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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
In Jack Straw’s post about the death of Marty Balin, I mentioned that the 1968 album Bless Its Pointed Little Head by Jefferson Airplane was one of my favorites LP’s of that time. I also tripped out on Happy Trails by Quicksilver, Traffic’s second self-titled studio album, Gris-Gris by Dr. John, Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix, Strange Days by the Doors, Blues From Laurel Canyon by John Mayall, to name just a few more.
I was wondering what bands and albums some of you fellow old geezers used to space out on in the late 1960’s … |
Jack Straw Inner circle Wichita 1020 Posts |
You really got me with this one, Arthur, because that kind of music is my favorite, so I'll gladly keep talking here.
Happy Trails (Side 1, one 25 minute jam on Who Do You Love), Traffic, Electric Ladyland, and Strange Days make my list, Arthur, but I was too young in the late 60's and didn't start until the mid 70's. I spent way too much time spacing out to all of the following albums in the 70's, since I didn't watch any television and always played music, and my record collection peaked at well over 1,000 LP's before I started selling them on eBay. Dear Mister Fantasy- Traffic After Bathing At Baxters and Crown Of Creation- Jefferson Airplane Music In A Dolls House- Family Aoxomoxoa, Anthem Of The Sun and Live Dead (four song medley on 3 sides of a 2 record set clocking in at about an hour!)- Grateful Dead Eat A Peach- Allman Brothers Lick My Decals Off, Baby and Trout Mask Replica- Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band Freak Out- Mothers of Invention Close To The Edge and Fragile- Yes The Inner Mystique- Chocolate Watchband If I Could Only Remember My Name- David Crosby Their Satanic Majesties Request- Rolling Stones (She's a Rainbow is currently featured in not one, but two television commercials 50 years later) Meddle (one song, 23 minutes long), Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd (of course) The Case Of The 3 Sided Dream In Audio Color- Rahsaan Roland Kirk (I was also heavily into jazz) Crazy World Of Arthur Brown- Arthur Brown The Madcap Laughs- Syd Barrett Tonight's The Night- Neil Young (an album mourning the death of his friend that always got me kind of unsettled) Electric Music For The Mind And Body- Country Joe And The Fish Brave New World and Children Of The Future- Steve Miller (before he became commercial) Younger Than Yesterday- The Byrds Da Capo and Forever Changes- Love Astral Weeks- Van Morrison Easter Everywhere and The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators- 13th Floor Elevators Not all of these would necessarily qualify as "psychedelic", but they all managed to take my mind out of my body.
Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave, and laid his body down Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow We can share the women, we can share the wine |
Cliffg37 Inner circle Long Beach, CA 2491 Posts |
I have "heard" that one should be careful about what drugs one is on when listening to the album "I Robot" from The Alan Parsons Project. It can lead to all sorts of imaginings and experiences. That album is definitely at the end of the psychedelic era, but it still qualifies in my book.
Magic is like Science,
Both are fun if you do it right! |
arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
Man, oh man, Jack! Pink Floyd’s Meddle, Captain Beefheart, Freak Out, Astral Weeks … those tracks/albums took me on many memorable aural & mental journeys! Loved Ron Carter’s tasteful and inventive double bass playing on Astral Weeks.
Back then I also wore out the vinyl of the Stones’ Let it Bleed, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly, and if you sneak past the late 60’s into 1970, Deep Purple in Rock. Some folks may be surprised to know that I got just as much enjoyment from listening to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy and other classical geniuses. Plus jazz albums like Ella & Duke at the Cote d’Azur, Herbie Mann at the Village Gate, Schizophrenia by Wayne Shorter, and Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66’s album Fool on the Hill. |
Jack Straw Inner circle Wichita 1020 Posts |
Yes, Astral Weeks has some amazing bass playing, almost like he's leading the band.
I forgot about In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. I always loved songs that ran the whole length of an album side. All of my music now is on my computer, and I just checked. I've got 83 songs that run more than 20 minutes; most of them are live recordings. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is not one of them- it only plays for 17:02. Did you know that you can go to your local library and order just about any album you want on CD and then download it on your computer? That's why my computer music collection is so darn amazing.
Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave, and laid his body down Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow We can share the women, we can share the wine |
arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
I prefer to pay for my music because then the artists & composers get the measly few pennies that are due to them.
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Jack Straw Inner circle Wichita 1020 Posts |
Well, Arthur, I understand what you're saying, but almost everything I own I bought a long time ago on vinyl, and most of the live stuff is available for free from the bands themselves- if you google my user name and location you'll probably understand where most of my live music comes from.
At one time the music industry accepted making your own cassette tapes from records that you owned, then they started changing their minds. I have a lot of Peter Frampton on vinyl (who I know you played with), none of it is on my computer. I don't play vinyl anymore, so I haven't heard Frampton in years unless he infrequently comes on the radio.
Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave, and laid his body down Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow We can share the women, we can share the wine |
motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
Journey to the Center of the Mind by The Amboy Dukes
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
– Karl Germain |
arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
I forgot about Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), and In Search of the Lost Chord by The Moody Blues.
And Blind Faith had a long track entitled Do What You Like. |
Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18012 Posts |
Blue Oyster Cult started in 67 .. Big hits in the early 70's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg
Tommy James and the Shondells... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
I'm not old enough to have tripped with any of the bands mentioned here. I AM struck however that the Stones Satanic Majesties made the cut but neither The Beatles Revolver nor Sgt. Pepper did!
I mean no disrespect but it's quite clear that the Stones could never write on the level of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison especially in terms of songs that blazed trails. Actually, I can't think of anything The Stones did/do musically that another band didn't do better among their contemporaries. World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band? Never. That title is more appropriate either for Led Zeppelin or The Who. Rare Earth did much better blue eyed soul than Mick and Keef could conjure. So, FROM the most influential band ever I nominate my favorite trippers: Blue Jay Way (Magical Mystery Tour), Tomorrow Never Knows (Revolver), Strawberry Fields (Magical Mystery Tour), I Am the Walrus (Magical Mystery Tour), Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite (Sgt. Pepper), Fixing a Hole(Sgt. Pepper), She Said She Said (Revolver), Dear Prudence ("White Album") Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Sgt. Pepper), Revolution #9 ("White Album") and then, perhaps THE trippy masterpiece among the trippy masterpieces of the world's most influential band: A Day in the Life (Sgt. Pepper). |
magicfish Inner circle 7006 Posts |
Kashmir
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motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
Speaking of Tomorrow Never Knows, a favorite of mine, Geoff Emerick, the brilliant engineer on that track and many others died this month.
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
– Karl Germain |
motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
96 Tears by Question Mark and the Mysterians
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
– Karl Germain |
Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
Jack mentioned Yes in his list above. I know Yes is considered to be more prog than psychedelic but I think a lot of their music is "trippy". "And You And I", "Starship Trooper", even "Yours Is No Disgrace" are pretty trippy songs. Yes is underrated, glad they finally made it into the Hall Of Fame.
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foolsnobody Special user Buffalo, NY 843 Posts |
Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" tripped me out the first time I heard it. This was in the early seventies when all the "trans" stuff was very much underground. "Venus in Furs" was another good one from The Velvet Underground featuring Nico.
Returning to the more "far out" musically, I know John Sinclair turned a lot of people in Michigan onto Sun Ra. And Brian Eno did some interesting stuff in post-King Crimson period. You like piano? Try a little Cecil Taylor. But then, I prefer Thelonious Monk. And the band I most enjoyed tripping *with*, at least some of the members, was Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen circa 1970-ish. And that reminds me, coming full circle, of another strange California band: The Charlatans (NOT U.K). Virginia City Nevada. The real deal, foundational to the San Francisco scene: https://flashbak.com/charlatans-hippies-......-387027/ |
motown Inner circle Atlanta by way of Detroit 6127 Posts |
Commander Cody got their start in Ann Arbor, Mi.
"If you ever write anything about me after I'm gone, I will come back and haunt you."
– Karl Germain |
foolsnobody Special user Buffalo, NY 843 Posts |
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On Oct 18, 2018, motown wrote: That's where I knew them. Kirchen is still a pal. |
lynnef Inner circle 1407 Posts |
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On Oct 1, 2018, motown wrote: I chuckled a bit at this, both because I liked it; and now, since Ted Nugent denies it was about drugs. My rock band still plays Tommy James' Crimson and Clover, even though my acid days are long past! Lynn |
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