 genre: heavy
country: us
audio: lossless (flac, cue, log, covers, 198 mb)
time: 36'02"
Fuzz Acid & flowers::
This short-lived outfit specialised in melodramatic cover versions of popular songs of the day. The album, which was recorded at Select Sound Studios, in New York, includes slowed down versions of classics like Hold On I'm Comin, You'll Never Walk Alone, Old Man River and the instrumental Exodus. All come with lots of very heavy organ in the same mould as Vanilla Fudge. Certainly worth a spin.
01. Hold On I'm Comin' 5:08
02. Little Light 3:52
03. Aunt Millie 3:17
04. You'll Never Walk Alone 4:44
05. Soft Rocks 4:08
06. Exodus 4:33
07. A Child Begins To Cry 3:41
08. Ol' Man River 6:38
TEDDY ld vcls
PAUL ld vcls, gtr, hmnca
JOEY organ, piano, chimes
CHICK bs
TOMMY drms, perc
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 genre: heavy r&b
country: us
audio: lossless (flac, cue, log, covers, 300 mb)
time: 43'04"
Fuzz Acid & flowers::
A loud and bluesy rock group with the screaming vocals of Lynn Carey and loads of guitar on tracks like Stormbird, Baby Let Me Out, Mean Hearted Man and the 9 minute Trilogy. The group was managed by Robert Fipztpatrick, an associate of Robert Stigwood. He would recommand their young female singer to the Hollywood composer Stu Phillips and that give birth to the Carrie Nations project.
Lynn Carey would soon become better known as Mama Lion. The guitarist Jefferson Kewley later played with Sandi Szigeti. ~ (Stephane Rebeschini/Nick Kontogouris)
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 genre: r&b
country: us
audio: lossless (flac, cue, log, covers, 283 mb)
time: 55'45"
wiki:
The Sound of '65 is the debut studio album by rhythm & blues/jazz group The Graham Bond Organization and featuring its best-known line-up of Graham Bond on vocals, alto saxophone, Hammond B-3 organ and Mellotron, Jack Bruce on vocals, acoustic and electric basses and harmonica, Dick Heckstall-Smith on tenor and soprano saxophone and Ginger Baker on drums.
Melody Maker's Chris Welch has suggested The Sound of '65 "may have been the greatest album of the Sixties and "one of the most exciting and influential of its time" given the respect paid by luminaries like Steve Winwood and Bill Bruford. This album and the group's second and last, There's a Bond Between Us are now considered "essential listening for anyone who is seriously interested in either British blues, The Rolling Stones' early sound, or the history of popular music, in England or America, during the late '50s and early '60s" and is also known among fans of Cream, which Bond's rhythm section joined in the next year.
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 genre: jazz, soul
country: us
audio: lossless (ape, cue, log, covers, 469 mb)
time: 1:19'54"
Tapestry of Delights:
First coming to prominence as a jazz saxophonist Bond was an important individual in the sixties R&B movement. His first band formed in 1963 evolved out of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated. Although they started out playing jazz they soon built up a reputation for playing really raw R&B.
Bond was also a significant innovator - the first British musician to use the Hammond organ and Leslie speaker (in a R&B context); the first to build in electric keyboard and the first to use a mellotron.
Upon the demise of the Graham Bond Organisation in 1969, he made some solo recordings and did some session work. He then joined Ginger Baker's Airforce.
After a spell in the USA he returned to form Bond and Brown with Pete Brown recording one progressive album and a 45. Then, having married singer Diane Stewart upon his return from America, he formed and disbanded several groups with her including Holy Magick, which recorded the Holy Magick and We Put Our Magick On You albums. These combined jazz, soul, and Afro rhythm into a song format.
By 1973 his finances and marriage were in deep trouble. He formed a band called Magus with folkie Carolanne Pegg, which was forced to disband before it even recorded, largely because of lack of finance. He had also become a junkie and was heavily into the occult. On 8 May 1974 he died, just 37 years old, under a tube train at Finsbury Park. He was thought to have been off drugs at the time but whatever the case it was a sad loss to the British R&B / rock scene.
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 genre: prog
country: us
audio: lossless (ape, cue, log, covers, 249 mb)
time: 41'43"
01. On the Other Side 6:26
02. People of the South Wind 3:41
03. Angels Have Fallen 6:40
04. How My Soul Cries Out for You 5:46
05. A Glimpse of Home 6:37
06. Away From You 4:26
07. Stay Out of Trouble 4:16
08. Reason To Be 3:50
Phil Ehart - drums
Dave Hope - bass
Kerry Livgren - guitar, keyboard
Robby Steinhardt - violin, vocals, anvil, lead vocals on "Angels Have Fallen", "How My Soul Cries Out For You" and "Stay Out of Trouble"
Steve Walsh - keyboard, vocals
Rich Williams - guitar
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