Underground (the) - Psychedelic Visions

Name: The Underground
Album: Psychedelic Visions
Year: 1967
Style: Psych, Garage Rock, Surf
Similar Bands: Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Blue Cheer, Zappa, Blue Magoos, Count Five
"One-Word" Review: Anonymous SurfPsychGarageBlues freakouts
Based Out Of: a recording studio in the US
Label: Berkshire, Stereo Tape Corp

Cover, Cassette

Cassette

Psychedelic Visions (1967)

1. Turn On Your Love Light 2:31 (Bobby Bland cover)
   
2. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet 2:20 (Blue Magoos cover)
3. Psychedelic Visions 2:15 (surf version of Greensleeves)
4. Mind Jammer 3:00
5. The Warper 2:44 (St. James Infirmary instrumental) /
6. Psychotic Reaction 2:54 (Count Five cover)
7. Shout 2:55 (Isley Brothers cover)
8. Psychedelic Dream 2:13
9. Psychotic Vibrations 2:15
10. Tobacco Road 2:05 (John D Loudermilk cover)

Album Rating (1-10): 8.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Merk Currie - Writer, Arranger
• Jerry Kennedy - Producer
• Roy Dea - Producer

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but it has all the right words & imagery to be a hippy psych band from the 60's. Usually these sorts of bands that went under the radar, never getting main stream attention came off lighter and not at all like what their packaging was trying to sell. This may or may not be the case. 

Album Review: The album is a great blend of echoey psych garage rock with some surf elements and heavy reliance on the Hammond organ. Five original instrumentals and five covers make up the record. The vocals could be compared to James Brown or a gospel preacher at times. The info of the actual band is hazy and nearly impossible to pin down, and minimal internet help with the bulk being reseller websites. The writer & arranger name Merk Currie is possibly fabricated to avoid listing any real credits (thus royalties), which classifies this as an exploitation album: exploiting the session players as well as the genre. From everything I've seen, this cassette has the track listing backwards...side 1 is side B on the record, and vice versa.

Stand Out Track: We Ain't Got Nothing Yet

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