This is a great review of a unique recording. I discovered this recording totally by accident. My father got the 8-track tape of this when it first came out in 1968 when he was the manager at a Uniroyal tire store. He got the tape as part of a pile of tapes that were included as demonstration tapes when they were selling 8-track tape machines. I always thought that 8-track tape machines was a very odd thing to sell at a tire store. One of my best friends and I used to listen to this recording often in the car. We were blown away at how good it was. He found the vinyl copy and still has it to this day. I have the CD.
Thanks! Very cool with the 8-track. I guess you fix your tires and at the same time pick up some fine psychedelic music to play in the car. Great combo! 😊 Yes, it's really good, thanks for tuning in.
Fabulous album from a teenager, very psychedelic, but the choice of single from it was baffling!! Like another of your listeners/viewers i'm also from Scotland(Edinburgh)and only buy cds of reissued albums from the later 60s and early 70s,but also unreleased posthumous recordings,as much of vintage vinyl in the genres of psych, Folk Rock, early prog, acid Folk are expensive and well out of my financial reach,so i enjoy your videos, and much of what you feature as its nice to see those original artefacts, with their artwork, original labels etc,so thank you very much for your effort, time and showing your collection and your precise description in rather good English i must add,as i take It English is not your first language? Your efforts are much appreciated 👍
Hi Stuart! Thanks a lot. It seems we like a lot of the same music. Folk and psych is something I really like and collect, so I will show more of that. English is certainly not my first language, haha, so it's cool to hear that you understand my "Swenglish". Cheers!
This lp has always been tough for me. The story and background make me want to love it more than I do. I had the original but actually traded it last year. Which truthfully, I kind of regret because there are some beautiful parts to this, including the songs you mentioned. "Dead" was always a favorite as was "Fly". Truly bizarre about the single. Never realized what they actually released. Probably helped kill any chance for success right there. Great video and background info as always!
You can't have em' all. I sell and trade records all the time, it's a good way to get new records without breaking the bank. A record collection should breath, records in, records out, you know. Maybe one day the stars align, and J.K. and Co will come back to your collection. Yeah, the promo singel is insane! 😂
Beautiful record and one I must play again as it's been awhile since I last had it on. Thanks for the backstory as well. I knew he was 15 years old but that's all I knew about him. Cheers Nigel
Definitely in my top 10 favorites psych albums! Great vid, I learned things like the Mother's Tucker Duck not involved in this record! Continue the good work! 😊
Agreed, a really fine psych album. I also learned about the Mother Tucker thing when I did the research. Knowing more about these obscurities makes the listening experience even deeper I think.
Hi jonas, nice review of this great album, I bought a CD copy a year ago after hearing one track somewhere on the internet, it’s very rare and hard to find, I’m not a vinyl collector, just CDs these days. I have many rare psych folk pop CDs and like your podcast, thanks and I’m in Scotland 🏴
Many thanks! You can find a lot of great stuff on CD for next to nothing theses days. And cool that you remember my old podcast, it was long time since I did it. Take care!
Really enjoyed the samples. I like their faster songs but some of the slow ones were just a little too quiet for me. Interesting about the piano track and that promo 45. That is insane
