Psychedelic Psoul

This is a tribute to one of the greatest power trios of all time, Cream. Though thre band had a short existence, their influence is still felt to this day. We salute Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. Please feel free to donate or Tip the show at  sonictyme@yahoo.com Please have a look at these special interest sites. If you would, please make a donation of love and hope to St. Jude Childr...

This is the fifth season of the show and we pay tribute to The Pretty Things and Status Quo. I pay my own personal tribute to my friend Jon Povey, keyboardist for The Pretty Things. Both were influential bands with a big following in Europe and around the World. These are selections from the Psychedelic era. In the case of Status Quo, they began as a sunshine pop band and then transitioned to a ha...

This is the 100th episode special edition and to mark this milestone, this episode spotlights the greatest band of all time The Beatles. These are select tracks of alternate versions of songs that are as enjoyable as the official released versions. This is a 2 hour special without any interruptions in the music. Enjoy and thank you for your support.  Please feel free to donate or Tip the show at ...

This is part two as there were an abundant of great singles released in England in that year of 1967.  These songs were selected for their unique character and stimulating atmospherics they created. That's not to say that they sold well, some did though many others didn't. But these songs are canonized as artifacts of that glorious Summer of Love. Enjoy these wonderful sounds. Please fee...

In England, the fabled "Summer of Love" reached commercial and public favor with a series of unique singles and select albums. Recording Artists allowed their full artistic expression blossom on vinyl and they came up with marvelous results. This is a small sample of some of the A and B sides of singles that enhanced the profile of the new hippie movement.  Please feel free to donate or...

This is a special episode dedicated to the great songwriter Neil Young. These are select tracks from his solo career, a career thatn spans nearly 60 years. I ope you enjoy this look back at his legacy.  Please feel free to donate or Tip the show at  sonictyme@yahoo.com Please have a look at these special interest sites. If you would, please make a donation of love and hope to St. Jude Children&apo...

This is a special tribute to David Crosby and his musical legacy with The Byrds, Crosby, Stills Nash & Young as well as his own solo career. He was an important musical and sociological figure of the 1960s and sustained his relevance through the decades since. These are select tracks that he had written and performed with both The Byrds and CSNY.  Please feel free to donate or Tip the show at ...

This is a special tribute show to the late Jeff Beck. He was one of the greatest guitarists in rock. He was among the top players along with Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Peter Greene and Jeff Beck. e was a massive influence and he'll be sorely missed. We look back on his legacy in this special podcast.                                       Please feel free to donate or Tip the show...

This is a special complete episode featuring the great Power Pop band Cheap Trick. The band wore it's 1960's influences openly and you can hear instances of The Move, The Who, The Kinks and especially, The Beatles. They carried the sound and spirit of the 60s into the 70s and beyond.  Please feel free to donate or Tip the show at  sonictyme@yahoo.com Please have a look at these special i...

This is a special tribute show for the late Kim Simmonds, the guitarist and founder of the English Blues Rock band Savoy Brown. The show spotlights Kim's work in the 1960's with the band. The second half of the show focuses on Ian Anderson and his retro Rennaissance band Jethro Tull. The band was an early proponent and influence on the coming music movement that would be referred to as P...

This episode showcases to bands that became revered in underground circles back in the 1960's., The Electric Prunes and The Blues Project featuring Al Kooper. Both bands experimented with the pop format and played a more expansive, experimental types of music. The Electric Prunes were from  the San Fernando valley and differentiated themselves from the Los Angeles bands and created a unique G...

This is a dual episode profiling The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Hawkwind. Arthur Brown performed a stage act that went beyond The Who smashing their instruments or Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar. Arthur performed a Psychedelic shock rock spectacle, complete with flaming helmet. His sound incorporated Psych rock, Progressive rock, some Classical and the Blues. He was a major influence on band...

The Who had gained public notice in 1967 and the band's leader Pete Townsend wanted to stand out from the pack. He conceived the idea of recording an entire album in the format of a radio station's programming day, specifically the English Pirate radio stations that were on ships moored on the English Channel. They were off the English coast away from the jurisdiction of the British Auth...

Two distinct bands of the Psychedelic age and from the west coast were Kaleidoscope from Los Angeles and Country Joe & The Fish from Berkeley. Kaleidoscope were an eccentric and experimental band that utilized many forms of stringed instruments and featured guitar great David Lindley. Country Joe & The Fish were similarly musically experimental and wrote in contemporary themes of the times...

English pop had gone through another musical enhancement in the early 90's. New bands were following the lead of Iris band My Bloody Valentine by emulating their dense guitar sounds generated by their array of effect pedals that they constantly employed. Musicians would look down on to their pedalboards and utilize every conceivable effect they could add to a song. The result was an intense a...

Towards the end of the 1980's, young people had become increasingly frustrated in England because of the effect of Thatcherism. For young lads up in Manchester, the music scene didn't reflect their own tastes and they were far removed from fashion and trends down in London. They began to form bands with a basic guitar-bass-drums setup and began playing a more garage rock style music and...

This is my two-year anniversary special, and this is a cross section of familiar and new songs to the show. Thank you for listening in to the show and thank you all for your support and for letting me share what I consider the greatest period of music, Psychedelia.  Please have a look at these special interest sites. If you would, please make a donation of love and hope to St. Jude Children's...

in this episode we listen in on two great Bay Area bands straight from the Summer Of Love from the mid 60's, Jefferson Airplane and The Quicksilver Messenger Service. Jefferson Airplane were the first commercially successful band straight from the Haight & Ashbury District in San Francisco. They remained successful over many decades, enduring many musical styles. The Quicksilver Messenger...

This episode spotlights two separate English bands that became influences on bands in the coming decades, The Small Faces and The Yardbirds. The Small Faces began as a Mod band that played pop and R & B music though by the time of the London Psychedelic scene the band became adept to experimenting in the studio while doing session work for Anfrew Loog Oldham's record label, Immediate Reco...

Moby Grape and Buffalo Springfield were two bands that transcended the psychedelic era and became influential musically to successive generations of musicians. Both bands utilized pop, country rock, psychedelic sounds into their own unique sounds. Both bands had a short lifespan, but their influence still reverberates to this day.  Feel free to make a donation to the show through PayPal at  sonict...

There were two bands that made a significant commercial breakthrough in the late 1960's, one from the west coast and the other from the east coast. Iron Butterfly came from the Los Angeles area and quickly ascended to success with their second album, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". The album was the most successful in Atlantic Records history (pre-Led Zeppelin). The band became an influence o...

They were two distinctly named bands that had two distinctly different sounds, but they were both from the same scene. The Strawberry Alarm Clock sang with vocal harmonies that were similar in arrangement to The Beach Boys and The Association. Musically they had a pleasing "Sunshine Pop" sound and achieved commercial success. The Chocolate Watch Band had a grittier garage rock sound and...

In this episode we are going to listen to Brian Wilson's most creative and controversial period in making music. Brian had stopped touring with The Beach Boys and got into a creative phase writing new music without the distractions and stress of touring and he let his muse run wild. His writing had expanded in subject matter as he was getting more personal and moving away from the surf music...

This episode will feature three separate bands who were active during the Summer Of Love in England back in 1967. Each band had it's following and signed to a major label. But for many different reasons, their album didn't sell or catch on and they never got te opportunity to record a follow up album. This is the story of the bands Tomorrow, The Smoke and The Koobas. There were other ban...

This is a focus on the early years of the band with Syd Barrett, who was the principal songwriter for the band. He was a very unique writer and he helped to transition the band from being a standard R&B group to a mesmerizing Day-Glow Psychedelic band. The show will feature music from the band's first singles and tracks from their sole complete album with Syd, "Piper At The Gates Of...