I’m just listening to my reissued 180g etc copy of “If only i could remember my name ” by the Cros and wallowing in that 60s hippy vibe where a crackle here and there is perfect for the whole experience . I have the urge to grab something else of similar mood. Suggestions?
West Coast hippy dippy vinly
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I’d go with Nash’s Songs For Beginners.
I was thinking Nash actually. I used to love “Electric music for the mind and body” by Country Joe. ..I wonder how it’s aged….
The Country Joe & the Fish album EMFTMAB is wonderful and still sounds great. A classic psych album from 1967
Yes. And it’s VINYL!!
My fault for unleashing that particular monster.
“Hippy dippy vinly” does have a certain ring to it though.
This was an excellent rec @minibreakfast. Absolutely love it, and didn’t know it other than the odd track from CSNY live albums. Ta!
Hurrah!
I urge you to try Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead. Lovely album. Unique.
Indeed it did. And it is very fine. Thanks @declan.
Try and get the first Crosby & Nash album on vinyl. Great companion piece to the Crosby record.
I’ve got bits of it on old compilation tapes but you’re in the right area!
I saw this today. It was three quid, but the sleeve was very tatty so I left it.
I’m on the trail of it now. Not available new as far as I can see.
If we’re talking Croz and Mr. Nash, then we’re talking the annus mirabilis of 1971. More dippy than hippy by then on the west coast.
I suppose Carole King’s “Tapestry” could be called hippy-dippy by some, along with James Taylor’s “Mud Slide Slim”.
Joni Mitchell’s “Ladies Of the Canyon” and “Blue”?
The Beach Boys “Surf’s Up”?
If you want to look back into the psychedelic ’60s then HP Lovecraft’s 2 albums (especially the 2nd) and perhaps something mellow by Richie Havens.
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Also from 1971, Dory Previn’s marvelous Mythical Kings and Iguanas. Just as prettily tuneful as Tapestry, just as lyrical, but deeper and darker and raw(er).
One hates to mention him again, but the wonderful Donovan invented everything, and this is amply demonstrated on Sunshine Superman….more hippyness and dippyness one couldn’t imagine!?
Say no more. Here’s DONOVAN with Epistle to Dippy
In this instance “Dippy” is the name of an old school friend of Don’s who had joined the army.
Jimmy Page on guitar, natch
Awful. Made it halfway only.
“I can see you had your fun”.
So he also invented Hendrix.
I would recommend you try Neil Young’s On The Beach if you don’t have it already.
Have it on CD of course but not vinyl. I’d pick it up if i saw it but I’m after something “new”…
You could do no worse than bagging the triple vinyl of the Woodstock festival.
Watch out for the brown acid though……….man !!
These:
Stephen Stills – Manassas
Judee Sill
Shawn Phillips – Second Contribution
nice choices Nick
Not so much , more east coast of Australian surf beaches, Morning Of The Earth was one of the more successful surf movies to come out in the early seventies and had a fantastic soundtrack with prog bands like Tamam Shud and quasi-folkies. John J Francis Simple Ben is an all tie favourite.
Here is Tamam Shud with some nice scenes of Bali surf
https://youtu.be/DHJY4ar91XY?list=PLNzR6RsH0XskPNoViXWf2AQcTK3ggN4xc
Here is John J Francis. Refuses to be drawn out of retirement to perform. Think he makes coffee mugs or something on the NSW central coast.
https://youtu.be/LaHeSLYKolM
“Parallelograms” by Linda Perhacs.
“Blows Against the Empire” by Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship.
You might like this. From 1967 The Ceyleib People – Tanyet.
Eastern psych instrumentals featuring Ry Cooder and other luminaries from the LA studio mafia.
Stay with it. It gets into a nice groove around 4 mins.
Mmmm nice.
How bouta bit of Kaleidoscope? The US variety, David Lindley et al, late 60s to very early 70s, so just squeezing into the time machine. I guess it’s a bit more full-on than the laurel canyon vibe you seek, but they were the epitome of they was stoned, immaculate.
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/153395-kaleidoscope-a-beacon-from-mars?gclid=CJPGyKelptACFVRAGwod4rsHjg
If it was possible to get The Psychedelic Years Revisited on a vinly you couldn’t do better than that. Byrds, Kak, HP Lovecraft, Heavy Jelly, Amboy Dukes, Moby Grape, and – brace yourself – the Quintessence.
Plus this from HOWAYABOOGAMAN Eric Bordon. Far oot!
I have to say that the line “Even the cops grooved with us” puts me irresistibly in mind of the Bonzos’ Rhinocratic Oaths. (“Scuse me sir, I have reason to believe you can turn me on”)
Is this the sort of thing you are looking for?
Lana Del Ray – West Coast (Hippie Sabotage remix)