George Harrison himself was his teacher and said he would be a prodigy. Most humble artist I’ve ever had the pleasure of hanging out with. Truly a wizard aka “Pong Master”
HaHa!! Great Answer, I have confess that It makes me angry when people use the terms “underrated” or “overrated” I don’t hate but is really disgusting. BY THE WAY; You music production is Fantastic, I never heard it before and I’m sure I will do from now on, I just love it, I love Synthesizers and this kind of esoteric music; Thanks
@@Invisible-Rhino Your view of the term "underrated" is narrow, friend. I meant underrated not only in terms of skill, but all around approach. His synth work, his synth skills... I should have said "musicians" and not guitarists.
This album is beyond kick ass. I'm an Uber driver in Miami Florida. A place where practically NOBODY knows you guys. I almost always have your music playing when I drive. Can't tell you how many times I've had people ask me what we're listening to/turn it up. Still bummed that I've never had a chance to see you guys live. Missed you by one day out in LA a few years ago.
I heard pretty much the same from a friend of mine. He notice that Ozrics indeed touch 'regular' people like nothing else in his collection. We're from Moscow, Russia.
Another kickass record of OZ? Yes indeed. The production of the record is a task for ears,receivers and my mind. But the groove and the bass is more impulsive on 'Spirals...'! So to speak...
This band changed my life, i went to their concert in Belgrade while having the biggest home grown mushroom that i saved for special occasion. Saw everything, felt everything, was everything and i still am :D. Saw whole Alex Grey's Progress of Soul in front of my eyes. Birth, Life, Death, screamed while my view became spiral on guitar solos. For whole duration of concert i had like 3 thoughts and at end of one song while arp and atmosphere were just flying i said to myself " This is music ", sounds simple and silly, but there so much meaning inside of that statement. As a musician and artist, this has a lot of influence in my work, love their ethnic elements and synths, and visual enjoyment they provided me and scenes i will remember for whole life. You have no idea how many times i just felt huge gratefulness for this event in my life and unlike many artists, they still create so great music with their new album. So Grateful again, Peace and love
You should to try enjoy the same music without mushrooms , and compare the experience , Ozric''s music is amazing by itself , but I suppose you also smoked weed and drank beer , as is the nice costume
I'm a total nerd who likes putting music into little genre boxes, and I absolutely love that there's a band specifically designed to make people like me throw up our hands and say "I give up".
Yep Same here = I enter the ZONE of Creativity as the melodies stimulate the neurons and connect many upward insights & interesting perspectives of both colour & composition....
I love the Ozrics, not only for their superb musicianship, but also for the outstanding use of synths! They really nail the Space Rock sound like no other! I've enjoyed music from the likes of Gong and Hawkwind, but the Ozrics truly take it to a whole different level! My favorite band of all time!!
I love Hawkwind & Gong too. Had my 1st acid trip to In Search Of Space in 1972 & it's still one of the most memorable & best times of my life...that one eternal night 1
This is why RU-vid is great. I've been exposed to music that I would have heard and this is a great band that I'm amazed I missed. Better late than never.
You know, in the old days, you just have so get a card from any serious public library that also collected music, and you ended listening to stuff you would never had considered to. Mine was divided over 2 locations, one close to the city centre and another in a suburb, I could borrow 4 albums from each.
👍 Ed Wynne and his co musicians created a new Galaxy of composition and sound design, absolutely professional, distictive, progressive, brilliant, virtuoso, creative. Great music from another planet lightyears in advance.
twenty nine 29 years after first discovering this band they have never produced a sonic moment that didn't wow me and stretch my ideas of what music can be
I remember the time I purchased my first Ozric album Strangeitude and I played the disc on my car stereo on the way driving home and I was blown away on the first listen, it was (and still is) so amazing! I have been a huge fan ever since and this album is fantastic just like all of the other albums! My favorite band of all time!
Wow. I've finished listening to this for the first time after having discovered Ozric Tentacles just today. It's stopped. It ended. The silence now feels sad and my room seems empty. Beautiful music, it has EVERYTHING in it. But I want MOAR! What a great time to realize that these guys have released like a billion albums! Off I go, thanks for the upload!
no prob also check out Boards of Canada, Bowery Electric, Prefuse 73, Higher Intelligence Agency, Future Sounds of London, Vibrasphere,Solar Fields,H.U.V.A. Network, Bluetech, Androcell, Ishq, just to name a few more
Such an inspirational band and shaped my life and still does ! 90s raves with fruit salad lighting and Eat Static, Drummer Club, Ozric and all the rest, takes me back everytime, Easy Times !
These guys share a common trait with another band I love...Iron Maiden. You know exactly what you are going to get decade after decade, and that's a good thing.
Fantastic these guys are going still, and better than ever going by this recording. I saw them a good few times in the mid 80's, particularly in a strange place called the Crypt, in Deptford, London. It was actually below a church. The club was run by an ex cop so obviously it was never busted. Great nights there. Sometimes the church vicar would come in and have a look around...or was it just someone dressed up like a vicar?
Yeah, this is a great album, sweet production, they really are masters of their craft. Im highly influenced by them in my writing, i class this band as a genre in itself, nothing else quite like the magic produced by the ozrics, and ed is a true genius, hats off, heads bowed and much respect and love for the ozric tentacles x
I have never heard anything like them. Their unique sound is like an event in time that only occurs every couple a hundred years. By far my most favorite group!
I just found out I live in the same neighborhood as these guys so I had to check em out. Wow! I have no idea how I missed out all this time. Makes me wanna hunt down some fungus and re visit my youth. I hope our paths cross soon. Living way out in the Colorado country it surprises me to find a band like this here. I wonder if they need a roadie...
I gave up on (for want of better description) Prog type bands in 84 when apart from KCrimson and Hawkwind , they all rolled up their suit sleeves and made money music (or got angry in Roger waters’ case) but thanks to Spotify and YT have discovered lots of New and older Space and Time bands - always were aware of their name but never heard them - Wonderful Stuff and mates with Steve Hillfish which cannot be bad . Thank you for uploading and awakening this skinny old fart from Wessexshire on Sea
Perfect vibes for soaking up even while doing chores! Nestled next to my studio speakers with Zingbong now while doing social media promo of my music on facebook etc - totally lifts up out and beyond the jadedness of seemingly endless scrolling/copy/pasting. Makes tweaking a breeze. New copy imminent! Thanks, Ed and co - loved the arabesque acoustic guitar bits earlier in the album too. Dot thots from Frome
I saw OT on the Hawkwind Travellers aid trust tour in about ‘88 at Keele university. I was a massive Hawkwind fan at the time but these blew me away. I’d never heard anything like it. Fantastic musicianship. And, no one I knew had heard of them! Which made them all mine and they still are. Absolutely stunning.
I live in Nashville and got to smoke/drink with them back stages in 2010 when they came here. They signed their set list for me as well and had stuff like "thanks for fueling the fire, space out, love and light" etc. and offered me drink and smoke. I was in Cali a few years later with my ozric shirt on and this older guy and his gf behind me were like "i love ozric, im very surprised to see anyone around here that even knows them and is wearing their shirt!" They then invited me to come to their home downtown and hung out with their volcano and champagne and then offered me a job playing guitar at their kareoke bar after hearing me play. I ended up not accepting the gig offer though made some cool friends in the process. Sadly my set list was destroyed by my ex when we broke up. It was framed and she smashed it and then destroyed it....I was so mad about that though the memory still lives on. Thanks for all the amazing music my friends, and I hope to see you again in the near future. -JTrue
Epiphlioy is the ideal track to be the Ozric Tentacles Anthem. By the way Smiling Potion turns my brain to cream and put on my face a big smile. The second part of this album is fckin insane
i and my mickr used to see these guys back in the day fkin brilliant band love to all who remeber those times these guys played all over the place so have been blessed to have seen them play gigs alot///
SO glad I've found you guys on here!!✊😎 Your music sound tracked many a smoky car journey and long walks over the fields to my Gran's house,Walkman permanently grafted onto my head... We used to open our DJ sets with 'Sploosh' on many an occasion,much to the bemused delight of the crowd and chagrin of the promoter...Xx Hope to see you al soon! ✌❤🎧🎶🎶
Reminds me very much of banco de Gaia. I saw ozric tentacles at a place called "Spirit of 66". One of the best gigs I had the opportunity to see. This band is top notch !
Once a long time ago a friends said "Wow, you're into Hawkwind, nobodies into them anymore,(I was looking thru the Hawkwind albums in Music Bizarre) If you're into Hawkwind you've got to check out The Ozric's" & I did & I'm still checking lol
I enjoyed them twice, the first in a festival in Catalonia, more than 15 years ago, with Zia, Rad and Seaweed, and the last, 4-5 years ago, in the southern coast of Spain, only one hundred people attending, all wearing tshirts with ancient covers of cassette years, and having the opportunity to talk to Ed and Brandi...it was unforgettable.
saw this band in 1987 at a place called Formby point , ... on a beach , never heard of them , they came on at about 4.30 in the morning (yeah old school fezzie) and did one continuous set for about an hour and a half ...... the black mic I had made it better ... but I was like wow :)
Just saw them at a festival this past summer for a sunrise 4am set as well..no odea what I was in store for. ☆.☆ amazing they've been touring so long. PsyMasters!
Actually the whole album was up since 2015 but we were linking to a different video. Someone decided to "do us the favour" of removing the video for our own protection, it had over half a million views when they removed it and we were "not allowed" to put it back up. ='(
1993, after the Strawberry fair in Cambridge, in the back of an austin mini, ozric playing on cassette and me stoned quite heavily thinking "am i so stoned that im imagining this music, or... is it real?" Huge fan in the 90s, then afterwards i kinda forgot you guys until 2015 when my younger brother told me about "this new band i found", needless to say, i bought it there and then and it is still one of my favourite albums of yours. And to this day, i have no idea what Ozric's album was being played in the car, or whether it was a one off blank!
So Ozric visited my Peoria Guitar Center on my day off. They gave us free VIP passes to the Canopy Club in Bloomington and because Guitar Center pays its employees so badly, I couldnt afford the gas to make it out there. One of my biggest regrets, also if only I was working that day I would have given you the, "Im your biggest fan!" speals. If you guys ever end up in Illinois again I will be there in a heartbeat!
I arrived in the early 70`s, listened for 20 some years, heard many things, then i heard the voice of existence. A literal sanity in the audible chaos, A guide, A reassuring description of what i already saw, A connection on a level that is a direct translation of the ether we are all of. I thank you for this.
and on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion. Before you drift off, don't forget, which is to say remember, because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting. Lorca, in that same poem said that the Iguana will bite those who do not dream, and as one realizes that one is a dream-figure in another person's dream - That is self-awareness!
Never heard of you until someone pointed out my music for Menat in SFV sounded like yours. BUT YOU GUYS ROCK a lot harder than me. ;) you got a new fan!
I dont remember what tipped me off to them in the early 90s, I may have just been intrigued by artwork, but I can't like bands more than I do this wealth of excellent music, a lot of music.
Iconic band... For the last decades they're repeating themselves, although in an enjoyable way. The only thing that i don't like about Ozric when they go into their thrash for good. It's heavy on the ears, in headphones it becomes a nightmare. I like their well-balanced songs.
