Psychedelic Get Down Party

 Leary's LP was released in August '66, when Rusty Evans was recording his.
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In '65 there was the group Psychedelic Rangers .
But no lps were released.

Lord. At least when I mixed up Barbara Eden with Barbara Feldon we got a hottie either way. But, Shelley Winters??  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwaG23M084c

 When you want to go extreme Trans Cosmic-Trip Express, and utterly flip your lid -like Beany Boy and Cecil the Seasick Serpent - try TAKEHISHA KOSHUGI's "CatchWave" lp ,('75).
Greg Pawleko really goes for this one in his catalogue and warns that them who fly the heights dont necessarily come back down.
But a warning word - this is not yer melodic prog.Pretty it aint. Pure harrowing/mesmerizing Kosmic. Rather sparse, avant -lots of distorted vocals.
Sammmmy never checked, but Im certain this former leader of Taj Mahal Travellers and East Bionic Symphonia ('76),appears on the legendary Nurse With Wound Reference List (which all RIOists and noise-gardeners should indelibly commit to memory.)

For good (though badly recorded) music that still stands up and often references actual psychedelic experiences, it is hard to beat the Elevators.  They were ahead of the pack of actual rock bans.  It's a shame they didn't get noticed more outside of Texas and California. 

The 13th Floor Elevators certainly played and recorded all their music on acid and their 1966 album had the word "Psychedelic" in its title. They were preforming in Austin well before the album was released. Not to be pedantic, but the word was coined by Humphrey Osmond in 1957, so the claim is credible.

Many authorities on the subject (e.g., Patrick Lundborg in 2010. The Acid Archives (2nd ed.). Lysergia. p. 394) assert that the Elevators are the "first" psychedelic rock group. Powell St. John (later of "Mother Earth") and a member of 13th Floor discusses "the life and times" here--> http://www.musicliferadio.com/2010/10/024-sultan-of-psychedelia/.

Regardless, Roky Erikson was a very early casualty (and a sad one, too) of the "War On Drugs".