Well this is the only one I can find from 1966 with the word in the title. https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/7011-13th-floor-elevators-the-psychedelic-sounds-of-the-13th-fl... |
13th Floor Elevators lp was released November ’66 The Deep release date is unclear ,but thought to be late October/early Nov. ........................ Rusty Evans started off as rockabilly, releasing his first lp ,"I lived,I loved,I lost" in '63. Then there was the "Songs of Our Land" lp which - as you may think from the title - had Guthrie/Seeger folk moves. I think two other lps followed - none of interest here. He shared Greenwitch venue with the likes of folkies like Fred Neil and Dylan. (Crosby too.) 2 Folkways lps and "All Night Singers" with two women in the band. In '65, Rusty first dipped into "psych"-lite with the single "1983" on Musicor label. Later he had connections with the excellent Tripsichord Music Box, Its A Beautiful Day and 5th Pipe Dream. The Deep kicked-off as a clearly garage/folkrock. (I never could hear much psych here, but,afterall, this was psych in its most rudimentary stage. Because of the (unfortunate) front cover where "Psychedelic Psoul" is put directly above Freakscene, peeps - what is the word? - misconstrued it to think the band named P.Psoul. (An even better example of confusion-rendering is the Joyride/Friendsound lp.) The trouble with The Freak Scene lp is the throw-away counterculture-narration track. "Draft Beer Not Students" is plain irksome (and very dated) fill. The other thing is that it was recorded high into the treble. This can grate if you take in the whole lp - however short it is - at one listen. Oh yeah - there is a slowed-down version of the classic, "Million Grains of Sand" on the Marcus lp -bitta orchestrated as well. |
Sammmmmy has not listened to The Deep lp for over 20 years now, but, on recently taking the short 31 minutes ,Sammms be distinctly under-whelmed on the psychedelic front. |
