Rockasteria

On a sunny Southern California morning in late 1971, fledgling songwriter/promoter James "Clyde" Lutrell was hitchhiking and got p...

 Chicago-based group called the MOB, a seven-piece “show band” that had been playing around the Windy City for years. Jimmy Jimmy Holvay and...

Umbra was founded in 1969 and continued to solidify into 1970. Steve describes Umbra as “a progressive, psychedelic, jam group”.  I had the ...

In 1968, the band Misty came to be when organist Michael, who’d turned down a university place to pursue his musical dream, and bassist Stev...

Rare collection of artists  from the mid-60's and most of them have been lost in the whirl of time, but they managed to record few li...

First known as the 60's indie Psych-Folk duo 'Roger And Wendy' and then the sunshine pop band 'Euphoria', Bermuda Triang...

Arthur Brown is synonymous with his 1968 hit "Fire", and the Hammond-driven "Crazy World" line-up which spawned it. Howe...

There are many different kinds of records. Some latch onto you almost immediately and either stand the test of time or else slip away as eas...

Sounding like a blend of Jefferson Airplane and the Doors, Bow Street Runners was a Fayetteville, North Carolina-based psychedelic...

A British group from Birmingham (not to confused with the US Californian band with the same name),  with a surprisingly no-nonsense approach...

Here's one of those obscure outfits that collectors love to heavily hype.  Bassist Dave Nichols, singer Alan Pearse, drum...

Michael George "Chick" Churchill is a classically-trained pianist best-known as on/off keyboard man with Ten Years After...

Born Ronald Raymond Barrosse in 1943, Barron worked with Rebennack during his early days as an A&R man for Specialty and Ace records in ...

Gillian McPherson, was a folk singer from Northern Ireland who had her first (and only) major label release out*‘Poets, Painters and Perform...

In 1965, the “music scene” in America was often conservative yet diverse, similar throughout many regions. University students had access to...

Truk hailed  from Oklahoma, and played a high energy  Hard Rock magma punctuated with stunning heavy organ, there is a good cover o...

Ned four young men who chance brought together in a Harvard dorm in 1969. Rokko Jans and Jeffrey Parsons were attending Harvard while Nick T...