We'll be taking a short summer hiatus while Mike is on tour with his band, The Loons, promoting their new EP "Memories Have Faces" - now out on Munster Records.

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In this very special episode Mike Stax talks to Mark Lindsay, lead singer and chief songwriter of Paul Revere & the Raiders, about the creation of one of their greatest albums, The Spirit of ’67. Mark breaks down the album in detail, track by track in this 2016 interview from the Ugly Things vault.

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In this episode we pay tribute to the late Pretty Things lead singer Phil May. Mike Stax talks to Pretty Things manager and producer Mark St John about the band’s last years and the challenges, trials and triumphs of making their brilliant final album, Bare As Bone, Bright as Blood.

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Mark St John talks about Phil May’s friendship with Van Morrison

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In this episode we conclude the story of the Misunderstood, one of the seminal psychedelic groups of the 1960s. Lead singer Rick Brown shares the story of their rapid rise and fall in England, and his remarkable adventures afterwards that took him half way around the world from military boot camp to a primitive ashram in India, and back again.

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In this episode we begin the story of the Misunderstood, one of the most exciting and innovative psychedelic groups of the 1960s. Lead singer Rick Brown talks to Mike Stax about the early days of the band in Riverside, California, their association with John Peel, and why they decided to move to London in 1966.

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In this episode, Mike Stax talks to Pretty Things bass player and songwriter Wally Waller about the heady days of 1969 and 1970, and the making of their post-psychedelic masterpiece, Parachute.

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Outtakes from Mike's March 15, 2023 interview with Derv Gordon of The Equals, lead singer of the trailblazing UK rock/soul/pop group best-known for smash hits like “Baby Come Back” and “Viva Bobby Joe”.

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Don Stevenson of Moby Grape returns for another interview. This time we talk about Moby Grape’s grim times in 1968, and go track-by-track on their wonderful yet overlooked third album, Moby Grape ’69. The band’s biographer, Cam Cobb, joins the conversation.

Cam Cobb's definitive book on the band, "What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean?: The Moby Grape Story", can be found here: http://jawbonepress.com/moby-grape/

Cam's forthcoming book on Skip Spence: "Weighted Down - The Complicated Life of Skip Spence" https://omnibuspress.com/products/weighted-down-the-complicated-life-of-skip-spence

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In this episode we plunge back into the world of the Pretty Things. Mike Stax interviews bass player and founder member John Stax about the group’s early days along with a track-by-track exploration of their fabulous debut album and wild stories about their days at 13 Chester Street, Belgravia

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In this episode Mike Stax talks to the dynamic lead singer of the Chocolate Watchband about the history and legacy of one of the greatest California garage/psych bands of the 1960s.

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