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KingCrInuYasha ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 26 2010 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 1281 |
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I can see where you're coming from. A Gift... does sound like one of those "sit back and relax" albums.
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He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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Permy ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 21 2014 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 38 |
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What a ridiculous thread.
I'm not going to even comment on the prog "aspect". As to psych, they say UK psych started with Sunshine Superman, but they like to parrot back and forth a lot on the internet. I myself have parrotted this on ocassion. Truth is NOTHING that came out of the UK is psychedelic music in the truest sense. And if your automatically thinking America , there was precious little there as well. Mock psych there is tons, but the real deal, coming mainly out of Texas, was a very slim timeline with mere handfuls of bands. |
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13097 |
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So, your definition of psych would only include those bands that spoke with a drawl. I realize Bubble Puppy and 13th Floor Elevator came from Texas, but your limited idea of what psych is seems to border on the silly. |
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
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Permy ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 21 2014 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 38 |
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It is easy to dismiss that which you do not have any intention of understanding.
Silly it is then. Only it is a silliness shared by many major (vinyl) collector/dealer heads - names that would mean nothing to you. I have not yet read Lundborg's (RIP) Psychedelia tome. It is quickly becoming THE main reference on the scene. Given time Patrick's work WILL - along with Morton Jack - be the main reference. I will go out on a limb and suppose his take on true psychedelia was same as above stated. |
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SteveG ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20616 |
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This has always been the key question when comparing early American psych with that of the British. Perhaps you should give this question some thought.
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Permy ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 21 2014 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 38 |
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The British are clean out of the equation.
There was no movement for them - no Vietnam for one. (With exception of foilkmusic and ocassional eccentricities like Comus, there is no darkness for the Brits only Alice In Wonderland, whimsey, garden gnomes.... |
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SteveG ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20616 |
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![]() Perhaps you should read up a bit on this. It could prove helpful.
Edited by SteveG - November 22 2014 at 09:58 |
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13097 |
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Hmmm... you sound exactly like a former poster who made equally inane pronouncements regarding vinyl dealers and their allegedly sacrosanct record bin categorizations. He was utterly wrong. And history repeats itself, apparently. |
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
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Guldbamsen ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
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Now that you mention it, he does remind me of a certain individual too
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Permy ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 21 2014 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 38 |
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People - including myself - do not WANT to be told certain truths.
Do you think I myself want to know that prog came out of bluesrock? That psych came directly out of garage. That the line between garage and psych is so thin as to be.... |
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Guldbamsen ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
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Well it's all down to how you define psych or prog - and as far as I know, the verdict is still out on that. You'll find as many different views on what constitues either of the two styles as there are posters on here........and why wouldn't you? It's music after all.
I will say this though, your definition of psych doesn't sound like any other I've ever come across. |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Evolver ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams Joined: October 22 2005 Location: The Idiocracy Status: Offline Points: 5482 |
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Donovan may have been personally related to prog, hanging out and jamming with King Crimson (http://www.elephant-talk.com/articles/fripp-yp.htm), opening for Yes, whatever. But musically, he doesn't qualify.
And King Crimson covering a song of his shouldn't allow him in, either. Otherwise Yes covers would have qualified Richie Havens, Simon & Whatshisname, and god knows who else.
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Permy ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 21 2014 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 38 |
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Yes, of course the Crimson bit is ridiculousness itself.
Better to further the Donovan arguement, the origional poster could have brought up a '66 Donovan B-side PRECEEDING SUNSHINE SUPERMAN whose title is pretty clear as to the ,then, current (Brit) practice of spiking "sugarcubes" with LSD. But ,of course, the question is : does the said track -whose exact title I forget -smack of psychedelicness to the degree of Sunshine Superman? The answer being...ughhhh...no. |
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SteveG ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20616 |
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^The OP left out obvious Psychedelic songs like Mellow Yellow.
(Perhaps they weren't so obvious.)
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Permy ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 21 2014 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 38 |
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What is Mellow Yellow about?
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13097 |
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Are you asking because you truly don't know, given the song didn't arise from the Austin,TX psych scene, or is there some arcane bit of wisdom you wish to impart regarding the song? And not, of course, anything to do with vibrators or the alleged link to smoking banana skins to get high. |
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Permy ![]() Forum Newbie ![]() Joined: November 21 2014 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 38 |
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No idea what its about.
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dr wu23 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20631 |
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For what it's worth...... "
The song was rumoured to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of bananas has since been debunked.[5] According to Donovan's notes accompanying the album Donovan's Greatest Hits, the rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. According to The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, he admitted later the song made reference to a vibrator; an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics.[6] This definition was re-affirmed in an interview with NME magazine: "it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene - which were ladies' vibrators."[7] The phrase "mellow yellow" appears towards the end of James Joyce's novel Ulysses, where it is used to refer to Mrs. Marion Bloom's buttocks.[8] But it is not known if Donovan took the phrase from there" |
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timothy leary ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
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It is about the meadow saffron. Right in the song it tells you. Now if you know anything about botany you will be able to understand. Polyploid vs. diploid............http://www.cannabase.com/cl/bcga/breeding/colchicine.htm
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The Dark Elf ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() VIP Member Joined: February 01 2011 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 13097 |
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I don't believe Donovan ever started a song with "stately, plump Buck Mulligan" either. ![]() |
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