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5th Jul 2021, 6:26 AM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 253 Points	The Dukes Of Stratosphear / You're A Good Man, Albert Brown (Curse You, Red Barrel) The Dukes Of Stratosphear / Collideascope The Beatles / I'm Only Sleeping (American Version) Tomorrow / My White Bicycle Jimi Hendrix Experience / Are You Experienced? The Bevis Frond / Cries From The Inner Marshland The Bevis Frond / Termination Station Grey Vibrasonic / Into Sunshine Pink Floyd / See Emily Play The Pretty Things / Bracelets Of Fingers Pink Floyd / Arnold Layne The Bevis Frond / Coronation Pink Floyd / Julia Dream The Appletree Theatre / What A Way To Go (Yes) Grapefruit / Dear Delilah Harumi / Talk About It Nirvana / Rainbow Chaser Aphrodite's Child / Break The Monkees / Writing Wrongs The Bee Gees / Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You The Beatles / Rain The Beatles / She Said, She Said The Bee Gees / In My Own Time The Beatles / Taxman The American version of I'm Only Sleeping has extra backwards guitar bits that aren't on the British version. Maybe, some day, I'll put them both together in Magix and run them side by side to see what it'll sound like. I have a knack for picking up great albums in the blind! I mean, I'll see an album, usually in the cut-out bins or a garage sale or thrift store, that I know absolutely nothing about and buy it for some virtue that attracts me and it turns out to be a great album. The Appletree Theatre album, "Playback" is one such album. I was at K-Mart looking through their cut-out bin one day around `69 or in the very early `70's and spotted this album. In this case, it had a few very short tracks on it, one of which was something like 3 or 7 seconds long, which interests me. I was also sure I'd heard of at least one of the two main guys in the band before and thought he'd been part of Jan & Dean, or some such thing. So, for a dollar, or whatever it was, I took a chance! Very cool and interesting album!!! At the time, I never noticed that it was somewhat psychedelic, I still wasn't exactly heavily into that style, yet. It was just a fun listen. For that matter, I don't think I noticed its psychness until shortly before I started making this project!! Another thing I've noticed over the decades is that stuff on this particular label, Verve Forecast, tends to be psych! There's a few others that, during that era, were quite often psych! So, I've KINDA gotten into the "habit" (if you will) of grabbing stuff from that era that's on those certain labels even if I don't know what it is! Another such album comes up in a moment. Dear Delilah was another record that just fell into my lap one day via a big lot that I bought or that someone just gave me. And what a pure golden slice of psych it is!!!! With the great Terry Melcher producing, it can hardly be a bad record!! THANK YOU, Doris Day!!! Grapefruit was named after the Yoko Ono book of the same name and, were actually associated with Apple Records, at the time but, for some reason, their only album (that I know of) was on ABC. This single was on Equinox, one of many ABC subsidiaries. I've had this since single at least the `70's and only just found the album a decade ago. Sadly, other than this song, the album has no psych. At least nothing that tweaks my knobs. By virtue of its phase shifting, I chose to follow it with the next few tracks that were loaded with it. Harumi. Another Verve Forecast album I picked up based on the track lengths, cover and label. I'm told that Harumi was the Prince (Rodgers Nelson) of Japan and he was VERY famous and that this is a highly sought after album there. although a few of the tracks can be touted as being psych, to my liking, I only found 2 or 3. One of the long tracks, taking up a full album side, is psych but, as it is mostly talking with a musical background, I opted not to use it. 20-some minutes of story telling, I thought, was a bit too much and would be kind of boring. Likewise, with Nirvana (the GOOD band with that name) I only found 2 tracks that I'd consider psych. This next track was one of them. Nicely done, too!! And, from one Greek band, to another (although, that's not why this was next up)! I'd heard of these guys before but never heard them except for a single I have of this song. It, too, fell into my lap one day! About 30 years ago, I was at a record convention hosted by my friend, Jerry Weber, and found this album there. It was a bit expensive and had a scratch through one side, for some reason but, with Magix, I was able to remove the clicking from that side. It took a while, but I did it. Originally, I just used the single track because that was all I had when I got this far in the project but, years after I bought the album, I decided to switch it for the album version. it's only a few seconds longer than the single version because, after a few seconds of dead air, it has someone say, "DO IT!!".