The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Live at Berkeley
Folks, it’s been a long lockdown. I’m writing this in the latter half of December 2020, having endured what most sensible people have endured for the past 10 months. We’ve barely left the house;...
Category: Psychedelic
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Axis: Bold As Love
As I mentioned last time, I was thinking more and more about my Hendrix-less lifestyle. I watched all of the amazing performance at Monterey, and then listened to an internet bootleg called “The Blues...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Are You Experienced
I’ve struggled to write about this one because it requires a painful personal admission: until the beginning of this year, I owned no Jimi Hendrix albums. Not on vinyl, not on digital, not in...
Eddie Hazel – Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs
Some people can’t even alphabet correctly, it seems. I was blithely plowing through the albums I’ve bought in the past year or so that I wouldn’t have covered in my alphabetical tour of my...
Funkadelic — Free Your Mind … And Your Ass Will Follow
What to do when you’ve put out an absolutely groundbreaking record? Five months later, put out another. If you’re Funkadelic. No kidding – Funkadelic was released February 1970, and “Free Your Mind” was released...
Funkadelic — Funkadelic
I’m right here admitting that for many years, my record collection was unfunky. Funkless. Free of the funk. An old Ohio Players record and George Clinton’s “R&B Skeletons in the Closet,” and neither one...
The Electric Prunes — Underground
This is the second album by The Electric Prunes, released in August 1967, just six months after their first album came out. This one is much more the work of the band and is...
The Electric Prunes — The Electric Prunes
The Electric Prunes was a band that, when I first learned they existed, I just thought was a cool dumb joke, a name meant to sound extreme and psychedelic (see also: Ultimate Spinach). I...
Country Joe McDonald — The Paris Sessions
I’ve written before that I have a huge soft spot for Country Joe and the Fish, one that I passed on to one of my kids. While hardly obscure, they’re also not hugely remembered,...
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