Sun, 26 November 2006  Podcast number 14 brings us some gems from the underground and some good long jams towards the end so you can settle in and relax. We feature a nice live Ozric Tentacles song as well as a 13 minute journey into Light My Fire by The Doors. No fancy lights or colors in this one, just some good music. Comments and requests are always welcome although I was unable to fill the last request unfortunately. I'll keep my eyes out for the sounds of Earthlings and Goatsnake. Title: A Lake With No Water Tracks: Comments[3] |
Sun, 12 November 2006  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's a brave new world. I wanted to wait until after the election before I made this podcast to better guage the mood of the country. Well, the country has spoken. We're a democracy again. As fun as it was living under a dictatorship, I'm happy to go back to the way things used to be. Modern "Jam Band" music, in my mind, came from an old source, psychedelia. The Grateful Dead, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Moby Grape, Iron Butterfly, Country Joe, etc. all liked to have long jamming songs in both their albums and their live play. Modern jam bands have taken this talisman and run with it all the way to the bank. To honor that, today's show will feature the first Phish show ever recorded according to hippie Phish lore. Below are the stats: Title: It's A Brave New World Tracks: Scarlet Begonias > Fire > Fire on the Mountain, Makisupa Policeman, Slave to the Traffic Light, Spanish Flea*, Don't Want You No More, Cities, Skippy the Wondermouse**, Fluffhead** E: Eyes of the World First gig at Nectar's and earliest circulating tape (May be the first taped gig). With Marc Daubert (who was a member of the band at the time, though only briefly so). *Includes band introduction. **With the Dude of Life on vocals. Comments[5] |
Mon, 23 October 2006  Wow, who could believe it? I've made it 12 podcasts and so far no government meddling or any other meddling for that matter. It's been great and I look forward to bringing you much more psychedelic music that you not only need but also deserve. I've got some obscure psychedlia today including something by The Soft Machine, whose main dude later went on to form Gong, a band I've played on here a couple of times. If there's anything in particular that you want to hear, you can send me an email and I'll do my best (no more requests for Justin Timberlake, thank you very much Greg). Here's the lineup: Title: The Psychedelic Academy Presents Tracks: Ravi Shankar - Friar Park Comments[5] |
Mon, 9 October 2006  Ladies and Gentlemen, a long time ago, I used to have a web site back when web sites consisted simply of a grey background and various images you'd found on the web. A lot has changed since then, but the title of this podcast is the same title as my original web site. We have some fun music here, including some Floyd, The Nice, Idle Race (of Jeff Lynne fame) and Gong. Enjoy and comments are always welcome. Title: The Man Behind the Golden Dome Tracks: Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive (live) Comments[9] |
Sun, 17 September 2006  Ok ... I am pretty excited about this one. I have thrown in some fun psychedelia, including the ultimate psychedelic group Hawkwind, with an obscure live version of Golden Void and Hassan I Sahba. Flo and Eddie of ex-Frank Zappa fame also make an appearance from back in the days when they were slaves to the man playing with The Turtles. We finish with our feature, which is a lengthy Country Joe song from their last ever show, containing some guest musicians including a one Jerry Garcia. Enjoy. Title: The Golden Void It Speaks To Me Tracks: Comments[3] |
Sat, 2 September 2006  Short and sweet this time. It's the continuation and conclusion of what has been a month long Yesgasm. This is the 2nd set from the Lugano Jazz Festival in Lugano Switzerland in 2004. Enjoy the show and here are the stats: Title: The Yesgasm Continues Tracks: Comments[4] |
Thu, 10 August 2006  It's well known that one of my all time favorite bands is Pink Floyd. However, since the Pink Floyd train already rolls, I don't play much of their music on my podcasts. One of my second favorite bands is Yes, a progressive rock band that made it from 1968 all the way to today. Although they don't currently tour, it wouldn't surprise me if we see them again one last time. I had an opportunity to see them in Atlanta and it is one of my largest regrets that I passed on that chance. But, I got the next best thing. I have a show from that same tour and this is a show that I would like to share with my listeners. This show comes from the Lugano Jazz Festival in Lugano, Switzerland, in 2004. This podcast features the first set and next podcast will feature the second set. This lineup is not quite the original power lineup who recorded Fragile and were only around for a year, but it's pretty damned close, missing only the drummer Bill Bruford. Reading the names of the members almost reads as a progressive rock supergroup, such is the talent of the individuals of Yes. Even the name speaks eternal positivity. It's a well known story that John Lennon was intrigued by Yoko Ono's artwork during one of their first meetings in that she had a ladder you would climb to read a small word on the ceiling. John Lennon liked the positive vibe of this word at a time when things in the world seemed to be overly negative. That word was 'Yes'. Title: It's a Yesgasm!! Tracks: Comments[7] |
Thu, 27 July 2006  You know, my idea of forsaking and having little interest in the Christian religion has only one flaw. What if I'm wrong? What if I die, go to the gates, and am cast down to the pits of hell as a non believing infidel? Well, yes, it would suck. But, there have to be some advantages and I started tying to figure out what those advantages might be. The major one I could come up with (other than hell being full of strippers and porn stars) was that I would be able to see some of the best musicians jam all night long (because it's always night time in hell, right?). So, I started to come up with the lineup for Satan's Purple Psychedelic Mushroom Experience, which consisted of some of the greatest dead musicians of our age. It was tough to decide who was lead and who was rhythm but I figured these greats would work it all out on their own on stage and would fade in and out of their roles. For this reason, I was vague and just said guitar, vocals, etc. So, for this podcast, I give you Satan's Purple Psychedelic Mushroom Experience!! I am basically going to play a song from each of these artists, or at least the band they were mainly affiliated with. Enjoy!! Satan's Purple Psychedelic Mushroom Experience (members): Moderator - Ken Kesey (Excerpt from the Merry Pranksters Acid Reels) **Yes, I know I say it's Chunga's Revenge in the show but that song had some problems and I had to change it last minute. Comments[8] |
Wed, 12 July 2006  You know, the recent death of Syd is a sad occasion. Even if he has not really contributed to mass society in recent decades his mere presence was a reminder of what used to be and of a time when music was truly great. This is a psychedelic podcast and it celebrates the music and the culture of the good ol' days when musicians had no problem grabbing their 4-tracks and recording under a waterfall just to see how it would sound. My old band used to play a lot of Pink Floyd from the Syd era and although we didn't necessarily share his love of the paper products, we shared his love of the music that made the paper products popular (or was it the other way around?). Syd had a large influence on myself and my partner (musical partner) and without Syd who knows whether or not Floyd would have existed and without Floyd, what would the world have been like? Although no one remembers it now, the world owes him a large amount of gratitude and praise for what he accomplished and for what he unleashed upon society. So, praise him, you fools. Praise him!! As his death has been blogged ... well, to death, I'll simply link to a couple of articles here that will do a better job of explaining what happened. This podcast is a tribute to you, Syd, and if the rest of Pink Floyd are out there, I think it would be a nice gesture for you to reunite and play a 120 minute version of Interstellar Overdrive right here in my home town of Birmingham, Alabama. You can even set up in my basement if need be. Shine On!! The Independant's Story Title: The Madcap Laughs No More From "Stoned Alone" - Live in Copenhagen at the Star Club - Sept. 13, 1967: Mixed Bag: Comments[4] |
Thu, 29 June 2006  To be fair, I just threw this one together in an afternoon. The editing might not be completely top notch but that's not really what's important now is it? The main thing is that I eventually get to the music.I'm not going to give you any hints on what this is. You just have to give it a listen. P.S. Watch the movie Comments[8] |
Sun, 11 June 2006  I am back from vacation and also back on the podcastin' wagon (or is it off the wagon)?? Germany was great with the highlight being a free beer festival in Munich. Six of the top breweries were celebrating the graduation of their new brewmasters and were giving away free beer. The likes of Hofbrauhaus, Paulaner, and Spatenbrau were all represented. I then went to the south of France and drove down the Route de Vins, which goes through several wining towns. I went to about 10 different wineries and bought wine to bring back to the US. I also went to the Swarovski museum's Kristallwelten, complete with psychedelic type art and rooms in their art gallery. Lot"s of usage of crystals and lights. It's something that needs to be seen more than described, but it includes a Brian Eno meditation room and also a large room filled with small mirrors, lights, and ambient music. Hey, I even saw a hippie lying down on the floor spacing out in that room. Someone needs to tell him it's 2006 and he needs a haircut!! Today's show is another mixed bag o' goodies for you to enjoy. No features here but a bit of self horn honking with one of my favorite Syd Satellite numbers. I also managed to find the first CD I ever acquired which is a rare and weird Beatles album called Beatlegs. Enjoy the Beatles promoting their usage of illegal substances, something they really weren't allowed to do at that time. Even when simply goofing off, they can still write better than most. Last time I played Embryo and this time I will play another song from the same show, which is Echoes and I will follow that with The End by The Doors. Settle in for those two in your psychedelic sleeping pod: Title: Don't Wake the Sleeping Giant The Three Suns - Petite Fleur Comments[2] |
Fri, 12 May 2006  Mixed bag day. No full shows on this one but just random good psychedelic stuff. Here is the lineup, folks: Title: Random Selections from the Strawberry Patch Gong? What can you say about Gong? Well, I've been listening to them now for about 6 years and I like them a lot. They are pretty much defunct now but had a good run during the 70s and 80s and various reunions and such in the 90's up to today. They are sort of a mix of jazz fusion with psychedelic tendencies. Now, I'm sure that tells you nothing so you just have to go out and get some of their albums. Gong was started by ex Soft Machine's Daevid Allen who partnered with his wife, a woman with a hauntingly beautiful voice, which will be evident in one of the songs on today's show. Gong sounds a lot like a more mellow Soft Machine, as you'd expect. They had a great run of concept albums talking about Planet Gong and its inhabitants, the Radio Gnomes, Pothead Pixies, and the Octave Doctors. The idea being that a space traveler, Zero the Hero, gets lost while traveling in space, finds the planet, learns things from the inhabitants, and then goes back to Earth to speak of his findings. That should easily create 3 albums worth of material, right? I'll be featuring them over time, eventually playing the entire September 2000 show and also a spin-off band called Gongzilla, where I'll be playing a show of theirs that I have. Also, here is where they fit on the old music map. Enjoy the show my friends. Comments[4] |
Fri, 21 April 2006  In 1971, with the help of several guest musicians, David Crosby created a solo album called 'If I Could Only Remember My Name'. It included members of the Grateful Dead (Garcia, Lesh, Hart, and Kreutzman), Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and others Prior to the release of this album, David Crosby played a couple of shows with some of the pioneers of the psychedelic movement; Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, and Mickey Hart (known in some cirlces as David and the Dorks) at the Matrix in San Francisco. Tonight"s podcast will feature one of those shows. The exact date of the show is in dispute but from my research it was performed on 12/20/1970. The sound quality is decent and listenable given the times and the occasion and has some interesting versions of some Grateful Dead songs that are heavily influenced by Crosby's rhythm guitar, which to me provides a nice twist. Back at this time, the Grateful Dead had some CSN influences. Harmonies in Workingman"s Dead were inspired by the super-group who had some of the greatest harmonies of any band to date. Crosby spent time with The Grateful Dead in the early 70's and this show is a result of that relationship. You can even hear some slight influences from The Byrds (Crosby"s initial band) if you listen close enough. Unofficial site is www.davidcrosby.com Title: David and the Dorks Play The Matrix Tracks: From the rehearsal for the show: 09 Eight Miles High What's Dave been up to? Well, after getting arrested for weed and guns, he has not only recently recorded backing vocals for Gilmour's new album, 'On an Island' but he also recently, along with Graham Nash, sang some backing vocals at Gilmour's show in New York (excellent podcast link to it here). Ethridge is having twins but he had nothing to do with that one. Comments[3] |
Fri, 7 April 2006  Well, it's a new day and a new format. Gone is the blog of old and arriving is the podcast. I have decided to start doing podcasts twice a month of my favorite bootlegged and "legal to play" psychedelic material. This week, we have one of my favorite Pink Floyd bootlegs called Man and Journey, dedicated to the man behind the podcast on this page. Chances are you won't recognize many of the song names but you will recognize most of the songs when you hear them. This dates shortly before the release of UmmaGumma, which was released in October of 1969. Hope you enjoy it. All comments and suggestions are welcome. Space out. Title: Man and Journey 1. Daybreak 2. Work/Afternoon 3. Doing It 4. Sleep 5. Nightmare 6. The Beginning 7. Beset By The Creatures Of The Deep 8. The Narrow Way/Part Three 9. The Pink Jungle 10. The Labyrinths Of Auximenes 11. Behold The Temple Of Light 12. The End Of The Beginning
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