Technicolour Dreaming

It seems that 2007 was a good year for Australian compilations, seeing the release of the excellent "Tomorrow is Today - A Tribute to the Australian Psychedelic Scene 1966-1970", as well as Off The Hip's "Burn Your Fingers on The Sun", both of which are well worth tracking down if you can find a copy. I featured tracks from both comps, as well as Ty Segall's new release "Emotional Mugger", a few classics from the late 60's, and some more recent Australian efforts, plus quite a few cover versions.... 

So if you missed the show, this is the playlist.....

The Great Apes - Sebastopol Street [Procession]  ("Tomorrow is Today" compilation 2007 Australia)

Pretty City - Mary Go Round  (CD Single 2015 Melbourne, Australia)

Graham Day and the Forefathers - 30-60-90 / Love Me Lies [The Prisoners]  (7" single 2014 Rochester, Kent UK)

Mid State Orange - Moving in a Circle [The Executives]  ("Tomorrow is Today" compilation 2007 Australia)

James McKeown and the Negative Drivers - I See The Rain [Marmalade] "Active Listener's Happy Record Store Day!" compilation 2013 New Zealand)

Three Minute Tease - When I Was 46 in the Year 13  ("Bite the Hand" 2014 UK)

The Higher Elevation - The Diamond Mine  (7" single 1967 Colorado, USA)

Scott Walker - The Plague  ("Scott 2" LP 1968 USA)

Jacques Brel - Amsterdam (live 1964)  ("Bowie Heard them Here First" compilation 2015)

Sir Richard Bishop - Barbary  ("The Freak of Araby" 2009 USA)

Ultimate Spinach -  (Ballad Of) The Hip Death Goddess  ("Ultimate Spinach" LP 1968 Boston, Massachusetts USA)

Brainticket - Black Sand  ("Cottonwood Hill" LP 1970 Switzerland)

Vic Conrad and the First Third - Mr V  ("Trip Fest Psychedelic Stoner Experience" sampler 2016 Adelaide, Australia)

Dark Ocean Colours - When Both Our Worlds Collide  (CD Single 2013 USA)

Ty Segall - The Magazine  ("Emotional Mugger" 2016 Los Angeles USA)

El Goodo - Stuck in the 60's  ("El Goodo" 2005 Wales, UK)

The Energy Package - This is the Twelfth Night  (7" single 1967 USA)

The Bamboo Shoot - The Fox Has Gone to Ground  (7" single 1968 UK)

Procol Harum - Cerdes (Outside the Gates Of)  ("Procol Harum" LP 1967 UK)

The December Sound - Painkiller  ("The December Sound (Silver Album)" 2007 Boston Massachusetts USA)

The Byrds - Psychodrama City  ("Fifth Dimension" LP 1996 reissue bonus track USA)

Richard in Your Mind - Flower of the Heart  ("My Volcano" 2010 Sydney, Australia)

Blue Sunshine Minds - How Does it Feel  ("Burn Your Fingers on the Sun" compilation 2007 Australia)

Jay Walker and the Pedestrians - Rise and Decline of the Sun  ("Rise and Decline of the Sun" EP 2010 Adelaide, Australia)

The Janitors - Do It Again  ("Drone Head" 2013 Stockholm, Sweden)

The Wheelers of Oz - La Petit Mort  ("Revivalised" 2015 Perth, Australia)

July - The Way  ("July" LP 1968 Ealing, London UK)

Technicolour Dreaming

After last week’s ‘technical difficulties’, it was a pleasure to have a veteran of the Adelaide music scene, Vic Conrad [aka Mr V] join us in the studio for a chat about Gray Packham’s new album ‘La La Land’, the latest release from one of his ventures, Walking Bird Records. The album will be launched at the Grace Emily Hotel on Sunday afternoon with performances by most of the musicians involved, both individually and playing Gray’s songs, and should prove to be one of this year’s live musical highlights, so get along if you can. We also featured a number of other Australian releases including those of Melbourne psychedelicists the Grand Rapids, Davey Lane’s new E.P. and the latest compilation from Geelong’s prolific Anti-Fade Records. We also played the A-side of the debut single by our Finnish faves Permanent Clear Light on the wonderful vinyl-only Fruits De Mer label, presented in a 3D pic-sleeve [glasses included!] as well as a slice of dreamy pop from the UK’s Amor De Dias plus, as always, a bunch of 60’s psychedelic rarities from bands such as Pisces, the Golden Dawn and Austria’s Hide & Seek. So, until next week.....

..... here is the playlist plus some eye-candy.....

the Locked Ward – Breaker of Lives & Souls      (“Voyages into the Inner Psych of the Locked Ward” 2011 UK)

Bruner [aka Pisces] – Sam      (7”single 1968 USA – taken from “Pisces: A Lovely Sight” anthology 2012 USA)

the Wondermints – Truth or Consequences      (recorded 1992 – taken from “Kaleidoscopin’: Exploring Prisms of the Past” anthology 2009 USA)

the Strange Flowers – Mars Behind Your Eyes      (“Ortoflorovivaistica” 2006 Italy)

Hide & Seek – Riven Street      (7”single b-side [ of The Beggar of St. Pair] 1970 Austria)

Gift of Love [aka the Atlantics] – Flowers      (7”single 1967 Australia)

the Intercontinental Playboys – Can’t Find My Mind [Cramps cover]      (7”vinyl split-E.P. with “Larsen Magazine #19”  2004 France)

Davey Lane – You Got Me On Side      (“The Good Borne of Bad Tymes” EP 2013 Australia)

Jacco Gardner – Help Me Out      (“Cabinet of Curiosities” 2013 Holland)

Rasputin & the Mad Monks – Too Much to Dream Last Night [Electric Prunes cover]      (7”single 1968 Massachusetts, USA)

the Grand Rapids – Blow Up      (“Great Shakes” 2013 Melbourne, Australia)

Demons of Negativity – Resurrection      (7”single 1988 Boston, USA)

Sic Alps – Drink Up!      (“Sic Alps” 2012 USA)

the Deep Six – What Would You Wish from the Golden Fish?      (7”single 1966 California, USA)

White Fence – Run Run Run [Velvet Underground cover]      (“The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castleface Records and Friends” tribute compilation LP 2012 California, USA)

Permanent Clear Light – Higher Than The Sun      (7”single 2013 Finland)

the Golden Dawn – Starvation      (“Power Plant” LP 1968 Texas, USA)

Tommy James & the Shondells – Crystal Blue Persuasion      (“Crimson & Clover” LP 1969 USA)

Fantastic Zoo – Light Show      (7”single 1967 California, USA)

the Baroques – Musical Tribute to the Oscar Meyer Weiner Wagon      (7”single 1967 Chicago, USA)

the Jigsaw Seen – Choreography Killed the Cat      (“Bananas Foster” 2010 USA)

the Stevens – Elpho Beach      (“New Centre of the Universe Vol.2” compilation 2013 Geelong, Australia)

the Apples in Stereo – Behind the Waterfall      (7”single b-side [to Everybody Let Up] 2000 USA)

Amor De Dias – Viento del Mar      (“The House at Sea” 2013 USA)

Gray Packham – Lincoln Told Me / The Way I Am      (“La La Land” 2013 Adelaide, Australia)

Technicolour Dreaming

As time marches on, and the days creep inexorably by, it seems that every fortnight or so we hear of yet another luminary of the music world leaving this mortal coil … this week we paid tribute to the passing of “the Fifth Ramone” artist Arturo Vega and Jefferson Airplane drummer Joey Covington by playing the former band’s cover of the latter’s “Somebody to Love”. On a brighter note Vic Conrad, veteran of the Adelaide music scene and also known as “Mr V” to his record-shopping friends, dropped in to do a spot of guest programming, bringing with him a copy of the brand-spanking new CD and single by the Dust Collection, of which he is a member, as well as LPs by Portugal’s Saturnia, the UK’s Instant Flight and America’s Sky Picnic amongst other delights. We also played another track from Vibravoid’s new album, this time a 60’s French cover which is better known to Australians in its translated form as “No No No No No” by Marty Rhone plus a version of a song from Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta “Iolanthe” by the inimitable Todd Rundgren, who is currently touring Australia......

...... so here is the playlist plus a few visuals to distract you.....

 the Cherokees – Minnie the Moocher [Cab Calloway cover]        (7” single 1967 Melbourne, Australia)

TC Atlantic – Faces         (7” single 1966 Minneapolis, USA)

the Zoot – Strange Things         (7” single b-side [to Hey Pinky] 1970 Adelaide, Aust.)

Roxy Music – Bogus Man         (‘For Your Pleasure’ LP 1973 UK)

Shocking Blue – Acka Raga       (“At Home” LP 1969 Holland)

the Ramones – Somebody to Love [Jefferson Airplane cover]         (“Acid Eaters” 1993 USA)

Dust Collection – Electricity In Between         (7” single 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Dust Collection – Maxine Brown        (“Six By Five” 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Molting Vultures [feat. Vic Conrad] – (Everybody) Loves a Loser         (“Get on Board” 2012 Adelaide, Aust.)

Gray Packham – Grass Grow         (“La-La Land” demo 2013 Adelaide, Aust.)

Sky Picnic – Lost Is Found         (“Paint Me a Dream” LP 2012 New York, USA)

Sky Picnic – White Plane         (“Farther in this Fairy Tale” LP 2011 New York, USA)

The Bevis Frond – Just Cause         (“White Number” 2013 UK)

Arc of Ascent – Search for Liberation        (“The Higher Key” LP 2012 New Zealand)

Qoph – In Your Face         (“Freaks” 2012 Sweden)

Saturnia – Mellifluous         (“Alpha Omega Alpha” LP 2012 Portugal)

Instant Flight – Her Mystery      (“Colours of Light” 2012 UK)

Ton Steine Scherben – Wir Mussen Hier Raus      (“Keine Macht fur Niemand” LP 1972 Germany)

Sammy Cropper & his Wire Connections – Mensonomu      (“Papa Akwasi” 1978 Ghana)

the Psychedelic Aliens – Gbomei Adesai      (“Psycho African Beat” 1971 Ghana)

Vibravoid – La Poupée qui fait non [Michel Polnareff cover]      (recorded 2012 Italy – bonus track on CD version of “Delirio Dei Sensi” 2013 Germany)

Beaulieu Porch – Golda 03      (“We Are Beautiful” 2013 UK)

Todd Rundgren – Lord Chancellor’s Nightmare [Gilbert & Sullivan cover]      (“Todd” LP 1974 USA)

Sula Bassana – Departure      (“Dark Days” 2012 Germany)