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Think I'm Going Weird: Original Artefacts From The British Psychedelic Scene 1966-68 - 2024 Repress

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A definitive overview of the British psychedelic scene, an epic five - CD/book set that includes more than 50 minutes of previously unreleased music from the halcyon period 1966 - 68.

Including the major acts of the era ( The Who, Traffic, Small Faces, The Move, Procol Harum, Incredible String Band, Family, Crazy World of Arthur Brown etc), ‘Think I'm Going Weird: Original Artefacts From The British Psychedelic Scene 1966 - 68’ features many bands who also played London's underground dungeons during the Summer Of Love.

Featuring studio demos from the likes of Tintern Abbey, The Soft Machine, Mabel Greer's Toyshop, Genesis, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, Dantalian's Chariot and others plus numerous cult 45s ( July, Caleb, Vamp, Blossom Toes, Sweet Feeling , etc) and fascinating album cuts from such scene stalwarts as T omorrow, Fairport Convention, Kaleidoscope, The Deviants and Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera .

Perhaps most enticingly of all, the collection includes a number of hitherto - unknown recordings by bands who are only now gaining their first public exposure including Eyes Of Blond, Tinsel Arcade, Crystal Ship (whose contribution features lyrics from Pete Brown ) and the semi - mythical 117 , such a legendary name from the era's handbills and posters that they even had a UK psych fanzine named after them in the ‘90s.

A dazzling feat of licensing and research, ‘Think I'm Going Weird...’ comes in a 60 - page A5 book format with 25,000 - word track - by - track annotation with some extraordinary and rare photos and memorabilia.

For anyone even remotely interested in British psychede lia, it's simply an essential purchase.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE:
1 THINK I’M GOING WEIRD – Art
2 MY CLOWN (single Mix) – July
3 THE VIEW – Gary Walker & The Rain
4 UTTERLY SIMPLE – Traffic
5 A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION – Caleb
6 LIKE THE SUN, LIKE THE FIRE – Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
7 LAZY OLD SUN (alternative Version, Stereo) – The Kinks
8 PLASTIC DAFFODILS – Atlanta Roots
9 PSYCHEDELIA – Ron Geesin
10 DREAM STARTS – Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera
11 TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE IN ME – Strawbs
12 FUNNIEST GIG – Manfred Mann
13 SUNNY CELLOPHANE SKIES – The Status Quo
14 MRS GRUNDY – Plastic Penny
15 BUFFALO BILLYCAN – Apple
16 CHARLES BROWN – Sweet Feeling
17 ROSIE CAN’T FLY – Sleepy
18 I KNOW, SHE BELIEVES – The Picadilly Line
19 THE LOBSTER – Fairport Convention
20 YELLOW BRICK ROAD – The Mindbenders
21 THE STORY OF DAVID – Granny’s Intentions
22 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT – Icarus
23 IS ANYBODY HOME? – The Mirage
24 WHY – Eyes Of Blond*
*previously Unreleased

DISC TWO:
1 WORLD WAR III – Dantalian’s Chariot
2 SEE THROUGH WINDOWS – Family
3 SALAD DAYS (ARE HERE AGAIN) – Procol Harum
4 THE TRUTH IS PLAIN TO SEE – Freedom
5 SUN SING – Force Four
6 MR SMALL THE WATCH REPAIRER MAN – Kaleidoscope
7 IMAGE BLOWN OUT – Genesis
8 LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING – The Creation
9 TAKING OUT TIME – The Spencer Davis Group
10 THAT MAN – Small Faces
11 YOU’RE HAUNTING ME – The Hi-Fis
12 MRS GILLESPIE’S REFRIGERATOR – Sands
13 PLEASE RETURN – Rust
14 LAST MINUTE – The Nashville Teens
15 ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER – The Alan Bown!
16 THE TOUCHABLES (ALL OF US) – Nirvana
17 HALLIFORD HOUSE – The Virgin Sleep
18 CATHERINE’S WHEEL – Denny Laine
19 GIRL IN THE MIRROR – Christopher Colt
20 ELEVATOR (single Mix) – Grapefruit
21 WORLD IN MY HEAD – Mike Stuart Span
22 UFO – Neo Maya
23 THE LAUGHING MAN – John Carter & Russ Alquist
24 FLOATIN’ – Vamp
25 LIFE DOES NOT SEEM WHAT IT SEEMS – Tinsel Arcade*
26 SCENE OF THE LEMON QUEEN – One Step Beyond*
*previously Unreleased

DISC THREE:
1 HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO – The Yardbirds
2 HAVE SOME MORE TEA – The Smoke
3 WALK UPON THE WATER – The Move
4 JABBERWOCK – Boeing Duveen And The Beautiful Soup
5 THE MAD HATTER’S SONG – The Incredible String Band
6 SHOPLIFTERS – Ivor Cutler Trio
7 LOOK OUT THERE’S A MONSTER COMING – The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
8 SARA, CRAZY CHILD (extended German 45 Version) – John’s Children
9 BEYOND THE RISING SUN – Tyrannosaurus Rex
10 HEY GIRL – JP Sunshine
11 MR SUNSHINE (film Version) – Barclay James Harvest
12 TICK TOCK – Shyster
13 CHEADLE HEATH DELUSIONS – Felius Andromeda
14 THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF TIMOTHY CHASE – Tomorrow
15 THE BIRTHDAY – The Idle Race
16 HOW CAN WE HANG ON TO A DREAM? – The Moody Blues
17 YES IS A PLEASANT COUNTRY – Circus
18 SUMMER SUN SHINES – The Fresh Windows
19 THE BLUE MAN RUNS AWAY – Crystal Ship*
20 WHAT’S HAPPENING? – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
21 MOTHER’S MAGAZINE – Mother’s Pride*
22 FLYING MACHINE – Turquoise
23 IN THE PARK – The Cortinas
24 HUNG UP ON A DREAM – The Zombies
25 WE ARE THE MOLES PART 1 – The Moles
26 WE ARE THE MOLES PART 2 – The Moles
*previously Unreleased

DISC FOUR:
1 ARMENIA CITY IN THE SKY – The Who
2 FREDEREEK HERNANDO – One In A Million
3 FLOWERMAN – The Syn
4 I CAN HEAR COLOURS – The Motives
5 GREEN – The Lion & The Fish
6 I’M SO LOW (aka JET- PROPELLED PHOTOGRAPH) – The Soft Machine
7 JEANETTA – Mabel Greer’s Toyshop
8 COME OVER STRANGER – Canto
9 CHILDREN OF THE SUN (demo Version) – The Misunderstood
10 BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
11 (I’M SO) SAD – The Magic Mixture
12 YOU’VE GOTTA HAVE LOVE BABE – The Graham Bond Organisation
13 RUMBLE OF MERSEY SQUARE SOUTH – Wimple Winch
14 COSMIC TRIP – Third Ear Band
15 I BRING THE SUN – John Bryant
16 POLICE IS HERE – A New Generation
17 SPICKS AND SPECKS – The Bee Gees
18 DEATH OF THE SEASIDE – The Human Instinct
19 BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER – Friday’s Chyld*
20 CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE – Jason Crest
21 TOYMAKER’S SHOP – Louise
22 PLASTIC AEROPLANE – Medium Rare*
23 VENUSIAN MOONSHINE (live At Middle Earth) – 117*
*previously Unreleased

DISC FIVE:
1 PATH THROUGH THE FOREST – The Factory
2 FREEDOM FOR YOU – The Attack
3 WALKING THROUGH MY DREAMS – Pretty Things
4 DON’T GO ‘WAY LITTLE GIRL – The Shame
5 MY PRAYER – Tintern Abbey*
6 PHANTOM I – Jade Hexagram
7 COVER GIRL – Perfumed Garden
8 ROSE COLOURED GLASSES – The Tickle
9 AMY PEATE – The Orange Bicycle
10 DREAM IN MY MIND – Rupert’s People
11 SPIDER – Downliners Sect
12 WHAT ON EARTH (single Mix) – Blossom Toes
13 BUILDING UP A DREAM – The End
14 THE CAT – The Merseys
15 PANDEMONIUM SHADOW SHOW – Mandrake Paddle Steamer
16 WATERWAYS (demo Version) – East Of Eden
17 WHICH WAY – The Sorrows
18 BUN – The Deviants
19 ANOTHER VINCENT VAN GOGH – The 23rd Turnoff
20 SMILE AT THE SAD SUN – Champagne*
21 TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES – The Zany Woodruff Operation*
22 SITTING ON A BLUNESTONE – Tales Of Justine
23 BRAIN – The Action
*previously Unreleased

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When The Alarm Clock Rings: A Compendium Of British Psychedelia 1966-1969

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Limited edition 2LP vinyl compilation of original artefacts from the first British psychedelic era.

30 essential 1966-1969 nuggets from major names and cult acts alike.

After 14 years and nearly 150 CD releases, Cherry Red's psychedelic imprint Grapefruit finally produces its first-ever vinyl issue. A 90-minute, 30-track anthology, ‘When The Alarm Clock Rings’ is an all-encompassing overview of the late 60s British psychedelic scene.

The set features major underground names (Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Blossom Toes, Dantalian's Chariot, John's Children), cult 45s (The Voice, Paper Blitz Tissue, The Syn), future legends (Alex Harvey, Genesis, Greg Lake's early venture The Shame) and pop groups who occasionally turned dayglo (The Merseys, Plastic Penny, Picadilly Line).

Limited to 1000 copies and containing Grapefruit's trademark combination of photos and annotation on stylish 12” x 12” inserts, ‘When The Alarm Clock Rings’ is an essential purchase for vinyl aficionados and a tantalising taster of further plastic platters!

TRACK LISTING

Side One
1. Magic In The Air - The Attack
2. The Madman Running Through The Fields - Dantalian's Chariot
3. Magic Horsemen - Tintern Abbey
4. Maybe Someday - Alex Harvey
5. In The Beginning - Genesis
6. The Wall - The Fruit Machine
7. The World Goes On Around You - The Mirage
Side Two
1. Dream In My Mind - Rupert's People
2. Mary Jane (single Version) - Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera
3. Midsummer Night's Scene - John's Children
4. I Hope You're Happy - The Merseys
5. Teagarden Lane - Jason Crest
6. Pools Of Blue (advision Studios Version) - Barclay James Harvest
7. Leave Me Here - The 23rd Turnoff
8. I Unseen (ibc Studios Version) - The Misunderstood
Side Three
1. The Train To Disaster - The Voice
2. Remember The Times - Mike Stuart Span
3. Jane - Living Daylights
4. Wake Me Up - Plastic Penny
5. Don't Go 'way Little Girl - The Shame
6. Spontaneous Apple Creation - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
7. Created By Clive - The Syn
8. Mr. Second Class - The Spencer Davis Group
Side Four
1. The Laughing Man - John Carter And Russ Alquist
2. Mr. Universe - Episode Six
3. Things You Cannot See - The Action
4. The Otherside - Apple
5. Rosemary's Bluebell Day - Picadilly Line
6. Grey Man - Paper Blitz Tissue
7. When The Alarm Clock Rings - Blossom Toes

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75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band

Live At Tubby's

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NYC’s 75 Dollar Bill began its prolific career in 2012, after percussionist Rick Brown – a veteran of the indie underground (Fish & Roses, Run On, V-Effect) – and noise scene guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Che Chen – connected via MySpace. Since that initial jam session, when Brown began experimenting with his signature plywood crate drum rhythms, they have released 3 LPs and a clutch of self-released cassette and digital releases. Last year’s 2xLP I Was Real received serious critical acclaim – The Wire calling it 2019’s Album of the Year.

On their first live album, Live at Tubby’s, 75 Dollar Bill assembled a unique “little big band” [Sue Garner on bass, Cheryl Kingan on sax, Steve Maing on guitar, Jim Pugliese on percussion and Karen Waltuch on viola] for the small Kingston, NY club show. Recorded on the last day of their spring tour, the record puts a new perspective on themes from their body of work: a little more intimacy, a little more freedom, a little more controlled chaos. Brown’s idiosyncratic rhythms are all the more hypnotizing in Tubby’s cozy setting, and Chen’s furious guitar work cuts and hums with sounds seemingly only attainable on stage. It's an album both challenging and immediate. The expanded 75 Dollar Bill's affinity for improvisation and the avant-garde even leads to a rousing take on the Ornette Coleman classic, 'Friends and Neighbors' that feels right at home in their own repertoire. The listener can't help but feel present and part of the communal joy and catharsis being shared here in this room. This performance at Tubby’s turned out not only to be the last show of their tour, but the last show possible as the pandemic hit. Originally offered as a digital-only release on 75 Dollar Bill’s Bandcamp, Live at Tubby’s now documents a highlight and closure of sorts; this kind of musical improvisation and community interaction being on hold for the foreseeable future. The double LP on Grapefruit will have to tide us over until it can all happen again.

From Rick Brown:
75 Dollar Bill has always been a duo of Che Chen and myself, but many of our most satisfying and just plain fun experiences have involved some (or almost all) of our great crew of friend musicians who've worked with us for years and who play on our studio recordings, like 2019's I Was Real (Thin Wrist/Glitterbeat). Live at Tubby's presents a couple of sets recorded just as Spring and the coronavirus were arriving on the scene. We didn't plan for this as a “Little Big Band” concert, but we took advantage of timing and geography - as well as the fact that “everybody knows how to play WZN #3” - and sent out a call for any who could make it to come to Kingston, NY for the night's blowout, the last gig of a short tour we'd done as a duo. The material comes from I Was Real and its predecessor Wood, Metal, Plastic, Pattern, Rhythm, Rock plus a cover of the great and inspiring Ornette Coleman's song “Friends and Neighbors.” Hopefully, you'll agree it turned out pretty good – at the very least, it should be obvious that we had a good time! We sure do miss playing music with our friends and for our neighbors.

TRACK LISTING

A1 Beni Said
A2 I'm Not Trying To Wake Up
B1 Like Like Laundry
C1 Friends & Neighbors
C2 Every Last Coffee Or Tea
D1 WZN#3 / Verso

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Roy Montgomery

Island Of Lost Souls

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Island Of Lost Souls is the first of four new albums by Roy Montgomery coming out in 2021 to commemorate Montgomery’s forty years in music. His debut release was also Flying Nun’s first, the Pin Group 7-inch from 1981.

Roy Montgomery, a pioneer of the NZ underground, believes there is always new sonic terrain to investigate. His latest album for Grapefruit marks forty years of rigorous exploration in which he’s managed to navigate disparate genres, scenes, and atmospheres, always at the forefront of experimental independent music.

Island Of Lost Souls follows his acclaimed 2018 LP Suffuse—a novel departure in which he consigned all vocal duties to ambient / experimental peers Liz Harris (of Grouper), Julianna Barwick, Purple Pilgrims, Haley Fohr (of Circuit des Yeux), Katie von Schleicher, and She Keeps Bees. But the veteran evolves again. On this release Montgomery creates resounding, aerial compositions for guitar. Where some might be inclined to relax and lean into their legacy at this stage in a sprawling career, Montgomery’s new music continues to seek and challenge, moving like the eye of a storm.

This latest album cries out like a chorus, though there are no vocals on the record. Its tracklist instead builds upon the lonesome and polyphonic dimensions of guitar in order to express universal feelings of communion and isolation, resisting conclusion but never resorting to fatalism. Life is all about navigating these contradictions and everyone is with Montgomery on this island whether they’d like to admit it or not. Here, the artist has created a work of wisdom and grit, a searing beauty, a new masterpiece for an uncertain and restless time.

TRACK LISTING

1. Cowboy Mouth (For Sam Shepard)
2. Soundcheck (For Adrian Borland)
3. Unhalfmuted (For Peter Principle)
4. The Electric Children Of Hildegard Von Bingen (For Florian Fricke)

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Peter Jefferies

Last Ticket Home

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Peter Jefferies, a living legend of New Zealand underground music, from his seminal bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind Of Punishment, to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal Grind and Two Foot Flame, is perhaps best known for his solo work on masterpieces such as The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World (1990) and Electricity (1994), as well as numerous other albums of his singular songcraft.

Grapefruit is proud to be releasing Jefferies’ latest, Last Ticket Home, which leaves the station early in his career when The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World left off and takes us on a guided tour of a fascinating side street via rare singles, both released and unreleased, radical live interpretations, and a wealth of never released material dating from 1991-2019. Last Ticket Home redefines Jefferies’ artistic journey, giving us a song cycle narrative which scorches, blisters and eventually heals on its relentless, ragged way home.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crossover
2. Lassitude
3. Guided Tour
4. Wined Up
5. Westgate Exit
6. Ghostwriter
7. Electricity (Live)
8. World In A Blanket (Live)
9. Cyclone Dawn
10. Fallaway
11. Last Ticket Home

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Looking At The Pictures In The Sky: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1968

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It goes without saying that 1968 doesn't have the same kind of cachet as 1967 - a year that, in musical terms, will always be indelibly associated with the Summer of Love, Sgt Pepper and the emergence of psychedelia.

But although the major players turned away from the excesses of the previous year in favour of a back-to-basics musical approach, there were arguably a greater number of psychedelic records made in 1968 than during the preceding twelve months.

Vital, lysergically-inclined 45s emerged from a whole host of younger groups, with The Factory, Mike Stuart Span, Fleur de Lys, The Fire, The Barrier, Boeing Duveen, Rupert's People and numerous others all releasing singles that have long been widely regarded by psychedelic collectors as genre classics.

All these and more are gathered on Looking At The Pictures In The Sky, which provide a fascinating overview of the group scene in Britain (and Ireland!) in 1968, shining a light on unreleased gems, cult classics, choice album cuts, neglected B-sides and alternative versions.

As with its 1967 equivalent Let's Go Down And Blow Our Minds, the four-hour, 78-track, 3CD anthology Looking At The Pictures In The Sky is housed in a striking clambox that contains a 44 page booklet crammed with biographical information and rare photographs of the featured acts.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
1. PATH THROUGH THE FOREST – The Factory
2. FATHER’S NAME IS DAD – The Fire
3. GONG WITH THE LUMINOUS NOSE – Fleur De Lys
4. MIND’S EYE – Ramases & Selket
5. SPONTANEOUS APPLE CREATION – The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
6. LULLABY (ALTERNATIVE VERSION) – Grapefruit
7. I WILL NOT BE MOVED – Circle Plantagenet
8. SUNDAY BEST – Turquoise
9. MY SON JOHN – The Onyx
10. THE FANTASTIC STORY OF THE STEAM- DRIVEN BANANA – Legay
11. MR. PARTRIDGE PASSED AWAY TODAY – Fortes Mentum
12. JABBERWOCK – Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup
13. HAZE WOMAN – Anan
14. TALKING ABOUT THE GOOD TIMES – The Pretty Things
15. SUNDAY MORNING – Guy And David – The Five Day Week Straw People
16. ANIMAL MAGIC – Graded Grains
17. SHE – Tuesday’s Children
18. MR. LION – The Marmalade
19. UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS – Graham Gouldman
20. FESTIVAL OF THE HARVEST MOON – Joker
21. SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROCK’N’ROLL STAR – Sun Dragon
22. NEVER CARE – Eyes Of Blue
23. NIGHTMARE – The Gass Company
24. IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF SIXPENCE – Procol Harum
25. DID YOU DIE FOUR YEARS AGO TONIGHT? – The Web
26. FREDERICK JORDAN – The Glass Menagerie

DISC TWO
1. CHILDREN OF TOMORROW – Mike Stuart Span
2. DAWN BREAKS THROUGH – The Barrier
3. MR PINNODMY’S DILEMMA – The Attack
4. TRYING TO GET A GLIMPSE OF YOU – The Freedom
5. I CAN SHOW YOU – Rupert’s People
6. LOCKED IN A ROOM – The Poets
7. BLUEBELL WOOD – Wimple Winch
8. TECHNICOLOR DREAMS – The Status Quo
9. MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE BREAST – The Spectrum
10. HEAD FOR THE SUN – The Movement
11. MIDNIGHT LOVE CYCLE – The Klubs
12. LOVERS FROM THE SKY – Contact
13. JAMIE’S SONG – The Deviants
14. SYDNEY GILL – The Smoke
15. BIRTHDAY – Peter & The Wolves
16. LOVE IS A TOY – Jon Ledingham
17. YESTERDAY WAS SUCH A LOVELY DAY (ELSIE) – Sadie’s Expression
18. OMNIBUS (EXTENDED VERSION) – The Move
19. I GET SO EXCITED – Real McCoy
20. MR. GOLDEN TRUMPET PLAYER – Junior’s Eyes
21. YELLOW RAINBOW – The Picadilly
22. TIME SELLER (LP VERSION) – The Spencer Davis Group
23. PANTOMIME – Tony Rivers & The Castaways
24. GO AND SAY GOODBYE – Katch 22
25. CORNFLAKE ZOO – Andy Ellison
26. FOR YOUR THOUGHTS – The Alan Bown!

DISC THREE
1. HOLD ON – Jason Crest
2. GIRL OF INDEPENDENT MEANS – Honeybus
3. RAINMAKER – Rhubarb Rhubarb
4. HELLO ENID – The Mirage
5. LUCKY SUNDAY – Episode Six
6. WHAT’S THE RUSH, DILLBURY? – Paradox
7. CAVE OF CLEAR LIGHT – The Bystanders
8. ROUND AND ROUND – Skip Bifferty
9. COME ON DOWN – Motivation
10. COUNTRY LIFE – Blonde On Blonde
11. VIRGINIA WATER – Cats Pyjamas
12. AEROPLANE – Jethro Toe (Tull)
13. RAMBLING BOY – Timon
14. ICE MAN – Ice
15. NOW AND AGAIN REBECCA – The U (Don’t) No Who
16. FELICITY JANE – Writing On The Wall
17. SYCAMORE SID – Focal Point
18. DO YOU DREAM? – Circus
19. MAXWELL FERGUSON – Brass Tacks
20. PAWNBROKER (DEMO VERSION) – Barbara Ruskin
21. SOFT WINDS – The Orange Bicycle
22. WITHOUT YOU – Coconut Mushroom
23. HAUNTED – Peter Thorogood
24. WHICH DREAMED IT – Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup
25. TURNSTYLE – Trot
26. PICTURES IN THE SKY – Orange Seaweed