Ogden's Nut Gone Flake.... Psychedelic?

[anotherbob]

I wouldn't say the Small Faces were obscure- they had hits. Stevie Marriott is in my opinion the finest and most soulful white blues/rock vocalist of his era, see- Humble Pie.
This record has been mentioned here on the forum at least a handful of times in the last year.
Pay attention!

I also don't really consider them psychedelic and much more a sub genre of Pop.

 

[SmokingInTheWind]

I wouldn't say the Small Faces were obscure- they had hits. Stevie Marriott is in my opinion the finest and most soulful white blues/rock vocalist of his era, see- Humble Pie.
This record has been mentioned here on the forum at least a handful of times in the last year.
Pay attention!

Here is a good example. Steve Marriott with Humble Pie.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I also don't really consider them psychedelic and much more a sub genre of Pop.

Psychedelic has changed meanings over the years. I concidered Pink Floyd and their surreal lyrics and drippy sounds to be psychedelic. Then a friend made an argument for the Grateful Dead being Psychedelic, but to me, it just sounds like bad form, bad timing, and off key singing, with lyrics that just don't make any sense to me.
Then recently someone tried to turn me on to Tame Impala, telling me that they were psychedelic, but they just sounded "soft" as a loss for a better word. Like you are meant to wrap yourself up in cotton and bubble wrap to listen to it.
As someone who has never tried LSD, I am not quite sure which bands are truly psychedelic. I think of trippy as the way the word surreal is used in art... but I can't be sure exactly whether that is true or not. I can better relate to surreal than trippy.

 

[anotherbob]

Psychedelic has changed meanings over the years. I concidered Pink Floyd and their surreal lyrics and drippy sounds to be psychedelic. Then a friend made an argument for the Grateful Dead being Psychedelic, but to me, it just sounds like bad form, bad timing, and off key singing, with lyrics that just don't make any sense to me.
Then recently someone tried to turn me on to Tame Impala, telling me that they were psychedelic, but they just sounded "soft" as a loss for a better word. Like you are meant to wrap yourself up in cotton and bubble wrap to listen to it.
As someone who has never tried LSD, I am not quite sure which bands are truly psychedelic. I think of trippy as the way the word surreal is used in art... but I can't be sure exactly whether that is true or not. I can better relate to surreal than trippy.

@anotherbob don't forget to reply to this

 

[jaingorenard]

The Small Faces make much more sense in the context of the 60s mod movement in the UK. I think of them more as a white soul band in some ways.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I was surprised when I was checking out early BeeGees music. They had a mod or Beatle-esque sound in the beginning also. This was before they started the whole disco thing.

 

[beefeater33]

As someone who has never tried LSD

You only need to take it once....................

 

[AJL67]

Ogden nuts and he gets a thread? Boy this site has changed, but congrats, Ogden?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

You only need to take it once....................

I had a conversation with a couple of guys in college who were on it, and decided that it just wasn’t for me. I’m creative with a wonderful imagination, pretty intelligent, with good impulse control. Guys who we’re getting high and taking things like that just never seemed to pull themselves up. I also am not really a drinker.

I’m not bragging, just never felt a need to alter my reality like that. I’ve done well for myself. If drugs like that get you where you want, then fine. I just don’t want to go where they seem to be wallowing.

 

[brian64]

I just had never heard of the band. I just recently started listening to Donavan.

There's another groovy new act called Jefferson Airplane you just gotta hear!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Wasn't it Jefferson Airplane that became Jefferson Starship when they decided to suck?

 

[anotherbob]

the fun thing is the definition of psychedelic music is pretty much music that sounds like people on drugs would like it. Or basically anything from traditional music with a kick of reverb all the way down to noise sculptures (this song is ten tamborines a blue tooth mic thrown in a dryer with a lb of ball bearings.

 

[AJL67]

Wasn't it Jefferson Airplane that became Jefferson Starship when they decided to suck?

Hey take that back they built this city!

 

[anotherbob]

Wasn't it Jefferson Airplane that became Jefferson Starship when they decided to suck?

Nope it's when they chose to be more sci fi blues and then started sucking shortly after that. The suck and the name change were close but not concurrent.

 

[anotherbob]

Hey take that back they built this city!

You know they're full of it. Not only did they not build a city (they would have named it in the song if they did), but rock and roll is a terrible for structural support. So even if they did everyone there is freaking dead. Just thought you should know they made that stuff up.

 

[georged]

Speaking of Humble Pie, I saw them live in August of 1972 in a giant art deco auditorium in Kansas City.

The opening band? Ramatam. A group that Jimi Hendrix's drummer Mitch Mitchell started after Jimi died. (It was a flop, but famous in rock history circles for having a female lead singer---April Lawton---who actually, well, wasn't. lol Otherwise known as drag queen story hour through 100K watts of amplification.)

What made the show special, though, was the "extra" band that played before Ramatam. (Different bands were given the spot at different shows as the tour crossed the country. Their names weren't on the posters, and they barely got paid. They did it for publicty.)

THAT little band was playing for the first time away from their home turf.

Only one of 'em had a beard yet.

The guitar player wore an enormous hat and outrageously blinged leather jacket with "TEXAS" across the back, the bass player looked like a serial killer who'd turned his lust to music, and the drummer locked 'em both in like a freight train.

Absolutely burned the house down. I'm surprised Humble Pie didn't quit and go home.

 

[Hillcrest]

I’m creative with a wonderful imagination, pretty intelligent, with good impulse control

You forgot modest !! ... Sing it brother !!

 

[ssjones]

Here is a good example. Steve Marriott with Humble Pie.

and by the Rival Sons.

 

[kcghost]

I have several covers of old cigars that would make great t-shirts including White Cat, La Flor de Lincoln, OpusX, Simon Bolivar, Sancho Panza, Punch, Vega Robaina, etc. I have more of these, but I don't feel like getting them out.

 

[OzPiper]

Britain is quite acceptable these days, or GREAT Britain to you .

Shouldn't that be "the once great Britain"
Sorry for the jibe.

Growing up in M'sia, I'm grateful to the Brits for their education and health systems. Along with their bureaucracy, law and justice.

Rampant corruption abounds now that the colonial "masters" have upped and left