in case you want to get the Dumbo trailer out of your head
As far as I can tell, this is the earliest use of a Leslie speaker with electric guitar (starting at about 1:06). This album was recorded in early 1964.
On the subject of amazing psychedelic-era pastiches...
My mom and grandma love all sorts of music, especially folk, standards, and singer-songwriters, but they have very irritating biases.
My mom hates the Beach Boys. Mostly because they don’t have big voices and didn’t actually surf. Even if she hears Pet Sounds and Smile she calls them “all just surf songs”.
My grandma doesn’t understand the blues or early jazz. When I played a Fats Waller CD and a Robert Johnson CD, she was unsettled by the way they frequently ended on a dominant seventh chord, saying it sounded “unfinished”. She even thought Robert Johnson’s songs “all sounded the same”.
It doesn’t help that I’m extremely passionate about this music.
The Explorers Club - "Forever" Kinda like if the Beach Boys did a cover of "Be My Baby"...
You kinda need to have heard The Beach Boys' Smile for this to make any sense.
Just put this on my list of songs I can listen to over and over.
The stereo mix is ten times better than the original mono.