Philamore Lincoln - The North Wind Blew South (1970)

The North Wind Blew South is the first and only album by Philamore Lincoln.
All the songs were written and composed by Philamore. "The North Wind Blew South" and "Rainy Day" are two of the best songs. "Temma Harbour" has a Bossa-Nova guitar based rythym. The trippy "You're The One" has a great drum line.
Some Yardbirds member, including Jimmy Page and Chris Dreja are rumored to have participated in the album. The back and front cover were taken by Dreja, more than that was not confirmed.
Philamore would later quit playing music and started a successful carrer as a record producer.

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Pentangle - Basket Of Light (1969)

Basket Of Light is the third album by the British folk-rock band Pentangle.
"Light Flight" is played in complex jazzy rythyms, it was the most sucessful song on the album. In "Once I had a Sweetheart" (traditional) John Renbourn plays a pretty good Sitar solo. "The Cuckoo" a folk arrangement of a traditional song. "Hunting Song"is a song based on the medieval story about Morgana le Fay, the court of King Arthur and the drinking horn. "House Carpenter" another traditional song played with a banjo and a sitar (the song is also known as "The Daemon Lover").
It managed to get to number 5 in the British Charts.
The cover photography was taken in Pentangle's concert in the Royal Albert Hall in 1968.

Pentagle:
- Terry Cox – Drums, Glockenspiel, Hand Drum, Hi-Hat, Vocals
- Bert Jansch – Guitar, Banjo, Vocals
- Jacqui McShee – Vocals
- John Renbourn – Guitar, Sitar, Vocals
- Danny Thompson – Double Bass

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The Plastic Cloud - The Plastic Cloud (1968)

The Plastic Cloud is the only album recorded by Canadian Psychedelic band The Plastic Cloud.
They unfortunatelly never got any attention from the public or the critics. Nonetheless they are far better than many of the famous bands back then.
The guitar literally wont stop. In every song the fuzzy guitar will be there, jamming, Mike Cadieux and Don Brewer surelly enjoyed playing guitar in here.
"You Don't Care" and "Civilization Machine" are the two longest songs on the album, quite repetitive, but the best songs on the album. "Epistle To Paradise", the opener, is a normal psychedelic song, very good though. "Face Behind The Sun" has a great riff and some very enjoyable back-vocals. "Dainty General Rides" rythym is very cool.

The Plastic Cloud:
- Mike Cadieux - Guitar
- Don Brewer - Guitar, Vocals
- Brian Madill - Bass
- Randy Umphrey - Drums

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Bread, Love And Dreams - Bread, Love And Dreams (1969)

Bread, Love And Dreams is the debut album by the Scottish Acid-Folk Trio Bread, Love And Dreams.
"Falling Over Backwards" sounds almost like the Incredible String Band, it has some really nice female back-vocals. "Mirrors" is a left-wing, anti-comformity, anti-totalitarism song. About a men who fought for the revolution, but power and wealth got to him and he became "the men he once dispised". at the end of the album we get a blues song, it has nothing to do with the rest of the album, but its not all bad, "95 Octane Gravy". "Artificial Light" is an acid-folk Flower-Power song.
they never got much sucess with this album, and the two ones who followed. They toured with Magna Carta and Tyranosaurus Rex.

Bread, Love And Dreams:
- David McNiven - Lead Vocals
- Angie Rew - Lead Vocals, Flute, Harmonica
- Carolyn Davis - Guitar, Back-Vocals

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It's A Beautiful Day - It's A Beautiful Day (1967)

It's A Beautiful Day is the debut album by the San Francisco psychadelic band It's A Beautiful Day, one of the first bands to emerge in the Summer Of Love.
David LaFlamme, a former Utah Symphony Orchestra violin soloist, founded It's A Beautiful Day in 1967 with his wife Linda LaFlamme. Unfortunatelly they never got much attention, unlike contemporany act Grateful Dead with whom they had a good relationship.
"White Bird" is the groups signature song, i only downloaded this album because i listened to this on Technicolor Web Of Sound, (i did well) the song was inspired in the time they all spent living in an attic in rainy Seattle. "Bombay Calling" intro was stolen by Deep Purple for their song "Child In Time". "Hot Summer Day" and "Wasted Union Blues" are fantastic psychadelic songs.

It's A Beautiful Day:
- David LaFlamme - Violin, Flute, Lead Vocals
- Linda LaFlamme - Keyboards, Acoustic & Electric Piano, Organ, Celeste, Harpsichord
- Hal Wagenet - Guitars
- Mitchell Holman - Bass, Harmonica, Backing Vocals
- Val Fuentes - Drums, Backing Vocals
- Pattie Santos - Percussion, Bells, Lead Vocals
- Bruce Steinberg - Harmonica

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Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (1972)

Thick As A Brick is the fith album by the British band Jethro Tull. Thick As A Brick is a cenceptual album composed by only one song (it was divided by two so that it could fit the Lp). The lyrics are built around a poem written by a fictitious boy, (Gerald Bostock a.k.a. Little Milton a.k.a. Ian Anderson). It managed to reach the number one on the Billboard
This is the first Progressive album by Jethro Tull, it was recorded after the critics made to the previous album "Aqualung". Many of the instruments used here, aren't a common appearence in most rock album (and Tull albums) the instruments included an Harpsichord, a Xylophone, a Violin, a Lute, a Trumpet, and a String Section.
The cover is a parody of local newspapers, with stories, competitions, adverts, etc. The "newspaper" also includes the entire lyrics to the song, and references to the lyrics feature in the news.
The guitar line in the beginning is really good, one of the best guitar lines in the whole Jethro Tulls discography.
Martin Prince, from The Simpsons, played an interpretation of the song, but was rudelly interrupted by Lisa Simpson (the real song was played while the credits rolled).

Jethro Tull:
- Ian Anderson - Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Flute, Violin, Trumpet
- Martin Barre - Electric Guitar, Lute.
- Barriemore Barlow - Percussion, Timpani
- John Evan - piano, Hammond Organ, Harpsichord
- Jeffrey Hammond - Bass, Vocals
- David Palmer - Brass, String Arrangements

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Kim Fowley - Outrageous (1968)

Outrageous is the third solo album by the multi-talented musician Kim Fowley.
Kim Fowley played with many bands throughout his career, Mothers Of Invention, Family, Soft Machine, Cat Stevens and Manfred Mann to name just a few, he participated in, literally, hundreds of albums, in all music styles from Heavy-Metal to Hard-Rock, Blues and Psychedelic.
In Outrageous, Fowley doesn't sing, he speaks in the rhythm of the music. In "Animal Man" the guitar sounds like if we were listening to an early grunge album. "Hide And Seek" is a very nice instrumental piece. "Barefoot Country Boy", because Johnny B. Goode is inside everyone. "Bubble Gum" should also be listened to carefully, its a really nice music.

Kim Fowley (Outrageous Personnel):
- Kim Fowley - Vocals, Keyboards
- Carmen Riale - Bass
- Joe Schermie - Bass
- Mars Bonfire - Guitar
- Mike Allsup - Guitar
- Jimmy Greenspoon - Keyboards
- Wayne Talbert - Keyboards
- Eddie Hoh - Percussion
- Joe Torres - Percussion

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Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills (1968)

Cheap Thrills is the second album by the Big Brother and the Holding Company and their last album with Janis Joplin.
The album was very succesful, having sold more than one million records in its first year, mostly because of the performance at Monterey Pop Festival, which made them gain alot of attention.
It starts with two live songs, "Combination of the Two" and "I Need A Man To Love", both with an atonishing rhythm and guitar riff. Followed by two covers, "Summertime", a popular jazz standart in which we can listen to the true power of Janis Joplin vocals, and "Piece Of My Heart" written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, Big Brother turned it into an hit. And then the cherry on the top of the cake, "Ball And Chain", a song by Big Mama Thornton, everyhing works in it, the guitar weeps and cries, Janis voice is raw and intense making probably the best song on the album. When they played it live for the first time at Monterey in 1967, we can see Mama Cass Elliot amazed by the song, in woodstock Janis had to sing it twice when the audience screamed to listen to it again.
The cover was drawn by cartoonist Robert Crumb because the idea of the band appearing nude in a bed was rejected by Columbia (the record company).
Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills was the original name but, again, it was rejected by Columbia.

Big Brother and the Holding Company:
- Sam Andrew – Bass, Guitar, Vocals
- Janis Joplin – Vocals
- Peter Albin – Bass, Guitar
- James Gurley – Bass, Guitar
- David Getz – Piano, Drums
- John Simon – Piano

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Amazingly Friendly Apple - Single (1969)

This is the only recording by the British band Amazingly Friendly Apple. The band was formed in 1967 in Leeds by various members of other bands that wanted to follow a psychadelic direction. in 1968 they opened for bands like Family and John Mayall.
The single features two songs, "Water Woman" a cover from Spirit (which in my opinion is far better than the original), and "Magician", the b-side, is the only original song we have from them, it is really good and just makes me wish that they had recorded more stuff.

Amazingly Friendly Apple:
- Peter Waddington - Lead Vocals, Harmonica
- Barry Mills - Organ, Harpsichord, Guitar, Vocals
- Art Lindon - Saxophone, Flute
- Alan Scott - Bass, Vocals
- John Barnfather - Percussion

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Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)

Pink Moon is the third and final album by the British musician Nick Drake. Nick would kill himself in 1974.
The album is very depressing, with a really shaddy sound. One of the best ambients i ever heard. There is no backing band, just him and his guitar, the album was recorded in two-two hour sessions. Only when he died, Pink Moon got the attention it deserved.
"Pink Moon", "Place to Be", "Things Behind the Sun"and "Parasite" are the best songs of the bunch.
It's a pity that such a good musician as Nick Drake died so young at the age of 26 years old.

Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf (1968)

Steppenwolf is the debut album by the Hard-Rock Blues band Steppenwolf.
Two of this album songs feature on Dennys Hopper blockbuster "Easy Rider", "Born to Be Wild"and "The Pusher".
"Born to Be Wild" has to be one of the greatest and most-known Rock songs in the whole world. It has become an hymn to everyone who's rebbeling against the world and the system. Everyone knows this guitar riff. "Berry Rides Again" is a tribute to Chuck Berry, the guitar is based on Chuck's "Johnny B. Goode". "Hoochie Coochie Man" one of the most covered blues song ever, also features in this album, and i got to say its one of the best version i ever heard. "The Pusher" written by Hoyt Axton is a song about drug dealers, agaisnt hard-drug (heroin, cocaine...) dealers, the song is certainly not against dealers of marijuana and LSD. "Desperation" is also a very cool song.

Steppenwolf:
- John Kay - Guitars, Harmonica,Lead Vocals
- Rushton Moreve - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
- Michael Monarch - Guitars, Backing Vocals
- Goldy McJohn - Hammond Organ, Piano, Electric Piano
- Jerry Edmonton - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals

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H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft II (1968)

H. P. Lovecraft II is the second and last album by the psychadelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft.
Usually seen as a worse album than the first one (not true), H. P. Lovecraft II was alot better produced, with a much more interesting sound.
The opener, "Spin, Spin, Spin", is a very calm Psych song with a very catchy guitar riff but "At The Mountains Of Madness" by the contrary is a full psychadelic song, not calm at all. "High Flying Bird", which was also recorded by Richie Havens, is an awesome interpretation of the poem written by Billy Edd Wheeler. "It's About Time" has vocals similar to a Jefferson Airplane song, with a nice jam on the middle of it.
Lyrics and music are both fantastic. Flower Power.

H. P. Lovecraft:
- George Edwards - Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Bass, Lead Vocals
- David Michaels - Keyboards, Clarinet, Recorder, Lead Vocals
- Jerry McGeorge - Bass, Vocals
- Tony Cavallari - Lead Guitar, Vocals
- Michael Tegza - Drums, Vocals

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John Renbourn - Sir John Alot of Merry Englandes Musyk Thynge and ye Grene Knyghte (1968)

Sir John Alot of Merry Englandes Musyk Thynge and ye Grene Knyghte (usually known as Sir John Alot of Merrie England) is the third solo album by guitarrist John Renbourn.
An all instrumental album recorded with the help from his fellow Pentagle bandmates.
"The Trees They Do Grow High", "Lady Goes to Church" and "Morgana" are the highlights of this album. The bluesy "Transfusion" has also a very nice guitar work.
Definitively worth listening. Great musicians, all of them.

John Renbourn (Sir John Alot of Merrie England):
- John Renbourn - Acoustic Guitar
- Terry Cox - Percussion, African Drums, Finger Cymbals, Cymbals, Drums, Glockenspiel
- Ray Warleigh - Flute

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The Amazing Blondel - Evensong (1970)

Evensong is the second album by the Medieval Folk-Rock (or as Amazing Blondel said "pseudo-Elizabethan|Classical acoustic music sung with British accents") The Amazing Blondel.
"Pavan", "Willowood", "Evensong" and the instrumental "Queen Of Scots" are easily the best songs of the album. Not that the others are bad, this ones just sound better than the rest.
The cover is a photo of the band in the cloisters of Lincoln Cathedral holding instruments from the XV-XVI century.
The Name of the band is a tribute to a ministrel from the court of Richard the Lionheart.

The Amazing Blondel:
- John David Gladwin - Lead Vocals,Lute, Theorboe, Cittern, Double Bass
- Terence Alan Wincott - Crumhorn, Recorders, Pipe-Organ, Vocals, Tabor Pipe, Tabor, Flute, Harmonium, Lute, Harpsichord
- Edward Baird - Lute, Cittern, Vocals
- Chris Karan - Percussion
- Adam Skeaping - Viola Da Gamba, Violone

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Ten Years After - Ssssh. (1969)

Ssssh. is the fourth album by the British Blues-Rock band Ten Years After.

The opener "Bad Scene" is a fuzz of acid rock with strange electronic vocals, "Two Time Mama"has a very cool guitar work, "Stoned Woman" is the hardest song in the all album feauring a distorted bass and a nice guitar solo by Alvin Lee. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" is a cover from Sonny Boy Williamson, the lyrics and the melody were revised and now feature some bad lyrics but a awesome guitar riff. "I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name" is an acoustic guitar nice psych-folk song, one of the songs from the bunch, along with "If You Should Love Me", a crescendo flower power ballad. And to finish the record theres the hard-blues song "I Woke Up This Morning" again using a distorted bass and a soloing guitar.
Alvin Lee has to be, without any sort of doubt the soul of this record. Leo Lyons also does a terrific bass work.
Many people dislike the cover of the album, a thing that i cant understand because the cover was the reason i got the album. Its a fantastic art/photography image!

Ten Years After:
- Alvin Lee - Guitar, Vocals
- Leo Lyons - Bass
- Ric Lee - Drums
- Chick Churchill - Organ

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