Released projects on vinyl

Bedpost Oracle started in 1967 in Southern California and released their first 45 “The Break Of Dawn / Love Isn't Dead” as a quartet with lead guitar, bass guitar, drums and keyboards on Corby in 1969. In the summer of 1970 the band added a female lead singer to add dynamics to the band's overall sound. This line-up would become the better known Bedpost sound. They continued on playing cover versions of songs groups such as Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Grand Funk Railroad had popularized. Two more 45s were released including “Somebody To Love / Chest Fever”.

Their 45s are on side A. On side B a mind blowing Jimi Hendrix Jam from 1972 is included, where the band is at its peak

Four Latinos from Puerto Rico doing progressive music was not common back in the early 70s. Intensity played in many places in New York, mostly opening for Salsa and R&B bands. They were heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix and also by the rock artists of their time, bands such as Gentle Giant, ELP, Yes, and many others, but they were creating their own brand of progressive rock.

 In 1973 they went into the studio and recorded. This music is the only evidence of the existence as a band that was ahead of their time, a time when music was more than melodies, it was their dream. This LP was transferred from the only known demo acetate in existence.

RD 21  Fox - San Francisco Sessions (DELUXE Gatefold Cover with story and pictures)

This is what can be called one of the major sensations in the raga influenced “Psychedelic/Acid Folk” field. Also some of the earliest recordings in this genre and hitherto unreleased.

After the release of the "Light of Day" album in 1966 the now legendary Pat Kilroy and Susan Graubard went on with playing and creating music together. What you hear on this album is what they recorded for Warner Brothers in the summer of 1967, a true groundbreaking adventure of the highest order. They expanded in the direction they started in 1966 and the result is far beyond and superior to everything I heard from that time period before in this musical style except for Tim Buckley. No wonder that it didn't come out at that time because those recordings were for sure far too adventurous for Warner Brothers and also for almost other leading music companies at the time. Incredible - and I mean INCREDIBLE raga influenced Psychedelic/Acid Folk with some of the best songwriting I know of with monstrous lyrics and deep lead vocals. Also a wide range of instruments were played like incredible raga-esque acoustic guitar, electric bass, Spanish cowbells, bell tree, silver flute, bamboo flutes, viola, tamboura, conga drums, tables, acoustic and electric bass and tambourine. Pat Kilroy sadly died of Hodgkin’s disease in December of 1967 at a very young age. If this record had a proper release at the time, it would be a major classic and a milestone today in the psychedelic history book.

Be ready for an incredible musical trip along with an amazing, long and very intense story behind.

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Here is another lost and unreleased at the time Californian psychedelic masterpiece of the highest caliber from 1967!

Only a few (if even a few) acetate 45 singles where known by this incredible great band from the Ojai, CA area. The recordings for an album were done in the Two:Dot Studios in 1967. (The same studios the ARTHUR recordings and e.g. HENDRICKSON ROADHOUSE came from) and the acetates were pressed in the legendary “Gold Star Studios” the same year. The music is a mixture of superb garage folk, swinging London style garage pop and heavy fuzz loaded psychedelic to the max tracks with some incredible great eastern influences!

See the band's homepage www.prufrock67.com 

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Here is what we would name some of the best, most important, unreleased at the time, historical and lost westcoast psychedelic recordings ever.

This legendary band includes none other that the famed Kenneth Anger soundtrack creator Bobby Beausoleil as well as a very young David LaFlamme, before starting his legendary band “It's A Beautiful Day”.
As for the music, we are talking waaaaayyy out tunes here! This is the missing link between the Drone Avantgarde and the Hippie Scene symbolized by 2 people that couldn't be further apart.

The complete B-side features a single long tune which can best be described as Theatre of Eternal Music (the famed Pre-Velvet Underground La Monte Young/ John Cale Drone Band) meets It's A Beautiful Day.

On the other side you will find middle eastern influenced hippie psychedelic jams that will remind you of bands like the “BEAT OF THE EARTH”.

No gimmix, just a true slice of pure acid psychedelia. Sit back and enjoy a very bizarre ride.

Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl comes in a glossy cover with an 8 page insert wherein the story of the band is told by Bobby plus photos and an overview of Orkustra live appearances.

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Long awaited release of the best unsigned San Francisco band of the 60s!
Side 1 is the now legendary 1969 1-sided demo-only LP from the remastered mastertape.
Side 2 are studio recordings from the Church in San Anselmo, CA in 1971.
Side 3 and 4 are live recordings from the Walnut Creek Civic Center, CA in 1970.
The front cover was done by the legendary 60s poster artist Randy Tuten. The booklet includes hitherto unseen photos and the story of the band told by the different musicians.
Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl; comes with a heavy old style cardboard foldout cover and a multi page insert.

He joined Speed Limit 35 in fall of 1968 after his departure from Venezuela. The band also rehearsed in a club called "The Zoo" along with the legendary Christopher, that released their mega rare lp "What'cha Gonna Do?" on the Chris-Tee label.

The music on this album was recorded partly in the studio and partly live when Speed Limit 35 was the opening act for Steppenwolf in April 1970.

What you hear are fantastic long heavy psychedelic/westcoast styled jams with great guitar leads. It sounds like a mixture between Kristyl, Chirco and Tayles.

Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with a bio written by Stephen Scott.

This first ever official release includes his complete demo lp, unreleased sessions and his mega rare 45 rpm both from before the LP and recorded in Canada.The music can be described as a mixture of Perry Leopold, William C.Beeley and early Pink Floyd (his 45 rm) which is pure magic.

Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with a bio written by Arthur.

Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with unseen pictures and a band bio written by Morgan Cavett.

Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with pictures and infos about Arthur Lee.

Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and a large booklet with the story of the bands told by Sid Brown.

R_D 9  Freedom Highway - Made in '68

Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with an extensive story of the band.

The second record in the series of obscure bands mentioned in Ralph Gleason's book "The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound" after R_D7.

Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with stories about the band.

Yeah, it's really the Bob Smith from "The Visit" album on Kent Records. And his real name is Bob Smith and he is in no way related to Garrett Lund! He later recorded two other albums - in 1971 and 1972 - that were never released. The release is a 3 LP box containing the formerly released "The Visit" album on Kent Records (2 records), a selection of tracks from the two unreleased albums mentioned before (1 record) plus the poster that came with the album on Kent Records done from the mastertapes in an edition of 600 copies. 

This is the album that was supposed to come out on Capitol Records in 1970 but was shelved due to management changing. David had a copy of the mastertape (the original is in Capitol's vaults) and the record will be done from that. This will be a 500 copies pressing and the story about the music, written by David Meltzer, can be read on the back cover. The music is a logical consequence of what was begun with "Poet Song" only that the recordings were done in a big studio.

Bill Hill released an album in 1983 "Free Advice" which included some fantastic guitar tracks. on this album recorded shortly afterwards but shelved till now he continues to deliver high energy guitar work.

This is the hitherto unreleased third album by Spann, a Canadian three man tough blues rock band. After two records in 1979 ("Treat It Right" and "Rough Cuts"). they recorded the "Memphis Tapes" in 1980.

This is a reissue of what might be the least known of the Swiss 70's progressive albums; hard & heavy Cream influenced trio that couldn't play the clubs then because due to the loudness of the music the windows would break. "Marshall heaven" from 1975.

"Beyond Folkstone Prism" is less weird and more melodic than "Folkstone Prism" you all know by now. Eight songs were released under different band names as singles (Gray Ghost, Rande Bell Soup, Bob Narloch). Both records were from sessions held in 1970 through 1972 but because Ken Walker thought that releasing two records at the same time would be too much, "Beyond Folkstone Prism" was shelved until now.