Psychedelic breakfast: ‘Nut Gone Flake’

May 17, 2012

small faces album coverThe celebration of Britain’s the Small Faces continues with the rerelease of their original albums, including “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake,” the group’s psychedelic touchstone of 1968.

The three-CD “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake: Deluxe Edtition” officially drops in the U.S. on July 3, although Amazon U.S. currently carries it as an import. The recording went on sale in Britain on May 7.

The Small Faces (along with Faces) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 14.

“Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake” was famed in 1968 even by those who hadn’t heard the music. The circular unfolding cover, based on an old tobacco tin, proved both odd and revolutionary. Stoners loved it, along with the album’s trippy second side tied together by the babbling of U.K. comic Stanley Unwin.

Decades later, the concept album’s key song, “Lazy Sunday,” resurfaced as the inspiration for a “Saturday Night Live” video that went super-viral.

The Small Faces are best known for the heavily phased single “Itchykoo Park,” which, unfortunately, wasn’t included on the album despite being recorded a few months before. That pop psychedelic classic’s spirit and production style infuse the album, however.

While “Nut Gone Flake” has solid psychedelic era cred, the Small Faces were very much a soulful rock and roll band. The ringleaders were singers Ronnie Lane (bass) and Steve Mariott (guitar). The group spanned the mod and psychedelic eras of the 1960s but remained relatively unknown in the States. Lane later found Stateside success with Faces (Rod Stewart), while Mariott worked the colonies with Humble Pie.

The two surviving Small Faces members — keyboardist Ian McLagan and drummer Kenney Jones — participated in the Small Faces remasters project, with some multitracks coming from Jones’ collection. (Jones reports that many tapes have been stolen.)

The Ultimate CD Edition is limited to 5,000 copies, distributor Universal says.

Disc 1 contains the mono version of the album. Disc 2 presents 14 sonic artifacts, including alternate mixes and backing tracks. Disc 3 has the stereo version of “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake.”

Jones told Uncut: “We’ve fixed the tinniness (of previous CDs), and pulled Ronnie’s bass out more.”

In addition to sonic upgrades, the CD set includes a 10-page booklet that seeks to replicate the interactive original album cover. There also is a 24-page booklet.

Fresh Strawberry Alarm Clock album

March 26, 2012

Strawberry Alarm Clock psychedelic bandPsychedelic hitmakers the Strawberry Alarm Clock are back with their first new album in 40 years.

The band plans a one-off concert in L.A. to support the CD “Wake Up Where You Are,” released in late March by the indie label Global Recording Artists.

“We are holding our breaths,” keyboardist Mark Weitz says. “It could go somewhere or nowhere. But at least it will go!”

(Update: The band played before a youthful and appreciative audience in Silver Lake. The new songs went over very well.)

“Wake Up Where You Are” is a mix of new SAC songs, two covers and reinterpretations of some of their psychedelic rock classics (but not “Incense and Peppermints”).

The band chose their cover of Sky Saxon’s “Mr. Farmer” as the lead-off track. The song may surprise fans with its infectious blast of hard rock, sung by Weitz. If the CD has a hit single, this is it. (Two versions of the song appear on the album — a single and a seven-minute take with some serious acid rock going down.)

The band — Mark Weitz, George Bunnell, Randy Seol, Howie Anderson and Gene Gunnels — will perform April 25 at the Satellite Club in L.A.’s Silver Lake district. (That’s the old Spaceland space.)

What about touring plans beyond the L.A. gig?

“Probably,” Weitz says. “If we make it through this concert successfully, barring anyone dying or succumbing to a wheelchair, we’ll be for sure having more work on the horizon.

“This is our ‘last-chance gas station tour,’ so to speak,” Weitz says with a grin. “I’ll have to admit, it’s more a race against arthritis and time! Ouch.”

The Strawberry Alarm Clock collectively qualifies for AARP discounts these days, true. And the group lost one of its key original members, Lee Freeman, to illness in early 2010.

But Weitz needn’t alert the paramedics just yet. The Strawberry Alarm Clock plays with passion and verve these days. They last performed in public in late 2010.

“We are gonna kick some psychedelic ass” at the Silver Lake show, the keyboardist vows.

The album takes its name from “Wake Up,” a heavy new song from guitarist Anderson. The track features psychedelic touches such as backward guitar and cymbals. The extended ending came from a studio jam that broke out after “Wake Up” was recorded but proved too good to throw away.

Longtime band collaborator Steve Bartek (Oingo Boingo) produced the album and played on most of its tracks.

Unlike many ’60s hitmakers, the Strawberry Alarm Clock weren’t looking to cash in by rerecording their glory-days songs. The tracks were cut to get the band back into studio shape, but ultimately the musicians liked the results enough to release them.

“Our real intention was to write and record new songs,” bassist George Bunnell says. “We just wanted to get back to our roots a bit, establish a method and move on from there.”

“Wake Up Where You Are” is available exclusively via the Strawberry Alarm Clock page on the GRA web site as something of a fan presale. The disc will be available via Amazon and the usual other outlets later in the spring.

Sundazed recently rereleased the band’s first album, “Incense and Peppermints.”

Transparency time: Psychedelic Sight built the psychedelic band’s new Web site.

‘Yellow Submarine’: Blue Meanie Blu-ray

March 20, 2012

fab four in yellow submarine Blu-ray releaseThe Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” resurfaces in late May, making its debut in high definition and sporting an extensive hand-crafted restoration.

Apple Corps. is releasing the 1968 psychedelic animated film on Blu-ray and DVD, along with a new CD version of the soundtrack album.

Extra features include a feature-length commentary by producer John Coates with some input from art director Heinz Edelmann; an odd 7-minute introductory piece from 1968, “Mod Odyssey”; various drawings and photos; and a trailer. These bonus features are almost certainly the same as those found on the DVD release of 13 years ago.

Pixar’s John Lasseter wrote the new booklet essay, calling the film a “revolutionary work.” The discs come packaged with reproductions of animation cells.

Beloved by Boomers and widely considered the second best of the Beatles movies, “Yellow Submarine” has been allowed to rust over the years, with the previous DVD version currently out of print.

MGM released a single-disc “Yellow Submarine” DVD in 2009, with a 5.1 mix Dolby Digital soundtrack that was highly praised at the time (although it sounds a bit thin these days).

No major restoration of the film had been undertaken in well over a decade, despite the obvious need to update the images. As with all things Beatles, the finger probably points to legal complications.

yellow submarine blu-ray blue meanieThe new “4K digital resolution” was done by Paul Rutan Jr. and his Triage Motion Picture Services. “Due to the delicate nature of the hand-drawn original artwork, no automated software was used in the digital clean-up of the film’s restored photochemical elements,” Apple said in confirming the rerelease. “This was all done by hand, frame by frame.”

Rutan’s restoration credits include two other Beatles films — “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Help” — as well as “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

George Dunning, who worked on the Beatles’ Saturday morning cartoon series, directed the original film. It was released in 1968 to the delight of a stoned generation. Any top 10 of psychedelic movies would include the animated feature, which was surprisingly strange and included obvious drug references.

The Beatles had little involvement with the film, but agreed to appear at its end in a live-action sequence. They reportedly were fans of Edelmann’s psychedelic imagery.

“I thought from the very beginning that the film should be a series of interconnected shorts,” Edelmann says in the commentary. “The style should vary every five minutes or so to keep the interest going until the end.”

While Edelmann has some comments spliced into the feature-length commentary, it’s mostly producer Coates’ talk, and he does a terrific job, dishing up insider info on topics such as the (once-)deleted “Hey Bulldog” sequence. (Edelmann died several years ago.)

Apple did not offer details on the new soundtrack CD. Songs appearing in the movie and used on the previous soundtrack CD include the title track, “Eleanor Rigby,” “When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” “All You Need Is Love,” and “It’s All Too Much.”

The proper “Yellow Submarine” album has long been a love-hate item for Beatles fans, who got a half serving of Fabs songs (six) along with George Martin’s orchestral score. That original “Yellow Submarine” album was rereleased in September 2009 along with the rest of the Beatles catalog.

The “Yellow Submarine” Blu-ray, DVD and soundtrack CD will be released May 29 in the U.S. and a day earlier in Europe.

Walt Disney Pictures was listed as a co-producer of the “Yellow Submarine” remake attempted by director Robert Zemeckis. Disney pulled the plug on that project about a year ago, reportedly over concerns about its cost and planned used of 3D via motion-capture. Lasseter is chief creative officer at Disney Animation.

‘Yessongs’ back from edge, on Blu-ray

March 16, 2012

yes concert filmThe 1973 concert film “Yessongs” found only disgrace in the home video world, but that’s about to change with a 40th anniversary Blu-ray release.

Britain’s Pinewood Studios updated the Yes film with high-definition images and a 5.1 surround sound restoration. While the Blu-ray debuts in the U.K. on April 30, no U.S. release has been announced.

A spokeswoman for U.K. distributor Odeon Entertainment said via email that the PAL disc would play in U.S. Blu-ray machines.

Artist Roger Dean, famed for his psychedelic landscapes for Yes album covers, produced four new postcards for the release. The Blu-ray includes an hour of “new and unseen” extra features, including a 2012 documentary with core Yes members Steve Howe, Roger Dean and Chris Squire, and a 12-minute short with guitarist Howe.

Yes members Rick Wakeman and Alan White also starred in the concert film, filmed in 1972 at London’s Rainbow Theatre and originally released to theaters in quadrophonic sound. (Wakeman was about to exit the band, and White had just filled the drummer’s seat vacated by Bill Bruford.)

The “Yessongs” Blu-ray will have a restored mono track as well as the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 remix. The Blu-ray lists the film as 84 minutes, while IMDB says the original ran 12 minutes shorter.

The 35mm film was directed by Peter Neal (“Glastonbury Fayre”). It was edited by Philip Howe, Steve Howe’s brother.

Yes was touring behind “Close to the Edge.” Keyboardist Wakeman also performed parts of his solo effort “The Six Wives of Henry VIII.”

Yes classics in the film include “I’ve Seen All Good People,” “Your Move,” “Clap,” “And You and I,” “Close to the Edge,” “Roundabout,” “Yours Is No Disgrace” and “Starship Trooper: Würm.”

“Yessongs” was released theatrically in the U.S. in 1975. Image Entertainment released a DVD version in late 1997, bemoaned for its images taken “from a ragged print” and “bootleg quality” audio.

The Yes live CD of the same name is not the soundtrack to the film, although two performances are shared.

Dead on DVD: the stash from Shout!

February 11, 2012

Shout box set of Grateful Dead videosThere is no such thing as too much Grateful Dead, apparently.

Adding to the mountain of Dead software that’s been released in the past 12 months, we have on the horizon the 14-DVD box set “All The Years Combine: The DVD Collection” from Shout! Factory.

The Dead box set drops April 17, just in time for workingman Dead fans to tap their tax refund checks for the $100.

Shout! as you may recall rereleased “The Grateful Dead Movie” in high definition Nov. 1. The movie (this time in standard def) anchors the upcoming DVD box set.

Second billed is “The Closing of Winterland,” a lengthy and well-regard Dead-only film that Rhino originally released to DVD in 2003. The double-DVD has about four hours of footage from the last night of Winterland on New Years Eve 1978.

Then there’s “Dead Ahead,” another existing DVD, with three hours of footage from Radio City Music Hall in October 1980. (The Shout! box retains the extra hour of bonus footage from the 2005 Monterey Video DVD.)

Making its DVD debut is “So Far,” a highly regarded title last seen on VHS in 1991 (Arista). Jerry Garcia gets a co-directing credit on this experimental 1987 movie, which highlights the Dead drummers and a swarm of trippy computer graphics. “We were after the idea of electronic mind-altering and consciousness-altering,” Garcia wrote of the hourlong film. “And on that level, I think it’s pretty successful.”

Other DVDs in the Shout! set include “Ticket to New Years” (Oakland, 1987), “Truckin’ Up to Buffalo” (1989), “Downhill From Here” (Wisconsin, 1989) and the four “View From The Vault” titles.

A bonus disc features Justin Kreutzmann’s video “Backstage Pass” (1992), an interview with archivist David Lemieux and a handful of bonus Dead performances.

Shout! also is selling “The Grateful Dead Bundle,” which throws in the fall 2011 “The Grateful Dead Movie” on Blu-ray for another $8.

A 40-page booklet includes liner notes by Deadhead journalist Blair Jackson, who wrote the book “Garcia: An American Life.”

The project is billed as “in collaboration with Rhino,” reconnecting the original Rhino people at Shout! with their old label, long owned by WEA.

More Dead content:
Grateful Dead exhibit at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Jerry Garcia documentary feature film
Dead brings to life Dave’s Pick CD series

Pink Floyd ‘Wish’ comes true on SACD

January 20, 2012

Wish You Were Here album on SACDPink Floyd appears to have a hit on SACD — or what passes for a hit in that low-profile audiophile format.

The specialty label Analogue Productions released the Pink Floyd album “Wish You Were Here” on a 5.1 SACD late last year, and now reports that it’s “easily the biggest SACD title in the catalog.”

First a bit of history: Super Audio CD (SACD) was introduced in 1999 but failed to catch on with the public, despite quality that’s sometimes billed as four times as good as CDs.

After a burst of activity (2002-2005) that saw releases of classic albums such as Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” and the Who’s “Tommy,” the format staggered and appeared to be pretty much a goner by the end of the 2000s.

“In retrospect, SACD and (rival format) DVD-A never had a chance,” the Guardian duly reported in 2007.

Yet SACD soldiered on, catering mostly to classical music fans. Audiophile label Analogue Productions (aka Acoustic Sounds), now a decade old, also found a market in jazz albums from Blue Note. Longtime audiophile specialists Mobile Fidelity also remains active with SACDs. (Both labels are quite active in high-end vinyl as well.) Now, improbably, SACD has made a comeback.

“Wish You Were Here,” the Pink Floyd album that followed “Dark Side of the Moon,” arrived on SACD as part of EMI’s huge Why Pink Floyd…? campaign that began last fall. The SACD was created via the original analog master tapes with the 5.1 mix done by the band’s producer/engineer James Guthrie, who reportedly worked on the project for several years.

It is first multichannel presentation of “Wish You Were Here,” Analogue Productions says. The label has “exclusive distribution rights” to the album, which comes to SACD with a price tag of $35. (It’s not available on Amazon as of this writing.)

Critics and fans are turning in raves, mostly. “Guthrie’s expert, musically impeccable multichannel remix added depth and clarity to the superb original,” the Audio Beat’s Paul Bolin wrote in November. “How he got Richard Wright’s ARP string to orbit the room several feet above my head has to be the result of some sort of voodoo.”

Guthrie has said he’d like to make “The Wall” the next Pink Floyd multitrack album, if and when there are more SACDs.

On Nov. 4, EMI rereleased the CD of “Wish You Were Here” in “Immersion” and “Experience” editions.

In addition to the two Pink Floyd albums and “Tommy,” currently available SACD titles with a psychedelic flavor include all of the Doors’ studio albums; the Moody Blues’ “On the Threshold of a Dream” and “To Our Children’s Chidren’s Children”; the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds”; and Santana’s “Caravanserai.”

(As with all things audio, the potential for excellence does not always equal excellence, so be sure to check out the reviews.)

Some current Blu-ray players are built to handle SACD signals, as is the PlayStation 3 game console. Hybrid SACDs such as “Wish You Were Here” will play on all CD players since traditional stereo tracks are included, but performance would be the same as from a well-made regular CD.

Jerry Garcia documentary film on way

January 6, 2012

grateful dead's jerry garcia, guitaristAnother Jerry Garcia feature film is in the wings as documentary maker Malcolm Leo (“This Is Elvis”) confirmed plans to release what’s dubbed “Jerry: The Movie.”

Update: The filmmakers are “currently in talks” with several distributors, a spokeswoman for the project told PsychedelicSight.com. “Jerry: The Movie” is aiming for a spring 2012 release.

The 42,000 in attendance at the San Francisco Giants’ Jerry Garcia Day last summer got a sneak peek of the docu while filmmakers were busy shooting more footage. Behind the camera that day was Justin Kreutzmann, the son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, who’s listed as a co-producer on the documentary.

The film’s based on three hours of conversation Leo shared with Garcia in 1987, a decade before the Grateful Dead guitarist’s death.

“The historic interview was shot on negative film with studio quality sound and lighting,” the producers said in a release, noting that they had secured rights.

The Garcia movie web site refers to it as “Jerry: The Movie,” but that could well be a working title since no name is identified in the press materials.

The filmmakers promise unseen concert footage and “rare home movies.”

Another Garcia movie, “Dark Star,” was announced in 2010 and is marked on imdb for a 2012 release. It’s a biopic about Garcia’s younger years, based on the book “Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia.”

For the documentary, Leo’s producing partner is John Hartmann, described as the former manager of Peter, Paul & Mary, Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Eagles and Poco. Hartmann apparently is the brother of the late comedian Phil Hartmann.

Leo’s credits include the films “This Is Elvis” and “The Beach Boys: An American Band.” For TV he presentations include “Crosby, Stills & Nash: Long Time Comin,’” “Red Hot & Blue” and “Rolling Stone: 20 Years of Rock ‘n Roll.”

Bill Kreutzmann’s credits include the short film “Backstage Pass,” a documentary, as well as a pair of videos connected to the Who.

Sean Bonniwell of Music Machine dies

January 5, 2012

singer of the music machine sean bonniwellSean Bonniwell, leader of the dark-edged 1960s band the Music Machine, has died. He was 71.

The Music Machine had one hit single — 1966′s blazing “Talk Talk” — and produced only one album with its classic lineup. Still, the fuzz-and-Farfisa band is remembered as a vanguard act — an important link from garage rock to moody psychedelic rock and then the proto-punk bands.

Bonniwell wrote most of the Music Machine’s songs and fronted the L.A. band, which was known for wearing all black on stage — the garb including a single leather glove.

Rolling Stone headlined its appreciation of Sean Bonniwell: “The Dark Prince of Garage Rock.”

Bonniwell, a born-again Christian, left the music business as the 1960s faded away. He died Dec. 20, 2011, of lung cancer, in Visalia, Calif., various sources said.

“(Turn On) The Music Machine,” the first album, featured a half-dozen Bonniwell originals, notably “Masculine Intuition” and “The People in Me.” The songs appeared to be part self-therapy as Bonniwell inventoried his demons on vinyl. (Note: The first album appears in various forms, but seems to be best represented on Ultimate Turn On per Bonniwell’s web site.)

Routinely lumped in with garage bands, the Music Machine produced a more ambitious sound that brought to mind L.A. contemporaries Love — and anticipated bands-to-be such as Iron Butterfly and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Bonniwell sang in “Masculine Intuition”: “I’ve got a masculine intuition/And it/Do/Not/Never be wrong,” right in line with vintage Arthur Lee.

Unfortunately, the first album (on the dinky Original Sound label) was filled out with cover versions (“Cherry Cherry” and a great “Hey Joe”), leaving a stunning but skimpy record of Bonniwell at his peak. Band members reportedly quit over Bonniwell’s auteur approach, some of them forming the group Millennium.

Bonniwell signed with Warners and released a second album, called “The Bonniwell Music Machine.” Much of the material was recorded previously and it produced no hits. The Warner recordings can be found on Sundazed’s 1996 collection Beyond the Garage.

Bonniwell published his memoirs in 1996, also titled “Talk Talk.” He recorded a couple of solo albums and performed his Music Machine material on occasion, sometimes doctoring the lyrics to reflect his Christian bearings. Bonniwell recently marketed a Music Machine video documentary on his web site. (text continues)

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Personal note: My first band, the Pack, popped up in 1966. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. We stole the name from Terry Knight and the Pack. We copped the look from the Music Machine — black on black. We played “Talk Talk” and “Masculine Intuition,” and the rest of the songs came from the Yardbirds. Chris Campbell played drums. I sang and played bass. Wish I could remember the guitarist’s name, think it was Jerry.

Jim Sherwood of Zappa’s Mothers dies

December 29, 2011

Jim Sherwood of Frank Zappa and MothersJim Sherwood, a saxophone player known for his work with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, has died at the age of 69.

The multi-instrumentalist, who shared Zappa’s love of the avant-garde and the nonsensical, worked on all Mothers albums, including the classics “Freak Out!” and “We’re Only in It for the Money.”


Sherwood died
Dec. 25 of undisclosed causes.

Although Sherwood can be heard on the early Mothers records, he started out as a their roadie and didn’t join the band full-time until 1968. Sherwood also contributed vocals, vocal effects and the onstage comedy bits expected of all members.

In the 1950s, Sherwood attended high school with Zappa in California’s Inland Empire. Sherman played in several rock ‘n’ roll bands with the guitarist before the Mothers of Invention came to fame in L.A. in the mid-1060s.

After the Mothers disbanded, he performed on Zappa’s debut solo album, “Lumpy Gravy,” and continued to work off and on with the guitarist/composer until Zappa’s death in 1993.

The woodwind player also appeared in Zappa’s movie “200 Motels,” about the insanity of touring as a rock band, and the semi-documentary “Uncle Meat.”

The Mothers nicknamed Sherwood “Motorhead,” based on his love of working on cars. He also was dubbed “Larry Fanoga.”

Sherwood played sax with Reuben and the Jets, a Zappa-produced group that grew out of a doo-wop concept album. Later credits include the Mothers veterans band the Grandmothers and other projects with (ex-Mother) keyboardist Don Preston.

Donovan, Small Faces entering Rock Hall

December 7, 2011

psychedelic folkie Donovan in rock hall of fameDonovan and the Small Faces made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, putting a bit of psychedelic seasoning on the class of 2012.

Producer/engineer Glyn Johns, who worked with the heaviest of the British psychedelic rock bands, also is to be honored April 14 in Cleveland.

Beastie Boys, Guns N’ Roses, Laura Nyro and Red Hot Chili Peppers filled out the list of Rock Hall inductees. Faces (with Rod Stewart) share the honor with the band’s earlier incarnation, the Small Faces.

The early influencer nod went to bluesman Freddy King, the only black artist to be honored this year. Songwriter/TV rock producer Don Kirshner (“The Monkees”) is to be memorialized in the non-performer slot.

Rock producers Johns and Tom Dowd, and New Orleans studio owner Cosimo Matassa are to receive awards for musical excellence.

Donovan, a nominee last year, was among the first recording artists to chart with psychedelic songs. He also was among the first long-haired British pop stars busted for drugs. The artist (pictured, top) was closely associated with the hippie movement and flower pop.

Donovan’s psychedelic singles include “Sunshine Superman,” “Mellow Yellow,” “Hurdy Gurdy Man” and “Barabajagal (Love Is Hot).”

The album “Sunshine Superman” was among the first rock works to feature the sitar. Donovan also flirted with jazz and Indian music, making for a heady musical brew that remains underappreciated among casual music fans.

The Small Faces first scored with the heavily flanged psychedelic single “Itchycoo Park,” a global smash in 1967 despite a BBC ban for its druggie lyrics.

A year later came the classic LP “Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake,” an early concept album. Side 2 was devoted to an odd psychedelic fairy tale. Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane did the band’s heavy lifting until Marriott quit to form Humble Pie.

Then came the Faces, with three original members joined by up-and-coming vocalist Rod Stewart and guitarist Ron Wood. The Faces’ sound shifted to inebriated good-time rock n’ roll. This line-up enjoyed a short but brilliant career, cut short by the demands of Stewart’s solo success and Wood’s wooing by the Rolling Stones.

rock hall of fame 2012Producer/engineer Tom Dowd was mostly known for his work on the classic Atlantic R&B recordings, but he also dabbled in psychedelia with acts like Cream, Wishbone Ash and Chicago. Dowd was one of the first engineers to take stereo seriously and to employ multitracking. He died a decade ago after a long run with Criterion Studios in Miami.

Producer/engineer Glyn Johns boasts a sterling resume when it comes to psychedelic music. His credits include the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Small Faces, the Who, Led Zeppelin and Family. He’s best known for his work with the Stones. Johns remains active, recently working with Ryan Adams.

Passed over for induction were the Cure, Heart, the Spinners, Donna Summers, Rufus with Chaka Khan, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, and Eric B. & Rakim.

The 27th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is set for April 14 in Cleveland. The video will run on HBO in early May. A limited number of public tickets go on sale Dec. 17.

Psychedelic music is well represented in the Hall of Fame: Inductees include the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, the Yardbirds, the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Miles Davis, Traffic, Santana, Frank Zappa, the Doors and the Who.

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