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Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 15 April 1966

INTERVIEWING an airplane is kind of an absurd idea but interviewing the Jefferson Airplane, a fast rising group from San Francisco, verges on ridiculous. It's ...

Seeds, The: Top Tunes: The Seeds

Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 24 June 1967

"THE 'HATE march' days are over, now it's love and be loved and flower music expresses this emotion powerfully and beautifully," says Lord Tim Hudson, ...

Pink Floyd: Freak out comes to town

Profile and Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 22 July 1967

MUCH HAS been written, and even more said, of the whys and wherefores of the Pink Floyd. ...

Doors, The, Jefferson Airplane: Jeffersons, Doors are Tops

Profile by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 2 September 1967

LET ME TELL you about the two groups which are currently the most popular in America: the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. Both have been playing ...

Pink Floyd: His dream girl turned into a hit song!

Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, Jackie, 31 October 1967

Instant Guide to The Pink Floyd ...

Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (1969) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Michael Lydon, Rock's Backpages transcripts, May 1969

This is a transcript of Michael's interview with the Grateful Dead mainman. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Stoneground: The Electric Rum-And-Butter Ice-Cream And Melon Slices Test

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, 10 September 1970

Update, 2020. Wavy Gravy (born 1936 as Hugh Romney) featured in my piece below, does not just dream dreams and see visions. He lives them. ...

Quintessence — sincere, or a fraud?

Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, 29 May 1971

SHIVA IS a Christian Hindu who lives in Notting Hill Gate downstairs from his Guru. He is 22, born in Australia and arrived here two ...

Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett: A Nice Pair — The Pink Floyd LPs That Failed

Overview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, February 1974

They finally became stars on their ninth album, The Dark Side of the Moon, but they were first led around to the dark side of the psyche ...

Pink Floyd: Games For May

Retrospective by Miles, NME, 15 May 1976

TEN YEARS AGO THE PINK FLOYD were a semi formed idea in the mind of one SYD BARRETT. Nine years ago they were the darlings ...

Spirit: If You Value Your Life, On No Account Read This Headline...

Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 30 October 1976

...because if you do you'll have to read the feature which is about RANDY CALIFORNIA of SPIRIT. He's a very far-out person. He says so. ...

Remains, The, Seeds, The, Shadows Of Knight, The, 13th Floor Elevators, Leaves, The: Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 (Sire)

Review by Stephen Demorest, Circus, 4 August 1977

THERE'S NO way you can take rock & roll too seriously after listening to this stuff. Compiled by Lenny Kaye (yes, he's also lead guitarist ...

Dazed and Infused: The Summer of Love

Retrospective by Miles, Vox, August 1992

"You had to be there" Barry Miles travels back in time. IT'S 25 years since the Summer of Love freaked its way into the ...

The Electric Prunes: 'I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)'

Retrospective and Interview by Don Waller, MOJO, January 1997

From the "mind-expanding" opening to the screaming-droning guitars to the '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'-derived drums, The Electric Prunes' 'I Had Too Much To Dream ...

Psychedelia: The 100 Greatest Classics

Guide by Jon Savage, MOJO, June 1997

Back by public demand, and even more mind-expanding, Jon Savage takes a trip through psychedelia’s golden years to compile the ultimate six-hour flashback. ...

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968

Review by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, September 1998

Groundbreaking garage-punk compilation expanded into a 4-CD box: over 100 big hits, hip misses, influential tracks, cultural oddities and sonic abominations. ...

Electric Prunes, The: The Electric Prunes: Too Much To Dream

Retrospective by Don Waller, LA Weekly, 15 June 2001

FROM THE "mind-expanding" flight of the 2,000-pound bumblebee opening to the liquid, screaming, droning guitars to the '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction'-derived drums, the Electric ...

Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Golden Road (1965-1973) (Rhino/Warner Bros) *****

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, January 2002

THE GRATEFUL DEAD are probably the most puzzling enigma in rock history. ...

Jefferson Airplane: The Summer Of Haight

Retrospective and Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, April 2003

In January 1967, Jefferson Airplane were all set for take-off. But within months their dream was crumbling. Jeff Tamarkin on the destructive undercurrent to the ...

Keith West, Tomorrow, Kim Fowley: A Teenage Opera: Testing… Testing…

Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, February 2004

Brainchild of German Phil Spector wannabe Mark Wirtz and UK psych hopefuls Tomorrow, A Teenage Opera promised to be the grandest psychedelic production of the ...