Psychedelicatessen

GALLIARD      A Brumbeat, psychedelic Jazz-Rock band who had a brief moment in the spotlight, once they'd managed to navigate their way around Birmingham's labyrinthian one-way system and the notorious Gravelly Hill Interchange - known to everyone locally as Spaghetti Junction. 

FRUMIOUS BANDERSNATCH     Named after a character in Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", Berkeley band the Frumious Bandersnatch were forerunners of the Steve Miller Band!

FRIJID PINK     A relatively long-lasting band from Brighton, Michigan, at a time when many Psychedelic Rock bands of the era barely managed to stick around long enough to record a second album, Frijid Pink were just getting warmed up. 

  2011: Frijid Pink - Frijid Pink - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWl5fiqut7OawbCbETJu0Id3Su7dYUHG-

  2014: Frijid Pink - Made in Detroit - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mjhuGkfbkbdUq0JJfZopqPu0NvQumFc2k

  2018: Frijid Pink - On the Edge -  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kQsw5ujXVdxWnA0woGAcNI_E-GTZsVP6c

FRIAR TUCK     The monastic stage name of L.A. session guitarist Mike Deasy. It must be a good album because it was in Jimi Hendrix's record collection, reportedly. 

FREEPORT      A Cleveland, Ohio psych band who went through a couple of incarnations (namely, Paper Sun and Freeport Express) before finally arriving at Freeport for the recording of their one and only self-titled album in 1970, when they were gone like the wind by the end of the year - leaving Freeport virtually no time to enjoy the Easy Living, hard loving lifestyle of rock star success and excess. Freeport sound like a proto version of Uriah Heep. In other words, they're 'eavy, but not so very 'umble.  

FREEDOM'S CHILDREN    Howzit! We're diving Durban Deep now into the KwaZulu-Natal region for South African band Freedom's Children - the best thing to come out of South Africa since Tarzan and Clarence the cross-eyed lion in Daktari! 

THE FREEBORNE      A Boston-based band whose band name was inspired by the movie Born Free, although The Freeborne didn't have the lion's share of the East Coast airwaves, being up against such notable purveyors of the "Bosstown Sound" as Ultimate Spinach, Beacon Street Union and Orpheus. The Freeborne had long-term plans to record three albums together, but ultimately, the band fired their manager before being promptly dropped by their record company, bringing to an end The Freeborne's dreams of stardom and general hedonistic rock star excess. 

FREE ACTION INC.     One of the great German psych bands, although about as well-known outside of Germany as Udo Dirkschneider (Who!??). So who is the mysterious Eddie Korsche of the album title? Well, he was the owner of the Austro-Italian budget label Help! and had nothing whatsoever to do with the making of this album. So there you go, another piece of useless information to enlighten your friends with. 

THE FREAK SCENE     Originally known as The Deep,  a New York based Garage Rock band who travelled to Philadelphia to make an album on a limited budget of just $1200 - which is roughly what the original vinyl album is worth to serious collectors these days - but the band never toured and the album failed to chart. Hoping a name-change would bring them a change of fortune, the band kept the same line-up but changed their name to The Freak Scene for the release of "Psychedelic Psoul", but their sophomore album also met with a similar lack of success and the band broke up shortly afterwards. The Deep have their place in musical history though as they were the very first band to use the term "Psychedelic" in their album title. 

  1966: The Deep - Psychedelic Moods - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k8GhabZHmQxwU64W5dw8YwvSPNy59WGv4

  1967: The Freak Scene - Psychedelic Psoul - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ldtmcOA5hqyygJIviGsgEM-vtg14WoDOY