The Other Half

This obscure SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (by method of L.A.) ’60s music group gained a amount of notoriety in the ’80s when their punk-garage solitary “Mr. Pharmacist” was included using one of Rhino’s Nuggets compilations and included in the Fall. In fact, a lot of the Additional Half’s materials was much less garage area than psychedelic, offering the sustain-laden acoustic guitar of Randy Holden, one of the better Jeff Beck-inspired axemen from the ’60s. Boasting a just-out-of-the-garage method of Haight-Ashbury psychedelia, the group slice a little-heard, pretty strong album, and a few uncommon singles, in 1967 and 1968. Holden, who experienced previously performed in the L.A. psychedelic garage area music group Sons of Adam, continued to become listed on Blue Cheer and record by himself.