This is off topic , but one of my favourite episodes of the Simpsons , is the one where Reverend Lovejoy announces the weekly hymn chosen by a member of the congregation . He says : Today's hymn , as chosen by Bart Simpson , is : In the Garden of Eden , by I Ron Butterfly .
I remember that lyric contest on KFRC back in 1967. Sacramento radio picked up that station easily. But, here is a bit of trivia my friend from L.A. told me in 1976. I told him that I loved all the songs on the Buffalo Springfield album "Last time around" except the song "The hour of not quite rain." I told him "I don't get what happened there." And he explained to me that the song was the L.A. radio lyric contest and this was the winning lyrics. It figures.
After school back in 1966 I 'd walk to my friend's house and hear a band in their garage practicing and I'd stop and listen. Turns out it was the Electric Prunes. Fantastic hearing them and fantastic talking with them. A true experience.
@@mazzysmusic Not from Cali but have you heard of a group called "After all" album of the same name released in 69.. Supposedly an album that is really expensive. It is a psych album. The group was from Gainsville Fl. If you have what do you think about the album? Another great video! And very interesting. Cheers
@@SDsailor7 I've listened to the album and it's very good. Thanks for the suggestion. At my first listening I keep thinking of the lead singer of Blood Sweat and Tears, which isn't a bad thing.
Thank you for coming back here and giving Mad River the recognition and respect they deserve. I am your age, and the debut LP by Mad River has always been one of my favorites ever since I bought my first copy in '68. This record certainly has that San Francisco Psychedelic vibe and a darkness that sets it apart from bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service, who is about the only other SF band I can compare them to. I would definitely like to see you tackle the East Coast Psychedelic scene and even the Midwest. By the way... if you don't already know them, check out the Chicago area band AORTA. Their 1969 Self Titled debut album is a Psychedelic masterpiece. Aorta started out as a sort of lounge band in the mid 60's ( The Exceptions ) and included Peter Cetera who went on to fame and fortune with the band Chicago. Anyway, that first Aorta record has some very tasty playing on it, great soulful vocals and some rather interesting production work for the time.
7:00 'Who's tripping down the streets of the city/ smiling at everybody she sees/ who's reaching out to capture the moment/ Everyone knows it's Windy" - Breezy breakdown of class barriers/inhibitions: a trippy trope of the mid-Sixties, girly pop. You see it in cinema opening 'Georgy Girl' even though the lyric is darker than the bouncy tune, and you see it in Julie Christie swinging her handbag across the main titles of 'Darling,' and you see it in the new flatmate tripping into London in 'The Pleasure Girls.' All mid-Sixties. It was a vibe that had an open-ended sense of the future with potential in the air and change up for grabs. Not like now. Not like now when the future has already been sold off and the present left high and dry.
I love the Mazzy videos , educational and informative , full of enthusiasm . One negative - bring back the goatee Mazzy. I’m 66 I recently shaved off the beard. Big mistake that 20 year old youth wasn’t under there .
Great show as usual👍 Picked up Steve Miller Band Recall the Beginning..... A Journey from Eden about 3 months ago on vinyl (so rare here in Colorado🤔) and it is AMAZING! Side 2 of this album is one of the best slabs on vinyl in my 2200 albums....I kid you not! Just when I thought I could not put Steve on a higher plateau... I stumble across this hidden gem 🙏
Thanks for exposing 'Mad River' on this revisiting to the SF psychedelic time, the 2nd album of theirs which I do have was more 'country', less trippy more smokey. Keep up the good work.
It was good to see The Electric Prunes, Steppenwolf and The Association make the "Extras." H.P. Lovecraft was a great first baseman for the St. Louis Browns, later replaced by William Burroughs. Wonderful edition.
A 'hear hear' for Dino Valente's album. I bought it mail-order second-hand after hearing 'Time' on the 'Rock Machine - I Love You' sampler. Gorgeous, haunting songs, and DV had a voice. Criminally overlooked.
l mentioned Ultimate Spinich and was kindly imformed by another viewer that they hailed from Boston .Keep up the good work Norman ...Peace and greetings from England .
I've really been enjoying your videos. I'm a Texas guy, and you might consider a video on the Texas psychedelic scene. 13th Floor Elevators, Moving Sidewalks, etc. That would be cool.
Hi Mazzy love your videos, just discovered your channel about a month ago way up here in Nova Scotia. I was 13 when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show and of course I was hooked on music for the rest of my live. Collected records up until mid ninties getting new releases from England and Europe. But that became to expenses so I sold a lot of my collection and went CD which I don't regret. Kept a few hundred albums especially my San Franciscan albums and my 70's punk. I collect music documentaries and live vids. Have well over 200 music related videos Review them on my channel when the mood hits. Also had a record store up here in Yarmouth NS for a few years in the ninties which was successful until the uploading started. Oh well, just wanted to say hello.
In 1967, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had a top 100 single called "Buy for Me the Rain" which definitely sounds like a 1967 song today, even if the producer layed on the strings too heavily. I just remembered it and had a listen. It was a really good song!
really enjoyed the Psychedelic overviews...thanks...from my view, the Psych vibe is evident in many of the genres and musicians of that period...as it was a time of experimentation, pushing boundaries, etc...
Funny thing with Steve Miller, most of my friends only knew him from the Joker and forward. Those early records were near impossible to find by the mid 70s. Except in crummy 2-fers which were also obscure.
Have enjoyed your three CA psychedelic albums vids immensely! I grew up hearing and loving most of the same albums although I was on the other side of the country. Good to see some love for the Dino Valente LP. "Time" is hauntingly beautiful! PLEASE do an east coast psychedelic album vid! I'm getting my list ready. Curious to see if some of the lesser known gems I discovered on NYC underground radio reached your ears also. And don't forget The Boston Sound! :)
Hey! Love your videos. You were saying how you forgot about Steppenwolf because you think of them as Canadian BUT both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are Canadian and made your L.A. list. Just saying. Keep up the great videos!!! Cheers
I recently picked up the Steve Miller band’s Your saving grace and listened to daily for about a month. Great album. Brave new world is excellent also!! Keep up the good work!
Glad you gave a shout out to Kaleidoscope (not to be confused with the bands of the same name from the UK and Mexico). was going to post on your LA video, but now there's no need! saw David Lindley a few years back opening for Hot Tuna (another SF band you could've mentioned- Jorma and Jack from the Airplane), and he's a gifted multi-instrumentalist... and the late Chris Darrow had an eclectic output during his career. a few other lps that deserve mention: Skip Spence- "Oar" Fifty Foot Hose- "Cauldron".. SF experimental acid psychedelia with the amazing Nancy Blossom as lead vocalist Beau Brummels- either "Triangle" or "Bradley's Barn"- yeah, not psychedelic in the true sense, but its country/folk sounds hold up very well Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies- "The American Metaphysical Circus"- former United States of America leader's experimental masterpiece with Victoria Bond's eerie vocals Love- "Four Sail" yeah, "Forever Changes" is the popular choice, but Arthur Lee's 1st lp after breaking up the classic lineup is their most powerful, IMO. love your posts. keep em coming!
Definitely agreed with you about Fifty-Foot Hose, Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies (and their predecessors, The United States Of America), and Love's Four Sail album (the song "August" is especially a masterpiece of concentrated explosive energy).
Thank you for ALL of these videos. I *think* I'm only about five years younger than you -- but I'd bet you'd agree with me that those five years make a world of difference in how we experienced the sixties and seventies! Add to that the geography: you grew up in the coolest part of the world, and I grew up in (ugh) Maine. The armpit of the United States. And add to that that I am on the Autism spectrum: for instance, radio is no good to me; even if I'd otherwise love it, any music that I do not enter into by choice is noise to me. So while I loved the culture I grew up in, still much of it escaped me. I have always relied on the recommendations of friends to guide me on what I discover privately. And I love my friends, but as I get older I've discovered those resources are limited! In just the short time that I've been following your videos, you've helped me learn and discover so much -- artists that I was unfamiliar with, and artists that I was aware of but for one reason or another hadn't explored. And I've barely scraped the surface of what you've posted. THANK YOU.
Great series Norman, so many memories for those of us of a certain age! Wow, Kaleidoscope and HP Lovecraft too! I had Mad River. Fever Tree, The Insect Trust and Clear Light worth a mention.
Greetings Mazzy✌, Really LOVED ALL your psychedelic album rankings!!! 👍 On this video You mention Nicky Hopkins, Have You thought of making líke a ranking of a top 20, 25 songs that Nicky Hopkins had involvement in (or musical input) songs with The Beatles,The Rolling Stones,The Who, The Kinks and many,MANY more artists.
I wish I'd known you were doing requests, Mazzy! You obviously included Love's 'Forever Changes' in your LA Psych vid, but you failed to even mention 'Da Capo' (you're forgiven - you must've had a lot on your mind!). It's their best, imho. Side 1 is just perfect, and side 2 ('Revelation') has grown on me over the years - there's a dynamism to it, some great musicianship, the solos never outstay their welcome, and some bits are eminently hummable. I love that album with a passion.
Wow Mazzy, had a ball watching this video. Thanks for mentioning HP Lovecraft (though I do believe the 2nd album - recorded in LA - is better than the first, Electric Prunes (though I believe Underground is a lot more consistent than the debut album). I really love those first couple of Steve Miller Band albums. And I also love Wow (Bitter Wind, He, Rose Colored Eyes ... Wow!). Cheers!
Ah. De nouveau un bel exposé, monsieur. Merci. About Mad River, I treasure their second effort "Paradise Bar & Gril" more than their first: a wider glimpse of their potential, a wonderful flavor of the era, and incredible songs like "They brought sadness", by example.
Quicksilver was Nicky Hopkins and John Cipolina's band at first, Nicky wasn't a fan of Dino and Just For Love and What About Me were probably the best known of their albums and we Brits loved all their stuff. I saw the Grateful Dead at a pop festival in England, I got to know their crew one very stoned night as I was part of the festival setting things up but the dead brought their own crew, great bunch of guys and we had a lot of fun.
A few great listens... 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere. Chocolate Watch Band-Inner Mystique. Kaleidoscope - Bacon From Mars. The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine. Captain Beefheart/Magic Band - Strictly Personal. Dino Valente: Valente.
El Rayo X.. you had it, and it doesn't matter anyway.. we have too much information on music, which is so much fun to have, and use on the VC. Lindley married my dear friend Lynn ( he was an ordained minister) probably still is.. married her to Terry Reid, in California. She was with Terry through, at least 4 records, including "River" Great stories from her, about that whole thing.. I met Terry, what a gentleman !
Great seeing the ElectricPrunes, Chocolate Watch Band, and H. P. Lovecraft get some love. Nice one, Manny :) p.s. Not sure if anyone's suggested this already, but how about your take on 60s US garage/punk "nuggets"-type bands or albums/comps?
Great list Mazzy. No arguments here. I get what your doing. It’s a scene . Great comp album is the Nuggets set with all San Fran groups. Savage Resurrection is killer
A UK version will post on Saturday but it only has one of those bands. As much as I absolutely LOVE the other two, they just didn't seem to fit in that particular list for me....
Great addition to the previous video - so pleased you mentioned Mother Earth and The Electric Flag - where would you place The Joy of Cooking? Saw Steve Miller in Berkeley and they did a magnificent show - must have been about 1970.
Dude your knowledge of music is incredible and I don't understand how you remember it all. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast lol much peace to you
Hi Mazzy. Your psychedelic triptych not only featured terrific music, but also some awesome record sleeves. Four of the ones you showed were designed by Globe Propaganda, the graphic bureau established by former Charlatan George Hunter. They created some great artwork, my personal favourite being Quicksilver's Shady Grove.
I was 13 living in Sacramento in 1967. About your age. Coming from a middle class family, I could barely afford to buy lp's. Occasionally a single or two. How did you afford to buy albums? I'm just mystified. At least I could go to the store or Tower records and hold the albums I wanted for a minute or two, hoping someday the albums would be mine. It took 5 or 6 years later when the Recycled Record store opened that I had the chance to buy some. Hats off to you to be able to buy albums at 13 years old! P.S. kudos to you for pointing out Dino Valente's solo LP. P.P.S. My beef would have been the exclusion of the band "Touch" and there wonderfully Psychedelic song "Seventy Five."
Nice follow up! Still conspicuous in their absence: REALIZATION (Johnny Rivers), CLEAR LIGHT (Clear Light), CAULDRON (Fifty Foot Hose). Have you not heard these albums?
Electric Flag located themselves in Mill Valley. I think Long Time Coming has its share of psychedelic passages. That was Bloomfield's high point. An very unappreciated record is 20 Granite Creek by Moby Grape. Really good songs.
There is a high quality 2013 pressing of that first Steppenwolf album from "Analogue Productions". Thankfully it doesn't have that big, hideous "Featuring Born To Be Wild" square on the front cover. 200 gram vinyl. Hard cardboard cover. Great stuff.
Steppenwolf started out as a Toronto band name The Sparrow. I have a copy of their single "Green Bottle Lover". Thinks for including Kaleidoscope. I bought "Incredible Kaleidoscope" and "Bernice" a couple years after they came out, in the delete bin with the hole punched out in the corner. Great albums. Steve Miller fans should give a listen to his interview this week on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Gives a lot of history about the albums in that first period with Capitol.
Top California Psychedelics Albums (from first two videos) Notorious Byrd Brothers (Byrds) Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane) Children of the Future (Steve Miller Band) Forever Changes (Love) If Only I Could Remember (David Crosby) Crown of Creation (Jefferson Airplane) Strange Days (The Doors) Caravansary (Santana) Grateful Dead (Live Dead) Goodbye Hello (Tim Buckley) Time Has Come Today (Chamber Brothers) Spirit (Original, Clear) 4D (Byrds) Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane) Stand (Sly and Family Stone) Neil Young (first album) (fave song - Feel Flow by Beach Boys) Then the wonderful extras and requests ...
It's quite a well to dip into, isn't it? Everyone has their favorites. I was happy to see HP Lovecraft included, though they were from Chicago. I'm partial to their second album. But how could you leave out (picking up pitchfork and torch here), the first 2 Love albums? Love and Da Capo. Psychedelic awesomeness by any definition. Everyone raves about Forever Changes, but I'll take those 2. Oh, and you might have included Clear Light. Not worth arguing over, but the fact that there are so many is testament to the creative flowering of music in this time.
Maybe do a "rest of the USA" version? That way you can include such notables of the period as Vanilla Fudge, The Rascals (after they dropped "Young" from their name), The Bob Seger System, Chicago Transit Authority, Tommy James, Joe South's Introspect, Rare Earth, The Boxtops, The First Edition, The Guess Who, maybe even The MC5? Guess I'm doing it for you....
@@mazzysmusic THX. I really enjoy the videos and the great album covers I remember so well, but I'm missing several (loaned out and never returned). THX for the shout out for us Iron Butterfly fans. I'm glad that you're not a music snob and also like all varieties of music from the period. I really enjoy The Cowsills' The Rain, The Park and Other Things, though I had many pals who snubbed it. Great pop psychedelia.
Are you familiar with the album, Playback, by The Apple Tree Theatre, one of the first concept albums, with lots of great artists on it, John Lennon is quoted as saying it was his favourite album at the time and the great UK radio DJ Bob Harris! The Charlatans album yes isn’t very good but there earlier recordings are so much better on the later release! Also two early bands The Mystery Trend and The Oxford Circle who now you can hear them on record, there’s a great live album of Oxford Circle at the Avalon 1966 on Big Beat records!
The Great Society's Grace Slick singing White Rabbit and Somebody to Love. Could have ended with that if Signe hadn't left the Airplane. How important was Grace Slick for psychedelia? Very.
Great series! One guy that doesn't get a lot of love, but I think he would be a contender for inclusion, is Harvey Mandel. He was based in San Francisco and both Cristo Redentor (1968) and Righteous (1969) are great albums.
Just one last one "The Wizards From Kansas" Mercury 1970. They were from Kansas but like a few other bands of the era, relocated to the Bay area. Sadly only recorded 1 LP before the drummer left and the band split. Really enjoy your presentations but I have a question; what compelled you to leave SF after being there for most of your life?
Mother Earth! Of course. Sly Stone! It's Feels Like I'm Fixin' To Die. Great title and first song I heard by Country Joe and the Fish. "A life without music would be a mistake." Nietzsche
California bands/artists are very underrated overall. i hear many people sadly say you dont find any goodies from CA but that is totaly bs. Some great albums there :)
I know I'm late, but may I humbly suggest "The cycle is complete" by Bruce Palmer? He was a bass player with Buffalo Springfield (I know you know...), and the record is a masterpiece in psychedelia (if I understand you criterion of classification). Or Come, by One, by a bunch of misfits of the Bay Area?
I got all these albums on the understanding that I would begin to appreciate them when I eventually began experimenting with drugs. This was true to some extent but I suppose both were ultimately disappointing. Nice jumper by the way.
Mazzy, have you heard of the album "The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds" with Paul Beaver on the Moog synthesizer? That album should be included in your list maybe.
Sweet choices sir. Just a bit of an odd sidenote, heard Steve Miller on Maron the other day. He made no mention of him playing at monterey pop. Only that he met Jimi there.It's weird. I have the M.P.F dvd set. Dont think he's even on the 'Extras' dvd...
@@mazzysmusic Maz type in steve miller at montery pop and tell me what you see. Mabey the heading's misleading but yea wow. I think he played it..tho not not having his 1st release out yet. Your right on that end.
Kaleidoscope is a band who I have some records by but they no longer speak to me. Same with hp love craft. I remember in ‘62 Lovecraft had a great season hitting in front of mays. Lol. Buffalo Springfield owe all their success to Mannix. Lol. Toonerville Trolley hurts that EP album. Yeah, that other you show is all axelrod. He crushed the ep. oh, the association! Big fan. I love the track Pandora’s golden Heebie Jeebies. Glossiest copy of head I’ve seen. The pusher is Steppenwolfs best. Agreed. Love street by the doors is underrated. There’s the store where the creatures meet. I wonder what they do in there? I gave away an OG international submarine band record as vclt. Gilded palace of sin is the second best country rock record of all time. Oh nice. I live on Highway 101. My dad saw Nancy Sinatra live. She played his fire base in the Mekong delta in 1967. CWB! No way out is THE best. Inner mystique is really two bands. Dave Aguilar and mark loomis quit mid album. I love crown of creation. Lather turned 30 years old today. You hate that charlatans record? Ouch. I am gonna spin my copy right now in your honor. Wow, the cleanest mad river I’ve ever seen. Electric flag is another I’ve lost interest in. Moby Grape is another I lost interest in. The first album is still ok. This is a really nice series.
Steve Miller is a local boy here in Wisconsin. Grateful Dead I have tons on cd just starting my vinyl on them. Saw them at Alpine Valley Wisconsin in 1988 and 1989. They filmed Downhill From Here. I want to get better editing software so I can music tour my state like you do Steve Miller. Ben Sidran. Alpine Valley. Summerfest Bo Deans Violent Femmes even the basist for the Black Eyed Peas. I look up to your style and knowledge
Just started watching,hope to see Fever Tree!!! Need to watch the LA post,could be there too. The Association did Babe I'm Gonna Leave You...made famous by Joan Baez & later by Led Zeppelin. Have Another Hit not Wiff Mazzy!
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This is off topic , but one of my favourite episodes of the Simpsons , is the one where Reverend Lovejoy announces the weekly hymn chosen by a member of the congregation . He says : Today's hymn , as chosen by Bart Simpson , is : In the Garden of Eden , by I Ron Butterfly .
I remember that lyric contest on KFRC back in 1967. Sacramento radio picked up that station easily. But, here is a bit of trivia my friend from L.A. told me in 1976. I told him that I loved all the songs on the Buffalo Springfield album "Last time around" except the song "The hour of not quite rain." I told him "I don't get what happened there." And he explained to me that the song was the L.A. radio lyric contest and this was the winning lyrics. It figures.
After school back in 1966 I 'd walk to my friend's house and hear a band in their garage practicing and I'd stop and listen. Turns out it was the Electric Prunes. Fantastic hearing them and fantastic talking with them. A true experience.
Wow cool story!
@@mazzysmusic Not from Cali but have you heard of a group called "After all" album of the same name released in 69.. Supposedly an album that is really expensive. It is a psych album.
The group was from Gainsville Fl.
If you have what do you think about the album?
Another great video! And very interesting.
Cheers
Always loved their name
@@SDsailor7 I've listened to the album and it's very good. Thanks for the suggestion. At my first listening I keep thinking of the lead singer of Blood Sweat and Tears, which isn't a bad thing.
@@stevealvanos6592 I liked it too. I like the keyboard playing.
Thank you for coming back here and giving Mad River the recognition and respect they deserve. I am your age, and the debut LP by Mad River has always been
one of my favorites ever since I bought my first copy in '68. This record certainly has that San Francisco Psychedelic vibe and a darkness that sets it apart from
bands like Quicksilver Messenger Service, who is about the only other SF band I can compare them to. I would definitely like to see you tackle the East Coast Psychedelic scene and even the Midwest. By the way... if you don't already know them, check out the Chicago area band AORTA. Their 1969 Self Titled debut album is a Psychedelic masterpiece. Aorta started out as a sort of lounge band in the mid 60's ( The Exceptions ) and included Peter Cetera who went on to fame and fortune with the band Chicago. Anyway, that first Aorta record has some very tasty playing on it, great soulful vocals and some rather interesting production work for the time.
7:00 'Who's tripping down the streets of the city/ smiling at everybody she sees/ who's reaching out to capture the moment/ Everyone knows it's Windy" - Breezy breakdown of class barriers/inhibitions: a trippy trope of the mid-Sixties, girly pop. You see it in cinema opening 'Georgy Girl' even though the lyric is darker than the bouncy tune, and you see it in Julie Christie swinging her handbag across the main titles of 'Darling,' and you see it in the new flatmate tripping into London in 'The Pleasure Girls.' All mid-Sixties. It was a vibe that had an open-ended sense of the future with potential in the air and change up for grabs. Not like now. Not like now when the future has already been sold off and the present left high and dry.
Wow, that's well written prose man.
Best and most psychedelic song by the Association: Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies on Renaissance. The song is worth the whole album.
I love the Mazzy videos , educational and informative , full of enthusiasm . One negative - bring back the goatee Mazzy. I’m 66 I recently shaved off the beard. Big mistake that 20 year old youth wasn’t under there .
Great show as usual👍 Picked up Steve Miller Band Recall the Beginning..... A Journey from Eden about 3 months ago on vinyl (so rare here in Colorado🤔) and it is AMAZING! Side 2 of this album is one of the best slabs on vinyl in my 2200 albums....I kid you not! Just when I thought I could not put Steve on a higher plateau... I stumble across this hidden gem 🙏
My favorite Steve miller, owned and enjoyed it for nearly 50 years brilliant album
The Monkees' song "Star Collector" on Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. uses the Moog synthesizer.
Thanks for exposing 'Mad River' on this revisiting to the SF psychedelic time, the 2nd album of theirs which I do have was more 'country', less trippy more smokey. Keep up the good work.
Super stoked to see Mother Earth Living with the Animals included. Powell St John imo is one of the great pioneers of the psychedelic genre. ☮️
Love?
Zappa?
Really enjoyable videos Mazzy, nice shout out to the Monkees - often overlooked in the Psychedelic genre.
It was good to see The Electric Prunes, Steppenwolf and The Association make the "Extras." H.P. Lovecraft was a great first baseman for the St. Louis Browns, later replaced by William Burroughs. Wonderful edition.
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A 'hear hear' for Dino Valente's album. I bought it mail-order second-hand after hearing 'Time' on the 'Rock Machine - I Love You' sampler. Gorgeous, haunting songs, and DV had a voice. Criminally overlooked.
Found Dino’s lp in a thrift shop unopened for a dollar!
Thanks for the Prunes! The Dutch hippie again. Love your taste and your irony. :-)
l mentioned Ultimate Spinich and was kindly imformed by another viewer that they hailed from Boston .Keep up the good work Norman ...Peace and greetings from England .
I've really been enjoying your videos. I'm a Texas guy, and you might consider a video on the Texas psychedelic scene. 13th Floor Elevators, Moving Sidewalks, etc. That would be cool.
@Walter Evans - let’s not forget Fever Tree!
Hi Mazzy love your videos, just discovered your channel about a month ago way up here in Nova Scotia. I was 13 when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show and of course I was hooked on music for the rest of my live. Collected records up until mid ninties getting new releases from England and Europe. But that became to expenses so I sold a lot of my collection and went CD which I don't regret. Kept a few hundred albums especially my San Franciscan albums and my 70's punk. I collect music documentaries and live vids. Have well over 200 music related videos Review them on my channel when the mood hits. Also had a record store up here in Yarmouth NS for a few years in the ninties which was successful until the uploading started. Oh well, just wanted to say hello.
In 1967, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had a top 100 single called "Buy for Me the Rain" which definitely sounds like a 1967 song today, even if the producer layed on the strings too heavily. I just remembered it and had a listen. It was a really good song!
Great job. I might have included Skip Spence's "Oar" and Sly A.T.F.S "A Whole New Thing".
Oar is pretty obscure. It's a crazy distillation of the scene.
Nicky Hopkins Bio is worth reading. Astonishing story.
really enjoyed the Psychedelic overviews...thanks...from my view, the Psych vibe is evident in many of the genres and musicians of that period...as it was a time of experimentation, pushing boundaries, etc...
Funny thing with Steve Miller, most of my friends only knew him from the Joker and forward. Those early records were near impossible to find by the mid 70s. Except in crummy 2-fers which were also obscure.
I kinda like 2fers! Quirky, fun, and of their time. I have a few, always looking for more. Cheers
Have enjoyed your three CA psychedelic albums vids immensely! I grew up hearing and loving most of the same albums although I was on the other side of the country. Good to see some love for the Dino Valente LP. "Time" is hauntingly beautiful! PLEASE do an east coast psychedelic album vid! I'm getting my list ready. Curious to see if some of the lesser known gems I discovered on NYC underground radio reached your ears also. And don't forget The Boston Sound! :)
Hey! Love your videos. You were saying how you forgot about Steppenwolf because you think of them as Canadian BUT both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are Canadian and made your L.A. list. Just saying. Keep up the great videos!!! Cheers
I recently picked up the Steve Miller band’s Your saving grace and listened to daily for about a month. Great album. Brave new world is excellent also!! Keep up the good work!
Glad you gave a shout out to Kaleidoscope (not to be confused with the bands of the same name from the UK and Mexico). was going to post on your LA video, but now there's no need! saw David Lindley a few years back opening for Hot Tuna (another SF band you could've mentioned- Jorma and Jack from the Airplane), and he's a gifted multi-instrumentalist... and the late Chris Darrow had an eclectic output during his career.
a few other lps that deserve mention:
Skip Spence- "Oar"
Fifty Foot Hose- "Cauldron".. SF experimental acid psychedelia with the amazing Nancy Blossom as lead vocalist
Beau Brummels- either "Triangle" or "Bradley's Barn"- yeah, not psychedelic in the true sense, but its country/folk sounds hold up very well
Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies- "The American Metaphysical Circus"- former United States of America leader's experimental masterpiece with Victoria Bond's eerie vocals
Love- "Four Sail" yeah, "Forever Changes" is the popular choice, but Arthur Lee's 1st lp after breaking up the classic lineup is their most powerful, IMO.
love your posts. keep em coming!
Definitely agreed with you about Fifty-Foot Hose, Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies (and their predecessors, The United States Of America), and Love's Four Sail album (the song "August" is especially a masterpiece of concentrated explosive energy).
And Kaleidoscope too.
Thank you for ALL of these videos. I *think* I'm only about five years younger than you -- but I'd bet you'd agree with me that those five years make a world of difference in how we experienced the sixties and seventies! Add to that the geography: you grew up in the coolest part of the world, and I grew up in (ugh) Maine. The armpit of the United States. And add to that that I am on the Autism spectrum: for instance, radio is no good to me; even if I'd otherwise love it, any music that I do not enter into by choice is noise to me. So while I loved the culture I grew up in, still much of it escaped me. I have always relied on the recommendations of friends to guide me on what I discover privately. And I love my friends, but as I get older I've discovered those resources are limited! In just the short time that I've been following your videos, you've helped me learn and discover so much -- artists that I was unfamiliar with, and artists that I was aware of but for one reason or another hadn't explored. And I've barely scraped the surface of what you've posted. THANK YOU.
I actually prefer this list you put together than your earlier video. You have an incredible collection.
Great series Norman, so many memories for those of us of a certain age! Wow, Kaleidoscope and HP Lovecraft too! I had Mad River. Fever Tree, The Insect Trust and Clear Light worth a mention.
Greetings Mazzy✌, Really LOVED ALL your psychedelic album rankings!!! 👍 On this video You mention Nicky Hopkins, Have You thought of making líke a ranking of a top 20, 25 songs that Nicky Hopkins had involvement in (or musical input) songs with The Beatles,The Rolling Stones,The Who, The Kinks and many,MANY more artists.
I’ve thought of it and someone else suggested this. It’s a good idea 😎
Played with Jerry Garcia in 1975 too.
I wish I'd known you were doing requests, Mazzy! You obviously included Love's 'Forever Changes' in your LA Psych vid, but you failed to even mention 'Da Capo' (you're forgiven - you must've had a lot on your mind!).
It's their best, imho. Side 1 is just perfect, and side 2 ('Revelation') has grown on me over the years - there's a dynamism to it, some great musicianship, the solos never outstay their welcome, and some bits are eminently hummable. I love that album with a passion.
Wow Mazzy, had a ball watching this video. Thanks for mentioning HP Lovecraft (though I do believe the 2nd album - recorded in LA - is better than the first, Electric Prunes (though I believe Underground is a lot more consistent than the debut album). I really love those first couple of Steve Miller Band albums. And I also love Wow (Bitter Wind, He, Rose Colored Eyes ... Wow!). Cheers!
Ah. De nouveau un bel exposé, monsieur. Merci.
About Mad River, I treasure their second effort "Paradise Bar & Gril" more than their first: a wider glimpse of their potential, a wonderful flavor of the era, and incredible songs like "They brought sadness", by example.
Quicksilver was Nicky Hopkins and John Cipolina's band at first, Nicky wasn't a fan of Dino and Just For Love and What About Me were probably the best known of their albums and we Brits loved all their stuff. I saw the Grateful Dead at a pop festival in England, I got to know their crew one very stoned night as I was part of the festival setting things up but the dead brought their own crew, great bunch of guys and we had a lot of fun.
Mazzy, some people are never satisfied. i Like all of the additional albums. That Kaleidoscope compilation is the same one I have. Thanks, Chris
Loved that XTC box set on your shelf.
A few great listens...
13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere.
Chocolate Watch Band-Inner Mystique.
Kaleidoscope - Bacon From Mars.
The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine.
Captain Beefheart/Magic Band - Strictly Personal.
Dino Valente: Valente.
El Rayo X.. you had it, and it doesn't matter anyway.. we have too much information on music, which is so much fun to have, and use on the VC. Lindley married my dear friend Lynn ( he was an ordained minister) probably still is.. married her to Terry Reid, in California. She was with Terry through, at least 4 records, including "River" Great stories from her, about that whole thing.. I met Terry, what a gentleman !
Great seeing the ElectricPrunes, Chocolate Watch Band, and H. P. Lovecraft get some love. Nice one, Manny :) p.s. Not sure if anyone's suggested this already, but how about your take on 60s US garage/punk "nuggets"-type bands or albums/comps?
Súper idea. I have acouple of the Pebbles series, found out just this week there are about 30!
big brother's first album is an amazing gem, there is not a single bad song in it
Great list Mazzy. No arguments here. I get what your doing. It’s a scene . Great comp album is the Nuggets set with all San Fran groups. Savage Resurrection is killer
Cannot believe you left out Canned Heat
UK "acid-folk" would be awesome Mazzy. Incredible String Band, Pentangle, etc.
A UK version will post on Saturday but it only has one of those bands. As much as I absolutely LOVE the other two, they just didn't seem to fit in that particular list for me....
@@mazzysmusic Fingers crossed it's The Incredible String Band. I absolutely love your channel Mazzy. Wish I knew you in person. Cheers.
Yes! Still listen to ISB a lot to this day.
@@stephenfernald2490 Every day.
Great addition to the previous video - so pleased you mentioned Mother Earth and The Electric Flag - where would you place The Joy of Cooking? Saw Steve Miller in Berkeley and they did a magnificent show - must have been about 1970.
In A Gadda da Vida is not their debut but their second album after Heavy (love it). Different line up also.
Oh!! But heavy was not butterfly's first.... It was he's my brother. Ha ha.... I crack me up.!!!!!
Dude your knowledge of music is incredible and I don't understand how you remember it all. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast lol much peace to you
I remember 50 years ago but not a week ago. ✌🏽
@@mazzysmusic lol right
Great video, one album that nobody ever mentioned as psychedelic is People, I love you
Mazzy you should have at least 100K subscribers, not 10K, I like your videos!
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@@mazzysmusic The album i mentioned sounds a tiny bit like the Doors and/or Blood sweat and tears.
It has also jazz influences.
@@mazzysmusic Have you done a Woodstock scene/era video yet?
Hi Mazzy. Your psychedelic triptych not only featured terrific music, but also some awesome record sleeves. Four of the ones you showed were designed by Globe Propaganda, the graphic bureau established by former Charlatan George Hunter. They created some great artwork, my personal favourite being Quicksilver's Shady Grove.
I should have mentioned Globe 🌸🌸🌸
Who launched country rock? Gram Parsons or Michael Nesmith? Beau Brummels?
The Monkees - HEAD !!!! - there's Ry Cooder on a track: 'As We Go Along' (Ry Cooder : guitar) - Namaste !
Hey Mazzy, you showed some amazing albums really enjoyed the video. Hope your doing well, Cheers Snowy
I was 13 living in Sacramento in 1967. About your age. Coming from a middle class family, I could barely afford to buy lp's. Occasionally a single or two. How did you afford to buy albums? I'm just mystified. At least I could go to the store or Tower records and hold the albums I wanted for a minute or two, hoping someday the albums would be mine. It took 5 or 6 years later when the Recycled Record store opened that I had the chance to buy some. Hats off to you to be able to buy albums at 13 years old! P.S. kudos to you for pointing out Dino Valente's solo LP. P.P.S. My beef would have been the exclusion of the band "Touch" and there wonderfully Psychedelic song "Seventy Five."
Jsem pamětník šedesátých let a všechny tyto kapely jsem poslouchal na RFE. Děkuji a zdravím.
Electric Flag "A Long Time Comin'" - what a great Psych masterpiece! *****
Nice follow up! Still conspicuous in their absence: REALIZATION (Johnny Rivers), CLEAR LIGHT (Clear Light), CAULDRON (Fifty Foot Hose). Have you not heard these albums?
I heard! Belarus
Those 2 Monkees albums are essential to anyone who actually loves 60s pop/rock/psychedelia. Both albums have great covers too
PLEASE DO THE EAST COAST PSYCH LIKE THE BOSSTOWN SCENE!!!! absolutely love your videos!!!
Electric Flag located themselves in Mill Valley. I think Long Time Coming has its share of psychedelic passages. That was Bloomfield's high point. An very unappreciated record is 20 Granite Creek by Moby Grape. Really good songs.
There is a high quality 2013 pressing of that first Steppenwolf album from "Analogue Productions". Thankfully it doesn't have that big, hideous "Featuring Born To Be Wild" square on the front cover. 200 gram vinyl. Hard cardboard cover. Great stuff.
I have the AP Hits. Didn’t know they did the first album ✌🏽
Many of the early Steppenwolf albums are great listens. I also own the first five Steve Miller lps , first pressings.
I love your videos, that is all I want to say.
Well thank you 🌸
Kinda makes me miss the Bay Area. Nice to listen to someone who know what they are talking about. Here in Atlanta living the empty life getting old.
You could always move to Athens!
I love The Association, but for me their best album is Waterbeds in Trinidad! (1972).
Steppenwolf started out as a Toronto band name The Sparrow. I have a copy of their single "Green Bottle Lover".
Thinks for including Kaleidoscope. I bought "Incredible Kaleidoscope" and "Bernice" a couple years after they came out, in the delete bin with the hole punched out in the corner. Great albums.
Steve Miller fans should give a listen to his interview this week on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. Gives a lot of history about the albums in that first period with Capitol.
Top California Psychedelics Albums
(from first two videos)
Notorious Byrd Brothers (Byrds)
Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane)
Children of the Future (Steve Miller Band)
Forever Changes (Love)
If Only I Could Remember (David Crosby)
Crown of Creation (Jefferson Airplane)
Strange Days (The Doors)
Caravansary (Santana)
Grateful Dead (Live Dead)
Goodbye Hello (Tim Buckley)
Time Has Come Today (Chamber Brothers)
Spirit (Original, Clear)
4D (Byrds)
Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane)
Stand (Sly and Family Stone)
Neil Young (first album)
(fave song - Feel Flow by Beach Boys)
Then the wonderful extras and requests ...
Glad to see the Chambers Bros. getting some love!
the LA band Clear Light recorded one of the great psych albums of that era (Elektra, 1967).
"Good evening Mr. Blue
We've got our eyes on you"
Give a listen to Kaleidoscope's "The Sidekicks Sessions". Pre-psychedelia (amusing cover pic) sound, but you can hear them moving in that direction
It's quite a well to dip into, isn't it? Everyone has their favorites. I was happy to see HP Lovecraft included, though they were from Chicago. I'm partial to their second album. But how could you leave out (picking up pitchfork and torch here), the first 2 Love albums? Love and Da Capo. Psychedelic awesomeness by any definition. Everyone raves about Forever Changes, but I'll take those 2. Oh, and you might have included Clear Light. Not worth arguing over, but the fact that there are so many is testament to the creative flowering of music in this time.
Yes good. I just don’t own those three ✌🏽
I just started watching the video. I do hope you talk about Love, the Doors, Messenger Service, and the like.
and Jefferson Airplane.
Go watch main two video ; San Francisco and Los Angeles videos they are over there ✌🏻linked in the description
@@mazzysmusic will sure do. I am still watching this video.
I really like Dino's Song. Great flow of melodies.
In Time by Jefferson Airplane is one of my top favorites. Crown of Creation is a great album by any standards.
Maybe do a "rest of the USA" version? That way you can include such notables of the period as Vanilla Fudge, The Rascals (after they dropped "Young" from their name), The Bob Seger System, Chicago Transit Authority, Tommy James, Joe South's Introspect, Rare Earth, The Boxtops, The First Edition, The Guess Who, maybe even The MC5? Guess I'm doing it for you....
I actually have that planned. A couple of weeks ✌🏽
@@mazzysmusic THX. I really enjoy the videos and the great album covers I remember so well, but I'm missing several (loaned out and never returned). THX for the shout out for us Iron Butterfly fans. I'm glad that you're not a music snob and also like all varieties of music from the period. I really enjoy The Cowsills' The Rain, The Park and Other Things, though I had many pals who snubbed it. Great pop psychedelia.
Are you familiar with the album, Playback, by The Apple Tree Theatre, one of the first concept albums, with lots of great artists on it, John Lennon is quoted as saying it was his favourite album at the time and the great UK radio DJ Bob Harris! The Charlatans album yes isn’t very good but there earlier recordings are so much better on the later release! Also two early bands The Mystery Trend and The Oxford Circle who now you can hear them on record, there’s a great live album of Oxford Circle at the Avalon 1966 on Big Beat records!
Ay... Canned Heat absentt again... I'm blue..
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Yes, psychedelic! If doubt!
And how about Fever Tree, Love, Clear Light, Chambers Brothers, PGand E, and Super Sessions.
The Great Society's Grace Slick singing White Rabbit and Somebody to Love. Could have ended with that if Signe hadn't left the Airplane. How important was Grace Slick for psychedelia? Very.
YUP!!
Great series! One guy that doesn't get a lot of love, but I think he would be a contender for inclusion, is Harvey Mandel. He was based in San Francisco and both Cristo Redentor (1968) and Righteous (1969) are great albums.
I agree.
How about "Living the Blues" by Canned Heat?
HEAD rules.
Just one last one "The Wizards From Kansas" Mercury 1970. They were from Kansas but like a few other bands of the era, relocated to the Bay area. Sadly only recorded 1 LP before the drummer left and the band split.
Really enjoy your presentations but I have a question; what compelled you to leave SF after being there for most of your life?
Mother Earth! Of course. Sly Stone!
It's Feels Like I'm Fixin' To Die. Great title and first song I heard by Country Joe and the Fish.
"A life without music would be a mistake." Nietzsche
California bands/artists are very underrated overall. i hear many people sadly say you dont find any goodies from CA but that is totaly bs.
Some great albums there :)
I know I'm late, but may I humbly suggest "The cycle is complete" by Bruce Palmer? He was a bass player with Buffalo Springfield (I know you know...), and the record is a masterpiece in psychedelia (if I understand you criterion of classification). Or Come, by One, by a bunch of misfits of the Bay Area?
Oops! Heavy was the debut album. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida came second.
In my opinion their big hit was boring. Heavy and Ball (I believe) are better albums.
Iron Butterfly Theme! They do a good live version of it on UA-cam.
Would love your to review Skip Spence OAR. Strange LP
I got all these albums on the understanding that I would begin to appreciate them when I eventually began experimenting with drugs. This was true to some extent but I suppose both were ultimately disappointing. Nice jumper by the way.
Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body. Can't remember if it was on the first SF psych podcast.
Mazzy, have you heard of the album "The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds" with Paul Beaver on the Moog synthesizer? That album should be included in your list maybe.
Yes I bought it when it first came out. I still have it a have mentioned it a couple of times ✌🏽
Great video great recoeds
Agree with you on Quicksilver comments.How did you miss Steppenwoif
I think there included in my LA version despite their Canadian roots ✌🏽
Sweet choices sir. Just a bit of an odd sidenote, heard Steve Miller on Maron the other day. He made no mention of him playing at monterey pop. Only that he met Jimi there.It's weird. I have the M.P.F dvd set. Dont think he's even on the 'Extras' dvd...
I didn’t think he played at Monterey. Since their album didn’t come out til 68. ✌🏽
@@mazzysmusic Maz type in steve miller at montery pop and tell me what you see. Mabey the heading's misleading but yea wow. I think he played it..tho not not having his 1st release out yet. Your right on that end.
Buffalo Springfield "For What It's Worth" defined a generation.
How about heading over to the East Coast!? Boston, NY, Chicago, even Philly all had wonderful psych scenes.
Maybe. Not sure how much I have but I've been thinking about it...UK is next!
Steppenwolf. YUSSSSSSSSS. Love it!
Kaleidoscope is a band who I have some records by but they no longer speak to me. Same with hp love craft. I remember in ‘62 Lovecraft had a great season hitting in front of mays. Lol. Buffalo Springfield owe all their success to Mannix. Lol. Toonerville Trolley hurts that EP album. Yeah, that other you show is all axelrod. He crushed the ep. oh, the association! Big fan. I love the track Pandora’s golden Heebie Jeebies. Glossiest copy of head I’ve seen. The pusher is Steppenwolfs best. Agreed. Love street by the doors is underrated. There’s the store where the creatures meet. I wonder what they do in there? I gave away an OG international submarine band record as vclt. Gilded palace of sin is the second best country rock record of all time. Oh nice. I live on Highway 101. My dad saw Nancy Sinatra live. She played his fire base in the Mekong delta in 1967. CWB! No way out is THE best. Inner mystique is really two bands. Dave Aguilar and mark loomis quit mid album. I love crown of creation. Lather turned 30 years old today. You hate that charlatans record? Ouch. I am gonna spin my copy right now in your honor. Wow, the cleanest mad river I’ve ever seen. Electric flag is another I’ve lost interest in. Moby Grape is another I lost interest in. The first album is still ok. This is a really nice series.
Steve Miller is a local boy here in Wisconsin. Grateful Dead I have tons on cd just starting my vinyl on them. Saw them at Alpine Valley Wisconsin in 1988 and 1989. They filmed Downhill From Here. I want to get better editing software so I can music tour my state like you do Steve Miller. Ben Sidran. Alpine Valley. Summerfest Bo Deans Violent Femmes even the basist for the Black Eyed Peas. I look up to your style and knowledge
Did Blue Cheer get a mention in either of the videos and my poor overstuffed with music trivia brain somehow missed it, or did they get left out??
Yes in the SF version ✌🏽
@@mazzysmusic
I thought that they probably were but couldn't recall. That seems to happen more and more....
hi ... great series ... did you include 13th floor elevators ?? maybe i missed it ... rock on
I did not since they were from Texas. I i Love them too
@@mazzysmusic hi .. i knew they were from Texas .. i thought they recorded in S F. my mistake ...rock on !!
My psychedelic education is enhanced!
Just started watching,hope to see Fever Tree!!! Need to watch the LA post,could be there too.
The Association did Babe I'm Gonna Leave You...made famous by Joan Baez & later by Led Zeppelin.
Have Another Hit not Wiff Mazzy!
FEVER TREE are from TEXAS.
@@TODDTAMANENDCLARK you are right...thankyou!
Little Known Fact: Steppenwolf did The Pusher before Hoyt Axton. 😮😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊