This Abum Is a Psych Masterpiece | Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron 

I'm really enjoying this new strand of track-by-track analysis of these obscure, 'hidden gem' albums from equally obscure groups.

THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH - for turning me on to this band.

I was introduced to this marvelous band in the 90s when I was working for a major bookseller/music store. Cauldron was reissued during that time and was taken aback how good it was. At the time I didn’t purchase the cd and never heard it again. Flash forward to 2024, I am reminded how fresh and innovative this album is. Thank you, YP, for the reintroduction!

I have fond memories of listening to these tracks on cassette on my walkmans when working in an electronics factory high up in a laboratory towering above the factory floor 'something like the film set of Dr No ' cool trippy setting to work and perfect for listening to Fifty foot Hose music.

That is Space Truckin' Wow.

Great! A few of the tracks will find their way on to my music collection. Thanks.

Well done matey! Not alot of freaks know about the hose. That album has been a Criminally overlooked gem for decades. And I'm glad you've shone a light on it ✌️

as of this moment there are around 1,400 or so more people who will be introduced to this album, by this channel... among whom I include myself. thank you! (save for those below, who were already aware of it)

I consider myself quite well versed in the music of the 60’s and yet I always learn something new with each of your AMAZINGLY interesting, well written, fun and informative videos..! I am SO happy to have discovered this INCREDIBLY cool you tube channel..!

This channel always delights the psychedelia senses with the trippy sounds of my parent's era! Luckily my dad was a musicophile and i not only was brought up listening to a variety, my dad always had the latest and best stereo ( a McIntosh system with a custom built cabinet that filled our living room! I was a teen in heaven when they went out, neighbors be damned! That bass/modulation effect you talk about scaring the concert goers was later used as Sensoround® in the movie Earthquake! of '74 to a trippy effect! ❤

Loved this lp since the 70’s❤

Saw them live in SF in 17’ and it was so magical! A bunch of OG members wit a newer female singer! It was seriously potent! 🍄

The Instrumental Opening to If Not This Time is Incredibly Trippy!

I had this LP in the 80s - wonderful stuff. Along with White Noise, it was essential tripping music. Sounds like Hawkwind in places.

Yesterdays Papers> more content like this!!!!! Love you turning us on to forgotten freaks of the past. Huge fan.

Excellent program I love this music

I really like psychedelic music, so thank you for introducing me to Fifty Foot Hose and The United States of America. It also sounded to me like Deep Purple stole the 'Space Truckin' groove directly from FFH.

Excellent work! This band reminds me of the band White Noise who were in the UK about this time.

"Leave no stone unturned."

Let me tell you all something.....When RU-vid was launched I pictured it to be like this, a place where you can go and discover music you otherwise would never have known.... That's "Yesterday's Papers" in a nutshell.....Fifty Foot Hose???? Without this channel, I never catch up with this talented band....kudos to YP....😎

I love this album. This and The United States of America self-titled album are both often forgotten about west coast psych gems from this period.

What a great, original band! Unfortunately, many bands like this so far ahead of their time never get the recognition they deserve until many years later (e.g., Velvet Underground, Big Star, etc.).

I listened to this album quite a bit a few years ago. It's great.

I saw the reformed Fifty Foot Hose in San Francisco once. As you said, Cork was the only original member, but one member they added was this guy Walter Funk, who built his own unusual instruments, although they were non-electronic. He had one instrument that looked like a bundt cake pan with rebars attached to it & he would take out this violin bow & saw away at it like mad. It sounded crazy in the best possible way & it was amazing to watch, especially when you still had Cork Marcheschi going crazy on electronics.

Thank you, Yesterday's Papers, for showcasing an amazing point of time in progressive and experimental music. The world wasn't entirely ready then (Will it ever be?) but I believe the Fifty Foot Hose might have done better in the New York underground scene of their fellow experimental act Silver Apples.

A new one on me and I’ve been obsessed by 60s psychedelic music for 40 years! Was thinking they sound a bit like Throbbing Gristle then at the end TB namecheck this as an influence! Superb 😎✌️

Love this! Great Album!

Discovered this album a good twenty years ago. I thought I 'd heard every psychedelic obscure album and then this came along. I went like: "Wow, what is this?" Great stuff. The sonic experiments and the free form songs were probably too much for the hippies at the time who were - as stated in the video - more conservative than they appeared. Zappa uttered that same critique on the hippies as well. He also threw a lot of avant garde sonic experiments on his audience but he added tight and melodically beautiful compositions and acerbic humour to make it more accesible. Fifty Foot Hose is like an experimental laboratory. They go all out 'in the name of progress'. 🙂 Remember that in those days mainstream radio played Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, The Walker Brothers, etc. You couldn't get more underground than this.

What great taste you have, YP!! I've cherished this album for many a year

Tx again! Never heard from them. Now I know.

i'm from the bay area but i didn't hear of these guys until i saw them advertised in maximum rocknroll and flipside back in the 90s. this is the first time actually hearing them and i think they sound fantastic.

That was an intriguing trip of an album and a band I have never heard of, as probably many have. The concept of psychedelia and avant-garde is interesting and sometimes produces very special records but can be equally irritating as the video shows. I find the link to "Space Trucking" interesting! Either way, the episode again shows in-depth research. Hats off!

Thanks for the recommendation! I've found a ton of cool songs and albums thanks to this channel.

I consider myself well-versed in music of the 1960s, but I’ve never heard of this band… Thanks for another treasure chest of rediscovered music.

I'm new to psychedelic music and I discovered this album a few weeks ago. Great stuff! I'm definately digging the more obscure, wierd stuff like this than shit like the Grateful Dead. Red the Sign Post is an outlier that screams early-90s indy/grunge that wouldn't be out of place on a Sub Pop record. I couldn't believe it was from 1967.

Fantastic! I had recently discovered FFH in my own internet rabbit-hole explorations, but knew very little about them. This video completes the picture - thanks!

Love the “spinning” text animation, so groovy.

Really fascinating , thank you

This I really enjoyed. I noticed the similarities with punk, goth, and metal. Your channel is great because aficionados of the 70s and beyond can learn the roots of their favorite subgenres of music

Great research and presentation of a band I've never heard of.

Ni idea de este grupo,en principio no soy muy fan de la Costa Oeste,pero ahora investigare,conoci en musica electronica a Jonh Cage,Stockenhausen y Xenakis y el español de Pablos.Puede ser muy interesante,

YP, you keep getting better.

Wow you always turn me on to the best psychedelic bands never heard of. Yeah the hippies were kinda close minded to anything new, at least the American ones. I always ALWAYS loved Silver Apples and U.S of A. If I would have been around back then, I would have been into all of these bands!

Well pleased you did this, but not surprised…this channel is the best on RU-vid! Later reissues include the essential ’Fly Free’, which is a self-penned song similar to ‘God Bless the Child’.

First heard it around 1986-1987 here in Greece and since then I consider it to be among the 10 best psychedelic albums ever made. Unparalleled.

I never heard of this band , but they were ahead of their time , great interesting video , many groups later on did dabble into this sound 🔊 and i agree about deep purple coping a Riff to Space trucking , great story , thk you for all this info , BTW I LOVED GODSPELL ❤🎶🎸

Never heard of them Sounds quite good what I've heard on Spotify

50 foot hose, silver Apples, the United States of America, Brainticket, Lothar and the Hand People, White Noise, Red Crayola... & so many other "Out there" bands that should have had more recognition. But that's art for ya! ;)

20 years ago I worked at a Record Store in Greenwich Village, NYC. Seen that original LP many many times.

What a great video have a wonderful day also Sunday was my mom birthday ❤😊

Ya. Gud abum. Gud gud.

Another great video! I love seeing these gems you find!

Interesting stuff!!! I hadn't been aware of this band. 🌞

I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the tip.

i had not known of this band before and will check it out. To this point my favorite truly psychadelic band has been H P Lovecraft. I am familiar with their music but don;t know that much of their history. I think they were underappreciated around this time as well.

ok! count me in!

In the early 70s I got Fifty Foot Hose along w Soft Machine 1 and 2 in a boardwalk store that had mostly beach stuff and nic nacks, but for some reason sold cut albums. I passed on Book of Talison. I loved the Soft Machines. But Hose seemed lacking compared to USA and other top notch electronic music groups. I'll have to give it a second listen.... Now to watch the video

When i first heard Alien Planetscapes by Chrome I went home n frisbee'd all my records all over the back yard...

Never heard of this one. I found the LP on SoulSeek and i downloaded it. Going to give it a spin. Thanks for the tip !

They had some listenable 'good' material , of course pastiche concrete musick. was very hip and depending on the place you were.. everywhere - .. no way to format or categorize was for the 60s for sure.. they fit in - not bad and not great - a product of their time I can't listen to the whole album and I find bad trip ... to be exact to the title it earned.. horrible trash but if you like sickening dischordance randome sound effect musick! :) I always respect unique artist output and this band certainly never lacked in that dept. Quite a divergent video topic for this channel but all good I assumed you were sticking with the UK scene. Excellent video and factual based presentation makes this a standout documentary of this short lived sound-musical group . Can you believe there was a Canadian issue of the LP ? it's a very nice package thick vinyl, nice print colors on jacket quality.

Yeah, I can only imagine how a theatre of people tripping ballz on acid might not be down with these sonic experiments 😅 That definitely sounded like Space Truckin to me 😮 I really enjoy learning about musicians & bands that didn't become household name but were very influencial to other musicians & bands that did.

Surprised--almost alarmed--I don't know this band even by name, given I cared enough about psychedelic music for more than a half century now to actually make a pilgrimage to the corner of Haight and Ashbury 15 years ago to have my picture taken under the famous street signs announcing "Hippie!" to the world. That, and having owned Varese's signature work since right after reading his name in the liner notes of the Mothers of Invention's album Freak Out when I was maybe 11 (and, yes, it warped my tiny little mind irreparably, as should be obvious). I even have that United States of America LP gifted to me probably 45 years ago. So given all that, I'm altogether flummoxed by the fact the band is a complete unknown to me and am blown away by what I'm hearing. Another topic of research to add to the list. Sigh...and thanks.

Don’t know, but the most avant-garde I would get is to listen to Ventures in Space from 1964. Karlheinz Stockhausen and others leave me far behind.

I've noticed when I've played track, and always, my cat hears a frequency that she does not find comfortable. I've noticed this twice now. 🤔

I didn't know this group. I had vaguely heard about it a long time ago. Thank you for this discovery. Hello from France.

Pls something about the 13th floor Elevators :)

Someone did me a tape of this in the late 80s along with Ammusic

How did you find this awesome music! Love it! Thanks for your video. I look forward to them.

This is incredible! Thank you YP!

It is definitely experimental and intriguing, but it doesn't move me much besides the oddness of it all. I do like Silver Apples and The United States of America a lot though.

Interesting guy, Corky Marcheschi is. People should read his entire bio to get an idea of what a truly creative person really is.

I only heard this once after buying it from a bargin cut out bin. I just listened to it after watching this video. Much better than I remembered and I do think its good. I liked it. I think we played it too softly on that first hearing .You need high volume to catch everything......However its a B album from a time of A+ s. Joe Byrd's electronics push and shape the USAs tunes as well as being cool on their own. Here, its just the later. Same w the noise sections , good , but not in Zappas leaque ; even w out Franks humor that added so much....But its added to my play list, so thanks YP for again preserving rock history.

What can I say, to the truthful it is not my cup of tea - I also years back found the White Noise album in a used shop and sold it on eBay for a nice profit, don't miss it at all. Oddly, in many instances there is a line sometimes betwixt Psyche and Noise and there is too much noise in Caludron for my tastes. Pink Floyd, Roky Ericsson and 13 Floor Elevators and others incorporated some noise in some of their recordings as well, but nothing like this. And no wonder those poor kids were alarmed, you should not emulate the sensations of an Earthquake at a club in San Francisco.

that whole biz never was about talent, always about making big money by selling whatever got the biggest and fastest attraction. so many talents never appeared anywhere. same shoot basically in arts

It is a good thing the audience was stoned out of their minds. lol

They were on the wrong coast. They should have been hanging around the Factory with Andy Warhol. P.S. Dan Healy was responsible for most of the great 2 track live recordings from the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.

Excellent episode! It's a shame they fell through the cracks.

I can’t say I’ve heard of them before. I thought I knew all the 60s San Fransisco bands. I’m even a flamin’ groovies fan! These guys seem like a forerunner for the early techno & industrial music of the 1970s (Kraftwerk, Sparks, Gary Numan, etc).

what does the cover art mean on the 50FT hose LP? I have my own interpretations but has that been discussed? It looks like a schematic to valves (tubes) circuits ect but interesting flourishes..

@2:45 - that photo shows a tape echo unit .. copy-cat perhaps (british or german made I think..) a couple variable frequency tone generators (something Silver Apples of NYC had banks of) and a tube head it appears

I showed this album in my channel Take444. I have an original that I bought several years ago and it came with Cork Marchesi’s business card!

It’s a classic! :^)

7:49 same chords as "Spooky"

At 2:56, playing at The Esquire is 'The Blue Max'...That's a 1966 movie I saw at the Richmond Highway Drive-In in Hybla Valley, Virginia when it came out. Her name was Charlotte and we were in my '61 Ford Falcon. (Got to 3rd base, btw). The speaker hung on the door, of course. And the intermission cartoon was the classic 'hot dog jumping into the bun' ad, with dancing soft drink cups too...Good times. Thanks YP~!

Well, I know what I'm doing for the next few hours. One does not simply listen to an episode of Yesterday's Papers

The first little bit of Music played reminded me of Dream On By Aerosmith. It would be strange if the DP Space Trucking riff was not at least inspired by this one.

They sound amazing. Infinitely better than those pedestrian bores the Grateful Dead who everyone in SF was listening to.

The electronic sounds remind me a bit of Pere Ubu.

Very cool

MORE BLIND DATE VIDEOS PLEASE!

At least with "Red The Sign Post", I can add another song to my anti-war playlist! That sounded surprisingly progressive!

The name of the group alone was odd .

Yeah that little clip instantly reminded me of Kim Gordan. Another track sounded like they were influenced by Bruce Haack.

:)... another gem from the old $.99 cut out bins...used to play "If Not This Time" a lot on an overnight radio show in the mid 70's

Edgar Varese deeply influenced Zappa.

Bad Trip Soundtrack?

They were to heavy for the hippies.

Where’s “Seventy Five” by Touch?

43rd!!!

You've done yet again! My knowledge of psych is unparalleled (in my mind!). Then you humble me to my needed level with another wrinkle in time and space. I wonder how many viewers will see this and immediately look for Cauldron,as just did! As I write this my ears are grinning. Thank you YP.