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Title: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 21, 2019, 07:29:22 AM
This topic takes its name from "a saintly label that makes it their business to rerelease amazing but forgotten albums". It takes its cue from this list (https://thecarbonfreeze.com/2019/03/25/obscure-65-75-era-albums-i-recommend-the-list/) (a true labour of love) and this commentary (https://thecarbonfreeze.com/2019/03/25/obscure-65-75-era-albums-i-recommend-commentary/), which is where the above quote comes from. Unlike the blogger, I was in my teens and twenties during the years 1966-1975. So many of the names in her list were familiar to me although many of the actual albums were not. For me it has been a fascinating trip of discovery and rediscovery down... well, Memory Lane is perhaps a misnomer but you get the idea. My grateful thanks to that lovely person for dozens of hours of listening pleasure!

First up, for many reasons, is a track from the 1968 album The United States of America. Out of many I love on this album, "Cloud Song" is probably my favourite. "Blissed out" is an overused cliché but never was it more apposite than here. And I'm a sucker for wordless sung lines--they often say more than the lyrics!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yqr4UK41GM

(https://img.discogs.com/PE3tQQ_Q-PqkSPtUXQI1lTIX6Xw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-185342-1338860323-6237.jpeg.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_of_America_(album) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_of_America_(album))


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 22, 2019, 05:36:03 AM
Not sure whether I'll always be doing this but for the moment at least I shall work my way down this wondrous list.

I used to own Love's Forever Changes on vinyl for a while but never really warmed to it (unlike their debut and side one of Da Capo). Forever evidently does change because now I think it's a thing of wonder, every song a gem. This is "Andmoreagain", an Arthur Lee composition and the first track to be committed to tape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9vfx72gqvI

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71-A3aHB7iL._SY355_.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Changes


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 25, 2019, 01:48:47 AM
Out of all the "Keepers", I shall forever associate Gandalf with my blogger friend. In some ways it's an unlikely candidate for a list of psychedelic albums--eight of the ten songs are covers, including the seriously non-psychedelic likes of "Scarlet Ribbons". But it works wonderfully well--and the cover is stunning in itself. I know this is her favourite track, "Can You Travel In The Dark Alone":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRlCXFUoT7Y

(http://www.petersando.com/glp.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf_(American_band) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf_(American_band))


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 27, 2019, 04:22:58 AM
Brainticket's Cottonwoodhill is another highly original psychedelic album I would never have come across if it weren't for the many hours my blogger friend diligently spent scouring YouTube looking for gems like this. The album opens with the stunning "Black Sand". And the quality never lets up! ::)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjC_V-P3Ndg

(https://img.discogs.com/dIcf0LF3kGxpLBlEiJHDh-Qj-FI=/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-855060-1395070538-7327.jpeg.jpg)

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3608


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 28, 2019, 05:40:08 AM
A complete switch of style and mood now. Bonnie Dobson is probably best known for writing "Morning Dew", astonishingly her first ever composition. From her self-titled 1969 album this is the closing track, "Winter's Going":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvoDy0yTEyQ

(https://img.discogs.com/MjLnseQIUHIdY1iwNM44mXjgbhE=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-1064128-1189334940.jpeg.jpg)

http://rockasteria.blogspot.com/2019/03/bonnie-dobson-bonnie-dobson-1969-canada.html


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 30, 2019, 06:19:15 AM
Tangerine Dream is the 1967 debut album by Kaleidoscope, the UK band that later changed its name to Fairfield Parlour. I remember from my first encounter with this album at PSF (thank you again, my friend) that my favourite track was the wonderfully named "[Further Reflections] In The Room Of Percussion" ("My god, the spiders are everywhere..."):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbF4yslRhy4

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/9140v%2BCqRwL._SX355_.jpg)

I see Tangerine Dream is now held in the highest esteem and has been compared to the likes of The Piper at the Gates Of Dawn. I also recall being impressed with Fairfield Parlour's 1970 album From Home to Home (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQoKurk6tqU).

http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~htmlsig/peter.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(UK_band)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 01, 2019, 06:52:57 AM
Tim Hollier should be much better known than is the case. His stunning if criminally unknown 1968 album Message to a Harlequin features its arranger "John Cameron on harpsichord, organ and piano, Harold McNair on flute, Danny Thompson on bass and Tony Carr on drums, and Tim sings and wrote the songs--this makes for a colourful combination of instruments which give the album a ‘folky’, baroque feel."

This is the hypnotic title track, "a fantastic display of psychedelic acid-folk, with dreamy lyrics, 'by the silver palace tower in the wild sunlight swaying… in his robes of silk and satin, trimmed with juniper and lime, he tells his timeless story to the quiet of the mind,' transporting the listener to a pre-raphaelite, Arthurian world, smothered in a psychedelic haze." [Source (https://moofmag.com/2017/06/16/album-of-the-week-tim-hollier-message-to-a-harlequin-1968/)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiFdxC6wsfM

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8-9TjeeuxLU/TBVAtJhpUII/AAAAAAAAA1Q/9mdz24yCEqM/s400/vin77420071214%5B1%5D.jpg)

I see the opening sentence in the article by Melanie Xulu quoted above is: "Would recommend if you’re a fan of: Tim Buckley, Pat Kilroy, Bonnie Dobson, Wendy & Bonnie, Chrysalis, Donovan". That makes sense. ;)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 03, 2019, 06:05:56 AM
One of the most unlikely candidates for psych rock fame is Dantalion's Chariot, who mere months earlier had been called Zoot Money's Big Roll Band and played the soul-struttin' likes of this:     

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxgVlcKgkCU

"Big Time Operator" (which I remember well) was Zoot's biggest hit, reaching #25 in the UK in July 1966. (Interestingly, both bands included future Police guitarist Andy Summers.) 

All the music on Chariot Rising was recorded in 1967 (the year of the Roundhouse/U.F.O. poster) but the album was compiled 29 years later. It's among the "Not Impressed With"s in my blogger friend's list of obscure psychedelic albums, of which she says the "last two tracks are good". I listened to it all the way through just now and I disagree (it happens)--my two choices are the album's single and opening track, the UK psychedelic classic "Madman Running Through The Fields", and "Soma", a sitar guitar and flute fuelled instrumental. I've linked the entire album as the blurb is most illuminating. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUgDeTH1p6o

(http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/DantaliansChariot.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dantalian%27s_Chariot


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 05, 2019, 02:02:22 PM
I couldn't remember anything about this self-titled 1968 album by Ivory (I can't believe I skipped it last year) so I listened to it again tonight. Ivory is a trio (see below) so would be cool to learn who played bass and drums--maybe this will come to light some time. I must admit much of it is a little too Airplaney for my liking, although I do like "Free And Easy", "Laugh" and the stunning closer, the piano and fuzz guitar heavy "Grey November" (maybe the rest of the album will grow on me):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ooMUHva0E

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sUX14E_yHNg/UGSLGVaQbYI/AAAAAAAAGC0/4owPkeZ5WpI/s1600/Ivory+-+Back.jpg)

This blurb comes from near the bottom of a long page so it's more practical to reproduce it here (I won't make a habit of this!):

"Ivory is one of those fascinating California rock bands that seemed to spontaneously materialize in the heady psychedelic days of late '60s, making a brief but outstanding impression before just as quickly fading along with its music into the headless 1970s, never to be heard from again. Most such artists rarely merit rescuing from obscurity, but Ivory is one of the few that deserves what little belated acclaim might come its way in the era of CD reissue.

"Guitarist and songwriter Ken Thomure spent his high-school years playing in any number of amateur and semi-professional combos with friend, classmate, and keyboardist Mike McCauley in Boron, CA, a town situated next door to Edwards Air Force Base about 90 miles outside Los Angeles. Their various aggregates played military clubs, teen hangouts, schools, battle-of-bands, and just about anywhere else that would have them. Upon graduation, the duo decided to move to Hollywood together to give the music business a shot. By chance, while hitchhiking, they ran into Chris Christman on the Sunset Strip one day shortly after arriving, and asked her, partly on the basis of her blonde good looks, to audition for them. As it turned out, she was also a burgeoning songwriter and vocalist of considerable, Grace Slick-like skill. The newly formed trio moved into a downtown loft with a group of art students and made its living playing nearby small clubs in the Hollywood and Santa Monica areas, as well as throwing occasional "rent parties" by enlisting a number of other bands to play and help publicize the events. This makeshift apprenticeship in enterprise led to the formation of a legitimate production company and offers for out-of-town concerts.

"Ivory began landing auditions and were hired to create the soundtrack for an underground film. The band also earned a recording contract and, under the tutelage of well-known producers Al Schmitt and Les Brown Jr., recorded the Ivory album, a dead ringer for fellow Schmitt-production the Jefferson Airplane. This brought the band an agent and bigger concerts and gigs, including an appearance on The Tonight Show. Ivory's first promotional tour took them to almost every city in Colorado. It also, however, turned out to be the band's only tour. Upon the trio's return to Los Angeles, McCauley was drafted, sent to Vietmam, and wounded, in effect, breaking up Ivory. Christman did make a solo album in the early '70s, but then married and moved out of state. Thomure and McCauley dropped out of music altogether but continued to play together occasionally."

Source: http://fantasy0807.blogspot.com/2008/04/june-2007-pt2.html


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 08, 2019, 03:36:44 AM
In 1967, NYC quintet The Third Bardo paid a one-off visit to the studio where they recorded six tracks, including a criminally underexposed single, "Five Years Ahead Of My Time" (love those triplets!). And then they broke up. In 2000 (and again in 2018) Sundazed released everything from that session on a 10" EP. Two other tracks from it I'd recommend are "Lose Your Mind" (here at 7:05) and "I Can Understand Your Problem" (11:50). All good stuff, once again thanks to my blogger friend. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrnQCE8ksbI

(https://media.sundazed.com/media/images/10-175-400.jpg)

https://www.discogs.com/The-Third-Bardo-Im-Five-Years-Ahead-Of-My-Time-5/release/11813793

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Bardo


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 09, 2019, 12:17:40 PM
This is the first of two PSF posts I wisely copied to my "hobby" forum before PSF died:

The mysterious Garrett Lund released just one solo album. This is the opening track from Almost Grown, a gem entitled "The Only Turnaround". There's something magical about the three-bar pattern in 3/4 metre, best noted in the solo. Great guitar work all round from the late Jimmy Jerviss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqRRHeZbG-U

Since then (March 2018), I've learned a little more about the man:

(https://img.discogs.com/BtIyKXtYoxDl3ssJqy81zlUnDEA=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/A-3054447-1545361803-1992.jpeg.jpg)

"Bruce Robertson aka Garrett Lund was and still is a mysterious person. In the early ‘70s he was singer in the L.A. group The Caretakers.
"From what is known, he was born in the early ‘50s. His father deserted Garrett and his mother before he was born and in his teens his beloved mother died. Garrett’s audition and acceptance as a member of The Caretakers, was a step up from his first local band to evolved into Trane, and became an instant success, playing the southwest of the US.
"Trane appeared at numerous rock festivals and large clubs, opening for Led Zeppelin, Cream, Eric Burdon & The Animals, Jefferson Airplane and The Who. Almost immediately Trane was headlining their own sold-out shows. What happened then is unclear, except that Garrett began a solo career and three years after Trane completed Almost Grown which was promptly rejected by 22 record labels. [!!!]
"Convinced that the album could and should be an artistic and commercial success, Garrett’s manager/producer, along with friends and family, set out to independently release Almost Grown with the help of record promoter, John Holcomb, succeeded in achieving rotation on nine radio stations and selling 2000 units in less than two weeks. Armed with the independently released success, the record companies were once again given the chance to sign Garrett and once again they passed. Since then, there's virtually no information on Almost Grown or Garrett Lund until 2001." [Source (https://www.discogs.com/artist/3054447-Bruce-Robertson-2?noanv=1)]

http://rockasteria.blogspot.nl/2011/05/garrett-lund-almost-grown-1975-us.html
 


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 12, 2019, 07:51:31 AM
This is another that was first posted at PSF and (happily) a second time at my "hobby" forum:  

1970 was the year Kapp Records released Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs. It's not surprising if it means nothing to you--the album sank without a trace. In a just world, it would been hailed as a masterpiece. Luckily, it is getting more attention now. Thanks to my blogger friend (again) for showering us PSF'ers with amazing obscure stuff from the late '60s, early '70s. This is the title track (check out Linda's BB connection at her wiki page).

The lineup on this track would appear to be as follows (new information I found today):

Linda Perhacs--vocals, guitar, electronic effects
Leonard Rosenman--electronic effects
Steve Cohn--lead guitar
John Neufield--flute
Milt Holland and Shelley Mann--percussion
[Source (http://rock60-70.ru/albums/linda-perhacs-parallelograms-1970-usa-psychedelic-folk.php)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9VbJmbtMW8

(http://rock60-70.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Linda-Perhacs2.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Perhacs


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 16, 2019, 02:22:23 AM
This is arguably the last one to be lifted (verbatim in this case) from my "hobby forum" (23 April 2018):

Here's a track from a band whose name would probably have put me off ever dipping into, had it not been mentioned in a PSF topic dedicated to obscure albums from the late '60s, early '70s. Mom's Apple Pie do this great cover of Etta James's "I Just Wanna Make Love To You", which still features in my former band's repertoire (in a medley with "Born To Be Wild"). Another great track on their debut album is "Lay Your Money Down". Thank you, that person. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkHF-Cb4QlM

(https://img.discogs.com/sLkXvdMfs1GsE8Rxdst_0bOiYhg=/600x589/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-1153892-1542727612-1733.jpeg.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%27s_Apple_Pie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mom%27s_Apple_Pie)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: humanoidboogie on June 17, 2019, 06:34:52 AM
Speaking of Brainticket and "highly original psychedelic albums", have you listened to "Edge of Time" by Dom? I think it's one of the best headtrips out there.

Also nice to see Garrett Lund! Some of it is a bit too pro-sounding and not far out enough for my taste, but a few of the songs are right up there with the best of Michael Angelo's 1977 LP!


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 17, 2019, 12:16:08 PM
Speaking of Brainticket and "highly original psychedelic albums", have you listened to "Edge of Time" by Dom? I think it's one of the best headtrips out there.

Also nice to see Garrett Lund! Some of it is a bit too pro-sounding and not far out enough for my taste, but a few of the songs are right up there with the best of Michael Angelo's 1977 LP!

Hi, hb. Wow, I see you've been away for six years! Welcome back. :)

Thanks for the tip. I have Edge of Time lined up for late-night/early-morning listening. ;)

Glad you like the Garrett L album. If you have any more suggestions, fire away. And don't be afraid to link the videos and any information you think is relevant.


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 18, 2019, 07:01:36 AM
Thanks for the tip. I have Edge of Time lined up for late-night/early-morning listening. ;)

I gave the four official tracks a listen last night. I'm afraid I couldn't warm to the album. It's not that I've got anything against "Krautrock"--I love Popol Vuh, for example. Perhaps one needs to indulge in psychs or weed to appreciate it--and I'm an abstainer in both departments. ;D

While at YouTube I did notice this self-titled album by Five Day Rain. Unlike Dom, this one is on my friend's list, in the "Worth Another Listen" section. And it's a great listen so far. "Rough Cut Marmalade" (I can relate to the title alone!) is an eleven-minute guitar-fuelled instrumental:   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNh_6liNao

(https://img.discogs.com/5Mpmb2GaB9BTLGlUe0PYnJrQDBc=/600x326/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-1709582-1552827610-2456.jpeg.jpg)

http://www.silentstudios.org.uk/page2fdr.htm


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 19, 2019, 03:11:25 AM
From Within (1969) isn't in my friend's list either. (I'll get back to her selections after this--promise!) I saw Sapphire Thinkers mentioned in a YouTube comment on the Five Day Rain album so I followed it up. The standout feature of this "West Coast sunny psych" band is the distinctive vocal harmonizing, shown off to full effect in "I Got To You"--some stunning harmonic progressions in there. The entire album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiGB0Gh7f-Y) is worth checking out. They've been compared to the Airplane but they are very much their own band, to these ears at least.

The link is most informative but don't click on anything while you're there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7X4_PWe-YE

(http://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/sapphire-thinkers-hobbit-ab.jpg)

http://therockasteria.blogspot.com/2012/10/sapphire-thinkers-from-within-1968-us.html


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: humanoidboogie on June 20, 2019, 05:38:17 AM
Thanks for the Sapphire Thinkers link. According to Richard Falk in "Endless Trip" it's "richly melodic and relaxed" and "blends elements of psychedelia and folk-rock on some catchy but rather lightweight songs. Fans of bands such as Art Of Lovin' and Growing Concern will find much to adore here."

Sorry that Dom wasn't your cup of tea, but thanks for giving it a try! I think it's a great LP to play late at night on headphones (and no need for drugs, by the way! :)) but I understand that it's not for everyone.

Speaking of albums that are a bit different, here are two classics and two of my favourites. You might've heard 'em already, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQhIhKpmwrg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQhIhKpmwrg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRecD7E0yw&list=OLAK5uy_lJr3ncbznjJwcEs5wb0isx9e0I8Wos178 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRecD7E0yw&list=OLAK5uy_lJr3ncbznjJwcEs5wb0isx9e0I8Wos178)

I realise that I'm straying from the subject now... Sorry about that! :)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 20, 2019, 05:44:19 AM
Speaking of albums that are a bit different, here are two classics and two of my favourites. You might've heard 'em already, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQhIhKpmwrg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQhIhKpmwrg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRecD7E0yw&list=OLAK5uy_lJr3ncbznjJwcEs5wb0isx9e0I8Wos178 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRecD7E0yw&list=OLAK5uy_lJr3ncbznjJwcEs5wb0isx9e0I8Wos178)

I realise that I'm straying from the subject now... Sorry about that! :)

No problem, hb. All grist to the mill, as they say. ;)

Thanks for the recommendations! I'll give those two a try in the coming days and report back. 8) 


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: humanoidboogie on June 20, 2019, 08:35:14 AM
Please forget my above links! Let’s talk about something befitting this thread:

The Smoke (not the UK or NZ bands, but the Michael Lloyd one) and their sole ’68 LP which in my opinion is a masterpiece. Why oh why is there still no official reissue of this gem? Surely Sundazed would be the perfect label for this one!

Tagga till!!!


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 20, 2019, 12:43:21 PM
Please forget my above links!

Actually, I just gave the Horrific Child album a listen. It's certainly unusual, quite startling at times, but I'm afraid it had pretty well the same effect on me as Edge of Time. Both are just outside my musical area.

Quote
Let’s talk about something befitting this thread:

The Smoke (not the UK or NZ bands, but the Michael Lloyd one) and their sole ’68 LP which in my opinion is a masterpiece. Why oh why is there still no official reissue of this gem? Surely Sundazed would be the perfect label for this one!

Yes, this album is on my friend's list of "Keepers" (I even remember seeing the cover image in her blog). Feel free to link it here with the necessary information (it's on YouTube). This topic is for everyone, you know. ;)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 23, 2019, 04:57:00 AM
In a way, I was surprised to see Traces by Classics IV in my friend's list of "Keepers". Most of it is fairly MOR late-night listening, with Tommy Roe's "Traffic Jam" the only up-tempo song in the set. Ironically, it was another Tommy Roe song, "Dizzy", which kept "Images", the first of two singles from the album, from the US #1 slot. It's certainly the album's standout track and I see (at Wikipedia) that it's held in high esteem.

You might say with its four cover versions that Traces is a step away from Gandalf, but without that superior album's psychedelic sheen. The trademark "Spooky" rhythmic motif is in evidence on many of its tracks--in my view this is what holds the album together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hkMwXNJ_cM

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2008/12/10/arts/yost450.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traces_(song) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traces_(song))


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on June 24, 2019, 05:06:39 AM
I remember when I first heard Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" in mid '67 I was blown away by its authority. Of course I bought it straight away. But then I heard it so often on the radio (day in, day out) that my interest in it soon flagged. The B-side was the very opposite--a throwaway blues thing. They would have done better to have used the backing track of "AWSAP"--it would have been played day and night as background music on radio shows.

I still feel their next 45, "Homburg", was vastly superior to "AWSAP" and indeed anything else on PH's debut album. Although I love the third album's title track "A Salty Dog", which I've long regarded as a sort of UK equivalent of "Surf's Up", my choice for this topic (all three albums are included in the by now legendary "Keepers" list) falls on "Shine On Brightly", from PH's sophomore album of that name.

When I did charity work in Birmingham in '73, "Shine On Brightly" was on a tape I played while dropping off to sleep. So despite the title, for me this magical song conjures up a picture of inky blackness! (Curiously, another equally dark-sounding song on that tape had a soft verse/loud chorus structure, albeit more extreme--George Harrison's "Let It Down".)  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E12YAuAYjLQ

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mbCtanRrpLQ/TEup9leYY1I/AAAAAAAAEdM/YJS3T3Zx6hQ/s400/procol-harum-67.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procol_Harum


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on July 02, 2019, 03:10:06 AM
Looking through the "Worth Another Listen"s, this entry has always made me smile: "The C.A. Quintet--Trip Thru Hell (some good moments but mostly sh*t)". :lol Last week I took it upon myself to check this album out. The session started off promisingly. "Trip Thru Hell Pt 1" is pretty goofy but eminently listenable--the "phased"* drum solo is even exciting in its way. The quality takes a slight dip seven tracks in at "Trip Thru Hell Pt 2" but picks up again... until we reach the covers. Covers of famous songs are a tricky business at the best of times and they fall pretty flat here! But they're the unfortunate exception on what is on the whole an engaging if fairly lightweight psych album. So I'll turn my blogger friend's remark around if I may and say "some sh*t but mostly good moments". :smokin A most unusual feature is the use of a trumpet as part of the standard lineup in a psych band. This is track 5, "Underground Music":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQDv2krvErY

(http://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/caquintet.jpg)

https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/c-a-quintet-trip-thru-hell

* I have to be careful when describing the whooshing effect heard on many psych records, after being roundly castigated at Hoffman for not distinguishing between phasing and tape flanging (which I must admit I'd never heard of  :P )


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on July 05, 2019, 02:34:37 AM
Birth by Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers is not on my friend's list. Maybe the "bluegrass sounding" name put her off. ;D John Koutromanos's splendid YouTube blurb says it all really--and pretty well reflects my own feelings about the album. If you want to lend an ear to just one track, I would suggest A5, "Endless Trip". But it's a fascinating listen all the way through, even if "Love" gets a little hysterical at times. :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHgVh7nK3zc

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YVsM8yUrG1Y/V8lRsdubz4I/AAAAAAAD0fA/kRSm6IEUaWEhPB8G6-p1JqMKq5c9MOS-wCLcB/s320/R-6107830-1411256553-1097.jpeg.jpg)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on July 11, 2019, 07:03:52 AM
Looking at CB's famous list, I see The Doors' third album Waiting for the Sun is high among her "Worth Another Listen"s. I loved their debut, liked most of Strange Days but this one flummoxed me from day one. In fact it was my last Doors purchase, the way that Weasels Ripped My Flesh became my last Zappa LP.

Looking through the track listing today, there's not that much I'd write home about. The opening big hit sounds dated and a lot of the rest sounds tired, at least to these ears. Eventually I chose "Not To Touch The Earth" for its exciting build-up and its connection with their big theatre piece "Celebration of the Lizard", of which it seems to have been part. Sticking my neck out here but this may be the closest The Doors came to reproducing their live act in the studio.

Later I came to love L.A. Woman so all's well that ends well (or something).

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAqx8y6mOFY

(https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/soullaway/34880428/1525707/1525707_900.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_the_Sun


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on July 15, 2019, 02:09:33 PM
Ramases' 1971 album Space Hymns gets the thumbs down from CB--except for this one track. I haven't checked out the rest of the album but "Life Child" sounds excellent to these ears. Indeed, the passage beginning at 3:40 is simply breath-taking. The band backing Ramases (real name Kimberly Barrington Frost) would go on to form 10cc. His wiki page is an enthralling if heart-breaking read. May the gods protect the eccentrics of this world. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8HpI4QkaoI

(https://timemachine-productions.gr/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Ramases-–-Space-Hymns.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramases

(https://sanjindumisic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ramases-seklet.jpg)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on July 18, 2019, 06:47:51 AM
It was only after I'd moved to NL that I discovered there was a Dutch band called The Outsiders (I'd bought the seriously tear-jerking "Girl In Love" by the US band of that name in 1966). Their 1968 album CQ (or C.Q., take your pick) is listed among my friend's "Wasn't Impressed With"s, although she describes two tracks, "Wish You Were Here With Me Today" (linked here) and "I Love You No. 2", as good. Assuming my spies have been doing their job properly, the lineup for this album is Wally Tax (vocals), Ronnie Splinter (guitar), Frank Beek (bass guitar) and Leendert "Buzz" Busch (drums). Actually I have CQ lined up for late night/early morning listening--it gets rave reviews, not what I'd expected at all. So I'm intrigued. ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-ZBFYehg4Y

(http://rock60-70.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Outsiders14.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(Dutch_band) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(Dutch_band))


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on July 21, 2019, 05:38:56 AM
Actually I have CQ lined up for late night/early morning listening--it gets rave reviews, not what I'd expected at all. So I'm intrigued. ;D

Curious album ^^, a bit on the uneven side. I most liked the one I linked (obviously), the noise-heavy "Doctor" and the driving "Happyville" (for harmonica fans only).

Now, I remember Chimera's unsettling cover being a subject of discussion across the road. I listened to this album all the way through yesterday and I'd say it's top-notch in all departments, not least in terms of sound quality. Lisa Bankoff and Francesca Garnett's two-part voicings are particularly strong.

The Youtube blurb is confusing. According to the sleeve notes, both Lisa and Francesca sing on all tracks except "Sad Song For Winter", which features just Lisa.

This is the opening track, "Come Into The Garden", followed by the goofy "Interlude #1":  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g4teAExNoM

(https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_band/5780.jpg)

http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/2006/09/chimera-uk-acid-folkbaroque.html (http://time-has-told-me.blogspot.com/2006/09/chimera-uk-acid-folkbaroque.html)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on August 03, 2019, 02:05:01 AM
Some years ago I discovered this take on Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and posted it at a now-defunct forum. I rediscovered it last night with a lucky spell of googling and here it is again (now on two forums for safety's sake).

I remember giving the debut album by Ars Nova a brief listen in a record shop in 1968--it was on Elektra so I was immediately intrigued. I gave up after two or three tracks--it was too eclectic for my tastes in those days (and perhaps too frivolous). So I never got as far as "Zarathustra".

It seems this album and 2001: A Space Odyssey were released pretty well simultaneously so there was little question of the Kubrick film being an influence. As if to confirm this, the Ars Nova track includes a bizarre passage from Strauss's work that is nowhere to be found in Kubrick's OST, namely the twelve-tone "Of Science" fugue (here at 0:32; see the Strauss link).

This album by Ars Nova never made my friend's lists, probably because, being somewhat out on a limb, there were no YouTube comments that would have led her to it. Fifty years later, I can appreciate it more than I did then, having mellowed with age (or something). "Zarathustra" was the last track on side one of the original LP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RzNgjWg2Zw

(https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/founders-of-ars-nova-rock-band-wyatt-day-playing-a-guitar-and-jon-a-picture-id529665229)

http://therockasteria.blogspot.com/2017/10/ars-nova-ars-nova-1968-us-magnificent.html (http://therockasteria.blogspot.com/2017/10/ars-nova-ars-nova-1968-us-magnificent.html) [please read but don't click on any links on this page!]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Also_sprach_Zarathustra)



Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on August 04, 2019, 04:11:42 AM
Lacewing's lone 1971 album is tucked away towards the end of CB's "Wasn't Impressed With"s. She didn't single out "Paradox" as the standout track, which it most definitely is. It's understandable, as a gruelling three-year session of listening to some 300 albums would probably become more of an ordeal than a pleasure towards the end. It certainly shows stamina!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQKTs4JZsZA

(https://img.discogs.com/sm1oVX0AJAv8keNOKKkUep7H6yw=/500x387/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-2193847-1489368962-8702.jpeg.jpg)

http://badcatrecords.com/BadCat/LACEWING.htm (http://badcatrecords.com/BadCat/LACEWING.htm)

I must add that it was great fun going through these lists, standardizing the layout and checking dates and spelling (https://thebeachboysforum.forumotion.com/t193-mr-k-s-revised-list-of-obscure-albums-from-the-mid-60s-to-the-mid-70s). And most informative!


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on September 17, 2019, 02:42:32 AM
One of the few UK albums I bought in the 1960s was Family's Music in a Doll's House. I'd heard many of its tracks on John Peel's radio show and was astonished by the sheer variety, something that (in ny view at least) successive Family albums failed to deliver. I used to take the needle off after "Voyage" (my favourite track) but these days I can appreciate the qualities of its two (on CD three) successors. I've linked "Peace Of Mind" as well because of the subtle transition between it and "Voyage" (here at 2:20), which has largely been lost in uploads of "Voyage" alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHFru3rfxK8

(http://www.vinylhistory.com/rock/family_dolls_house_b.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_a_Doll%27s_House


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on September 25, 2019, 01:16:21 PM
Another from the "Worth Another Listen" tier is Small Faces' Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake. Back in 1968 I arrived home one day to hear this remarkable string-fuelled music issuing from the open window of my brother's room. It was the opening instrumental title track.

Hard to pick just one song, so these are the next two on the album, here in one video.

"Afterglow" shows just what an outstanding singer Steve Marriott was. Nice organ too--and manic drums. "Long Agos and Worlds Apart" features for once the dulcet tones of keyboardist Ian McLagan and a trick ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM_ug_WxWG4

(https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/480xany/8/0/2/1290802_thesmallfaces_404397.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogdens%27_Nut_Gone_Flake


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on October 19, 2019, 02:05:00 AM
My blogger friend put me straight on something that had been bothering me for more than half a century! Side two of Love's Da Capo consists of one long improvised track (apart from Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer's Bach harpsichord bits bookending it). After the tight arrangements on side one, I always regarded it as a let-down and a throwaway side. I  think I only played it twice, the second time just to confirm my dislike of it. :P

If I remember correctly what my friend told me, Arthur Lee in his autobiography says something to the effect of regretting not having released a long live track from those days (maybe it was because of the quality, maybe those gigs were never recorded). So in a way, "Revelation" compensates for that omission. I've been listening to it with different ears ever since. Thank you, that person. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea7_6p1aUzs

(https://http2.mlstatic.com/lp-love-da-capo-usa-D_NQ_NP_875843-MLB28818460754_112018-F.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Capo_(Love_album) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Capo_(Love_album))


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on October 24, 2019, 04:35:34 AM
The final post in this topic is devoted to the opening track from the first LP by Haphash and The Coloured Coat. Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids was released in 1967 and I bought it soon afterwards. It was done on coloured vinyl but i can't recall if it was red like the copy being played here. "H.O.P.P. Why?" features some wonderful scrunchy bass work: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8EV8Rh3Ols

(https://preview.redd.it/8sb5i1sdgfb31.jpg?width=789&auto=webp&s=6e8b85a04da154806bda657b61ede488e3233ee3)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapshash_and_the_Coloured_Coat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapshash_and_the_Coloured_Coat)

Postscript: Thank you, my friend, for this opportunity to revisit the music of my youth. But now it's time to move on.


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on April 02, 2020, 06:04:30 AM
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Which is why I'm rescuing this splendid topic from a life of obscurity on page two. The music it includes is far too good to let languish--and, I have a new addition to make. ;)

Popol Vuh got a mention earlier in this thread but now it's time to back it up with some music. Their 1971 album In den Gärten Pharaos ("In the Garden of the Pharaohs") consists of just two wildly different but equally stunning tracks. If the title track is contemplative, the B-side, "Vuh", is like being hit over the head with an Alp:

In den Gärten Pharaos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vhht487PwQ

Vuh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MwtcoixW6A

(https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1227/cover_3631132272009.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_den_Gärten_Pharaos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_den_Gärten_Pharaos)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on April 03, 2020, 03:27:00 AM
Surrealistic Pillow never made it onto my blogger friend's list, maybe because she decided it was overfamiliar (which I suppose it is). Lots to say about this one but I have work to do so I'll restrict myself to saying thank you, first of all to Mark for sending me the original US version some years back (a breath of fresh air after the UK hatchet job) and to CB for reviving my interest in it. This is for them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0

(https://cdn.webshopapp.com/shops/93586/files/314085144/jefferson-airplane-surrealistic-pillow.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealistic_Pillow  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealistic_Pillow)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on April 09, 2020, 01:54:53 AM
I don't believe we've had Blues Magoos' Psychedelic Lollipop yet. It's among my friend's "Worth Another Listen"s. It's one I myself bought in '66 on the strength of their hit single, "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet". I wasn't impressed with much of the rest at the time. I did listen again recently (i.e., ten years ago) and was pleasantly surprised! (I may be wrong but I can't recall seeing the album title on the original UK release, which means it was regarded there as self-titled. Perhaps the record company balked at the drug-related word "psychedelic".)     

This is their psyched-out version of John D. Loudermilk's "Tobacco Road", best known in the version by the UK band The Nashville Teens. This is one track I did like at the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vaA4KnsBEo

(https://nostalgiacentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2004/02/bluesmagoos3.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_Lollipop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_Lollipop)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on April 21, 2020, 06:49:59 AM
It was a comment on YouTube that brought me face to face with one of the many "Wasn't Impressed With"s in my blogger friend's list. Recorded in late 1967, Cauldron, the lone album by Fifty Foot Hose, sounds great to me. So good in fact that when I first heard it I played it twice in a row.

I can imagine her being put off by the persistent comparison being made everywhere between it and USA. Chalk and cheese, I'd say. USA is highly sophisticated, whereas this is lo-fi mad-professor's-laboratory stuff, where anything goes. I just love those cheapo electronics burbling to themselves throughout just about every track.

This is "If Not This Time". Thankfully, I copied and pasted the YouTube blurb reproduced below from an earlier upload--it's essential reading for those interested in this band and this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncf3oQJ9C5A

Picture Dr. Who jamming with a more proficient Great Society featuring an adenoidal Grace Slick on vocals, and you have at least a scant aural reference for this rare proto-synthesizer-in-an-acid-garage-band junction. It was recorded in late 1967 on Mercury’s subsidiary Limelight label, so it comes to no surprise that they were unceremoniously dumped after it failed to become the label’s answer to “Surrealistic Pillow.” They broke up mid-1968, which quickly resigned “Cauldron” to the ever-growing scrap heap of one-off Bay Area bands signed in the wake of the ‘Summer of Love’ that were forgotten long before autumn’s end. This is a pity, as Fifty Foot Hose’s “Cauldron” is a small but terrifying monster of homegrown psychedelia. Only the unmistakably West Coast guitar jamming spree in their epic cut and paste “Fantasy” is there audio evidence as to the space (San Francisco) and time (1967) they occupied, but the uniqueness of the album is in the efforts of Corky Marcheschi and his bulky, homemade electronic instrument, a nameless behemoth consisting of audio generators plugged through echo and fuzz boxes, a huge cardboard tubes, a plastic outdoor speaker and other homemade devices. It was jerry-rigged, unglamourous...and highly effective. It’s presence runs throughout the whole jazz, folk, R&B potpourri and turns it into a proto-electronic stew with practically every other track solo audio generator experimentations, some 2 minutes and some so brief they act more like codas to the song they trail. “The Things That Consern You” is an acidhead reassuring his old lady that “The things that I do now/ they don’t consern you now/ I’m just trying to feed my head.” But with all the beeping, flashing and f***ed up crude electronics, they seem to be not only feeding his head but also setting it alight like a flickering neon sign. A tremendous rock out and the high point of the record is “Red The Sign Post.” Here lead vocalist Nancy Blossom gives it some strident Slick vocalising as husband David Blossom goes for it on customised Gretsch with fuzztone built directly into his axe. It’s a blistering surge out, recalling “Bombay Calling” by It’s A Beautiful Day. Not that it sounds the least bit like it, mind you. But just as “Bombay Calling” provided Deep Purple with the inspiration for “Child In Time,” “Red The Sign Post” (deep breath) is the undeniable source where Ritchie Blackmore based a note for note guitar blueprint for The Purps very own “Space Truckin’.” Aaarrghughhh!
The album calms down (somewhat) with the Owsley-dosed coffeehousing of Billy Holliday’s “God Bless The Child.” Acoustic guitar and hissing jazz hi-hat and traps are surrounded by incongruous space whooshes and bleeps in a proto-synth, fifties sci-fi movie manner. It all ends on with the hellish title track, “Cauldron” with the echoed clang of struck bells and an aggrieved woman’s wailing as Nancy Blossom’s chiding tones are slowed and sped up at will over a backward-masked rhythm section. The vocals get more and more filtered and unreal, at first intoning only words that start with an ‘s’, and becoming the demented little sister of the second side of Brainticket’s “Cottonwood Hill” -- another femme vox-scalded, hellbound psycho-out.
After only one album, this proto-cyber psych outfit passed as quickly as they came. Their only mention would be a name-check in Ralph J. Gleason’s 1969 book, “The Jefferson Airplane And The San Francisco Sound” published over a year after their demise. But recent interest caused by both US and UK re-issues of “Cauldron” led to a reformation and a small string of gigs in San Francisco in 1997, a full thirty years on.

(https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_band/fiftyfoot.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Foot_Hose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Foot_Hose)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on April 22, 2020, 05:36:02 AM
I found this next glut of JK goodies awaiting deletion on another forum and backed them up forthwith. I'll post them individually over the next few weeks, editing them slightly to make them Smiley-friendly. ;)

First off is the UK band Goliath, whose self-titled album was released in 1970. The interview linked below may shed some light on it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF-92rCh83EoF2AwuzOLr17b831xsNNSG 

(https://img.discogs.com/E-SzIXOp0aGE7KvfA7XKEVXBMsw=/600x589/smart/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-1503030-1368783447-7974.jpeg.jpg)

https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2014/07/goliath-interview.html (https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2014/07/goliath-interview.html)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on April 24, 2020, 02:32:11 PM
I've probably said this before but really I can't say it often enough. It's a wonderful experience being introduced to albums I missed first time round, passed over or simply forgot about. Wonderful too because tastes change and things I sneered at the time I now much prefer to albums I used to swear by. So many thanks to the OP, who was born twenty years after most of these albums were made!

An Escape from a Box (1972) by the Italian band Circus 2000 is a curious album. The almost childish lyrics and tight instrumental work shouldn't work together but they do--and wonderfully well, as evidenced by the opening track, "Hey Man". (A technicality perhaps, but the original LP cover confirms that this album features their second drummer, Franco "Dede" Lo Previte, who joined in 1972.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmNF-hlhlE

(https://img.discogs.com/icGAKI0WXYMwRPIoYFAfHC883Qg=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4904901-1465576136-5387.jpeg.jpg)

www.italianprog.com/a_circus2000.htm (http://www.italianprog.com/a_circus2000.htm)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 06, 2020, 01:37:41 AM
Looking through the '60s topic at my "hobby" forum, I stumbled on a number of things I'd posted at (ahem!) PSF two years ago. Some are from obscure albums and belong here and others are 45s for posting in the more general "Listening" thread.

As I said at the time, I never realized just how much psychedelic music had been recorded in the later '60s, early '70s until I joined PSF. Looking round for new additions, I stumbled across this album Paix by Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes. The instrumentation includes a cosmophone (in the picture?) and a percuphone--the mind boggles. This is the epic title track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJl3dY8jDc

(https://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_band/2846.jpg)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paix)

frenchculture.org/music/3227-trip-through-world-french-psychedelic-music (http://frenchculture.org/music/3227-trip-through-world-french-psychedelic-music)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 07, 2020, 02:56:41 PM
Next up from the archive:

I was alerted to this brilliant album in April 2018 by my erstwhile partner in crime at PSF. The name Fuzzy Duck doesn't ring a bell although I can't believe I never heard anything by them back in the day. From their one and only (eponymous) album, this is "Afternoon Out":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxX8zpNK2xI

(https://alchetron.com/cdn/fuzzy-duck-band-e46c086b-234b-453f-8443-484f00e008f-resize-750.jpeg)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_Duck_(band) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_Duck_(band))


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 11, 2020, 06:50:25 AM
After hearing a brilliant song by The Action at the Hoffman Boards, I read them up and discovered that the singer on that 45, Reg King, left soon after and in 1971 made a stunning and criminally obscure self-titled album. This is the opening track, "Must Be Something Else Around":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIW2dJs-vgQ

(https://i1.wp.com/themusicsover.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/reg-king.jpg?resize=212%2C300)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_King (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_King)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 13, 2020, 01:46:16 AM
This was first posted two years ago to the day at PSF:

Here's another from the "Keepers" list of psych-related LPs I'm gradually working my way through, leaving out things I know (or know I don't like). From 1967, these are The Freeborne [god these guys were young!] with the mesmerizing "Land Of Diana". (The poster dates from August that year when they opened for the VU at the Boston Tea Party.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BiW2MLZqtQ

(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1f/2a/e7/1f2ae70346e17cdf6b9735c3d6b7e557--rock-posters-concert-posters.jpg)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freeborne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freeborne)


Title: Re: Sundazed: Albums from the Golden Age of Popular Music
Post by: JK on May 15, 2020, 01:25:23 AM
And here's another recommendation from the same source. The Peppermint Rainbow seem to have made little impression in the UK at the time (1969) and in fact only had one hit in the US, the gorgeous "Will You Be Staying After Sunday?" I have had little time for sunshine pop in the past but if much of it is like this, I may be converted yet. (The picture is of singer Bonnie Lamdin.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNg7arOQoVA

(https://rock6070.e-monsite.com/medias/images/peppermint-rainbow-bonnie.jpg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peppermint_Rainbow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peppermint_Rainbow)