One of my favorite types of music to find on my lifetime music quest is a genre that I call "Pseudo Psychedelic".  This is music that was mainly created as a cash in on the whole psychedelic music craze of the 60's.  Many albums and singles of this type were created back then, but were relegated to thrift stores and junk shops since the 60's. 

Most "Pseudo Psychedelic" music was simply awful.  HOWEVER, there were the occasional tracks that were just GREAT, and this show concentrates on the best of a bad lot.   Some of these tracks truly hit the mark, ended up leaving the sub-genre of "Pseudo Psychedelic" and became very cool true psychedelic tracks.

Some songs in this show are from well known or semi-well known bands, but most of the following artists were one shots, or studio bands that were thrown together just to make the record (sometimes stealing a better known artist's name).  For instance, the Chocolate Watchband track was recorded by studio musicians who took over the album, and not recorded by the Chocolate Watchband themselves (sad story).  And then there are bands like 101 Strings & The Animated Egg which were basically stolen outtakes from guitarist Jerry Cole's album "The Inner Sounds of the Id" (which he never knew about until modern days!!!).

Another type of music in the "Pseudo Psychedelic" genre was the Sitar cash in-album.  There were MANY of these made thanks to the Beatles introducing the sitar sound to the masses.  Some were quite good, and some were horrendously bad (Rajput & the Sepoy Mutiny's album was a great example of both sides of the extreme). One of the sets of this show is dedicated to the Sitar-Sploitation sound, and I hope you like it.

So, enjoy!!!  I had an absolute BLAST putting this show together, and hope you enjoy listening to it.  Normally I'd say go out and buy any of these you see, but a lot of the following albums only have a good track or two on them...Nonetheless, I personally enjoy owning them, and depending on how much of a record vulture you are, you may too!!!

As an aside, this show (and all future shows) will be less than 80 minutes so that the shows can be downloaded & burned to a CD if you want.  The show was recorded in 128 Bit MP3 format, so sonically it should sound pretty good for you. Thanks for listening to my show!!! If you have any comments, please email me at quispquake@quispquake.info. 

	From the LP: Help (US Version Only 1965 on Capital Records)
	The first track of the show sort of started the whole "Pseudo Psychedelic" phase.  In the US, the "Help!" soundtrack by the Beatles was shortened (something Capital Records did frequently so they could put together an extra album here or there).  So, the album had incidental music by Ken Thorne, including this one.  George Harrison said it was these tracks and the musicians playing them that introduced the sitar to him, and the rest is history!
	From the LP: San Franciscan Nights  (1968 on RCA Records)
	This was definitely one of my BEST thrift store finds ever!  It's actually a pretty solid record as "Pseudo Psychedelic" goes.  Living Guitars were a studio creation that must have released hundreds of records from the late 50's to the 60's.  This was their psychedelic Sitar-Sploitation album.  Most tracks are good, but I picked "Baby You're a Rich Man" to go along with the Beatles theme of the previous song.
	Trailer from 1967 Drugsploitation Classic
	One of the BEST 60's "Psychedelic" movies (produced by Dick Clark!)  I had the great honor of seeing this at the American Film Institute in Washington DC back in the late 80's.  Starring Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern as one of cinema-dom's best hippees.
	From the Soundtrack LP to movie "Psych-Out" (1967 on Tower Records)
	Released on the "Psych-Out" soundtrack, this track by Storybook has always been one of my favorites.  I've been able to find absolutely no information on this band, and I don't know if they were a studio band put together by Tower Records for the soundtrack, or if they had a career apart from this movie.  If you have any idea, feel free to email me at quispquake@quispquake.info.
	From the LP: Lord Sitar (Capital Records 1968)
	Lord Sitar was really a session musician named Jim Sullivan.  He was one of the only session musicians in England who knew how to play sitar, so was a bit in demand towards the late 60's.  This album was released on Capital Records, who wanted a Sitar-Sploitation album (I guess the Beatles weren't making them enough money).  This is a very hit & miss album, but I LOVE this track "In a Dream".
	From the LP: Distant Galaxy (1968 Verve Records)
	Don Sebesky is best known for his jazz arrangements for artists such as George Benson & Wes Montgomery, but he also put out a few LP's of his own over the years.  This one "Distant Galaxy" was his attempt at doing a merge of jazz and psychedelia. The album was hit & miss, but this one, Guru-Vin, hit the mark pretty well.
	From the LP: No Way Out (1967 on Tower Records)
	The Chocolate Watchband were one of the premier 60's San Francisco groups who took the Rolling Stones/Pretty Things sound to a whole new level.  They signed to Tower Records, who ended up using session musicians on many tracks to give the albums a more psychedelic feel. The studio musician tracks are actually pretty good ("Dark Side of the Mushroom" is one of the studio tracks), but it's still kind of a sad story of how a band can be taken over when signed to a record company :(
	Trailer from 1970 Russ Meyer/Roger Ebert Classic
	What can you say about this movie???  One of the GREATEST movies ever made (although my wife thinks I'm completely wrong about that!).  Russ Meyer women in a FUNNY movie written by him and film critic Roger Ebert.  See it wide screen if you can!!!
	From the Soundtrack LP to "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" (1970 20th Century Fox Records)
	Every record collector has a 'holy grail' album, and this one is probably mine, the soundtrack to "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls".  Yes, it's cheesy, and pretty awful, but it's still an awful lot of fun!  This track is simply called "Instrumental" by the (I think) studio band Ampersand, and it's one of the better music items from the movie.
	From the Soundtrack LP to "Vampyros Lesbos"
	A GREAT album, which compiles the music from three different Jess Franco vampire films, with scores by Hubler & Schwab (who went by the name of "Vampires Sound Inc." for this project).  The album has been re-released, and I highly suggest you pick it up...lots of cool pseudo psychedelic sounds that really work!
	From the LP: Flower Power (1968)
	I first heard of Rajput & the Sepoy Mutiny courtesy of the cool folks at ReSearch Publications, and their "Incredibly Strange Music" CD.  It's actually not a very good album, BUT there are a couple of killer tracks, with the title track being my personal favorite.  The first song of the  Sitar-Sploitation set.
	From the LP: Sound of Sitar (1966 on Deram Records)
	Not a lot of information to be found on Chim Kothari.  He released this one Sitar-Sploitation album pretty early (1966).  The album has a couple of super tracks (like this one "Indian Bat"), but is mostly just covers of pop classics.
	Public Service Announcement from 1967
	With the psychedelic era in full swing, someone had Ravi Shankar do a PSA telling people not to use hard drugs.  An interesting artifact if nothing else.
	From the Colossus 45 "Acka Raga"
	Shocking Blue were best known for their US Number 1 record "Venus", but they had a lot of other good songs.  This one, "Acka Raga", was on the same album (At Home with Shocking Blue) as "Venus".  A really great track which certainly surpasses the term Pseudo Psychedelic.
	From the LP: Shake Sauvage-French Soundtracks 1968-1982
	This one is kind of a mystery, but is on the album "Shake Sauvage" which is a collection of French Soundtracks.  A great track, and I wonder whether there's anything else out there by Mr. Garvarentz.  This song rounded out the Sitar-Sploitation set.
	From the LP: Astro Sounds From the Year 2000 (Alshire Records 1967 or 1968)
	Originally outtakes from the Jerry Cole (best known for his surf music with the Spacemen) album "Inner Sounds of the Id", the producer Paul Arnold passed these outtakes along to Alshire Records,  who released them in various forms (all unknown to Jerry Cole!).  The album was originally released as "The Animated Egg" (a song from that is below), and then strings were added to some tracks and this version ended up as the "Astro Sounds" album.  A GREAT album, and another holy grail LP (I'd LOVE to find an original!).
	From the LP: Animated Egg (Alshire Records 1968)
	Also released by Alshire Records, "The Animated Egg" featured other outtakes from the Jerry Cole sessions.  The album is pretty cool, but this track is BY FAR my favorite on the album, and is pretty intense Pseudo Psychedelia!
	Trailer from 1968 Peter Sellers Classic
	I remember seeing this movie on TV in the 70's and wondered what the heck the girl was putting in the brownies...A great movie that hasn't lost it's edge with age.  I have the poster for it at my house here somewhere.
	From the Soundtrack LP to "Mary Jane"  (1968 on Tower Records)
	I've never seen the movie "Mary-Jane", but it sounds pretty cool, and is about a delinquent pot smoking club.  Mike Curb, (Republican) was running for governor of California after being Lieutenant Governor and said that that he was never part of the whole hippy scene.  Unfortunately for Curb, his opponent brought out a poster featuring one of these soundtracks featuring Mike Curb's writing credits.  He he he...
	From the LP: Silhouette Segments (1968)
	Pastor John Rydgren was the head of the Lutheran Church's TV, Radio & Film Department.  In the late 60's Rydgren created a daily radio show called "Silhouette" in which he would use the latest hippy lingo & music (some of these segments feature early Pink Floyd & The Electric Prunes!), overlaid with him talking about the big man upstairs, and trying to convince the hippies to trade the drugs they were taking for the drug of Christianity.
	From the LP: Dracula's Music Cabinet (1969)
	I haven't been able to find any information on this album at all.  Someone posted it a year or so ago, and I absolutely LOVE it...creepy Pseudo-Psychedelia with sound effects!  A very cool record, and if any of you have any info on it, PLEASE let me know by emailing me at quispquake@quispquake.info.
	From the LP: Free Pop Electronic Concept
	Another obscurity.  This came out of Belgium in the late 60's, and featured Tony & Waldo Lam along with Arsene Souffriau on all kinds of crazy electronics.  This track (and the whole album) is a lot of fun with swinging psych-jazz pieces with electronic freakouts overlaid on top.
	From the Infamous "Blue Boy" Episode
	From one of the great episodes of "Dragnet", "The LSD Story".  This was the first episode of Dragnet filmed in color, and featured the "Blue Boy", who was an LSD dealer who ended up overdosing on LSD at the end!!!
	From the Soundtrack LP to "Teenage Rebellion" (1967 on Tower Records)
	From the soundtrack to "Teenage Rebellion", a documentary showing the hippies, the Paris student riots, and the Mods & Rocker fights in England.  I know absolutely nothing about this track, other than it's amazing, and I figured it was the only thing I could follow the "Dragnet" piece with!!! Enjoy!!!

	From the LP: Psychedelic Percussion (1967 on Dunham Records)
	Hal Blaine is mostly known as a studio drummer (he's played with EVERYONE, and was even part of the Phil Spector "Wall of Sound".  However, he released this obscurity in 1967, doing his part to cash in on the psychedelic revolution.  It's very hit and miss, but the hits are pretty cool.  Enjoy "Love In (December".

	From the LP: Sitar & Electronics (1971 on BASF Records)
	This is another great album (okay, maybe there were a lot of solid albums in the pseudo psychedelic genre!) by Dutch artist Okko.  A super mix of electronics and sitar music, he even does a couple of Beatles songs, and THEY AREN'T BAD!!!  This one ends the QuispQuake Pseudo Psychedelic Experience.  Thanks for checking it out, and I really hope you enjoy it!