rainbows in curved air (or curves in rainbowed air)

Psychedelia & Garage

I have been busy trying to get the vast music library I now have into some kind of order.

I just discovered that my cd player will play mp3 & wma discs. This means, instead of not being able to move in our house for fear of knocking over piles of cds, I can get perhaps 10 or 12 cds onto 1 disc.

This is what has been taking up a lot of my time recently. Also it has focused me to listen to some lost gems. Apart from the usual classics e.g. 13^th Floor Elevators, Chocolate Watch Band, Seeds, Electric Prunes, Misunderstood, Strawberry Alarm Clock………etc..I have discovered Pete Dello & Friends & The Beat of the Earth. The latter is a psychedelic drone feast of dynamic proportions. Not only that but at the 20 minute mark we have a psychedelic bagpipe bash. I suspect this is the run-off at the end of the first side of the vinyl. What a freakout! Dig it baby!

This is the second time I have played it on repeat this morning as I write this. It is 8 a.m. this Sunday morning, my neighbours were so freaked they called the cops & there are helicopters outside like in ‘Apocalypse Now’ & we are back in ‘Nam man’. There are tear gas (good Scottish band!) canisters flying through my windows, but I wave my hands in the air like I just don’t care, man this is the freakiest groove.