Psychedelicatessen

FIVE MAN ELECTRICAL BAND     A Canadian pop-psych band led by Les Emmerson (no relation to Keith). 

Seen on a sign somewhere in America:-

VIOLATORS WILL BE SHOT

SURVIVORS WILL BE SHOT AGAIN 

FLAMING YOUTH      Do You Remember Flaming Youth? No, not many people do, but that was Phil Collins' first band in the flowering of his youth at the tender age of 18. At Face Value, Flaming Youth were a good band and they should have been a big success, but such are the vagaries of the music business that Against All Odds the band never managed to achieve a commercial breakthrough and they broke up in 1970. Flaming Youth are now just a footnote in Genesis' history, but they did remain together long enough to record one flaming hot album, and here it is.....

FLEUR DE LYS    If you're looking for Psychedelic Rock from British shores, then you can have your Fleur de Lys cake and eat it too with this band from southern England who are sailing from Southampton. 

THE FLIES      There was a bit of a buzz going around the London underground scene when British pop-psych band The Flies (formerly known as In-Sect and No Flies On Us But) first appeared, but they were soon swatted away, having not managed to stick around long enough to record a full album together,. The Flies did record a memorable single though - a cover version of "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" - which you can find on the Chocolate Soup for Diabetics compilation, for those with a sweet tooth. 

FLOOD     Better not forget your wellies if ever you're ever in New York City, because here comes The Rise of Flood with some mean and moody blues and psychedelic guitar grooves. 

FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND     One of the "Big Three" of Japanese psych - alongside Far East Family Band and Flied Egg - Flower Travellin' Band famously went nuclear with Hiroshima, but they also had a reputation to live down as the Japanese Black Sabbath - although they're not known to have bitten the heads off any bats. 

FORD THEATRE      One of the "Big 4" of the "Bosstown Sound" in Boston, Massachusetts, alongside Beacon Street Union, Orpheus and Ultimate Spinach. Fort Theatre were regulars at the Boston Tea Party concert venue, which only existed for three years at the tail end of the 1960's and where it's probably not a good idea to order a cup of tea at the bar if you happened to be from England. 

FRACTION     A bluesy psych band from L.A. with a gravelly-voiced singer who sounds even more stoned than Jim Morrison, but who sound pretty good whichever way you divide it. 

THE FRANTICS     A Psychedelic Rock band from Billings, Montana, who were variously known as "The Frantics", and then simply "Frantics" (without the definite article), before finally settling on "Frantic", which wouldn't have mattered back in the early 1970's, but complicates matters in 2024 when you're frantically searching for them on the Internet (although not quite as Frantic as Harrison Ford searching for his missing wife). 

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