New York's ESP-Disk' label was founded in 1963 and was created to promote Avant-Garde and Free-Jazz music, and eventually also started producing 'Rock' music if you want to call it that. A better description would be something like 'Not Jazz,"or 'Sloppy Folk Rock,' and out of that emerged groups like The Fugs, The Godz, and Pearls Before Swine.
The Fugs are probably the most well known, but Pearls Before Swine fronted by Tom Rapp were probably the most talented.
Top Rapp went on to have a solo career before retiring from music in 1976. He later would go to school and end up being a civil rights lawyer.
In 1967, Pearls Before Swine released this LP called "One Nation Underground."
For the cover, they used the panel that depicted "The Last Judgement" from Hieronymus Bosch's famous triptychs titled "The Garden Of Earthly Delights."
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