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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Unless you’re a record collecting fanatic, or at least a prog rock fanatic, chances are you’ve probably never heard of Eela Craig. Eela Craig was apparently one of the best known prog rock bands to come out of Austria (other prog bands from that country included Paternoster and Kyrie Eleison). The band, for the most […] Continue reading →

Genesis was once a great prog rock band, but unfortunately, most of the songs radio stations would play from these guys are from albums like Invisible Touch (1986) and We Can’t Dance (1991). You can pretty much pass up on those albums, unless your favorite album is Phil Collins’ No Jacket Required (1985), of course. […] Continue reading →

Here’s how not to make a movie: make a movie that gives hippies a bad image, and this 1990 movie Far Out, Man is that prime example. Starring Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong fame, this film is a total insult to hippies everywhere in which he plays a totally ungroomed and unbathed hippie who […] Continue reading →

Before there were bands like Ozric Tentacles, there was Gong. Gong consisted of a bunch of French and English hippies who recorded a handful of albums in the 1970s about the mythical Planet Gong with all its characters like the Octave Doctors, and Pot Head Pixies, with forms of transportation like Flying Teapots. In 1973-1974, […] Continue reading →