Primarily a period piece, there is something truly entrancing about this album. The backing tracks are mostly placed behind narration, but the music is interesting, with Freak Out, Re-Entryand Epilogue suggesting the trip the instrumentalists might have taken on their own. Learys acid guru recitations are buoyed by the backing music and sounds, and Learys fourth wife, Rosemary Woodruff, echoes Leary and provides additional guidance. Leary leads Metzner to focus on the metaphysical as the backing sounds flow in nameless and timeless patterns, and he bids Metzner to float beyond fear. Originally released in 1967 by the Mercury label, the albums essence was further fuzzed by a 1966 release with the same title, but different content. bonus track Look Both Ways), and enticing collectors with red-and-yellow starburst vinyl.Ī like-named film reportedly documented the first LSD trip of psychologist, and Learys fellow Harvard psychedelic researcher Ralph Metzner but on record, Learys acid-journey guidance is accompanied by a blend of eastern and western instrumentation that includes guitar, tablas, the sitar-like veena, voices, chanting, sound effects and studio manipulations. Real Gones reissue returns the album to its original vinyl format for the first time in more than thirty years, reproducing the original cover art and U.S.
Only the Rain Parade, sans co-founder David Roback, continued to till soil similar to their debut, releasing the EP Explosions in the Glass Palace in 1984. The scene rapidly outgrew its foundations as the bands explored individual directions The Dream Syndicate signed with AM and recorded a muscular sophomore album that bore little resemblance to their debut, the Bangles signed with Columbia and began the makeover that sanded off the folk roots of their rock, the Three OClock signed with IRS and recorded an album in Berlin that was less flower powered, and Green on Red transitioned into Americana. The groups dreamy, somnambulistic psychedelia was foreshadowed by their 1982 single What Shes Done to Your Mind, but its impact at album length was something entirely greater, as the group really hit the nerve at the root of the Paisley Underground.
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The CD version of this album also includes the band’s 1984 EP, “Explosions in the Glass Palace.” The quintet disbanded after the release of its second studio album, 1986’s “Crashing Dream.” Roback is currently co-leader of the similarly dour but much better known Mazzy Star.Standing tall among these neo-psych icons was the Rain Parades first full length, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip. The album closing “Kaleidoscope” is a deliciously slow and melodic number buttressed by David Roback’s moody and multifaceted guitar work. The jangly “I Look Around” revisits the hook-laden psychedelic rock of the “Revolver"-era Beatles. Yet the aptly named Rain Parade is still basically a guitar-centered band capable of delivering the occasional standout pop tune.
“Emergency Third Rail Power Trip” is a highly textural work. “This Can’t Be Today” is a hazy-spirited song enlivened by some exotic Middle Eastern instrumental flourishes “1 Hr 1/2 Ago” has the improvised, anything goes feel of the Grateful Dead live, and “Look at Merri” is a wispy, off-center journey into the subconscious.
But unlike most New Age music, which has a similarly reflective bent, there’s enough variety and punch to the Rain Parade’s melancholy musings to keep you from drifting off into snoozeville.
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