Rich here to revisit one of my favorite musical eras, the days of psychedelia. At its peak, major label bands like The Beatles and The Moody Blues and Jimi Hendrix were using the tools of the recording studio to lyrically and/or musically re-create an hallucinogenic acid trip.
It was one of Rock's most creative eras.
But even garage bands without the money to afford an expensive studio were creating their own acid-tinged records -- as evidenced in the oft-reissued multi-disc compilation album series "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968."
One of the best and most accomplished of those garage bands was The E-Types, whose record "Put the Clock Back on the Wall" was a centerpiece of the soundtrack to the poorly distributed sensationalistic B-movie, "Blonde on a Bum Trip (She's Lovely, Sexy, Dangerous)." Notice the initials of the sub-title?
Despite how bad the movie was, the soundtrack was pretty great and has been recently been reissued by the fabulous Sundazed record label.
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