genre: beat, psych
country: us
quality : lossless (ape, cue, log, booklet scans)
time: 53'42"size: 298 mb
misc.: 2004
Fuzz Acid & Flowers:
This group came from New York's Bronx area, were originally known as Bloos Magoos and gigged regularly around Greenwich Village before Mercury offered them a recording contract in 1966. Their title is misleading, for they specialised in quasi-psychedelic electrical music rather than the blues. Their best moments are on their early albums and (We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet from their first album was a U.S. No. 5 in 1966. It also contained a fine version of J. D. Loudermilk's Tobacco Road. The second album contained a thin comic book full of all sorts of offers to turn you on whilst you played the album. Musically it was their magnum opus. The opening cut, Pipe Dream, had a good garage organ sound; There's A Chance We Can Make It featured some fine psychedelic guitar work; Life Is Just A Cher O'Bowlies had a gorgeous beginning followed by more guitar mayhem and side one also contained a discordant, extended cover of Van Morrison's Gloria. Side two was more restrained, although Take My Love was an uptempo song with catchy organ work and the penultimate track, Rush Hour, included a storming electric guitar extravaganza. On stage they appeared in Vidal Sassoon hairstyles and specially designed 'electric' suits. The fifth album, made with a changed personnel, marked a downward turn however, which was not arrested by subsequent efforts.
In their final days, Joey Stec from The Millenium joined the band which coincided with a resurgence as a live attraction, and they certainly went out in a blaze of glory.
When the group disbanded, Eric Kaz went solo and recorded two lame '70s pop rock albums. In 1976, he also formed American Flyer, a country pop group produced by George Martin, with Craig Fuller (ex-J.D. Blackfoot and Pure Prairie League), Steve Katz (ex-Blues Project and Blood, Sweat and Tears) and Doug Yule (ex-Velvet Underground). He kept on working with Fuller in Fuller/Kaz (CBS, 1978). Cooker Lo Presti went on to play with Ringo Starr. ~ (Vernon Joynson/Max Waller/Joe Foster/Stephane Rebeschini)
01. "Sybil Green ( Of The In Between )" 2:41
02. "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" 2:18
03. "All The Better To See You With" 2:19
04. "Yellow Rose" 2:30
05. "I Wanna Be There" 2:57
06. "I Can Move A Mountain" 3:49
07. "President's Council On Psychedelic Fitness" 2:44
08. "Scarecrow's Love Affair" 4:01
09. "There She Goes" 2:50
10. "Accidental Meditation" 1:41
11. "You're Getting Old" 4:14
12. "Subliminal Sonic Laxative" 1:05
bonus:
13. "Chicken Wire Lady" 4:07
14. "I Wanna Be There ( Mono Single Version )" 2:57
15. "There She Goes ( Mono Single Version )" 2:50
16. "I Can Hear The Grass Grow ( Mono Single Version )" 2:18
17. "Yellow Rose ( Mono Single Version )" 2:30
18. "Let Your Love Ride ( Mono Single Version )" 2:36
19. "Who Do You Love ( Mono Single Version )" 3:16
GEOFF DAKING drms
MIKE ESPOSITO gtr
RON GILBERT bs
RALPH SCALA vcls, organ
EMIL THIELHIEM vcls, gtr
also: 1967 ~ Electric Comic Book
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