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 →

Vashon Island is in the Puget Sound next to Seattle. No bridges to the island, just a ferry that takes you there. If you want the closeness and convenience of Seattle, but you don’t like the high pace nature of Seattle, then Vashon Island is the place to be. It’s more slow paced, and plenty […] Continue reading →

For decades, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy had been well loved by book readers everywhere. Now, New Zealand-born director Peter Jackson is transforming the epic on to the big screen, the first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring had already hit the theaters at the end of 2001. In 1978, there was a […] Continue reading →

What a totally strange and unusual group Älgarnas Trädgård is. This Swedish group, consisting of young, long haired hippies, released this album entitled Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat i Forntiden in 1972, on a small Swedish label called Silence (the same label that brought you Bo Hansson). What would happen if the Krautrock scene […] Continue reading →

1985 couldn’t be a worst year when it comes for excellent, quality music. If all you’ve been hearing was Top 40 in those days, chances are you’d be hearing the likes of “Broken Wings” (Mr. Mister), “Would I Lie To You” (Eurythmics), “Material Girl” (Madonna), and tons of similar generic synthesized pop music. It doesn’t […] Continue reading →

When you hear the name of Tangerine Dream, you might just write them off as generic New Age. That might hold true to most of their 1980s and 1990s works, but what they did in the early 1970s was totally different and WAY more interesting. To say this album is creepy is putting it very […] Continue reading →