Weren't ZZ Top a Psych band... Moving Sidewalks?
Weren't ZZ Top a Psych band... Moving Sidewalks?
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
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Only Billy Gibbons, IIRC. One of the great Texan acid rock groups, in fact - together with The Red Crayola, 13th Floor Elevators, Bubble Puppy and The Golden Dawn (with their Power Plant album).
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
ZZ Top's original keyboardist (yep, that's right) was in a Prog-Rock band called Probe, which released a pretty cool undated single (sometime in the 70s.)Originally Posted by strawberrybrick
Last edited by moecurlythanu; 08-27-2015 at 11:14 PM. Reason: clarity
I prefer "You Make Me Shake" to anything I've heard by ZZ Top.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Wondered if anyone picked up Paul Parrish:
Damn, that Zodiac makes me feel like i'm under the influence.
Okay, here's one for you, maybe not under the the strict confines of old timey retro psych but it takes me on one hell of a trip everytime i listen to it which makes it psychedelic in my book -
Let's hear it for one of the new kids, i still have a musical crush on this album
God I love this trippy stuff. Keep it coming.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Something old
Something new that's fantastic
+1. Surprised I forgot it.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I suppose so, but those first four or five Top albums are actually rather strong heavy-bluesrock efforts - far better than contemporaries like Grand Funk or Black Oak Arkansas, IMO.
As far as psychedelics go; has the following one been mentioned? If we're venturing into European waters with Groep 1850 (their Dutch name spelling), Gila, Agitation Free or the incredible Älgarnas Trädgård, then this comes as one of the most exemplary:
As does this AMAZING fucker of an album:
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
^ Wow - 3 pages before Cottonwood Hill gets mentioned.
It's on top of my list.
Gotta have those screaming monkeys !!!
Hey man, wanna try some really good shit from Brazil?
Or how about some Aussies
It's a bit unfair, but I always tend to think that the first two Som Imaginarios are overshadowed by the unbelievably great Matanca do Porco - by which time there was very little actual "psych" left in them and the jazz-flavored coolness had taken over.
Of course, some of the finest psychedelia ever made came from Brazil:
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
One glaring ommission...
Oddessey & Oracle-The Zombies
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Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I've been listening to Cottonwood Hill and their follow-up Psychonaut, both are pretty good. I guess one should also mention:
Not everything these two guys present here are psych, imo, but I like to watch some of these vinyl find vids on YT. One of them mentions Asylum Choir's first lp (with the toilet roll on the cover), among many others.
Love Pink Floyd and The Doors!
ZZ Top did not have an original keyboardist. It's always been the same three guys: Billy, Dusty and Frank. Not sure what you are thinking of. Maybe there was a full time keyboard player in an earlier incarnation under a different name. Not sure.
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I got my information directly from Gray Newell, when trying to find out more information on Lanier Greig, and the Probe single I had won on ebay. Gray is an expert on the 13th Floor Elevators, Texas Psych, and the 60s Rock scene in general, but especially the American. His knowledge is held in such high regard that Shindig!, one of the leading publications on all things musically late 60s, uses him as a contributor. It is with some trepidation that I will have to email him back, and report that new information has come to light, and an expert on Texas Rock has posted on Progressive Ears that Lanier Grieg was in fact not in the original incarnation of ZZ Top, and that ZZ Top has always been a 3 piece. Since he is a bit of a musicologist, and has gotten some of his information from someone who knew Lanier personally, I doubt that he'll just take your word for it. Perhaps you can forward me your evidence refuting the claim to moecurlythanu@yahoo.com, and I'll forward the info on to Gray. Thanks for your willingness to help us deep diggers uncover the facts about the music we love.
It would't make my top 10 of the style, but an overlooked excellent psychedelic album (because most of their stuff was outside the psych realm) IMO is the self-titled Funkadelic album.
A funky psychedelic treat, if you've never heard it.
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