re: Psych-Out, or Riot On Sunset Strip

"Don't you see no matter what you do,
You'll never run away from you?"

A word of caution from Paul Revere and the Raiders

Indian Reservation
Not really psychedelic but some nice work.

Not really obscure, but fairly refined psychedelia. Almost Symphony.
Vanilla Fudge-Eleanor Rigby/Bang Bang (1967/Beat Club live)
Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On (live 1968)
Studio/Album version

Further developments. Again, not so obscure but nice proto Psychedelic Soul.
I Know I'm Losing You-Rare Earth

Everyone wants a piece of psychedelia. Psychedelic Soul
The Temptations-Ball of Confusion 1970

The Gas Company - "If You Know What I Mean" (1967)

Excellent sunshine pop-rocker, produced by Dave Hassinger (who also did "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night", and engineered "Satisfaction"). Guitarist-writer Greg Dempsey and singer Kathleen Yesse would later record an album as The Daughters of Albion, which apparently is highly regarded in hippie folk-psych circles.



Dempsey and Yesse during their later days of Albion:

The Electric Toilet - "Within Your State of Mind" (1970)

Yes, this was a real band. Yes, that was their name: "The Electric Toilet". Perhaps even more surprising, this psych-blues hippie band was from Tupelo.

I'm not sure how far they expected to get with that name, but any hopes they had for commercial success were dashed when shortly after their only album's release (just barely; very few copies were pressed) the band was in a car wreck and two members were killed.

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The Dentists - I Can See Your House From Up Here (1985)

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I'm very hesitant to criticize your post, as I am exceedingly grateful to receive any kind of response every year or two.

But 1985 is way outside our time boundaries. This thread is meant for mid-to-late '60s, maybe very early '70s stuff. The kind of thing that would fit comfortably on the original Nuggets album.

Now if you want to start a thread devoted to the later era, I'd certainly contribute. In the spirit of Children of Nuggets (devoted to the 1976-95 period), you could call it Children of Psych-Out.

Just make sure the hair metal people know they're not welcome.

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your thread, your rules

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thanks for being so civilized about the whole affair

we could use a thread for later stuff -- take it under consideration

Starting these threads are more in your wheelhouse... I am kind of lazy...

They are fun though and much more in line with what I like to discuss/discover, in regards to music...

I have been spinning this record recently and am really kind of blown away... This little Chicago label (Trouble in Mind) reissued it a few years back..

Del Shannon - The Further Adventures of Charles Westover



I believe this is the original album artwork

Horses - "Class Of '69" (1969)

Moby Grapesque "hard folk rock", from the writers of "Incense & Peppermints". Several members were later peripherally involved with various Grateful Dead projects, but don't hold that against them.

As for the song's subject matter...

Betty & Karen - "Stop & Listen" (1966)

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Betty and I met in boarding school up in Tuxedo Park, NY. Betty is the daughter of Jim Ameche, a popular radio personality on New York's WHN back in the 60's and 70's. She is also the niece of the famous actor Don Ameche who is best known for his film portrayals in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, and for his role in Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. I was born and raised in Englewood Cliffs, NJ of an Italian immigrant Dad and a very Irish Mom. Betty and I met at school and became instant friends, partly due to our 'prankish' sense of humor.

One day while sitting in the dorm room with a guitar, we just started to create some music - then came the words - and the rest was history. Betty insisted that we sing the songs for her Dad and the next thing we know, we are sitting in a recording studio in NYC in the CBS building. We recorded the music under the direction of Pat Jacques, a great guy with a lot of patience, and Richie Tee, a very talented music arranger. They brought in a band and within 5 minutes they were playing the song. I was dismayed as I thought the music was a bit more complicated than that. But when you have talented musicians, anything is possible. Then the two of us spent the next two weeks singing into a microphone with headphones on. Poor Pat. He had to listen to the songs over and over again, as either our voices 'cracked' or we started laughing for some silly reason.

Jim Ameche got us an appearance on the Clay Cole Show in NYC the same night as Stevie Wonder. That I will never forget. All in all, we wrote 18 songs, but the only ones which received air time were "Stop and Listen" and "I'm Not Satisfied". MGM picked up the songs and they were recorded on their label. I still have the original 45 today. It was a brief but fun time for 2 teenagers who really didn't know what they were doing.

Karen Segalla (2014)

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Several members were later peripherally involved with various Grateful Dead projects

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dave torbert?

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yes

The Actress - "It's What You Give" (1969)

Another one-single band about whom virtually nothing is known. Too bad -- this Kinks-meet-The-Move rocker shows a lot of promise.