Elliott Randall - Randall's Island (1970 us, fantastic rock vibes blended...
Elliott Randall’s illustrious career has encompassed a wide and varied cross-section of World Musical forms. These include: record production, composition, electronic research and development, lectures...
View ArticleDave Mason - Headkeeper (1972 uk, amazing classic rock with psych blues and...
Tommy Li Puma, Dave Mason's coproducer at Blue Thumb, has notified by mail various radio stations and record distributors across the country to go ahead and promote Headkeeper, in spite of the fact...
View ArticleHeadstone Circus - Headstone Circus (1968-70 us, substantial smokey acid west...
"Around 1966, Nick Bonis, Mike Johnstone, Randy Pope, and I formed a psychedelic band. On Halloween night we went to an old cemetery, dropped acid, and spent a very strange night among the tombstones....
View ArticleVarious Artists - Feeling High The Psychedelic Sound Of Memphis (1967-69 us,...
This post is dedicated to Cor by Jim the Greek Memphis is well known as the birthplace of the blues, the fount of southern soul and the locale that begat rock’n’roll. My colleagues and I have been...
View ArticleAUM - Bluesvibes (1969 us, power west coast heavy blues psych rock)
One of the great lesser-known San Francisco bands, AUM was a classic rock power trio, inspired by the likes of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream, and led by the talented multi-instrumentalist and...
View ArticleThe Red Crayola - God Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It (1968...
The Red Crayola were one of the greatest psychedelic bands of the 1960s and probably of all times. They played extremely wild experimental music that was decades ahead of its time. They predated...
View ArticleVarious Artists - Piccadilly Sunshine Vol. 11 (1966-70 uk, charming pop psych...
Piccadilly Sunshine Vol.11 gives us a further delve through the colourful confines of long-forgotten British pop revealing pretty colours and flower-power pop. Celebrating the British psyche that...
View ArticleNew Dawn - There's A New Dawn (1969 us, fabulous laid back trippy...
The New Dawn's "There's A New Dawn" has been hailed as one of the rarest and best psych albums to come out of the late 60s and early 70s. It's been a personal favorite Of mine since the day 1...
View ArticleVarious Artists - Destroy That Boy! More Girls With Guitars (1965-68 us / uk,...
This post is dedicated to Nelwizard by Jim the Greek “Destroy That Boy!”, the sequel to 2004’s “Girls With Guitars”, delves into the world of garage femmes and all-girl bands in a quest to prove that...
View ArticleAUM - Resurrection (1969 us, brilliant blues based hard psych)
One of the first acts signed to Bill Graham's Fillmore label, 1969's "Resurrection" teamed the band with producer David Rubinson. As one might have guessed from the album title (let alone the back...
View ArticleThe Firebirds - Light My Fire (1969 multinational, raw fuzz acid heavy psych)
The Firebirds, a completely anonymous British session band, released ‘Light My Fire‘. Now, the Doors hit of the same name doesn’t really show up on the album, although it’s main hook is alluded to in...
View ArticleRayne - Rayne (1979 us, jagged sharp folk rock with acid drops and southern...
Originals of this 1979 album are almost impossible to find (300 copies) and if you can find one, expect to auction off your first born child, or a valuable body organ to pay for it. Geez, even the...
View ArticleSteve Baron Quartet - The Mother Of Us All (1969 uk, awesome psychedelic...
“I remember watching television – educational television – in mid-1967, to see a program called ‘Eavesdropping On The New Rock’ and a group called The Steve Baron Quartet. It was really strange: the...
View ArticleSteve Baron - A Wanderer Like You (1973 uk, exceptional country folk rock,...
Excellent effort from Steve Baron who puts an energy into his work lacking in some of the biggest stars. Baron is able to take potentially mundane subjects and make them interresting through his...
View ArticleSteppenwolf - Steppenwolf / The 2nd (1968 canada, superb classic albums, BGO...
Steppenwolf have their origins in a Canadian band called The Sparrow, who released two singles in 1966 with little success. The Sparrow broke up in some acrimony but it wasn't long before constituent...
View ArticleTerry Knight And The Pack - Terry Knight And The Pack / Reflections (1966-67...
This two-fer compiles the only two albums by Michigan's Terry Knight & the Pack; its self-titled 1966 debut and 1967's Reflections. Rock 'n' roll collector's and Michigan rock aficionados have...
View ArticleJust Others - Amalgam (1974 uk, pleasant acoustic folk rock, 2010 Korean...
Geoff Twigg and Brian Rodgers first met in Frank Terenzi's music shop in Maidstone, Kent in September 1973. There was instant musical rapport, and they did their first gig together a mere? days later....
View ArticleSix Feet Under - In Retrospect (1969-70 us, chilling, spooky garage psych)
As Bar Mitzvah presents, Jerry Dobb receives an Acetone electronic organ with Kalamazoo Amplifier and Scott Julian receives an Epiphone electric guitar and amp. The friends decide to form a band in the...
View ArticlePhilamore Lincoln - The North Wind Blew South (1970 uk, brilliant psych folk...
One of the most mysterious albums of the late Sixties, British singer/songwriter Philamore Lincoln's US-only release The North Wind Blew South has attracted plenty of conjecture over the years, much of...
View ArticleBarry Ryan - Sings The Songs Of Paul Ryan (1968-69 uk, attractive lovely...
Paul & Barry Ryan were identical twin pop stars of the mid-'60s, but when Paul bowed out due to stress, Barry carried on, at least for a while, singing Paul's songs. The best (only?) known of these...
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