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Our friend Rodney Pate sits in with us on this episode to talk about Michigan area bands from the '60s and '70s. Rod is a DJ and collector from Ann Arbor Michigan, and has been focusing on collecting local private press records. He also has his own radio show, Right On Radio at the long running freeform radio station WCBN based at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he plays an all-analog show of obscure psychedelia and conducts interviews with artists from the area. For this episode, Rod has selected some of the lesser-known bands he has encountered over the years and it's going to be a varied show - ranging from heavy psych and garage to real people music and folk.

Beau Biens (Malibu, 1967)

-Time Passed

Glass Sun Band (Sound Patterns, 1972)

-Silence In the Morning

Jef Fisk & Tom Shader-For Sam (Bird Productions, 1976)

-Larvae

Bob Boden-Rick Hamming (Silver Circle, 1978)

-Home Wrecker

Rick and J.B.-Wake Up and Smell the Coffee… (DGA, 1977)

-(You Keep Me) Satisfied

Pat's People-Silver Rain Afar (197?)

-December Sequel

Peter Stark-Mushroom Country (Montage, 1976)

-Many Times

Stoney and the Jagged Edge-Chasing Rainbows (Big Beat, 1968/2014)

-Rainbows

Bob Cameron-Home-Style Stone Soup comp. (Sweetwax, 1974)

-Four in the Morning

In this episode Viktor take a stand for the cheap record and have picked out some affordable but still great singer-songwriter and folk albums for the show. In this age of high-bidding eBay auctions, record flippers and monster rarities everywhere it is easy to forget the vast amount of cheap quality music that is still around and easy to find. So in this episode we try to remember that great music doesn't have to come with a big price tag.

Cheap vinyl – for your health!

Jerry Merrick - Follow Follow Follow (Mercury, 1969) -Sweet Baby Tommy James - s/t (Roulette, 1970) -Meet the Comer Two Friends-s/t (Natural Resources, 1972) -Long Way Hard Road Jeffrey Cain - Whispering Thunder (Racoon, 1972) -Soul Train John Martyn- Inside Out (Island, 1973) -Fine Lines Mike Cooper - Do I know you? (Dawn/Janus, 1970) -Think she knows me now Sören Hansen - Ikväll (Mistlur, 1978) -Dagen är över

In this episode we talk to Douglas Mcgowan of Numero Group about the misunderstood genre of New Age music. Douglas is the curator of the New Age compilations, "I Am the Center" and "The Microcosm" and he also runs the successful reissue labels, Yoga Records and Ethereal Sequence, which have re-released some fantastic music over the years. New Age has been a part of psychedelic culture that we have found difficult to get a hang of and we're therefore glad that Douglas joined this show and gave us a proper introduction to the genre. He has picked out some wonderful tunes for us in this episode and we hope you'll enjoy this as much as we do!

Satoshi Ashikawa (1982) -Still Space David Casper – Crystal Waves (1984) -Crystal Waves I Suzanne Doucet and Christian Buehner-Transmission (1983) -Shiva's Dance (excerpt) Don Slepian-Open Spaces (1980) -Awakening (excerpt) Swami Kriya Ramananda-Hymn To A New Age (1981) -Hymn To A New Age (excerpt) Joanna Brouk-Sounds of the Sea (1981) Diving Deeper, Remembering Love KZ Smith and Dave Erickson-Blue Skies (1985) -Sweet Dreams

Folk music played an important role in the development of psychedelic rock and folk musicians were part of introducing psychedelics to mainstream popular culture in the mid-'60s, which until then had only been known among "bohemian jetsetters" and academics. In this episode we play some favorite folk-psych acts from different parts of the world. The selection of songs covers a broad spectrum of the genre and includes both group- and communal oriented bands, and solo acts as well as some of the many different styles, e.g. blues, eastern, "acid" and downer, which exist within the realms of psychedelic folk music. We hope you'll enjoy!

C.O.B-Moyshe McStiff & The Tartan Lancers Of The Sacred Heart (Polydor Folkmill, 1972) -Sheba's Return/Lion Of Judah All That the Name Implies (Oro, 1968) -Black Tuesday Jake Holmes-The Above Ground Sound of (Tower, 1967) -Lonely Turid-Vittras Visor (Silence, 1971) -Chrystal Shade of Loneliness Graham James-What Is Me? (Rene, 1974) -The Superlative Life Is Free Peter Kelley-Dealin´Blues (Sire, 1971) -He Could Never Feel Oriental sunshine-Dedicated To the Bird We Love (Philips, 1970) -Across My Life Amory Kane-Just To Be There (CBS, 1970) -Evolution

For more info on C.O.B, check out Patrick Lundborg's excellent in-depth review and for the full story on Oriental Sunshine see Flashback Magazine issue #6.

We are proud to have Lance Barresi from Permanent Records as our special guest editor in this episode and he has put together a great tracklist for us with a lot of rare hard rock and heavy psych bands. The majority of the cuts are taken from the Brown Acid compilations, a project that he runs together with Daniel Hall of RidingEasy Records, and in April the fourth trip in the series will be released.

Since a young age, Lance has been interested in music, especially unusual and independent artists – "I've never been one to be satisfied with the status quo or mainstream culture. When I discovered punk, independent, and underground music in junior high school, I never turned back". His interest in records led to the opening of his own record store in Chicago in 2006, which he started together with Liz Tooley, and in 2011 Permanent Records expanded to Los Angeles, where they live today. The need to stock records for the stores and his own interest in discovering new music has led to an never-ending hunt for records, and like many serious collectors he has also spent a lot of time tracking bands down that are of particular interest to him. Through the process of contacting the bands, he also got the idea to compile and license the music and this developed into the Brown Acid compilation series. In this episode we're going to hear a few of the artists that Lance has been in contact with over the years.

Headstones (Rome, 197?) -Carry Me On Bad Axe (Permanent, 2014/1973) -Coachman Iron Knowledge (Tammy, 1972) - Show Stopper Crossfield (Toy, 197?) - Take It Grand Theft – s/t (No label, 1972) - Scream (It's Eating Me Alive) Factory (Oak, 1971) - Time Machine Chicago Triangle – Emergence (Dynamite, 1977) - Ripped Off Zipper – Zipper (Whizeagle, 1975) - Rollin' and Tumblin'

This episode we dedicate to Lounge music and due to the vastness of Lounge albums being released we have invited the expert Stefan Kéry for a proper introduction to this brand of music. Lounge differs from many other types of music as it is not a music genre, style or a scene but is instead defined by the setting of where it is performed, namely in a Lounge environment. These bands were hired as the musical entertainment in cocktail bars at motels, resorts etc for the customers to enjoy while they were sipping their drinks. To keep the customers satisfied the band played a broad variety of styles, which often included familiar and popular tunes of the day. A few daring bands also had one or two self-penned songs in their repertoire. To make some extra money they usually had an album or two to sell to intoxicated customers during their show, and a small fraction of these Lounge albums have the X-factor that create an unique and sometimes psychedelic experience. In this episode Stefan Kéry, who has been collecting Lounge albums since the 1980s, has picked out a few of these special albums for us. So make yourself a cocktail and let Stefan guide you through the dim lit twilight zone that is Lounge music.

Willy Wall Trio-The Traveling Sounds (No label, 1969)

-Snowfall

The J Ann C Trio-At Tan-Tar-A (Birdland, 1966)

-Voo-Doo-Doll

Los Bandidos-Live At the Velvet Coach (Little Crow, 1972)

-Hey Jude

Lloyd Lindroth-Superharp (Mitchlind, 1970)

-Evilways

Sandra Kaye and the New Breed-On the Road (Dunn, 1973)

-Let It Ride

Onstage Majority-Solo Flight (No label, 1971)

-For Now

Kaplan Brothers-Nightbird (Quinton, 1976)

-Nightbird

In the last part of our two episodes with Måns P Månsson we focus more on the music and keep the talking to a minimum, as this is jam-packed with great garage-psych singles that Måns have picked out for the show. The selection is a mix of major label artists and obscure local presses, and includes both classics like The Third Bardo as well as less-discussed bands, such as The Spontaneous Generation and The XL's. Just sit down, tune in and enjoy the Roller Coaster ride!

The Mystic Tide (Solid Sound, 1967) - Frustration Lemon Fog (Orbit, 1967) -Echoes of Time The Wild Things (Blue Onion, 1968) -ACID (Another Colored Ink Drawing) The Castaways (Fontana, 1968) -Just On High ESB (In Arts, 1967) -Mushroom People The Third Bardo (Roulette, 1967) -Five Years Ahead of My Time Stained glass (RCA-Victor, 1967) -A Scene in Between The XL's (Paro, 1968) -Maryjane The Trolls (ABC, 1967) -Baby, What You Ain't Got (I Ain't Need) The Spontaneous Generation (Fevre, 1968) -Up In My Mind

In this episode we're joined by the psychedelic expert Måns P Månsson and he brought some amazing garage-psych 45s from his exceptional collection to play for us. We also took the chance to ask him a little bit about his own music and the garage scene in 1980s, as well as the Stockholm based psychedelic "commune", the Lumber Island Acid Crew. As we talked for almost two hours we had to split it up in two episodes and the second part will be released in two weeks.

Children Of The Mushroom (Soho, 1967) - You Can't Erase a Mirror Caretakers Of Deception (Sanctus, 1967) - Cuttin' Grass Ninth Street Bridge (Cecile, 1968) - Wild Illusions The Dovers (Miramar, 1966) - The Third Eye Daybreakers (Dial, 1967) - Psychedelic Siren Heather MacRae (ABC, 1967) - Hands Of The Clock

Paul Major is one of the originators to obscure psych and private press collecting and many of the records he found and documented are now seen as classics, such as Fraction, Peter Grudzien and Marcus. Paul started buying records when the psychedelic movement was at its peak in the late 60s, digging through the local K-mart's dollar bins looking for anything that looked "psychedelic" and was able to pick up many rarities by today's standard (e.g. Morgen, Easter Everywhere by The Elevators and The Moving Sidewalks). In the 70s he became aware of private presses and real people music (a term coined by him) and started to distinguish between those records and major label releases. This "realization" happened when he for the first time heard Attic Demonstration by Kenneth Higney and since then private presses has been his prime interest as a collector. During the early 80s he turned record collecting into a profession. His main sales channel was his homemade catalogues, which was sent out to other likeminded collectors. With the catalogues, he also introduced these types of records to a much wider audience and among the collectors receiving the catalogues was the psychedelic scholar Patrick Lundborg, who have said that "Paul Major is perhaps the single most important person for re-discovering the whole "private" and "local" music scenes of the 1960s-1970s" and that "The Acid Archives book is basically an extension of what he did in the late 1980s and early 1990s."*

Paul went into the record label business in the mid-90s when he started the label Parallel World, which both released contemporary artists as well as compilations and reissues, including Bobb Trimble, Blo and Steve Linnegar's Snakeshed, which at that time must have been known to only a few hardcore collectors. Talking to Paul is like getting a history lesson in the development of obscure record collecting and together with several other devotees, he was part of laying the foundation to the collector community that we have today.

His musical history and the story about the catalogues have been made into a book called "Feel The Music: The Psychedelic Worlds of Paul Major", which will be published by Anthology this spring.

Kenneth Higney-Attic Demonstration (Kebrutney, 1976) -Children of Sound Marcus-From the House of Trax (No label, 1978) -The City of Inbetween Ilian-Love Me Crazy (Kitty. 1977) -Grease Lips (or See What You See, which is the correct title) Steve Linnegar's Snakeshed-Classic Epics (Snake, 1982) -Kamakura Dragons

*interview with Patrick Lundborg for Dig It! Magazine

In this extra-long Christmas special episode, we do a recap of the first season (which we did in Swedish) and highlight some of our favorite music from the episodes. We have picked one or two songs that we like the most, with many being all-time favorites, from each of the episodes to include here. The set of songs will hence, be highly varied and include music from local psychedelic scenes, like Austin, San Francisco and Bosstown as well as specific genres, such as acid-folk, exploitation-psych and psychedelic pop.

We hope you'll enjoy this selection of various psych music and wish you all happy holidays!

Skip Spence-Oar (Columbia, 1969) -Little Hands Common People-Of/By/For the Common People (Capitol, 1969) -I Have Been Alone Hickory Hollow (Musitron, 1968) -Never Happen St Steven-s/t (Probe, 1969) -Bastich 1 Rebecca and the Sunny Brook Farmers –Birth (Musicor, 1969) -Oh Gosh Trizo 50 -s/t (Cavern Custom, 1974) -Graveyard Cold Sun-Dark Shadows (Rockadelic, 1971/1989) -Here in the Year 13th Floor Elevators-Easter Everywhere (IA, 1967) -Dust Mu-s/t (RTV, 1972) -Ain't No Blues These Trails-s/t (Sinergia, 1973) -Share Your Water Art Gee (Dominion, 1968) -Tea Gardens Thorinshield (Philips, 1968) -Lonely Mountain Again John Brahney-Some Kind of Change (Pete, 1968) -Some Kind of Change Bhagavad Gita (Phillips, 1967/World In Sound, 2006) -Long Hair Soulful Michael Angelo-s/t (Guinn, 1977) -Check Out