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Azitis - 1971 - Help

Azitis was a California quartet featuring "Don Lower" (vocals, bass guitar), "Michael Welch" (lead and rhythm guitars, flute), "Dennis Sullivan" (organ and piano), and "Steve Nelson" (vocals, drums). Originally known as "Help", until threatened with legal action by the British band (on "Decca Records")of the same name they changed the name in Azitis (pronounced "as-it-is" from a reference to the biblical verse, "Thy will be done on earth [azitis] in heaven"). The band was first conceived in 1966 by Sacramento-area musicians "Don Lower" and "Steve Nelson". "Don Lower" had cut his musical teeth playing in two of the area's better Garage Rock outfits, "The Cambridge Coroners" and "The Roadside Business", and after "Don Lower" met "Steve Nelson", the two formed a songwriting partnership. By 1969, the band had reached a level of quality that necessitated the production of recorded music. After signing to Sacramento's own "Elco Records" in 1969, the enormous volume of original songs made it difficult to choose which to produce. After many performances and audience reactions, two compositions were chosen and a date was reserved for the recording session: "Life Worth Living" backed with "Questions Why". From there, the four-piece changed its name to Azitis, and in 1971, the band cut its first and only full-length, "Help", a Christian Psychedelic classic.

01 - Creation, Lord I Saw You Cry
02 - There Is An Answer
03 - Who's To Blame
04 - The Prophet
05 - Time Has Passed
06 - From This Place
07 - Hope To Save
08 - Judgement Day

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Coven - 1969 - Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls Coven is a rock band formed in the late 1960s, composed of vocalist Jinx Dawson, bassist Oz Osborne (not to be confused with Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath), Chris Neilsen on guitar, Rick Durrett and later John Hobbs on keyboards, and drummer Steve Ross. They are recognized as being the band that first introduced the "Sign of the Horns" to rock and pop culture (as seen on their 1969 debut album release "Witchcraft"). The debut LP from the group is noteworthy for reasons more historical than musical. That is not to say it is a bad record; it is more of an interesting record that is unique and listenable. With an elaborate package released on Mercury in 1969, a good trivia question can be made of the fact that bassist Oz Osborne performs on this album, whose opening track is "Black Sabbath," while John "Ozzy" Osbourne of Black Sabbath was allegedly busy playing bass in Magic Lanterns, hitting the Top 30 in 1968 with "Shame, Shame" (Ozzy listed as Mike Osbourne with Magic Lanterns! ). That the group Black Sabbath formed in 1969 when this album was issued seems to indicate that Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls may have had more than a little influence on the more popular heavy metal band. Also notable is the fact that the majority of the songwriting on this disc is by guitarist Jim Donlinger, who a year later in 1970 would move on to drummer Michael Tegza's reincarnation of H.P. Lovecraft, known simply as Lovecraft on its Reprise recording.  01 - Black Sabbath 02 - White Witch Of Rose Hall 03 - Coven In Charing Cross 04 - For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge 05 - Pact With Lucifer 06 - Choke, Thirst, Die 07 - Wicked Woman 08 - Dignitaries Of Hell 09 - Portrait 10 - Satanic Mass LINK

Arcadium - 1969 - Breathe Awhile Arcadium was another list of obscure British psychedelic bands. They had their start playing at such clubs as The Middle Earth. The band consisted of brothers Allan Ellwood (organ, vocals) and Robert Ellwood (lead guitar, vocals), as well as John Albert Parker (drums), Graham Best (bass, vocals), and Miguel Sergides (12-string guitar, vocals). The music is late '60s British psychedelia with some early prog leanings, where guitar and Hammond organ dominates. "All tracks on this extremely rare album are filled with an atmosphere of anguish and despair, even in their quieter moments. Both lyrics and music are struggling for expression, to the effect of creating a very dense and at times impenetrable album, which is worth your while nonetheless. Although barely escaping perennial threats of murkiness and even sloppiness, the convincing emotional contents save the day for this album." While the original LP is very hard to come by, Repertoire Records in Germany had reissed this on CD with two bonus cuts, "Sing My Song" and "Riding Alone". 01 - I'm On My Way 02 - Poor Lady 03 - Walk On The Bad Side 04 - Woman Of A Thousand Years 05 - Change Me 06 - It Takes A Woman 07 - Birth, Life And Death 08 - Sing My Song 09 - Riding Alone LINK

The Shotgun Express - 1966 - I Could Feel the Whole World Turn Around EP Shotgun Express were a short-lived band, they only stayed together for a few months from late '66 - early '67. Their main importance lies in what the individual members went on to achieve with other groups. Rod Stewart joined ex-Yardbird Jeff Beck in The Jeff Beck Group, Green and Fleetwood were briefly with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers before going on to form Fleetwood Mac, and Bardens was with The Love Affair before forming Village. Beryl Marsden (vocals), Rod Stewart (harmonica, vocals),  Peter Bardens (organ), Peter Green (guitar), Phil Sawyer (guitar), Dave Ambrose (bass), Mick Fleetwood (drums) 01 - I Could Feel The Whole World Turn Round 02 - Curtains 03 - Funny 'cos Neither Could I 04 - Indian Thing LINK

The Bachs - 1968 - Out of the Bachs Garage-psych band from Chicago. This is one of the top local garage lps of the 60’s along with the Rising Storm, the Savages, Bent Wind, the Fantastic Dee-Jays, the Contents Are and the Mystery Meat. Only 150 copies of this record were pressed and originals occasionally sell on ebay for thousands of dollars. The band members came from the Chicago suburbs of Lake Forest and Lake Bluff. The Bachs existed for 3 years performing at school dances, teen clubs and private parties up and down the Chicago north shore and surrounding suburbs (usually making $150-200 a night). All of the songs were written by Blake Allison and John Peterman and the LP was released privately in 1968. After the release of the LP the band members decided to retire from a career in music and thought it was best to move on with their lives. 01 - You're Mine 02 - Pleasure Of Your Company 03 - Free Fall 04 - I See Her 05 - My Independence Day 06 - Minister To A Mind Diseased 07 - Tables Of Grass Fields 08 - Show Me That You Want To Go Home 09 - Sitting 10 - Nevermore 11 - Answer To Yesterday 12 - I'm A Little Boy 13 - That's The Way It Goes (Live Bonus) LINK

Arc - 1971 - ...At This

Prog Rock outfit born from the ashes of '60s Psych Rockers Skip Bifferty. The sole album by this band is a much sought after collectors item originally released on the Decca label in 1970. When former Skip Bifferty vocalist Graham Bell joined former Nice drummer Brian Davison's Every Which Way, the remaining members, Tom Duffy, Mick Gallagher, John Turnball and David Montgomery, formed this progressive rock outfit. "They have the ability to write memorable tunes and arrange them well. The vocals are a strong point, often oddly harmonized and never overstated. Heavier tracks alternate with more poetic ones, although this at times acts to the detriment of the album's coherence. All in all a very pleasant album to listen to."(M. Koopman)

01 - Let Your Love Run Through
02 - It's Gonna Rain
03 - Four Times Eight
04 - An Ear Ago
05 - Great Lager Street
06 - Hello, Hello Monday
07 - Perfectly Happy Man
08 - Sophie's Cat
09 - You're In The Garden
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Mount Rushmore - 1969 - High On Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore was a rock band in the late 1960s from San Francisco, California that played a heavy blues rock style with psychedelic elements. The band formed in late 1966 at 1915 Oak Street, a large Victorian rooming house in the Haight-Ashbury district. In June and July 1967 they were featured on posters for shows at the Avalon Ballroom with other bands including the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother and the Holding Company. After some members including Phillips left for the band Phoenix in 1968, new members were added and the group made two albums. Warren B. Phillips was the former lead singer for the band and wrote a few songs that were recorded by the band after he left. Mike Bolan — guitar, Glen Smith — vocals, guitar, Travis Fullerton — drums, percussion and Terry Kimball — bass. High On Mount Rushmore is the last of only two albums of the band.

01 - Stone Free
02 - Without No Smog
03 - Ocean
04 - I Don't Believe In Statues
05 - Looking Back
06 - She's So Good To Me
07 - Medley

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Crystal Circus - 1968 - In Relation To Our Times "Supposedly a 2001 reissue of an untitled 1968 album, that only made it to the test-pressing stage. One copy surfaced in 2000 with a price-tag of $1500. This group/project was in Bill Holmes' All-American stable of inter-twined groups from in and around the Santa Barbara, California area. Greg Munford had been with Thee Sixpence up to the point that they recorded the Incense And Peppermint 45 and became The Strawberry Alarm Clock. Crystal Circus would appear to have been his next venture. He was involved in other projects and a 45 released in '67 by The Shapes Of Sound - Lost Weekend / Twisted Conversation (All-American 343) - is a likely candidate, given that Twisted Conversation turns up on the Crystal Circus LP. Munford, Solomon and Bielan were certainly involved with another band on All-American, The Indescribably Delicious, and are credited on the I.D. LP reissue - Good Enough To Eat. Bob Feldman also pops up amongst the composer credits. If this is a bona fide album, one has to wonder why it was not released, given the success of the Strawberry Alarm Clock. The vocal style and arrangements on the soft-centred pop-psych numbers (In Relation, Merry Go Round, Circus And Zoo World) are uncannily similar. There are trippy vibes and elegant baroque gestures (Castles, Twisted Conversation) counterbalanced by harder material that harks back to the sounds of Thee Sixpence:- strident garage-pop with blistering guitar (Don't Say I Didn't Warn You), Cream-like fuzz-grunge (The Difference Between Us), and brass-pop bombast (Never Again). Whatever the real truth behind it, this reissue unearths a fine selection of '67-'68 confectionery - recommended."(Max Waller in "Fuzz, Acid and Flowers") 01 - In Relation (To Our Times) 02 - Don't Say I Didn't Warn You 03 - Girl Like You 04 - Sittin' & Thinkin' 05 - Twisted Conversation 06 - Merry-Go-Round 07 - Circus And Zoo World 08 - Never Again 09 - Castles (In The Sand) 10 - Sweet High 11 - The Difference Between Us 12 - The World Of Seas And Rivers LINK

Jay & The Americans - 1969 - Sands Of Time Jay and the Americans was a pop music group popular in the 1960s. Their initial lineup consisted of John "Jay" Traynor, Howard Kane, Kenny Vance and Sandy Deanne, though their greatest success on the charts came after Traynor had been replaced as lead singer by Jay Black.  They were discovered while performing in student venues at New York University in the late 1950s. They auditioned for Leiber and Stoller, who gave the group its name. In the manner of the time, Leiber and Stoller wanted to extend this to "Binky Jones and the Americans," but Traynor declined to be known as Binky Jones his whole career. He instead offered up "Jay," a family nickname, and it suited everyone. In 1968, they recorded the 11th album with their favorite oldies called Sands of Time, which included "This Magic Moment," which was originally done by the Drifters. The single went to #9 in January 1969. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The group split in 1973. 01 - This Magic Moment 02 - Pledging My Love 03 - Can't We Be Sweethearts 04 - My Prayer 05 - So Much In Love 06 - Since I Don't Have You 07 - Gypsy Woman 08 - Hushabye 09 - When You Dance 10 - Life Is But A Dream 11 - Mean Woman Blues 12 - Goodnight My Love LINK

Song - 1970 - Album American beat/pop band, in the style of The Beatles and Badfinger. Mickey Rooney Jr. and Clark Garman formed Song in 1969. Clark Garman,lead guitar, Rob Lewine, bass, Mickey Rooney Jr.(son of the actor), rhythm guitar and Shelly Silverman drums. Curt Boettcher & Keith Olsen, producers.This album, was a fairly interesting fusion of San Francisco jam-based rock and Beatlesque pop songs. 01 - 10 X 10 02 - Like We Were Before 03 - Eat Fruit 04 - Whenever I Think Of You 05 - Banana High Noon 06 - I'm Not Home 07 - Wife 08 - Sugar Lady 09 - Meatgrinder 10 - Medicine Man LINK

The Cycle - 1969 - The Cycle Less than a year after forming in 1966, the Magic Cycle recorded "Let's Run Away," a Canadian hit for the Toronto-based band. The original lineup consisted of Paul Clinch (rhythm guitar, vocals), Stan Theriault (lead guitar, vocals), Pete Young (guitar), Joey Rome (bass, vocals) and Kevin Barry (drums, vocals). Organist Peter Goodale was added in 1970, the same year the band changed their name to The Cycle. Saturday Afternoon Rummage Sale was released in 1970, Magic Music in 1973. With various lineup changes, the Cycle became Choya in 1976. (John Bush) 01 - Groovy Things 02 - Open Your Eyes 03 - Letter To Lucy 04 - It's A Sunny Day 05 - Reflections 06 - Walkin' Along 07 - Telephone Number 08 - Early In The Evening 09 - God LINK

Whichwhat - 1970 - Whichwhat's First

Eddie Young (lead vocals), Mick Brown (saxophone, flute), Terry Penn (bass), John Bednall (drums), Walt Savage (keyboards), Steve Harris (drums), Kip Wilkes (saxophone, flute), Mel Monks (guitar), Jim Marsden (trumpet), John Barlow (drums), Wayne Ford (guitar). Hailing from the North Midlands City of Nottingham, Whichwhat played heavy progressive music and earned themselves a reputation throughout Europe and Japan. As the title says this is their debut album, and has become something of a rareity among prog-rock fans.

01 - Vietname Rose
02 - Early Morning
03 - K9P
04 - Shame And Solution
05 - Lawdie Miss Clowdie
06 - Makin' It
07 - Take Love Away
08 - Odgkin Kane
09 - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
10 - Wonderland Of Love
11 - In The Year 2525
12 - Parting

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