If you’ve been brought up on 1960s psychedelic rock, you’ve probably heard “Fire”, the 1968 classic from The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. That band featured Arthur Brown, of course on vocals, as organist Vincent Crane (later of Atomic Rooster) and drummer Carl Palmer (later briefly of Atomic Rooster before joining Emerson, Lake & Palmer, […] Continue reading →

It’s a Beautiful Day was a Bay Area psychedelic band that gave us White Bird, which is on their self-entitled 1969 debut. Marrying Maiden is their second album, in which the band witnessed only a minor lineup change: Linda LaFlamme (who apparently broke up with David LaFlamme around this time) left, replaced by a new […] Continue reading →

Looking for another obscurity? Then give McChurch Soundroom a try. Delusion, released in 1971, was their one and only album. Though a German band, you could swear they were British. Instead of following the Krautrock scene like Can, Amon Düül II, Ash Ra Tempel, Neu, Faust, etc., or even the German style of progressive rock […] Continue reading →

The very first Le Orme album I’ve ever heard was Ad Gloriam (1969). It was basically a psychedelic album you expect from that time period, with a West Coast feel, but all sung in Italian. My next purchase was Felona e Sorona, which was their fifth album, and I was in utter shock of how […] Continue reading →

Aphrodite’s Child was a rock band from Greece who came to France in 1968 during the Paris student riots and couldn’t return back to Greece. By far the best known member of Aphrodite’s Child is none other than Vangelis, the same guy who later became a big name in electronic music with albums like L’Apocalypse […] Continue reading →

I was in utter shock when I first heard this album. I was expecting more of the same, soft sounds of their previous offering, Marrying Maiden. Instead, it turns out to be their most rocking album ever! It’s as if they wanted to create a bunch of songs not unlike “Wasted Union Blues” off their […] Continue reading →

Julian’s Treatment is yet another forgotten and obscure gem of progressive and psychedelic rock. Not very often does a sci-fi author involve himself with music. Michael Moorcock’s involvement with Hawkwind is one of the best examples. And Julian Jay Savarin is another author who involved himself in music, with this band Julian’s Treatment. Savarin played […] Continue reading →

Aqualung and Thick as a Brick might be Tull’s best known and most popular albums, but there’s another one of theirs worth trying, and that’s 1977’s Songs From the Wood. Released one year after the disasterous Too Old to Rock ‘n Roll: Too Young to Die, this album is a vast improvement over that one. […] Continue reading →

The Wicker Man was a movie I took a chance on. I never saw it before. I just saw a review on a Pagan-oriented web site (which doesn’t seem to exist any more) that reviewed books and movies with Pagan and Wiccan themes. Unsurprisingly, many of the films reviewed there only received luke warm to […] Continue reading →

Fairport Convention is one of the biggest names of British folk rock to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Without them, you wouldn’t have Steeleye Span, and Richard Thompson wouldn’t embark on his own solo career and the same thing for Sandy Denny. You see, Richard Thompson was a Fairport member, so was […] Continue reading →