OK – I think this MP3 of the radio show has loaded up. I’ve played a bit of it. It seems to have recorded alright.
I would greatly like to know what you think of it. It’s taken us a lot of doing but it was fun.
What did you think? Hope you enjoyed it!
What should be our next one?
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Well – fame at last!!! Our Psychedelic Radio show has just been taken up and broadcast three times!!!
Hollywood beckons!!!
Unfortunately you probably have to be in intensive care to hear it!! Our show went out in Hull and East Riding hospitals.
I thought I’d put it out again for all of you who are not in intensive care in Hull and Yorkshire!
We had great fun putting it together.
OK, I don’t usually with this sort of thing but I listened to it all whilst making dinner earlier. I can’t quite fathom why it took a lot of doing, as it was all elementary level very well known stuff and in some cases top 10 hits. Being all UK based they missed out on the true originators of real Psyche (not yer man Ward from earlier) the 13th Floor Elevators at least should have been mentioned as the Texas scene was way ahead of anywhere else for a period of `66.
I would have chosen The Yardbirds’ Happenings Ten Years Time Ago instead of Over Under… anytime. Leading the revolution was an outfit called AMM, as their `66 composition Ailantus Glandulosa would testify as it’s somewhat way ahead of the `66/67 Floyd (as they first recorded Intersteller in Oct `66 for a film). The Misunderstood – very good choice despite being a hybrid of The Yardbirds/The Who/The Action/The Creation. But actually it’s Freakbeat, as opposed to Psychedelia per say.
Poor Donovan’s Sunshine sounded so lame and tame following on from The Misunderstood, as did Dandelions Chariot.
The commentary of Big Brother and The Grateful Dead as being Psych is most misguided, with BB as Rock’n’Soul band and the Dead merely Country infused Rock’n’Roll, at least in their `67 mode. The Move, OK, but there’s not much to go on for them in `67 as they only released 2 singles giving a choice of a mere 4 tracks to choose from. Arthur Brown is middle ground really, although I like it, it’s not what I would consider Psych, not with all that big band production of trumpets and trombones it’s not.
Harper died amongst this I’m afraid to say. I’d have sneaked in Sgt. Sunshine instead and said nothing about dates/years.
Had to laugh at the “turned heavy into heavy metal” comment! Tell that to Ted Nugents’ Amboy Dukes, I dare you.
Pretty Things, oh yes indeed but why not choose S.F. Sorrow Is Born or Old Man Going, as they mentioned the album anyway yet chose the weakest track. Points lost there.
Family was never psych, but early Prog. And Roger was referred to as a bleating goat not a braying donkey, hence his moniker “the goat”, surprising, eh?
Stones’ Rainbow I’ve heard too often. But I’m not lying there captive.
I’ll give it a more than generous 5.
I could cream these 2 right off the air.
The trouble is that over time the terms have changed. We focussed purely on British Psychedelia. The Texas scene we considered psychedelic punk (largely coming out of the underground garage punk scene) and freakbeat hadn’t been invented as a term. The West Coast Scene was all regarded at the time as Acid Rock.
The thing about the sixties was the huge crossovers of styles and amalgamations. It was the social scene that was the glue holding it together. The styles all merged in the same tracks. It’s a bit of a nostalgia trip. While some does not sound as revolutionary now because of what has followed – it was at the time.
We’ll do one on Acid Rock soon – that’ll be fun.
Time limits the choices – there are hundreds of tracks to fit in. We played some of our favourites and unfortunately missed a lot out.
I hesitate to follow that last diatribe, other than to say the most revealing bit was the last sentence. Whether something is psychedelic or not is surely subjective, not something to treat like an academic exercise with an established canon. I thought the choices were pretty good. Psych may be a category the previous writer recognises but I suspect it’s shorthand for ‘stuff I like which nobody else has heard’ – much as Northern Soul goes for obscure stuff that wasn’t a hit because it wasn’t, well, catchy enough. The times had a spirit which your choices reflected and his rather ungenerous comments lacked. That said, he does have good taste much of the time. Shame he can’t be more persuasive in his manner …
I understand perfectly your take on my comments, however, did you not notice the actual title itself?
I would argue that we have all these different names for types of music in order to establish the differences. For example, extremely few records ever recorded for the Tamla Motown label were ever regarded as Northern Soul – and not by any means were all TM’s releases a hit either here or in USA. That said, the definition of Northern Soul is that it was somewhat heavier than radio pop soul with a heightened level of backbeat on the bass and drums as opposed to the vocal hook. Also Edwin Starr’s “25 Miles” and “War”, both huge hits, both recorded for Tamla Motown, were also considered stalwart Northern Soul classics and both had a marvelous vocal hook. But they rock and that’s the key definition.
I think you will find a message in my last sentence. The band Cream perhaps? I might very well have included them on such a playlist, particularly their wonderful B-side released during the height of Psychedelia, in June `67, “Tales Of Brave Ulysses”, subsequently on Disraeli Gears, too.
You’ll need to get a sense of humour Dave and enable yourself to read between the lines.
The title was ’60s Psychedelia’ and it was right to choose stuff that had an impact at the time – don’t forget that there was a ‘scene’ in those days, a huge cultural movement which rocked tin-pan alley as well as the mainstream culture it served. The scene subsequently split into many cult areas, as you indicate, attracting hobbyists and record collectors but the spirit of the 60s was no longer a part of all that. I bow to your comments on Northern Soul and can see a dance-based thing like that would want stronger beats. And at least my humourless response encouraged you to clarify your last sentence, which previously came across as a rather cheap shot …
I love Cream and particularly Disreali Gears. We had a couple on our short list.
As you say Dave – it was the whole scene that was the thing. There was a great spirit and unity back then. It wasn’t so much a revolution as a radical change in thinking. What I find surprising is that so many people who were part of it no longer seem to remember what it was about. That spirit has stayed with me through my life and informed my thinking and life.
Me too … stronger now, if anything! It was a great time to be young and staying young at heart is its wonderful legacy. It’s had a bad press and people are inclined to believe what they’re told if they’re told it often enough!
I can’t imagine a better time. Though the dream didn’t mature into any great reality it did foster the environmental movement and civil rights, women’s lib. It still lives. But the machine carries on. I think we shook it. It won’t let anyone do that again.
The trouble is that most people who were in the sixties underground weren’t really. They were playing at it as a fashion and dropped straight back in.
I’m glad there’s some of us left who care.
It had never occurred to me that there would have been so many bar-fly fakers. That’s somewhat disconcerting to learn. I did know a few during the 70’s rock scene but they tended to be girls who just wanted to be seen as cool and get asked to parties etc – their fakery was written all over them.
I had always thought that if you were there it was for real as the alternative was just so awful. I suppose that’s why there’s so many older guys that I know of today dressed in cardigans and comfortable slacks! I always wondered what the hell had happened to them and what their involvement in the 60’s revolution had been. (not that I’m into older guys, that I must clarify right away!) You’ve given me the answer.
I talk to a lot of people from that era who were there at the events and I’m amazed to find how many of them didn’t get it at all. It all went over their heads. They were dressing up and going through it for the girls and fun. It meant nothing.
Same with a lot of the bands though.