Psychedelicatessen

BLACKFOOT      Not to be confused with the Southern Rock band of the same name, Blackfoot are quite possibly the only Psychedelic Rock band ever to emerge from Zambia, back when Africa and Live Aid was still just a twinkling in Bob Geldof's eye. 

BLESSED END     Flowers and beads and poppy seeds.... Blessed End are a Philly-based band who are very much styled on The Doors, only this charming Pennsylvanian band are blessed to have a singer with the kind of rich velvety tones that would make Jim Morrison jealous! 

BLONDE ON BLONDE      A Psychedelic Rock band from Newport in South Wales where - not entirely by coincidence - Bob Dylan controversially  "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 and, as any Dylan fan will know, Blonde on Blonde was also the title of Bob Dylan's 1966 album, released after he shook the folk world to its very foundations the previous year. 

BLUES CREATION       Konichiwa! Prepare for a storming banzai blitz of fire and fury over Tokyo with Kazuo Takeda and Blues Creation. The band name was shortened to Creation from 1975 onwards when they were joined by Felix Pappalardi of Mountain, who was destined for a tragic end years later when he was shot dead by his wife in 1983. 

BO GRUMPUS       A tour-de-force of Psychedelic Rock from Boston-based band Bo Grumpus, whose one and only album was produced by none other than Felix Pappalardi of Mountain, a Hard Rock band whom you may recall also featured man-mountain Leslie West.  

BODO MOLITOR     Hola amigos! Bodo Molitor was a German-born Mexican musician with a psychedelic album jam-packed full of international hits, featuring fuzzy guitars, a whirling Farfisa organ and gravelly vocals, and including cover versions of great songs by The Doors, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Wilson Pickett and a fair sprinkling of original compositions too. In other words, everything you could wish for and more besides in the best of the late 1960's flower-power era. Adios. 

BOREALIS      A Newfoundland band with an album that'll leave you feeling all aglow, Sons of the Sea has the distinction of being the first album of all-original material recorded in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, and with only 500 vinyl copies pressed, this ultra-rare album now sells for up to $750, but it's absolutely free to listen to right here on PA, as always. 

BOW STREET RUNNERS     A fuzz, acid and flowers band from Fayetteville in North Carolina, nicknamed after London's original Metropolitan Police Force, established in 1749. The  Bow Street Runners are a force to be reckoned with too, having produced a memorable psychedelicized masterpiece of all-original songs, complete with an LSD-inspired album cover which could only have come from the late-1960's flower-power hippy counter-culture. Yeah, far out dudes!