Creepy bad acid vibe
Some psych fans really like this record and there are some good bits but its mostly loud fuzzy stuff. The kind of stuff that gives loud fuzzy psych records a bad name. The guitars aren’t loud enough and the songs aren’t long enough (actually, that’s a good thing) to compete with Iron Butterfly or Vanilla Fudge. Maybe if the songs were better. They feel unfinished.
I have a feeling that The Head Shop wasn’t a real group. Maybe they were but this LP looks and sounds like a record company cash-in to me. “Kids are buying loud fuzzy guitars, let’s give ‘em loud fuzzy guitars! And play slower! Nobody likes that rock and roll stuff anymore.” Milan (The Leather Boy) produced the record in some way and wrote all of the original songs. Milan’s own records are better than this one.
The band may have been from New York, Milan was based in NYC.
I did a web search for ‘Head Shop’ and didn’t find any websites for the band so nobody (with web access anyway) is willing to admit they were in the band. Unless they were also running a real head shop, I didn’t even look at those websites. I did find about half dozen e-bay auctions of this ‘incredibly rare psych LP’! My favorite description was the one that described the Head Shop record as having a ‘creepy bad acid vibe’.
I have a feeling that The Head Shop wasn’t a real group. Maybe they were but this LP looks and sounds like a record company cash-in to me. “Kids are buying loud fuzzy guitars, let’s give ‘em loud fuzzy guitars! And play slower! Nobody likes that rock and roll stuff anymore.” Milan (The Leather Boy) produced the record in some way and wrote all of the original songs. Milan’s own records are better than this one.
The band may have been from New York, Milan was based in NYC.
I did a web search for ‘Head Shop’ and didn’t find any websites for the band so nobody (with web access anyway) is willing to admit they were in the band. Unless they were also running a real head shop, I didn’t even look at those websites. I did find about half dozen e-bay auctions of this ‘incredibly rare psych LP’! My favorite description was the one that described the Head Shop record as having a ‘creepy bad acid vibe’.
posted by KS at 3/17/2006 08:21:00 AM
1 Comments:
Hi. I actually owned this album long long ago. I thought it was crap. At the time ('69 or so), I was under the impression they were from SF, the Haight, actual products of the Summer of Love. May have migrated to NY later, but the word among the few of us who listened to this was SF. Great site. Thanks.
Tom
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