Psychedelicatessen

THE END       This is The End, Beautiful Friend, This is The End, My Only Friend, The End.... If you open The Doors of Perception slightly ajar, you'll discover The End, a short-lived British band who arose from the glowing embers of the Tuxedos, the Innocents and the Original Tropics. Although The End only recorded one album "Introspection" (1968-1969) during their brief lunchtime in the spotlight, three further archival albums were later unearthed:- "In the Beginning" (1964-1967); "Retrospection" (1968-1969); & finally "The Last Word" (1969-1970), although that wasn't really the end of The End, as they long outlasted Jim Morrison & The Doors  by reinventing themselves as Tucky Buzzard, proving once again that you can't keep a good band down. 

ELMIRA      Not Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, but Elmira, Lady of the Mountain, a rough-edged Danish psych album that sounds like it was recorded in the back of someone's garage in Copenhagen by a band who've never seen the inside of a recording studio. 

THE ELECTRIC PRUNES     I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night (It must have been all that cheese I ate). 

THE ELECTRIC BANANA       The Pretty Things by any other name, and these are mind-bending neon bananas, not your EU-regulation straight bananas. 

Doris Karloff addresses the European Parliament. 

THE ELASTIC BAND      A Psychedelic Rock band from Wrexham in Wales, but listening to this mind expanding album, you can almost picture a wild Californian party filled with groovy hippie chicks - 

at a stretch. 

THE EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND     Led by a singer who sounds like he eats gravel for breakfast, the Edgar Broughton Band were the quintessential bad boys of British psych, having been banned from performing in several British towns and cities in the wake of their notorious reputation for their concerts becoming quite literally riotous occasions of civil disorder - long before the punk rockers came along and upset the political applecart.  

EASTFIELD MEADOWS    Flightless Byrds? Eastfield Meadows were a short-lived Californian Country Rock group with a light tinge of psychedelia in the style of The Byrds, but without their success. 

EARTH OPERA       An East Coast psych band from Boston, MA, just a stone's throw away from a famous bar where everyone knows your name. Cheers! 

CLEAR LIGHT      A standout classic shining like a bright beacon in the psychedelic spectrum, Clear Light were managed by legendary Doors producer, Paul Rothchild.