living quarters atop, and they squirreled away funds enough to buy a small bowling alley. When Damon was eight, his parents...
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Mandingo - Savage Rite (1975-77 uk, exotic instrumental funk jazz rock...
A strange netherworld filled with rattling bongos, slick strings, wall wall-infused rhythms and searing guitar solos. The original sleeve of Mandingo's fourth album, 1977's 'Savage Rite' reveals...
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The Box Tops - The Original Albums (1967-69 us, superb classic heavenly...
The Box Tops are a ground breaking 1960s group made up of five friends from Memphis Tennessee who first charted in 1967 with a song called 'The Letter,' which like most of their other songs from the...
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Les Variations - Nador (1968-71 france, fantastic rough hard rock, 2010...
“Nador” maintains a high level of Rock’n’Roll, showing Variations were a unit in sync with their sound and themselves. Joe “O.J.” Leb has a ballistic set of pipes and he’s given to great stressing in...
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Various Artists - Time Machine A Vertigo Retrospective (1969-73 uk, An...
So spoke the leading counterculture magazine International Times in a feature on the birth of the new so called "progressive" labels established by the major record labels in 1969 with the intention of...
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Michael Fennelly - Lane Changer (1973 us, superb individual rockin' heart 'n'...
Signed to Epic Records on the strength of his demo songs, Fennelly would record his long-anticipated solo debut album, 1973’s Lane Changer, in England. Produced by former Zombies bassist Chris White,...
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Climax Blues Band - Sense Of Direction (1974 uk, magnificent blues funky...
On their 1974 studio album, Sense of Direction, Pete Haycock (guitars, vocals), Colin Cooper (sax, flute, clarinet, vocals, rhythm guitar), Derek Holt (bass, vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards), and John...
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Swallow - Swallow (1973 us, awesome brass blues roots rock, 2010 issue)
Duke and the Drivers had fun living out their fantasy on ABC Records but, under the aegis of the redoubtable Buddy Buie and with help from the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Boston's Swallow were very serious...
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One - Come (1972 us, marvelous spiritual jam psych rock, 2015 edition)
One of the more curious acts in the Bay area group scene was a band (or collective) called One, or, more specifically. 1, acquaintances of Paul Kantner and Grace Slick from Bolinas. A nine-piece...
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Crowbar - Heavy Duty (1972 canada, great rough blues rock)
Canada's Crowbar is not to be confused with an American grunge band during the 90s of the same name. While in a local Toronto band called The Ascots, Roly Greenway and Rheal Lanthier decided a change...
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Graphite - Chestnut Loke (1970-74 uk, amazing dreamy prog psych rock)
Graphite were formed at Reading University in the late sixties. They gigged professionally on the rock circuit from 1970 to 1973 supporting many big names of that era such as Pink Floyd, Roxy Music,...
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Dr. Music - Bedtime Story (1974 canada, elegant jazz prog rock with some...
Dr Music was the brainchild of Toronto native and Doug Riley, who first took piano lessons as a child as a means of coping through polio. Born in Toronto in 1945, he took lessons in classical piano at...
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Jimmy Campbell - Son Of Anastasia (1969 uk, brilliant folk psych rock, 2009...
Jimmy Campbell was born on January 4th, 1944, three years after the Liverpool Blitz, to William and Anastasia Campbell. Only very essential rebuilding had occurred and Liverpool had still not been...
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Wet Willie - Manorisms / Which One's Willie? (1977/79 us, awesome soulful...
Barely forty minutes long, Manorisms has some killer tracks such as the opening 'Rainman' composed by Mike Duke and the melodic 'Street Corner Serenade', which had some minor success as a single...
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