An A - Z of Psychedelia Part 17
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- More psychedelic wanderings through the vinyl universe starting with Bokaj Retsiem, Blossom Toes,
The Blue Things, Bobby Brown, Big Foot, The Beacon Street Union and finally bringing up the rear we have Bloodrock.
I partied some of my records into oblivion! I’ll have to check some of these out!
Hi Mark...so you finished with the B's finally B'ravo....have the Toes collection, great one....The Big Foot don't have dirty foot as i can see ha....i have a rare mono og by the Beacons debut, an amazing and great sounding one.....cheers.....oh i have the Axonda by Bobby Brown, a beautiful hippy weird album.....
Hi, thanks for tuning in. I'm rather glad to now be on the letter C.
Man I would love to score that Blossom Toes LP! I’ve also seen that Bokaj Reitsem around and should also grab that one. I actually found a copy of that Bigfoot LP at a local RS but I left it behind If it’s still there I will have to check it out. Is that Bobby Brown psych? Or is it like a folk psych? I’ve seen it at record shows before but passed thinking it was folky. Blood Rock is a Texas band I believe most famous for their cryptic song DOA that used to scare the shite out of me as a kid but ai loved it! Still do! The album that song is on is def worth having I think It’s Blood Rock 2 maybe? More Hard rock than psych but I could see how they’d get lumped in as psych adjacent Killer records Mark! ✨✌️👽
The Bobby Brown album is sort of drifty hippy rural psych. it's pretty good and like I said all the copies out there seem to be signed. He sold them from the back of his truck I think. I don't think Bloodrock did anything over here so I'm really not familiar with them. If I see a copy of their second I'll pick it up.
Well The psychedelic sound of Blossom Toes is listed as (Private Press/Swedish) in my version of Tapestry of Delight so I think its live in Sweden.
Dont like violence and covers like the one you liked....
See you next week
What song was Zappa/Blossoms??
You are right. I had that album many years ago, same cover, with blurb about the recordings coming from a Swedish TV show.
Zappa is on side 6 of the Love Bomb album. It's a 25 minute jam called Grooving and was recorded at the Amougies Festival in Belgium on Oct 26th 69. The Bloodrock cover is a cartoon and should be treated as such. I'm not condoning violence, I just like the artwork.
I saw Blossom Toes around 1969 a few times, never really thought of them as a psych band, looking back they were just one of many bands, playing original rock/progressive music. The term psych gets very derivative and over used nowadays imo😊
They're usually categorised as a psych rock band. Record Collector lists "We Are Ever So Clean" in the top 100 Psychedelic Rock albums of all time.
@@jimmycampbell78Yes I get that, it’s good a band like Blossom Toes get some recognition that they never achieved in there short existence 😊
Roy, I agree that the term psych has become massively overused in the last decade. Most of the bands that are now described as such would have been mightily surprised to hear that. However, although their second album is really just 'late 60's rock' Ever So Clean has all the hallmarks of classic UK Psychedelia in m opinion. I would suggest that it's one of the absolute mainstays that define it.It's in a small group that would include Kaleidoscope's two, the first four Floyd albums, SF Sorrow, Satanic Majesties, Pepper and MMT, Hendrix's first two (Maybe not English exactly) and few others. Blossom Toes definitely should be in there though. I'm envious of you experiencing them first hand. where did you see them?
@@Mark-Take444Saw Blossom Toes at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm London, also the Lyceum. Used to go to the Roundhouse almost every Sunday during 69/71. The shows I went to were called Implosion, before that they were run by Middle Earth for a short while in 1968. Of course it is famous for Pink Floyd and the launch it IT on Oct 15th 1966. It was the best large venue to see most of the new bands at the time as the place had an amazing atmosphere, completely unique it was similar to the San Francisco venues in vibe, as you could see up to 6 or 7 bands on one night, for 7/6p or 40p in new money, between 3.30 to 11.30pm. There was never any alcohol as they couldn’t get a licence, so most people were either stoned or just enjoying the music. Even between sets you’d get either Jeff Dexter or Andy Dunkley playing all the best new music, you’d get a few hundred people dancing to the Stones Honky Tonk Women then Fairpirt Covention, then Canned Heat, CCR was Keep On Chooglin, can remember the DJ play Kaleidoscope the U.S. band many times, oh and hearing Abbey Road before it was released on a good PA system was magical, the atmosphere was at times intense, like one big party! 🎉
Just scored the Bokaj and, by extension, The Hell Preachers, Supreme Psychedelic Underground (speculation in discogs comments, Lucifer's Friend dodging contractual issues). I really like the first Blood Rock lp; the live lp not bad - worthwhile for the loooong(er) version of DOA.
That Bokaj album is great. Thanks for tuning in.