#psycadelia

[moo-savr]

gift for my one and only @pacific-watercress 💖

[stefanonavarrini]

I want to hear the scream of the butterfly

[rileymakai]

"A real index of intelligence is humor. It requires great affection for people and the world and the act of being, a forgiveness and a bemusement. The sure sign of the fanatic is an absence of humor."

- Terence McKenna

[tunesidigdotcom-blog]

YAWN - "Flytrap"

Love Chills (2014) - Buy (Album drops September 9, 2014)

If you can read this, I'm in Montreal.  It's Thursday, July 31st, and I'm going to get very, veeery drunk tonight.  Here's a really good neo-psycadelia rock song!

- Marco Pitino

[raymondwalker-co-uk]

Sting, these days a Jazz master was remarking upon how hard it is to get there. For all you rock musicians and bands out there i shall tell you a cautionary tale.

I should say here that giving Sting his due, I (in the dim distant past) was part of group trying to make it, actually just before "the police" made it and it is very hard work, six or seven nights a week, from three in the afternoon till two or three in morning (sound checks, rehearsals, writing new material, getting your sound right and the gig itself) you are sweating blood. It will be easier (i suspect) for those bands that did make it, yet fail for a second and you are forgotten. I imagine he was talking about all the effort that it took to get where he is and that is immense. Just as a wee example for you, the band i was with were signed and had a single out in 1978, just as the punk movement started. We played R&B and psychedelia, but it was thought that we could be "Handled" into the punk movement. I was sixteen and only two months into University. Three weeks later as our first single stuttered up the lower reaches of the UK singles chart i was given an ultimatum, tour and promote or give it up for good. Now every young boy (or me at least) wants to be a rock star and so i left Uni. The other members of the band left their jobs in a bank, working in a pub and as an investment analyst and the next day were in London playing a punk club in Soho. It was completely bizarre, and remember i am a highlander, used to seeing sheep and cows more than people. A month later and the single was in the top fifty and everyone thought we would be stars and we were on a plane to Tokyo for a two week whistle stop tour of Japan. We would play every night for the two weeks in different clubs here and there flying between them all.

If the single still kept on climbing, we would go from Japan straight to America.

One of the fellows just could not keep up and collapsed on the second night in Japan (still in Tokyo) but the company found us another drummer and we continued. The next to go was my best friend at the time and the one that recruited me to the band, he dropped in Osaka and he, being not only the most talented of us, but the glue that held us together sounded the death knell of the band. The single reached No 38 and then started to fall.

All that know the Britain of the time will know that it was getting into the top thirty (top of the pops etc) that mattered and we had not done that. Worse we had let the company down, we had failed and that was made quite plain to us. We all got back to the UK in various states of exhaustion and the record company that had worked us ceaselessly were magnanimous and asked us to make another single and sent us out on the road once more. Our singer had lost his voice completely and was so disillusioned with the whole idea that he refused to go and even walked out while we were trying to make the second single. I tried to fill in. Now (and anyone that has heard me sing will know this fact) I cant. We cut the set list and added new stuff to it, stuff that really didn't involve much singing. We finished the tour mainly intact (the second single just (and i mean just) got into the top one hundred here) and the band was done. Two of us gave it another try with a female singer and played a few clubs with a different drummer and guitarist but i think we already knew it was done. What had made us good was our guitarist, who was a genius, he had started with classical guitar at the age of three, grown bored by eleven. Started on Jazz guitar and finally had found a love for R&B. Our multi-instrumentalist who could not play the guitar as well as our lead guitar player but could play every instrument in an orchestra decided investment banking really was for him and left. and so a warning to you all, It is hard work tiring and scary.

[just---ordinary]

i would use this guys artworks as my album covers (yes i know they are already existing album covers but damn)

[dolphinshark]

[icanonlygetso-blog]

Sun Airway - "Put the Days Away" Dead Oceans (by BlankTV)

keep on keeping on.