Earth Island were a Canadian Psychedelic Sunshine group that included Bill Liska, Bruce Doshier, Richard Vanderwoerdt, and Nicholas Rush. The album was produced by Kim Fowley and is rumored to include Skip Battin doing some session work on bass.(A.A.) "A great West-coast groovy-vibes light psych with enough electricity & vroom to keep things from getting dull." (E.C) 01 - Earth People's Park 02 - Civilization, I Can't Hear A Word 03 - Ride The Universe 04 - Seasons Of Our Lives 05 - This Island Earth 06 - Doomsday Afternoon 07 - Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down 08 - Greatest Adventure Of Our Lives 09 - Peace & Understanding, Toronto 1970 10 - Mother Earth Is A Beautiful Lover 11 - The Hungry Planet 12 - Save Our World, We Must Survive LINK
Released only in Italy, this is one of the more coveted rarities of the British Invasion era, by a reasonably esteemed U.K. R&B/mod rock band that only had a few obscure singles available in Britain. The Primitives were moving toward soul from their raving R&B roots by this time, and the album is a mix of covers of then-contemporary soul hits with a few originals. Some of the songs are in English, and some in Italian, although the group themselves were British. 01 - Gimme Some Loving 02 - L'ombra De Nessuno 03 - No Response 04 - Johnny No 05 - Cara Lin 06 - Yeeeeeh! 07 - Gira Gira 08 - Every Minute Of Every Day 09 - Mister Heartache 10 - Ma Beata Te 11 - Sookie, Sookie 12 - Mohair Sam LINK
Hookfoot was a British rock band, active from 1970 to 1974. Formed by Caleb Quaye (guitars, piano and vocals) and three fellow DJM session musicians, Ian Duck (vocals, guitars and harmonica), Roger Pope (drums) and David Glover (bass), the band were also backing musicians for Elton John, appearing together on most of his early recordings for DJM. Fred Gandy (bass - formerly of Bluesology) replaced David Glover, who left after the release of the second album. This is the debut album. "For the last three years, Hookfoot and I have been friends. We've all struggled together and at last their first album is ready. For me, they are potentially the best new English band. This album is only the beginning."(Elton John) 01 - Bluebird 02 - Mystic Lady 03 - Movies 04 - Nature Changes 05 - Wim Wom 06 - Don't Let It Bring You Down 07 - Coombe Gallows 08 - Crazy Fool 09 - Golden Eagle LINK
Will Betz, Bass, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Al Camardo, Percussion, Tom Champion, Percussion, Drums, Tom Chapson, Drums, Anya Cohen, Percussion, Tambourine, Vocals, Michael Lynne, Bass, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals and John Williamson, Bass, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals. A jazzy take on Jefferson Airplane. Nice album with quite some psychedelic touches. Arranged and produced by Rick Shorter. Released on Verve Forecast in 1968. (My Generation)
01 - Multilevular Conversational Tightrope Walking Shoes 02 - Boeing 707 03 - Some Thoughts Of A Young Man's Girl 04 - Medley If I Needed Someone 05 - See See Rider 06 - What A Strange Town 07 - It's Hard To Live On Promises 08 - There's One Kind Favor 09 - High Heel Sneakers
An intriguing mystery outfit (apparently this isn't a real band, just a group of studio muscians based in Los Angeles) whose albums have become sought-after for their over-top heavy psych-blues-rock mayhem that owes much to Hendrix, Iron Butterfly and Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum. Probably is the same group that ,has realise 3 albums with diferent group name. As "Firebirds" Light my Fire, as "31 Flavors" Hair and as "Electric Firebirds" Dance Party Time. Light My Fire, is not for the listener who must have polished studio work, for 1968 this is brutal noise. Ozzy, Geezer, Tony, and Bill must have had a listen to this before they put together the first Black Sabbath LP. 01 - Warm Up 02 - Reflections - Bye Baby 03 - Free Bass 04 - Free Drum 05 - Free Fuzz Gypsy Fire 06 - Desilusions 07 - No Tomorrows 08 - Light My Fire LINK
There is no information about this band, maybe it is a study project. Their album was a "Super K" production by Kasenetz-Katz, with a psychedelic side and a bubblegum side. Among its better tracks are 4th Dimension and Seance, and overall it's worth hearing. One of the tracks, The Seance started when Jeff Katz came into the studio whilst the engineer was trying to get a volume and EQ level. As usual, the band were goofin-off - playing dissonant jibberish to irritate and annoy the engineer, but Jeff thought that THAT SOUND was' just what he was looking for ' to finish the album... One track from the album, Mysterious Martha has been compiled on Psychosis From The 13th Dimension. 01 - Where Are We Goin' To 02 - 4Th Dimension 03 - Gypsy Lady 04 - I Got Troubles (You Got Troubles) 05 - The Seance 06 - Mysterious Martha Garoo 07 - The Book 08 - Land Of Krepus 09 - Mrs. Fortune Teller 10 - Everybody's Got A Song To Sing LINK
