Luv Machine

An exceptionally obscure and short-lived casualty from the early-’70s English rock picture, Luv Machine performed much make of psych and acidity rock with intensifying tendencies, cool grooves, and a fairly unique social perspective, because of the actual fact that its founding users, Michael Bishop (guitar, vocals), Bob Bowman (guitar, vocals), and Errol Bradshaw (drums, vocals), had just recently relocated using their Western Indies residential of Barbados. Bassist John Jeavons became the band’s lone England-born member when initial bass participant Merlin Norville grew weary of surviving in the U.K. and departed the group. After just a few weeks of rehearsing, Luv Machine had been slated to record their debut solitary, Witches Wand, by the finish of 1970 — however the classes quickly expanded in to the makings of a complete recording that Polydor released in March of 1971, and whose tunes boasted a clear personal debt to both Anglo and American inspirations like Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and Vanilla Fudge. Regrettably, the label offered no promotional or monetary support as well as the group quickly dropped apart, leaving just that one recording to wallow in cult position and be provided occasional reissues over time, including 2006’s retitled Becomes You On.