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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20604 |
Posted: March 10 2015 at 18:46 |
Final Post:
It's time for me to get back to my professional life. I've enjoyed my visit to PA of almost a year and I'm glad, with the help of many, to leave a record of both American and British Psychedelic Rock, and to let members see the independent musical development that went on between the two, as well as their different agendas as far as being artistic, social or political statements. This? Revolver from 1966. I will close simply with this. Revolver by The Beatles is the legitimate starting point for British Psychedelic Rock that led to Progressive rock. The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators is the legitimate starting point for garage band based Punk Rock. If you truly have an objective mind, you can decide which album had a greater impact on pop music history. Cheers and Farewell. Or this? The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators from 1966. And to all you psych fans, keep on posting!
Edited by SteveG - March 23 2015 at 11:26 |
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earlyprog
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Posted: March 11 2015 at 09:02 |
Excellent work, Steve.
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20604 |
Posted: March 14 2015 at 09:58 |
Just a song before I go:
Endle St. Cloud: Thank You all Very Much from 1970. Before I board a plane tomorrow into corporate anonymity, I have one last chance to post the last offering from the recorded Austin/Huston Texas based Psych groups. Endle St. Cloud was both the group leader's name and the group's name that produced this magnificent and cleaver proto Roxy Music styled gem that comes complete with smooth, suave, if somewhat neurotic at times, Bryan Ferry like vocals (shades of Talking Heads, too?) is an adventure through the changing American mores of the late sixties while touching upon American music themes from Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Ragtime, Country Blues, Texas Swing along with nods to silent movie theme music (Rick Wakeman, did you steel something around 1970?), and even lounge music that is part pastiche and part authentic homage. This keyboard driven group was a complete head scratcher in 1970 and can only be appreciated in hindsight, with the existence of the afore mentioned artists that came later to use as a barometer. Thank You All Very Much was the last album to be issued on the famous/infamous International Artists label before they inept business sense virtually bankrupt the label. This another class remaster from they Charlie label along with Lost and Found's one and only release from 1968 that nodded to Psych and Blues Rock titled Everybody's Here and the near hit album by Bubble Puppy titled A Gathering of Promises, from 1969, which garnered a nationally charting hit with the song Hot Smoke and Sassafras. The Texas Psych scene would fade away and give rise to the Cosmic Cowboy reign of Willie Nelson, et al, from that time up till now.
Edited by SteveG - March 20 2015 at 16:23 |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: March 22 2015 at 20:53 |
Shamefully, this thread has drifted to the second page. I'll resurrect it with a band and a single album (just one album, that's all you get!) that I don't think we've discussed yet -- and I waded through a few pages to see if we had:
What a fantastic album! And it contains what I consider to be one of the greatest psychedelic compositions ever created, "The American Metaphysical Circus" : You don't even need hallucinogenics to get stoned listening to this album. The juxtaposition of various American vaudeville, 40s big band, Dixie, marching band and carnival calliope sounds amidst the mushrooming madness is quite ingenious, or perhaps a devilish slap in the face of conservative music themes. Edited by The Dark Elf - March 23 2015 at 10:30 |
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LearsFool
Prog Reviewer Joined: November 09 2014 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 8642 |
Posted: March 22 2015 at 21:07 |
^ Excellent album.
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defectinggrey
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 14 2015 Location: Spain Status: Offline Points: 104 |
Posted: March 23 2015 at 11:02 |
I've come to this forum a little late but can see no mention of The Pretty Things. S.F. Sorrow the album and the two proceeding singles (both sides of each) surely define psychedelic. Drugs, sitar, backwards recording and the music sounds good still.
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Svetonio
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
Posted: March 24 2015 at 02:13 |
The True - Let Me LoveTuria Records is proud to reissue one of the hidden gems of Spanish music of all time. From the city of Elche (Alicante), The True billed late 60s this great work of art now completely untraceable. Three shoots Freak beat that we recovered like a tribute to a generation that completely changed the way we understand music; three songs in which you can see a strong battery and distorted guitar with fuzztone. The Freak Beat Rock is a style that has an intermediate sound between the sound Mod and Progressive Rock, and who practiced bands like The Who and The Kinks, to name a few. The sound is cleaned and mastered, but respecting the original spirit, is performed on 7 "and in a limited and very careful editing. released 22 March 2015 - Hernán de la Torre - Guitar, Lead vocals - Toni "Toño" Santamaría - Bass guitar, backing vocals - José "Pepote" Pinos - Drums Edited by Svetonio - March 24 2015 at 02:13 |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: March 24 2015 at 13:08 |
^ Ummm...Svetty, I've never heard of "The True", but based on the description of the band and their sound (Kinks? Who?), it doesn't seem that putting them with psych rock is applicable. I know you like to display your mad cut-and-paste skills, but to what purpose here?
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20604 |
Posted: April 02 2015 at 11:59 |
Eric Burdon and The Animals:
Winds of Change 1967. East meets West. When the original Animals' broke up in 1965, lead singer Eric Burdon relocated to sunny San Francisco and haunted other southern central LA areas where he became the defacto East meats West psychedelic conduit for British styled Psychedelic rock by releasing two counter culture albums that channeled some of the British Psych motifs back into the California Bay area which also found their way back into the Texas Psych rock scene in addition to the British Psych albums being played on either local radio or at private vinyl listening sessions. Burdon's firs album 1067's Winds of Change celebrated American beat poetry form writers like Kerouac, of whom he became enormously enchanted with, as well a recording a tribute song to Hendrix's coming of social coming of age question that was a poor homage to Hendrix's song (and album) Are You Experienced?, in which Burdon tries to imitate Hendrix's vocal style but sadly comes off sounding much more like Bob Dylan. However, Winds of Change was a counter culture hit as was it's more adventurous follow up, 1968's The Twain Shall Meet, whose hippie endorsements in which Burdon and his new Animals backing group tackle more overt social issues on the great album track, and edited single Sky Pilot, while the rest of the album goes into experimental psychedelic songs that feature both sitar along with a British military style march with bagpipes within the same song. This was probably the zenith of Burdon's ambassador's role of the California's hippie turn on , tune in and drop out evangelization of Haight Ashbury movement and, even though extremely dated, the album still holds a quiet charm even today. Eric Burdon and The Animals. The Twain Shall Meet 1968.
Edited by SteveG - April 02 2015 at 13:38 |
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Lafayette Assburn
Forum Groupie Joined: April 02 2015 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 41 |
Posted: April 02 2015 at 15:50 |
www.zero-books.net/books/gathering-promises
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20604 |
Posted: April 02 2015 at 19:32 |
^Hello again, Wallace. You're right on schedule. Perhaps your new book will better help you understand Psych rock and will stop you from just pretending that you know it's fundamentals. Btw, the book I'm writing will be much more detailed then anything that you have read so far in the Psych Lounge or privately, but you will have to pay for that as well when it's published. And that statement extends to include Ben Graham's pedestrian text "A Gathering of Promises" which is named after a non psych Bubble Puppy album. Psych On!
Edited by SteveG - April 03 2015 at 09:29 |
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Lafayette Assburn
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Posted: April 02 2015 at 21:26 |
"From The 13th Floor Elevators to the Black Angels and Beyond"
N.P. : the Beyond lp (on tape) |
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Svetonio
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
Posted: April 03 2015 at 05:36 |
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Lafayette Assburn
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Posted: April 03 2015 at 07:46 |
We needs a Freakbeat thread.
Open up some eyes. |
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20604 |
Posted: April 04 2015 at 11:16 |
For the Elevator's fan that has everything:
The 13th Floor Elevators: Kingdom of Heaven-Live. Airline Records 2015. This collection of great sounding "audience recordings" mainly from 1966 features songs that were featured on The Psychedelic Sounds Of...album and is probably more important for who listened to these recordings (Patty Smith, Tom Verlaine et al) and how these "alternate recordings" influenced their music. The end of the disc moves into three 1967 Easter Everywhere era tracks that show the heavy edge the band was moving into before prominent band members Roky Erickson and Tommy Hall went AWOL. A treat!
Edited by SteveG - April 06 2015 at 15:05 |
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earlyprog
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Posted: April 04 2015 at 12:38 |
Ahh, easter eggs from Steve
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Svetonio
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Posted: April 05 2015 at 00:54 |
http://psychedelic-sounds-international.bandcamp.com/album/d-r-hooker-the-truth-cd-1972-2015 |
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SteveG
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 11 2014 Location: Kyiv In Spirit Status: Offline Points: 20604 |
Posted: April 06 2015 at 10:25 |
Two more Easter eggs (albums) from 1968. UK's The Small Faces' Ogden's Nut Gone Flake and the US's Country Joe and The Fish's I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag could not be more socially or culturally different from each other except for the fact that both albums resist the trend of adding Eastern instruments such as sitars, or over the top recording tricks such as backwards and vari speeded tapes to their psychedelic sound mixes.
Charly Records (UK) 2 CD Deluxe Remaster. While "Fixin'-To-Die" starts off with the famous Fish Cheer (in it's clean original form) before seguing into the Vaudeville rag time romp of the album's title track before reverting into more of The Fishes by now well known blues tinged Psych rock, Ogden's Nut displays The Small Faces' Vaudeville rock fusion over the course of the entire album, with the misspoken song links of the album's second side connecting Happiness Stan with the four other hysterically, if not quite understood by Americans, second two songs.Verve Records (UK) 2 CD Deluxe Remaster. Both albums were extremely well recorded for their eras and both of the CD remasters that are shown present these albums in audiophile sound as well as supplying rare stereo album masters (Fixin'-To- Die) or alternate stereo song mixes for a possible stereo album presentation (Ogden's Nut). This post is for Kevin (Lear'sFool) for peaking my interest again in The Small Faces, not only Ogden's Nut, but also in their other albums and single releases by The Small Faces and their proceeding incarnation The Faces. A Happy Easter and Passover to all! Looks like I'll be heading to Japan and Asia for a few months. (I wonder what they celebrate?) Domo Arigato!
Edited by SteveG - April 06 2015 at 19:34 |
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Svetonio
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
Posted: April 07 2015 at 10:33 |
ex-Yugoslav 60s psych: Grupa 220
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KingCrInuYasha
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 26 2010 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 1281 |
Posted: April 07 2015 at 11:03 |
Since Steve G mentioned Kraftwerk in his review of Neil Young's Trans, I figured I'd give them a nod here.
Lyrically, it's not psychedelic - just a lot of stuff about robots a la Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the later Blade Runner film. Musically, on the other hand, I think it very much qualifies. Especially with my favorite piece on the album, "Neon Lights", where the music captures the bright lights of a large city, one of the closer ways, IMO, of experiencing an acid trip without the acid. I love the synth tones on here, they're just otherworldly. |
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