Comments for Psychedelic Sight

Comment on Iron Butterfly live, heavy at Fillmore East by abel

abel — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:39:16 +0000

Thanks, Russell. Listened to them all. Of the bunch, I liked “Faceless People” best. Have posted it on the home page with a hat tip to you.

From Iron Butterfly: Iron Butterfly Theme, Unconscious Power, Butterfly Bleu, Soul Experience, Soldier in Our Town …

Yeah, I’d wager Bogert and Appice could outplay just about anyone. I saw Cactus back in the day, live, and they were sensational. I liked the first album at the time, but went back and listened to Cactus recently and (shrug) …

Pleasure to meet you as well, hope you’ll be commenting some more, the site needs all knowledgeable music lovers it can get.

Comment on Iron Butterfly live, heavy at Fillmore East by Russell D. Brown

Russell D. Brown — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:13:13 +0000

Some of my favorites: “Faceless People”, “Some Velvet Morning”, “Ain’t That Peculiar”, “Thoughts”. I could go on, but you get the point. The Fudge were amazing at drawing the latent power out of pop songs. I’m pretty sure they could play the IB catalog, but I’m pretty sure the IB wouldn’t have the chops to play Fudge tunes.

Which isn’t to diminish the IB. I like most of their stuff, especially the “Scorching Beauty” LP, which everyone else seems to hate.

This Fillmore set does make me curious as to how the Ingle-Weis-Bushy-Penrod-DeLoach lineup sounded live, since so much of the material is from “Heavy”.

Always nice to meet a fellow psych-head.

P.S. I will admit that the Fudge offshoot Cactus is spectacularly over-rated. Nothing Blue Cheer didn’t do earlier and better!

Comment on Iron Butterfly live, heavy at Fillmore East by abel

abel — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:58:50 +0000

Ahhh — sorry Russell I misread your comment. We certainly disagree in that case. And while I value your input, you do Peter Noone a disservice by comparing him to Vanilla Fudge. Which Vanilla Fudge songs are good, in your opinion? I can’t think of one, certainly not those syrupy covers of great Motown songs … (BTW, I do not consider “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” a great or very good Iron Butterfly song. The band did record its share of dogs.)

Comment on Iron Butterfly live, heavy at Fillmore East by Russell D. Brown

Russell D. Brown — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:38:19 +0000

Not to belabor the point, Abel, but my contention is that IB were rank amateurs compared to the Fudge.

Comment on Iron Butterfly live, heavy at Fillmore East by abel

abel — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:32:59 +0000

Russell — Not sure which reviewer you’re referring to, as I agree with your sentiments. Iron Butterfly > Vanilla Fudge. Thanks for the comment, though …

Comment on Iron Butterfly live, heavy at Fillmore East by Russell D. Brown

Russell D. Brown — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:41:21 +0000

I Love Iron Butterfly, but the reviewer’s contention that they were anywhere near as talented or inventive as Vanilla Fudge is tantamount to saying that Peter Noone was more skilled than Jimi Hendrix!

Comment on ‘L.A. Woman’ set for massive reissue by peter chrisp

peter chrisp — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:52:09 +0000

Andy & Howard both are out now, 40th anniversary edition and the bluray “Mr Mojo Rising” the story
of LA Woman like you gents, can’t wait.

Comment on No. 25: ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’ by Jere

Jere — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:24:55 +0000

It seems like yesterday when I saw them for the first time . Wow this clip brings back good feelings and good times !!!

Comment on Scorsese docu on Harrison nears completion by Ymus Anon

Ymus Anon — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:24:01 +0000

—-ANOTHER ’70s Show’ piece of fan mail on the
done-to–death of capstone creep created ‘POP’ culture.

Scorsese continues to disapoint.

ALAS

Comment on ‘L.A. Woman’ set for massive reissue by Andy

Andy — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:04:56 +0000

Hope they announce a release date soon. Getting anxious! Cheers All Dors Fans!!