Tag Archives: British Psychedelia

In the later ’60s, Rick Hayward (after that referred to as Rick Birkett) was a guitarist in the Accent, playing on the respectable non-hit 1967 British psychedelic single “Red Sky during the night”/”Wind of Change.” Quickly afterward, he briefly attemptedto form a music group with Fishing rod Argent soon after …

Tony Clarkson is a bassist from Birmingham, Britain, who made his biggest contribution to music seeing that a member from the psychedelic pop music group the Globe of Oz in 1968-1969. Delivered in Birmingham in 1945, he reached his teenagers just like rock & move started to increase being a …

The Uk group Jasper released a weird, unimpressively erratic album in 1969, Liberation. The unfocused record consisted generally of loose blues-rock that occasionally resembled lower-level John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in both their blues-rock and jazz/blues-rock stages, interspersed with unusual repetitions of the traditional theme, “Liberation.”

McGough & McGear was a spin-off from the Scaffold, the Uk comedy/pop trio well-known for including Mike McGear, Paul McCartney’s brother. The Scaffold also included poet Roger McGough and John Gorman. Minus Gorman, the duo of McGough & McGear released a self-titled recording in 1968. Definately not being only a …

English ’60s pop singer Tim Andrews was a flexible singer/guitarist who sang for a number of bands before getting into a short-lived single career. Given birth to Chris Andrews, he made an appearance as the Artful Dodger in the London and NY productions of Lionel Bart’s Oliver before settling in …

Grapefruit were among the better Beatlesque late-’60s Uk pop-rock rings. In 1968 they appeared on the path to stardom, with several small hit British isles singles and, moreover, some help in the Beatles themselves. Led by George Alexander, sibling from the Easybeats’ George Youthful, the group had been first cheerful …

July began in the first ’60s simply because an Ealing-based skiffle act functioning beneath the name from the Playboys, and metamorphosed into an R&B outfit referred to as the Thoughts and the Tomcats, by which John “Speedy” Eager passed being a drummer. The ultimate Tomcats lineup, which progressed out of …

The British band Dark made one extremely rare album in 1972, Dark Across the Edges, that melded the hard guitar rock from the era having a jamming sensibility on multi-sectioned lengthy tracks with improvised-sounding passages. Though barely amazing, the record offers some curiosity as an attempt with metallic hard riffs …

Gong slowly came collectively in the past due ’60s when Australian guitarist Daevid Allen (ex-Soft Machine) started making music along with his wife, singer Gilli Smyth, plus a moving lineup of helping musicians. Albums out of this period consist of Magick Sibling, Mystic Sister (1969) as well as the impromptu …

Before ’70s superstardom, also before Humble Pie, Peter Frampton got his first taste of celebrity being a singer and guitarist in the Herd, who chalked up several hits in Britain in 1967 and 1968. Frampton was just 17 when the one “Through the Underworld” went in to the British TOP …