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Skin Alley - Skin Tight (1973 uk, fine progressive brass rock with some blues...
After a live gig and a TV show in Memphis, we were introduced to Don Nix who had just been doing work at Muscle Shoals and with the Joe Cocker entourage. He was keen to produce our next album and...
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The Great Society - Born to Be Burned (1965-66 us, classic west coast psych...
Before joining Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick sang lead and played various instruments for the Great Society, who were nearly as popular as Jefferson Airplane in the early days of the San Francisco...
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Mapleoak - Mapleoak (1970-71 uk/canada, fine classic rock melted with rural,...
During the mid-‘60s, guitarist Stan Endersby was at the forefront of the Toronto music scene, playing with some of the city’s most experimental and musically inventive bands. As a member of The Tripp,...
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Grace Slick And The Great Society - Conspicuous Only By Its Absence / How It...
This double-LP/single-CD reissue combines both of the Great Society's live albums, Conspicuous Only by Its Absence and How It Was, and features "Somebody to Love" in its original slower, more menacing...
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Nektar - Sunday Night At London Roundhouse (1974 uk, spectacular progressive...
Releasing a live LP with side A containing one and a half song from a recorded concert and side B containing three cuts from a jam that lasted several hours was not a very sensible thing to do in 1974....
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Wildweeds - Wildweeds (1970-71 us, strong country rock with folk blues and...
It's the stuff of pop music legend: in the late 60s, a young band with a scorching style and a regional number-one song drifted into obscurity. Meanwhile the band's frontman, then-teenage Al Anderson,...
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Khazad Doom - Encore! (1968-70 us, impressive heavy psych melted with early...
Throughout the sixties and early seventies, a rock 'n' roll band from suburban Morton Grove, Illinois performed in and around Chicago. Even though they remained together about the same time as the...
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The Left Banke - Walk Away Renee...Pretty Ballerina (1966-67 us, wondrous...
Even in the heady musical atmosphere of 1967, the Left Banke's debut LP Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina stood out. The New York outfit's beguiling blend of classically-influenced songwriting,...
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The Left Banke - The Left Banke Too (1968-69 us, wonderful psychedelia with...
The Left Banke started at the top, launching its recording career with the 1966 debut single "Walk Away Renée," which became both a Top Five smash and an iconic pop classic. They followed it with the...
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Krokodil - An Invisible World Revealed (1971 swiss, great acid-laden guitar...
The perfect album reminiscent to, Twenty Sixty Six & Then, Pink Floyd and Hawkwind. Huge, juicy, psychedelic sounds, a lot of groovy moves of guitars, solid rhythm section and the addition of even...
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Zerfas - Zerfas (1973 us, delicious artificial post psych flutter ,...
Brothers Dave and Herman Zerfas started their professional recording career as members of the Indiana-based band Jubal. By 1973 the band had morphed into Zerfas, in the process recording an album that...
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Horse - Horse (1971 uk, terrific heavy psych)
Turn on the CD ... greets us whine ... wolf ... ? ... and sound the bells ... guitar riff on the canvas of the "shouted" are the words of the song. Sometimes there is a little strange laugh. Macabre...
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Air - Air (1971 us, marvelous progressive jazz rock, 2008 DBK Works edition)
The green suburb of Great Neck Long Island, was the ideal environment to nurture a young band, in 1970 Some time that year, drummer, Mark Rosengarden invited us to rehearse in the guest house at his...
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Terence - An Eye For An Ear (1969 canada, mindblowing mixture of soulful pop...
Terry Black was the Fabian of Canada and covered buttloads of Barri Sloan songs in his pop career and had six top 40 hits in Canada as a teenager, as well as recording the cult Black Plague LP in...
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Ice - Iceman (1967-68 uk, lovely jazzy psych blends, Angel Air 2005 extra...
Some bands are deservedly obscure, some fall from grace into that state, and some just never really had the opportunity to be anything but; Ice fall into that latter category. This late-60s Brit band...
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The Human Beast - Volume One (1970 uk, hypnotic and hard-driving with intense...
This was only album trio Human Beast Scotland (Edinburgh) recorded within 12 hours for Decca. This outstanding album had gone on the market and the team quickly ended his life. At the time when the LP...
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Heron - Heron (1970 uk, warm natural folk rock, japan SHM extra tracks issue)
Heron's self-titled debut LP was mild, drummerless British folk-rock with the rural/pastoral feel common to many early-'70s records in the style. That pastoral feel, in this particular case, might have...
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Last Straw - Alone On A Stone (1973-76 uk, twin guitar space progressive...
Last Straw hailed from that very un-rock'n'roll outpost, the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, renowned for being about twenty years behind the mainland at any given time. Kissing Spell...
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The Hook - Hooked (1968 us, prime heavy psych with funky blasts)
Formed in Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1967 by former Leaves guitarist Bobby Arlin, Hook also consisted of Buddy Sklar (bass) and Craig Boyd (drums). Will Grab You showed little of the folk/rock...
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Orange Wedge - Wedge (1972 us, raw hard rock)
Hard Rock band Orange Wedge's first album, was originally released in 1972 in Baltimore, Maryland released as a private pressing on label Contraband,for gifts to girls and broadcast during...
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