Just post your favourite nuts 60s wig-out track. Simple concept. Mind blown.
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Far out!
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Just post your favourite nuts 60s wig-out track. Simple concept. Mind blown.
My frazzled neurons in first comment.
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Jimi Hendrix – 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
…that whole side. The Rainy Day song(s) are a trip.
I remember hearing the Rainbow Bridge album before any other Hendrix and songs like Hey Baby, Earth Blues and Room Full of Mirrors were so much further “out there”, than anything I’d heard before.
Psychedelicised!
that’s a fantastic box set, I listened to virtually nothing but Pentangle for a week recently.
Go on, define Wig Out … I think I know what you’re looking for, but not sure if this counts:
or maybe this
Does this qualify?
Maybe it’s a deep rooted memory reaction to a much played tape in the car, but the above track MUST be followed by this:
Was that tape ‘On The Road Again’? It was a doozy, introducing me to a bunch of lesser known acts.
Beat this!
A year too late for the 60s but it does fit in nicely……
Well, this was recorded a decade and a half after the cut-off: but it’s a nuts 60s wig out by all other criteria, so I’m hoping the panel will allow it…
They only released this single and then disappeared, what a shame, this is superb.
Just outside the 60s, so cheating a little. I’m hoping no one notices.
now you’re talking!
i think Julie and Brian cut the mustard…
Buffalo Springfield – Expecting To Fly. Keith and Anita took a tab and got off on this one. A real otherworldly Sensation.
Perhaps more far out than wig out but never mind. Wait til the end as the video takes a truly far out turn.
A classic – albeit recorded (live at St Pancras Town Hall) in March 1970, but dripping with ‘the sixties’. This was part of an extended jam on ‘Giants’ from the mighty Quin’s first album (1969) and was excerpted and released as a standalone instrumental track on their second album.
In the ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Hendrix’ category, here’s a sensational Dutch-only 1969 single by Brainbox – featuring Jan Akkerman on lead guitar. One of his few full-on recorded uses of wah-wah.
When it came to wigging out, nobody did it better than Fred & Ginger.
I love them so much, and also the Joe Tex tune isn’t a million miles from a wig out.
Here’s Jools again with a tune by the Mellow Yellow Hitmaker.
And if Gary is going to be flexible about the 60s, then I’m having this gem.
Ánd from 1968, the Unites States of America….
We’ve had some Spirit, quite rightly, but their hidden masterpiece is Future Games, best on headphones maaan. The album so far out even Spirit thought it was a bit much.
Great, great album with happy memories of many, many
stoned evenings during my time at Hull Uni in the Late 70s.
Still gets the odd spin and still sounds terrific all these years later
’76 is my favourite Spirit album – the monumentally brilliant rendition of Like A Rolling Stone qualifies it immediately as one of the greatest live albums ever released. Like you, my memory of it is rich with the happily stoned recollection of listening to it in an augmented state of wonder.
Sod it, here it is for the uninitiated.
Proper headphones, a really hefty dollop of volume and preferably a darkened room with a picture window view out onto the garden (my personal recollection scenario) are highly recommended. :
Bloody brilliant – gives me the shivers every time.
Jerry Goodman on violin went on to play with the Mahavishu Orchestra
Good call, Munstmeister!
The Spookies, as nobody ever called them.
A shorter live version
Jjjjjjjjjjjjjust like
…. Searchin for my mainline
Wiggy?
This one is a blast, great riffs, great tune – and the original lineup of the Move were really tight live:
Yes they were. One of the highlights of my brief rock ’n’ roll career was playing on the same bill at Warwick U.
oh man… that is impressive. They were so good, based on what I’ve seen – better than their records. I’d be happy to join a thread on The Move.
Anyway, sod it. Here’s what sounds like an unreleased studio recording passed off as a BBC session. This is the great lost Move single. Warning – contains Jeff Lynne.
Couple from the Monkees –
Truly amazing bass from Peter Tork on Do I Have Do This All Over Again
And the none more freak out from the end of the boys’ 33 1/3 TV special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpWC9-LklgE
This is a wig out
Good call, Mr Pessoa, sir. Terrific track.
Ooooh, lots of fabbo stuff on this thread, but with honourable exceptions you lot really are a bit tame when invited to indulge in a proper nuts 60s wig-out! Maybe lots of you are just not old enough to have splurged your pocket money on sub-three-minute nuggets of otherwise unobtainable (and often unrepeatable) sonic madness?
Smoke those banana skins, munch those mushrooms and let yourselves go buddy go!
These little gems are what I call proper bonkers wig-outs:
My favourite of the first wave West Coast albums. “Section 43” is also ace, and the entire vibe of the album is that tripping can be more eerie than fun (allegedly, your honour).
Another vote for Section 43 – stunning little number.
Chocolate Watch Band perform one of The Kinks finest
I’ve slumped into this beanbag so far I don’t think I’ll ever get out again. All those crazy colours in the videos – I think I can smell every single one of them. What time is it anyway? I’m starving.