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Think I’m Going Weird: Original Artefacts From The British Psychedelic Scene 1966-68, Various Artists 5CD

• Grapefruit’s landmark 100th release

• A definitive overview of the British psychedelic scene, an epic five-CD/book set that includes more than 50 minutes of previously unreleased music from the halcyon period 1966-68.

Grapefruit’s landmark 100th release • A definitive overview of the British psychedelic scene, an epic five-CD/book set that includes more than 50 minutes of previously unreleased music from the halcyon period 1966-68.

• Including the major acts of the era (The Who, Traffic, Small Faces, The Move, Procol Harum, Incredible String Band, Family, Crazy World of Arthur Brown etc), ‘Think I’m Going Weird: Original Artefacts From The British Psychedelic Scene 1966-68’ features many bands who also played London’s underground dungeons during the Summer Of Love.

• Featuring studio demos from the likes of Tintern Abbey, The Soft Machine, Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, Genesis, Mandrake Paddle Steamer, Dantalian’s Chariot and others plus numerous cult 45s (July, Caleb, Vamp, Blossom Toes, Sweet Feeling, etc) and fascinating album cuts from such scene stalwarts as Tomorrow, Fairport Convention, Kaleidoscope, The Deviants and Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera.

Perhaps most enticingly of all, the collection includes a number of hitherto-unknown recordings by bands who are only now gaining their first public exposure including Eyes Of Blond, Tinsel Arcade, Crystal Ship (whose contribution features lyrics from Pete Brown) and the semi-mythical 117, such a legendary name from the era’s handbills and posters that they even had a UK psych fanzine named after them in the ‘90s.

A dazzling feat of licensing and research, ‘Think I’m Going Weird…’ comes in a 60-page A5 book format with 25,000-word track-by-track annotation with some extraordinary and rare photos and memorabilia.

For anyone even remotely interested in British psychedelia, it’s simply an essential purchase.

TRACK LISTING

1 THINK I’M GOING WEIRD – Art 2 MY CLOWN (single mix) – July 3 THE VIEW – Gary Walker & The Rain 4 UTTERLY SIMPLE – Traffic 5 A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION – Caleb 6 LIKE THE SUN, LIKE THE FIRE – Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 7 LAZY OLD SUN (alternative version, stereo) – The Kinks 8 PLASTIC DAFFODILS – Atlanta Roots 9 PSYCHEDELIA – Ron Geesin 10 DREAM STARTS – Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera 11 TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE IN ME – Strawbs 12 FUNNIEST GIG – Manfred Mann 13 SUNNY CELLOPHANE SKIES – The Status Quo 14 MRS GRUNDY – Plastic Penny 15 BUFFALO BILLYCAN – Apple 16 CHARLES BROWN – Sweet Feeling 17 ROSIE CAN’T FLY – Sleepy 18 I KNOW, SHE BELIEVES – The Picadilly Line 19 THE LOBSTER – Fairport Convention 20 YELLOW BRICK ROAD – The Mindbenders 21 THE STORY OF DAVID – Granny’s Intentions 22 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT – Icarus 23 IS ANYBODY HOME? – The Mirage 24 WHY – Eyes Of Blond* *previously unreleased

1 WORLD WAR III – Dantalian’s Chariot 2 SEE THROUGH WINDOWS – Family 3 SALAD DAYS (ARE HERE AGAIN) – Procol Harum 4 THE TRUTH IS PLAIN TO SEE – Freedom 5 SUN SING – Force Four 6 MR SMALL THE WATCH REPAIRER MAN – Kaleidoscope 7 IMAGE BLOWN OUT – Genesis 8 LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING – The Creation 9 TAKING OUT TIME – The Spencer Davis Group 10 THAT MAN – Small Faces 11 YOU’RE HAUNTING ME – The Hi-Fis 12 MRS GILLESPIE’S REFRIGERATOR – Sands 13 PLEASE RETURN – Rust 14 LAST MINUTE – The Nashville Teens 15 ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER – The Alan Bown! 16 THE TOUCHABLES (ALL OF US) – Nirvana 17 HALLIFORD HOUSE – The Virgin Sleep 18 CATHERINE’S WHEEL – Denny Laine 19 GIRL IN THE MIRROR – Christopher Colt 20 ELEVATOR (single mix) – Grapefruit 21 WORLD IN MY HEAD – Mike Stuart Span 22 UFO – Neo Maya 23 THE LAUGHING MAN – John Carter & Russ Alquist 24 FLOATIN’ – Vamp 25 LIFE DOES NOT SEEM WHAT IT SEEMS – Tinsel Arcade* 26 SCENE OF THE LEMON QUEEN – One Step Beyond* *previously unreleased

DISC THREE:

1 HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO – The Yardbirds 2 HAVE SOME MORE TEA – The Smoke 3 WALK UPON THE WATER – The Move 4 JABBERWOCK – Boeing Duveen And The Beautiful Soup 5 THE MAD HATTER’S SONG – The Incredible String Band 6 SHOPLIFTERS – Ivor Cutler Trio 7 LOOK OUT THERE’S A MONSTER COMING – The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 8 SARA, CRAZY CHILD (extended German 45 version) – John’s Children 9 BEYOND THE RISING SUN – Tyrannosaurus Rex 10 HEY GIRL – JP Sunshine 11 MR SUNSHINE (film version) – Barclay James Harvest 12 TICK TOCK – Shyster 13 CHEADLE HEATH DELUSIONS – Felius Andromeda 14 THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF TIMOTHY CHASE – Tomorrow 15 THE BIRTHDAY – The Idle Race 16 HOW CAN WE HANG ON TO A DREAM? – The Moody Blues 17 YES IS A PLEASANT COUNTRY – Circus 18 SUMMER SUN SHINES – The Fresh Windows 19 THE BLUE MAN RUNS AWAY – Crystal Ship* 20 WHAT’S HAPPENING? – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown 21 MOTHER’S MAGAZINE – Mother’s Pride* 22 FLYING MACHINE – Turquoise 23 IN THE PARK – The Cortinas 24 HUNG UP ON A DREAM – The Zombies 25 WE ARE THE MOLES PART 1 – The Moles 26 WE ARE THE MOLES PART 2 – The Moles *previously unreleased

1 ARMENIA CITY IN THE SKY – The Who 2 FREDEREEK HERNANDO – One In A Million 3 FLOWERMAN – The Syn 4 I CAN HEAR COLOURS – The Motives 5 GREEN – The Lion & The Fish 6 I’M SO LOW (aka JET- PROPELLED PHOTOGRAPH) – The Soft Machine 7 JEANETTA – Mabel Greer’s Toyshop 8 COME OVER STRANGER – Canto 9 CHILDREN OF THE SUN (demo version) – The Misunderstood 10 BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 11 (I’M SO) SAD – The Magic Mixture 12 YOU’VE GOTTA HAVE LOVE BABE – The Graham Bond Organisation 13 RUMBLE OF MERSEY SQUARE SOUTH – Wimple Winch 14 COSMIC TRIP – Third Ear Band 15 I BRING THE SUN – John Bryant 16 POLICE IS HERE – A New Generation 17 SPICKS AND SPECKS – The Bee Gees 18 DEATH OF THE SEASIDE – The Human Instinct 19 BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER – Friday’s Chyld* 20 CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE – Jason Crest 21 TOYMAKER’S SHOP – Louise 22 PLASTIC AEROPLANE – Medium Rare* 23 VENUSIAN MOONSHINE (live at Middle Earth) – 117* *previously unreleased

1 PATH THROUGH THE FOREST – The Factory 2 FREEDOM FOR YOU – The Attack 3 WALKING THROUGH MY DREAMS – Pretty Things 4 DON’T GO ‘WAY LITTLE GIRL – The Shame 5 MY PRAYER – Tintern Abbey* 6 PHANTOM I – Jade Hexagram 7 COVER GIRL – Perfumed Garden 8 ROSE COLOURED GLASSES – The Tickle 9 AMY PEATE – The Orange Bicycle 10 DREAM IN MY MIND – Rupert’s People 11 SPIDER – Downliners Sect 12 WHAT ON EARTH (single mix) – Blossom Toes 13 BUILDING UP A DREAM – The End 14 THE CAT – The Merseys 15 PANDEMONIUM SHADOW SHOW – Mandrake Paddle Steamer 16 WATERWAYS (demo version) – East Of Eden 17 WHICH WAY – The Sorrows 18 BUN – The Deviants 19 ANOTHER VINCENT VAN GOGH – The 23rd Turnoff 20 SMILE AT THE SAD SUN – Champagne* 21 TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES – The Zany Woodruff Operation* 22 SITTING ON A BLUNESTONE – Tales Of Justine 23 BRAIN – The Action *previously unreleased

1 THINK I'M GOING WEIRD - Art 2 MY CLOWN (single mix) - July 3 THE VIEW – Gary Walker & The Rain 4 UTTERLY SIMPLE - Traffic 5 A WOMAN OF DISTINCTION - Caleb 6 LIKE THE SUN, LIKE THE FIRE – Simon Dupree & The Big Sound 7 LAZY OLD SUN (alternative version, stereo) – The Kinks 8 PLASTIC DAFFODILS – Atlanta Roots 9 PSYCHEDELIA – Ron Geesin 10 DREAM STARTS – Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera 11 TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE IN ME - Strawbs 12 FUNNIEST GIG – Manfred Mann 13 SUNNY CELLOPHANE SKIES – The Status Quo 14 MRS GRUNDY – Plastic Penny 15 BUFFALO BILLYCAN - Apple 16 CHARLES BROWN – Sweet Feeling 17 ROSIE CAN'T FLY - Sleepy 18 I KNOW, SHE BELIEVES – The Picadilly Line 19 THE LOBSTER – Fairport Convention 20 YELLOW BRICK ROAD – The Mindbenders 21 THE STORY OF DAVID – Granny's Intentions 22 THE DEVIL RIDES OUT - Icarus 23 IS ANYBODY HOME? - The Mirage 24 WHY – Eyes Of Blond* *previously unreleased

1 WORLD WAR III – Dantalian's Chariot 2 SEE THROUGH WINDOWS - Family 3 SALAD DAYS (ARE HERE AGAIN) – Procol Harum 4 THE TRUTH IS PLAIN TO SEE - Freedom 5 SUN SING – Force Four 6 MR SMALL THE WATCH REPAIRER MAN - Kaleidoscope 7 IMAGE BLOWN OUT - Genesis 8 LIFE IS JUST BEGINNING – The Creation 9 TAKING OUT TIME – The Spencer Davis Group 10 THAT MAN – Small Faces 11 YOU'RE HAUNTING ME – The Hi-Fis 12 MRS GILLESPIE'S REFRIGERATOR - Sands 13 PLEASE RETURN - Rust 14 LAST MINUTE – The Nashville Teens 15 ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER – The Alan Bown! 16 THE TOUCHABLES (ALL OF US) - Nirvana 17 HALLIFORD HOUSE – The Virgin Sleep 18 CATHERINE'S WHEEL – Denny Laine 19 GIRL IN THE MIRROR – Christopher Colt 20 ELEVATOR (single mix) - Grapefruit 21 WORLD IN MY HEAD – Mike Stuart Span 22 UFO – Neo Maya 23 THE LAUGHING MAN – John Carter & Russ Alquist 24 FLOATIN' - Vamp 25 LIFE DOES NOT SEEM WHAT IT SEEMS – Tinsel Arcade* 26 SCENE OF THE LEMON QUEEN – One Step Beyond* *previously unreleased

1 HAPPENINGS TEN YEARS TIME AGO – The Yardbirds 2 HAVE SOME MORE TEA – The Smoke 3 WALK UPON THE WATER – The Move 4 JABBERWOCK – Boeing Duveen And The Beautiful Soup 5 THE MAD HATTER'S SONG – The Incredible String Band 6 SHOPLIFTERS – Ivor Cutler Trio 7 LOOK OUT THERE'S A MONSTER COMING – The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band 8 SARA, CRAZY CHILD (extended German 45 version) – John's Children 9 BEYOND THE RISING SUN – Tyrannosaurus Rex 10 HEY GIRL - JP Sunshine 11 MR SUNSHINE (film version) – Barclay James Harvest 12 TICK TOCK - Shyster 13 CHEADLE HEATH DELUSIONS – Felius Andromeda 14 THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY OF TIMOTHY CHASE - Tomorrow 15 THE BIRTHDAY – The Idle Race 16 HOW CAN WE HANG ON TO A DREAM? - The Moody Blues 17 YES IS A PLEASANT COUNTRY - Circus 18 SUMMER SUN SHINES – The Fresh Windows 19 THE BLUE MAN RUNS AWAY – Crystal Ship* 20 WHAT'S HAPPENING? - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown 21 MOTHER'S MAGAZINE – Mother's Pride* 22 FLYING MACHINE - Turquoise 23 IN THE PARK – The Cortinas 24 HUNG UP ON A DREAM – The Zombies 25 WE ARE THE MOLES PART 1 – The Moles 26 WE ARE THE MOLES PART 2 – The Moles *previously unreleased

1 ARMENIA CITY IN THE SKY – The Who 2 FREDEREEK HERNANDO – One In A Million 3 FLOWERMAN – The Syn 4 I CAN HEAR COLOURS – The Motives 5 GREEN – The Lion & The Fish 6 I'M SO LOW (aka JET- PROPELLED PHOTOGRAPH) – The Soft Machine 7 JEANETTA – Mabel Greer's Toyshop 8 COME OVER STRANGER - Canto 9 CHILDREN OF THE SUN (demo version) – The Misunderstood 10 BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME – St. Valentine's Day Massacre 11 (I'M SO) SAD – The Magic Mixture 12 YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE LOVE BABE – The Graham Bond Organisation 13 RUMBLE OF MERSEY SQUARE SOUTH – Wimple Winch 14 COSMIC TRIP – Third Ear Band 15 I BRING THE SUN – John Bryant 16 POLICE IS HERE – A New Generation 17 SPICKS AND SPECKS – The Bee Gees 18 DEATH OF THE SEASIDE – The Human Instinct 19 BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER – Friday's Chyld* 20 CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE – Jason Crest 21 TOYMAKER'S SHOP - Louise 22 PLASTIC AEROPLANE – Medium Rare* 23 VENUSIAN MOONSHINE (live at Middle Earth) - 117* *previously unreleased

1 PATH THROUGH THE FOREST – The Factory 2 FREEDOM FOR YOU – The Attack 3 WALKING THROUGH MY DREAMS – Pretty Things 4 DON'T GO 'WAY LITTLE GIRL – The Shame 5 MY PRAYER – Tintern Abbey* 6 PHANTOM I – Jade Hexagram 7 COVER GIRL – Perfumed Garden 8 ROSE COLOURED GLASSES – The Tickle 9 AMY PEATE – The Orange Bicycle 10 DREAM IN MY MIND – Rupert's People 11 SPIDER – Downliners Sect 12 WHAT ON EARTH (single mix) – Blossom Toes 13 BUILDING UP A DREAM – The End 14 THE CAT – The Merseys 15 PANDEMONIUM SHADOW SHOW – Mandrake Paddle Steamer 16 WATERWAYS (demo version) – East Of Eden 17 WHICH WAY – The Sorrows 18 BUN – The Deviants 19 ANOTHER VINCENT VAN GOGH – The 23rd Turnoff 20 SMILE AT THE SAD SUN - Champagne* 21 TALES OF BRAVE ULYSSES – The Zany Woodruff Operation* 22 SITTING ON A BLUNESTONE – Tales Of Justine 23 BRAIN – The Action *previously unreleased

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Live music, reviews and opinion / est. 2018, various artists – think i’m going weird: original artefacts from the british psychedelic scene (1966-1968): boxset review.

Grapefruit’s landmark 100 th release – an eclectic delve into the British psychedelic scene period that came between pop and prog

Release Date :  29 th October 2021

Label : Grapefruit Records

Formats : 5CD Boxset

It had been coming for quite some time.  By 1965, bands and audiences – in both the UK and the USA – were becoming bored with the three verses, chorus and middle eight format of the standard pop song, weighed down as it was by inane “ My baby loves me ” lyrics and formulaic guitars, and were looking for something new.  Studio technology was advancing and bands were keen to explore the outer sonic limits of what could be achieved, and LSD – that “wonder drug” that (allegedly) allowed music makers to actually see the notes they were generating had made its tentative appearance on the music scene.

Of course, The Beatles had pricked up their ears and tuned in, particularly after George Harrison’s dentist, one John Riley, had spiked George’s John’s Pattie’s and Cynthia’s coffees during a dinner party in March 1965… but it was arguably The Byrds and The Yardbirds that stole the march to give the wider public their firsts tastes of what was to become known as psychedelia with their 1966 singles – respectively Eight Miles High and Shapes Of Things.  And, indeed, those Things would never be the same again.

Incidentally, the term “psychedelic” first saw light of day in 1956 when it was used by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond as a collective term for the hallucinogenic drugs that were beginning to be used in psychotherapy.  It was first applied to music in 1966 when it was used to describe the musical styles emerging in San Francisco that were apparently influenced by drug use.  Something was definitely afoot!

Psychedelic music quickly assumed its own characteristics; studio effects such as backward tapes and phasing were absorbed, keyboard instruments – Farfisa organs in particular – started to play a more prominent role, surrealist lyrics became the order of the day and no self-respecting psychedelic wannabe would consider releasing a record that didn’t include at least a touch of electronic sound from a mellotron or theremin. 

But at some point, the British psychedelic practitioners and their American counterparts went their (slightly) separate ways.  The American psychedelic scene, based mainly around the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco (but with sizeable pockets in the Midwest, on the East Coast and in Texas) tended to veer towards the jam-heavy acid rock characterized by bands such as The Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish and The Grateful Dead.  In Britain (well…. initially, London), however, the approach and imagery was far more whimsical.  The musical style was more recognizably linked to the pop tunes that preceded it, lyrics drew heavily upon childhood memories, acoustic and brass band instruments, piccolo trumpets and, crucially (thanks, no doubt, to the influence of The Beatles) eastern instruments such as sitars were used more commonly.  Furthermore, to reflect the Britishness of it all , Victorian and music hall imagery took centre-stage – images that were ably and abundantly catered for by Notting Hill and King’s Road boutiques with names like I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet and Granny Takes a Trip.

British psychedelia blossomed during the years 1966-1968, the period covered by this fascinating new collection from Grapefruit Records – the label’s landmark 100 th release – with established bands such as The Who and The Small Faces enthusiastically embracing the psychedelic culture, and newer bands such as The Move, Procol Harum, Pink Floyd, The Incredible String Band and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown achieving rapid yet significant success.  A thriving club scene that included venues such as UFO and Middle Earth provided a fertile breeding ground for other less successful but equally (arguably more) significant outfits such as Family, Fairport Convention, Dantalian’s Chariot, Blossom Toes and Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera.  It was a vibrant, intense and highly productive period that grew from the innocence of the pop scene and paved the way for the seventies and prog rock (and as if to emphasize that particular point, there’s a lovely preview within this collection of what a group of young Charterhouse students, calling themselves Genesis and mentored by Jonathan King – himself an Old Carthusian – were getting up to before they got down to the serious business of ejecting tenants (by Friday), watching the skies and preparing supper whilst dressed as a flower.)

Almost inevitably, it was over quickly.  By mid-1968, a back-to-basics mentality, ignited to a large degree by the success and accessibility of The Band’s Music From Big Pink was sweeping across Britain and the USA.  It was a wave so strong that even the likes of The Beatles, The Stones and Eric Clapton were unable to resist it.  Equally strong, at least in the UK, was a revitalized interest in Chicago Blues.  So it was that, spurred on by bands like Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack, or by The Band, the re-emerged Dylan and Gram Parsons, many of the former psychedelic magicians shed their kaftans and moved on to something more rootsy, workaday and, ultimately, equally rewarding.  But it was tremendous fun whilst it lasted!

The US mid-sixties psychedelic birth was, of course celebrated in style with Lenny Kaye’s iconic Nuggets compilation, back in 1972 – a collection also subtitled as “Original Artefacts.” And now, taking its cue from Nuggets, a flavour of those heady British psychedelic summer days (and it was always summer back then…) has been captured and bottled in this excellent new 5 CD collection.  As we’ve come to expect from the Grapefruit/Cherry Red stable, it’s another wonderful package.  The five discs and 60-page A5 book, packed with period photographs and reproductions of posters and gig adverts, are accommodated in an attractive hardback book in which David Wells provides detailed notes for each of the 123 tracks included in the compilation, as well as an informative and entertaining essay that describes, in detail, the rise, fall and lasting influence of the British psychedelic scene.

But, of course, it’s the music that matters, and, as usual, Grapefruit have come up with the goods – by the bucketful!

Anyone settling down to listen to Think I’m Going Weird… expecting to hear familiar hits is likely to be disappointed, but not, perhaps, for too long.  Many of the big names are here, but in a slightly less familiar guise that you may anticipate.  For instance, The Who are represented by Armenia City in the Sky, a track from The Who Sell Out and the band’s only co-write with future Thunderclap Newman frontman Speedy Keen.  It’s actually an inspired choice – a lesser known yet instantly likeable song that shows The Who in a psychedelic pomp that was so brief that many blinked and missed it first time around.

Likewise, Traffic’s contribution is Utterly Simple, a Dave Mason (the psychedelic foil to Steve Winwood’s white soul) track from their 1967 Getting-it-together-in-the country opus, Mr Fantasy.  The selected Procol Harum track is Salad days (Are Here Again) from the band’s 1967 eponymous debut album and The Move offer Walk Upon The Water, a track from their ambitious first album.

And those examples are just the slightest scratch of the surface of the goodies on offer.  Think I’m Going Weird… is a veritable who’s who of the bands that ploughed their psychedelic furrows during those halcyon days – it’s almost a case of, You name them, they’re here…  Strawbs, Manfred Man, Status Quo, Fairport Convention, The Mindbenders, The Spencer Davis Group, The Small Faces, The Kinks, The Nashville Teens, The Zombies,  The Bee Gees, and The Merseys all show a psychedelic side of their repertoire that you perhaps didn’t know existed (although, in the particular case of The Zombies, if you haven’t heard Odessey and Oracle, their 1968 pastoral/psychedelic masterpeice, you’re really missing a treat).  Family, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown,  The Yardbirds,  The Pretty Things, The Incredible String Band and Tyrannosaurus Rex all remind us what British psychedelia was all about and there are oodles of obscure gems from bands that are only now gaining their first taste of public exposure – bands like Norfolk’s Eyes Of Blond, with their stunning rendition of The Byrds’ Why, Tinsel Arcade with their excellent Life Does Not Seem What It Seems and Crystal Ship, who offer up the magnificent The Blue Man Runs Away – a song with lyrics from Cream associate and famed counterculture poet and performance artist Pete Brown.

And I could go on, because there’s lots, lots more – bands and artists that you’ll know and others that you’ll have never heard of, but each and every contribution evokes that amazing period of the late sixties when anything and everything seemed possible and no-one seemed afraid of reaching for the stars.  With over five hours of playing time, Think I’m Going Weird… is a collection that only the most dedicated acidhead would seriously consider sitting through in a single session, but it’s the perfect set for dipping in and out of as the mood suits, to accompany a summer barbeque, perhaps, or to just relive or rediscover that elusive vibe of ’66-’68. Grapefruit Records have done it again!!

Listen to The Zombies’ Hung Up On a Dream, a track from the boxset, here:

And watch Move perform their psychedelic classic, Walk Upon The Water, another selection from the boxset, here:

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This collection is Grapefruit Records 100th release.  It is an overview of the British psychedelic scene with a fivexCD/book set that includes more than 50 minutes of previously unreleased music from the halcyon period 1966-68. It is a collection of the known, the obscure and the rare,and features a 25,000-word track-by-track assessment alongside some extraordinary photos and memorabilia.

*previously unreleased

• Think I’m Going Weird
• My Clown (Single Mix)
• Utterly Simple
• A Woman Of Distinction
• Like The Sun, Like The Fire
• Lazy Old Sun (Alternative Version, Stereo)
• Plastic Daffodils
• Psychedelia
• ream Starts
• Tell Me What You See In Me
• Funniest Gig
• Sunny Cellophane Skies
• Buffalo Billycan
• Charles Brown
• Rosie Can’t Fly
• I Know, She Believes
• The Lobster
• Yellow Brick Road
• The Story Of David
• The Devil Rides Out
• Is Anybody Home?
• World War Iii
• See Through Windows
• Salad Days (Are Here Again)
• The Truth Is Plain To See
• Mr Small The Watch Repairer Man
• Image Blown Out
• Life Is Just Beginning
• Taking Out Time
• You’re Haunting Me
• Mrs Gillespie’s Refrigerator
• Please Return
• Last Minute
• All Along The Watchtower
• The Touchables (All Of Us)
• Halliford House
• Catherine’s Wheel
• Girl In The Mirror
• Elevator (Single Mix)
• World In My Head
• The Laughing Man
• Floatin’
• Life Does Not Seem What It Seems*
• Scene Of The Lemon Queen*
• Happenings Ten Years Time Ago
• Have Some More Tea
• Walk Upon The Water
• The Mad Hatter’s Song
• Shoplifters
• Look Out There’s A Monster Coming
• Sara, Crazy Child (Extended German 45 Version)
• Beyond The Rising Sun
• Mr Sunshine (Film Version)
• Cheadle Heath Delusions
• The Incredible Journey Of Timothy Chase
• The Birthday
• How Can We Hang On To A Dream?
• Yes Is A Pleasant Country
• Summer Sun Shines
• The Blue Man Runs Away*
• What’s Happening?
• Mother’s Magazine*
• Flying Machine
• In The Park
• Hung Up On A Dream
• We Are The Moles Part
• Armenia City In The Sky
• Fredereek Hernando
• I Can Hear Colours
• I’m So Low (Aka Jet- Propelled Photograph)
• Come Over Stranger
• Children Of The Sun (Demo Version)
• Brother Can You Spare A Dime
• (I’m So) Sad
• You’ve Gotta Have Love Babe
• Rumble Of Mersey Square South
• Cosmic Trip
• I Bring The Sun
• Police Is Here
• Spicks And Specks
• Death Of The Seaside
• Boys And Girls Together*
• Charge Of The Light Brigade
• Toymaker’s Shop
• Plastic Aeroplane*
• Venusian Moonshine (Live At Middle Earth)*
• Path Through The Forest
• Freedom For You
• Walking Through My Dreams
• Don’t Go ‘way Little Girl
• Rose Coloured Glasses
• Dream In My Mind
• What On Earth (Single Mix)
• Building Up A Dream
• Pandemonium Shadow Show
• Waterways (Demo Version)
• Another Vincent Van Gogh
• Smile At The Sad Sun*
• Tales Of Brave Ulysses*
• Sitting On A Blunestone
• Gary Walker & The Rain
• Simon Dupree & The Big Sound
• Atlanta Roots
• Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera
• Manfred Mann
• The Status Quo
• Plastic Penny
• Sweet Feeling
• The Picadilly Line
• Fairport Convention
• The Mindbenders
• Granny’s Intentions
• Eyes Of Blond
• Dantalian’s Chariot
• Procol Harum
• Kaleidoscope
• The Creation
• The Spencer Davis Group
• Small Faces
• The Nashville Teens
• The Alan Bown!
• The Virgin Sleep
• Denny Laine
• Christopher Colt
• Mike Stuart Span
• John Carter & Russ Alquist
• Tinsel Arcade
• One Step Beyond
• The Yardbirds
• Boeing Duveen And The Beautiful Soup
• The Incredible String Band
• Ivor Cutler Trio
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
• John’s Children
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Jp Sunshine
• Barclay James Harvest
• Felius Andromeda
• The Idle Race
• The Moody Blues
• The Fresh Windows
• Crystal Ship
• The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
• Mother’s Pride
• The Cortinas
• The Zombies
• One In A Million
• The Motives
• The Lion & The Fish
• The Soft Machine
• Mabel Greer’s Toyshop
• The Misunderstood
• St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
• The Magic Mixture
• The Graham Bond Organisation
• Wimple Winch
• Third Ear Band
• John Bryant
• A New Generation
• The Bee Gees
• The Human Instinct
• Friday’s Chyld
• Jason Crest
• Medium Rare
• The Factory
• Pretty Things
• Tintern Abbey
• Jade Hexagram
• Perfumed Garden
• The Orange Bicycle
• Rupert’s People
• Downliners Sect
• Blossom Toes
• The Merseys
• Mandrake Paddle Steamer
• East Of Eden
• The Sorrows
• The Deviants
• The 23rd Turnoff
• The Zany Woodruff Operation
• Tales Of Justine

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Daniel Kramer, Who Photographed Bob Dylan’s Rise, Dies at 91

For 366 days, he captured intimate images of the singer-songwriter as he changed the look and sound of the 1960s.

By Alex Williams

Daniel Kramer, a photojournalist who captured Bob Dylan’s era-tilting transformation from acoustic guitar-strumming folky to electric prince of rock in the mid-1960s, and who shot the covers for his landmark albums “Bringing It All Back Home” and “Highway 61 Revisited,” died on April 29 in Melville, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 91.

His death, in a nursing home, was confirmed by his nephew Brian Bereck.

Rolling Stone magazine once described Mr. Kramer as “the photographer most closely associated with Bob Dylan.” But that designation seemed highly improbable at the outset.

Although Mr. Dylan had already begun his rise to global fame — he released his third album, “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” in early 1964 — Mr. Kramer knew little about him.

That changed in February 1964, when he watched the 22-year-old Mr. Dylan perform his rueful ballad “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” on “The Steve Allen Show.” The song details a real event in which a Black woman died after being struck with a cane by a wealthy white man at a white-tie Baltimore party.

“I hadn’t heard or seen him,” Mr. Kramer said in a 2012 interview with Time magazine. “I didn’t know his name, but I was riveted by the power of the song’s message of social outrage and to see Dylan reporting like a journalist through his music and lyrics.”

As a young Brooklynite trying to carve out a career as a freelance photographer, Mr. Kramer decided he had to arrange a photo shoot with the budding legend. He spent six months dialing the office of Mr. Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman. “The office always said no ,” Mr. Kramer said in a 2016 interview with the British newspaper The Guardian. Finally, six months later, Mr. Grossman himself took his call. “He just said, ‘O.K., come up to Woodstock next Thursday.’”

A one-hour shoot on Aug. 27 turned into a five-hour shoot, which turned into a 366-day photographic odyssey in which Mr. Kramer captured rare behind-the-scenes images of Mr. Dylan at home, on tour and in recording sessions as he was lighting the fuse that helped spark the countercultural explosion of the 1960s.

Soon Mr. Kramer’s Dylan images were popping up in publications around the world. Mr. Kramer published two collections, “Bob Dylan” (1967) and “Bob Dylan: A Year and a Day” (2018), which contained nearly 200 photos.

To Dylanologists, 1965 was the year of the big bang. In July, the future Nobel Prize winner shocked traditionalists at the Newport Folk Festival by ditching his acoustic guitar for a Fender Stratocaster, backed by a fully amplified band.

It was one of the most storied, and dissected, moments in rock history. “In most tellings, Dylan represents youth and the future , and the people who booed were stuck in the dying past,” Elijah Wald wrote in “Dylan Goes Electric!” (2015). “But there is another version, in which the audience represents youth and hope, and Dylan was shutting himself off behind a wall of electric noise, locking himself in a citadel of wealth and power.”

As Mr. Kramer later put it: “Bob didn’t really want to be Woody Guthrie. He wanted to be Elvis Presley.”

The photographer had his own quibble about this historical moment: At a shoot at a Columbia Records studio in New York for the seismic 1965 album “Bringing It All Back Home,” he had already witnessed Mr. Dylan plugging in and forging his own brand of rock ’n’ roll.

“People always say that Dylan went electric at Newport in the summer of 1965,” he told Rolling Stone. “Well, not to me he didn’t. I saw him go electric that January, when it was still snowing.”

Mr. Kramer also shot the cover image for the album. One of the most recognizable in rock history, it depicts a dapper Mr. Dylan seated with a cat on his lap in the living room of Mr. Grossman’s house near Woodstock, N.Y., surrounded by a jumble of magazines, record albums and a fallout shelter sign, with his manager’s wife, Sally Grossman , in a red dress, staring on from a sofa behind him. Mr. Kramer earned a Grammy nomination for the image.

Mr. Kramer later said that he took only 10 shots that day, and that the final image was chosen because it was “the only one in which the cat was looking at the lens .”

He also discussed the circular aurora effect overlaying the image, which lent it psychedelic overtones.

“People think I used Vaseline to create that circular image or that it’s a blur,” Mr. Kramer once said. “That’s not what I did. It’s two different pictures on one film. One is moved, and one is not. I wanted to simulate a record spinning or the universe of music.”

Later that year, Mr. Kramer shot the cover for “Highway 61 Revisited,” a casual candid showing Mr. Dylan, in a Triumph motorcycles T-shirt, seated on the stoop of the Manhattan building where his manager lived and flashing a vaguely menacing glare. “He’s almost challenging me or you or whoever’s looking at it,” Mr. Kramer recalled: “‘What are you gonna do about it, buster?’”

Mr. Kramer was born on May 19, 1932, in Brooklyn, the eldest of three children of Irving Kramer, a dockworker and amateur filmmaker, and Ethel (Berland) Kramer, a hospital administrator.

“At an early age I migrated to the camera ,” he said in a 1995 interview with The New York Times. “By age 14, I had a one-boy show at the junior high school.

He worked as an assistant to the photographer Philippe Halsman, and to the team of Allan and Diane Arbus , in addition to studying at Brooklyn College and serving in the U.S. Army.

During his year with Mr. Dylan, Mr. Kramer was granted unrivaled access. In an interview published by Govinda Gallery in Washington, which mounted an exhibition of his Dylan photos in 1999, Mr. Kramer recalled a show at Lincoln Center in New York in October 1964, where the venue’s management informed Mr. Kramer that he would be restricted to a glass-enclosed balcony during the performance.

“So Bob said to his manager, ‘You tell them here that if he can’t do whatever he wants to do, I’m not going on,’” Mr. Kramer recalled.

Away from the stage, he managed to capture Mr. Dylan in rare moments of downtime — aiming a cue in an upstate New York pool hall, playing chess in a Woodstock cafe. One of his most famous shots from the period was a black-and-white portrait of Mr. Dylan in sunglasses, standing in front of the empty bleachers of Forest Hills Stadium in Queens before a concert on Aug. 28, 1965.

That shoot marked the end of Mr. Kramer’s run as Mr. Dylan’s de facto house photographer. “I didn’t want people to think that’s all I did,” he said.

Shooting portraits of luminaries for a variety of publications over the years, he maintained his ability to connect with them on an intimate level. “I’ve had a writing lesson from Norman Mailer, a boxing lesson from Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, and a harmonica lesson from Bob Dylan,” he told The Times.

Mr. Kramer married Arline Cunningham in 1968. She died in 2016. No immediate family members survive.

While he was well aware that he was privileged to serve as a witness to pop music history, Mr. Kramer later said that the magnitude of what was unfolding before his lens was not always so apparent at the time.

“You don’t know someone’s changing the world,” he said, “until the world’s been changed.”

Alex Williams is a Times reporter on the Obituaries desk. More about Alex Williams

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