(Onbekende) psychedelische meesterwerkjes

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Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (born April 18, 1946 in Windsor, Ontario - died April 16, 1999 in Santa Cruz, California) was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was a member of Jefferson Airplane, as drummer, and Moby Grape, as guitarist, for both groups' first albums in 1966 and 1967 respectively.

Suffering from schizophrenia, he was committed to New York's Bellevue Hospital after a failed-attempt to murder Grape members Don Stevenson and Jerry Miller with a fire axe. Upon his release from Bellevue, he recorded his only solo album, the now-classic psychedelic/folk album Oar (1969, Columbia Records). However, mental illness and alcoholism prevented him from sustaining a career in the music industry, and he lived much of his later life as a homeless person in Santa Cruz. When it appeared that he may have been overcoming those afflictions, lung cancer claimed him.

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No one except psychedelic Renaissance man Alexander Skippy; Spence could have created an album such as Oar. Alternately heralded as a soundtrack to schizophrenia and a visionary solo effort Oar became delegated to cut out and bargain bins shortly after its release in the spring of 1969.

However those who did hear it were instantly drawn into Spence's inimitable sonic surrealism. As his illustrious past in the Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Moby Grape would suggest, this album is a pastiche of folk and rock. In reality, however, while these original compositions may draw from those genres, each song has the individuality of a fingerprint. As a solo recording, Oar is paramount as Spence performed and produced every sound on the album himself at Columbia Records studios in Nashville in the space of less than two weeks.

This burst of creativity was directly preceded by a six month incarceration in New York City's Bellevue Hospital after chopping down a door at the Albert Hotel en route to do the same to fellow Moby Grape members Jerry Miller and Don Stevenson. A common motif to this album is the presence of saints and demons. Even the straightforward narratives such as the love ballad Broken Heart or Cripple Creek; which feature vocal treatments reminiscent of folkie Fred Neil are bathed in unusual chord sequences and lyrical double-entendre. T

he majority of the sounds on this long-player remain teetering near the precipice of sanity. Primary examples include War in Peace the epic Grey/Afroand the sound effect-laden Books of Moses Comparisons have been made to Syd Barrett, John Lennon, and Frank Zappa &amp the latter especially for the intense sonic collage techniques displayed on albums such as Lumpy Gravy and Civilization Phase III.

In 1999, Sundazed Music issued what is considered the final word on Oar, which has been remastered and boasts over 20 minutes of additional material prepared by Spence. The album's lasting legacy is also captured on an all-star tribute CD to Spence titled More Oar.

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Why was this record released? Release, a dutch foundation and social workers organisation which was trying to find alternative ways of helping young people with various problems, needed money and decided to organise a benefit concert in the Rotterdam Youth Center 'De Ruimte' in April 1972.
They taped the concert by Dutch experimental band Ellufant or Abandoned Elephant or 11 phant, as they were also known as and pressed approx 150 copies of the album to sell in aid of the foundation.

What about the music? Ellufant was a two man band from Rotterdam, the Netherlands; keyboard player Ernst Kersting and percussionist Cees P. de Visser. Kersting used a modified keyboard, which he calls a V.S.K. Electronics organ on the sleeve. The music is dark, haunting underground improv sometimes comparable to early Pink Floyd, at other times sounding like german bands e.g. Can or even like electronic experimental music.

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“SOME OF THE MOST BRILLIANT AND DISTURBED GUITAR PLAYING ON RECORD…”

JPT Scare Band has been blazing psychedelic trails for quite some time now. Over the years and decades they have managed to progress from totally unknown to painfully obscure. In spite of all that… they are still together, with the original lineup intact. Still making meaningful music in the 21st century, this veteran group of jammers is also proud of their vast legacy of classic twisted insanity recorded back in olden analogue times.

Here and there, in odd corners of the world, growing numbers of those who love the old school guitar crazy heavy rock have somehow become aware of the existence of JPT. The band was featured in an article in the March 2007 issue of Classic Rock Magazine titled, “Lost Pioneers of Heavy Metal” in which they were included in the same exalted company with Iron Butterfly, Bloodrock and Leafhound. Although they have never really considered themselves to be a heavy metal band, they will take any positive publicity that the cosmic universe chooses to serve them.

The members of JPT are extremely proud of the fact that their first two albums were released on vinyl only. Good luck finding a copy of one, as they are long out of print. Their first CD, Sleeping Sickness, was originally released on Monster Records and featured tracks from the two vinyl albums.

JPT Scare Band - Ramona

JPT Scare Band - Titan's Sirens

JPT Scare Band - Wino

JPT Scare Band - Sleeping Sickness (Part 1)

JPT Scare Band - Sleeping Sickness (Part 2)

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Op dinsdag 29 mei 2007 20:45 schreef cafca het volgende:
Goed Topic!

ff aftrappen met een klassieker:
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The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators
Debuutplaat van de geniale gek Roky Erickson, met meesterwerkjes als "You're Gonna Miss Me" en "Rollercoaster".
De meesten hier zullen hem wel kennen, mocht dat niet zo zijn: meteen gaan luisteren!

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Op zaterdag 6 juni 2009 20:32 schreef Siniti het volgende:
Wat zouden jullie van 13th Floor Elevator aanraden? Slip Inside This House is namelijk tamelijk briljant.

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Op zaterdag 6 juni 2009 20:32 schreef Siniti het volgende:
Wat zouden jullie van 13th Floor Elevator aanraden? Slip Inside This House is namelijk tamelijk briljant.

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Op zaterdag 6 juni 2009 20:37 schreef n0r het volgende:
Nog eentje dan;

Come And Have Some Tea van the Tea Company, geweldige plaat

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Met imo de gaafste versie van You Keep Me Hanging On

Tea Company - Flowers (Longplay 1968)

Tea Company - You Keep Me Hangin On

*Edit; En dat Hunger linkt ook erg gaaf trouwens, kende het nog niet!

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Op dinsdag 16 juni 2009 15:14 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Ik zal het straks eens gaan beluisteren!