Psychedelic Paul wrote: Snicolette wrote: Yes, he died in Memphis, not far from where I was living in Nashville at the time.  Thinking of the Prog in Unexpected Places (I think that's the name of the thread), I was working at the Nashville Whole Foods Market and a fairly young person came through my line with a tattoo of the Love logo on his arm.  I asked him why he chose that tattoo.  He said his older brother had died and that was his favourite band, he commemorated his brother with the tattoo.     I rediscovered Psychedelic Rock after I went online in 2010. I was too young to know much about it in the Summer of Love year of 1967, as I was only 7 or 8 years old at the time. Before 2010, the only two Psychedelic Rock bands I was aware of were The Doors & Jefferson Airplane. Now though, I have album covers by well over 400 Psychedelic Rock bands in my database, with all sorts of weird and wonderful names, like The Five Day Week Straw People, for instance, or the equally bizarre-sounding Orange Alabaster Mushroom, to name just two.

  People will get tired of my story.  I was born in 1958, but my sisters were 7 and 8 years older and my mother loved music as well, so there was a wide variety played in my home, from the time I could remember (and way before).  My sisters worked at The Bank in Torrance, CA, they passed out posters up on Sunset and Hollywood Blvd for free admission to shows, The Bank booked many of the same bands as The Fillmore up north of us.  I was exposed at a young age to all of the popular (and underground) music of the time and my sisters had very eclectic taste.  I was poring over album covers, reading liner notes and reading hippie newspapers as much as I was poring over books, of all of the psych bands as they were emerging, and also the earlier ones like The Seeds, Love, etc.  We spent every summer on the way to my great aunt's ranch in Mendocino, and on the way always stopped in San Francisco, and explored the Haight from 1966 onwards each year.  So I remember it all very clearly, being so young.  Many people think it was all about drugs and, yes, there was that element.  But it was about a lot more and was truly an intellectual endeavour as well, until greedy people got involved.

Edited by Snicolette - November 18 2019 at 19:53

THE DOORS - Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1968)

This one often gets overlooked......because they weren't a psych band....

^^ I love that album! Gandalf is one of the first albums I ordered from Amazon, back in 2011.

Fischman wrote: Just curious.  Did you know that "Psychedelicatessen" is also the title of a 1994 release by the British progressive metal band Threshold?

Another classic...well known here..I'm sure...

^^ I have both of those albums by July and Tomorrow on CD, but I haven't heard of  Tintern Abbey before, although if I had heard of them before, they wouldn't be quite so obscure.

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 19 2019 at 15:55

Psychedelic Paul wrote: ^^ I have both of those albums by July and Tomorrow on CD, but I haven't heard of  Tintern Abbey before, although if I had heard of them before, they wouldn't be quite so obscure.   Tomorrow was one of the 20 obscure British prog albums I reviewed recently. I would have reviewed the July album too, but I don't think it's in the Prog Archives database.

Kudos for knowing it was a Hoyt Axton song!  

          Big Brother & The Holding Company (USA) - Cheap Thrills  (1968)

                       Blind Faith  (UK)  -  Blind Faith  (1969)

                       Cream  (UK)  -  Disraeli Gears  (1967)

                       Country Joe & The Fish (USA) - Electric Music For the Mind and Body  (1967)
                       The Doors  (USA)  -  The Doors   (1967)
                       Grateful Dead  (USA) - Live / Dead   (1969)

                       Group 1850  (NL)  -  Paradise Now  (1969) 

                       Iron Butterfly  (USA) -  In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida  (1968)
                       Jefferson Airplane (USA)  -  Sweeping Up The Spotlight. Jefferson

                                                                           Airplane Live At The Fillmore East 1969
                       The Jimi Hendrix Experience (USA)  -  Electric Ladyland  (1968)
                       Love  (USA)   -  Forever Changes  (1967)
                       Morgen  (USA)  -  Morgen  (1969)

                       Pink Floyd  (UK) - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn  (1967)
                       The Pretty Things  (UK) - S.F. Sorrow  (1968)   
                       The Rolling Stones (UK) - Their Satanic Majesties Request  (1967)

          The Soft Machine  (UK) - The Soft Machine (1968)

Edited by David_D - July 04 2023 at 16:05