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octopus-4

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Topic: Electric Flag - The Trip
Posted: November 10 2010 at 07:18

Recently I have discovered this album. It's the OST of a movie I've never heard about before.

It looks like a prequel to Easy Rider.

The music is mainly psychedelic, with some country-folk parts but not so invasive like on Easy Rider.

I'm looking only for samples from this album:

Most psych tracks are:

M-23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8I-dq3G8zY

A Little Head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4DsYgXlxWk

Fewghh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mOQ9hiNegg

Less interesting, just to give you a more complete idea:

Green and Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imeYPPCRuq4

Old fashioned psych:

Flash 'Bam'Pow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGOS-TCZhvc

Not prog, but I like this stuff:

Fine Jug Thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=got_0L_RpKk

btw, all the album's tracks are on youtube.

Sooner or later I'll look for something more recent Big smile

Possible choices: Proto, Psych or Rejected.

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octopus-4

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 07:22

The movie was released in 1967.

more info here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062395/

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 07:58

Electric Flag was well-known blues-rock band during mid-late 60-s, with excellent blues-rock guitarist Mike Bloomfield ( drummer Buddy Miles later played with Hendrix). I see them as influential early psychedelia blues-based band, in late 60-s they experimented with jazz elements, even had some brass section ( still before BS&T).

I like their music, but can't imagine them on PA, they were a great band,but hardly the prog rock one.

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 08:19

thanks for the info...The only thing I knew of Buddy Miles is the live with Santana...

However, the option #3 was in my list, so no problems at all .

this album has a strict connection with Easy Rider, so it's not stragne if this band has the same destiny on PA of Electric Prunes... Big smile

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 19:14

Not a bad flick....a bit of a cult movie from the mid-60s with a then cutting edge cast and style with the freaky Roger Corman directing. The Trip, of course, refers to LSD, which had only recently been deemed illegal when the movie was released. Peter Fonda takes a dose and the fun begins....Hopper plays a stone cold dealer and Dern plays, well, himself. Pretty cool scenes of 60s LA and Sunset Strip.

More significantly, the Electric Flag....I would certainly call them proto-prog in the American sense. They were a stepping stone to bands like Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Bloomfield left the Buttterfield Blues Band and started the Flag with a focus on a fusion of American styles - blues, jazz, soul, rock....they were one of the first rock bands to utilize a horn section and (are you ready prog fans) one of the first rock bands to utlilize a moog synthesizer! Bloomfield hooked up with Paul Beaver (of Beaver and Krause fame) to complete the soundtrack to the Trip, which really is a proto-American prog album in every sense....great fuzzed out guitar, psychedelic horn-organ riffs and Floydian touches all over.....but the CD version of the album cuts half of the music out! Anyone with the original LP, hold on to it!

Their first album, A Long Time Comin', is more downhome blues and jazz-rock....nothing as trippy and ambitious as the Trip OST. Wish they'd have continued to mine that vein.

Don't know if they're PA material but the Trip is a groovy soundtrack....but try to get your hands on the LP version.

Edited by Intruder - November 10 2010 at 19:16

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himtroy

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Posted: November 10 2010 at 20:34

I forgot that existed. I listened to that album a lot when I was getting into psych rock. Electric Flag is all around a great blues group, with touches of psychedelia here and there. Much like Paul Butterfield (and both have Mike Bloomfield)

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octopus-4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13355	Topic: Electric Flag - The Trip Posted: November 10 2010 at 07:18
	Recently I have discovered this album. It's the OST of a movie I've never heard about before. It looks like a prequel to Easy Rider. The music is mainly psychedelic, with some country-folk parts but not so invasive like on Easy Rider. I'm looking only for samples from this album: Most psych tracks are: M-23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8I-dq3G8zY A Little Head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4DsYgXlxWk Fewghh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mOQ9hiNegg Less interesting, just to give you a more complete idea: Green and Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imeYPPCRuq4 Old fashioned psych: Flash 'Bam'Pow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGOS-TCZhvc Not prog, but I like this stuff: Fine Jug Thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=got_0L_RpKk btw, all the album's tracks are on youtube. Sooner or later I'll look for something more recent Possible choices: Proto, Psych or Rejected.
	Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com

octopus-4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13355	Posted: November 10 2010 at 07:22
	The movie was released in 1967. more info here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062395/
	Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com

snobb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 20 2009 Location: Vilnius,LT,EU Status: Offline Points: 3577	Posted: November 10 2010 at 07:58
	Electric Flag was well-known blues-rock band during mid-late 60-s, with excellent blues-rock guitarist Mike Bloomfield ( drummer Buddy Miles later played with Hendrix). I see them as influential early psychedelia blues-based band, in late 60-s they experimented with jazz elements, even had some brass section ( still before BS&T). I like their music, but can't imagine them on PA, they were a great band,but hardly the prog rock one.

octopus-4 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator RIO/Avant/Zeuhl,Neo & Post/Math Teams Joined: October 31 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13355	Posted: November 10 2010 at 08:19
	thanks for the info...The only thing I knew of Buddy Miles is the live with Santana... However, the option #3 was in my list, so no problems at all . this album has a strict connection with Easy Rider, so it's not stragne if this band has the same destiny on PA of Electric Prunes...
	Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com

Intruder Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: May 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 2086	Posted: November 10 2010 at 19:14
	Not a bad flick....a bit of a cult movie from the mid-60s with a then cutting edge cast and style with the freaky Roger Corman directing. The Trip, of course, refers to LSD, which had only recently been deemed illegal when the movie was released. Peter Fonda takes a dose and the fun begins....Hopper plays a stone cold dealer and Dern plays, well, himself. Pretty cool scenes of 60s LA and Sunset Strip. More significantly, the Electric Flag....I would certainly call them proto-prog in the American sense. They were a stepping stone to bands like Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Bloomfield left the Buttterfield Blues Band and started the Flag with a focus on a fusion of American styles - blues, jazz, soul, rock....they were one of the first rock bands to utilize a horn section and (are you ready prog fans) one of the first rock bands to utlilize a moog synthesizer! Bloomfield hooked up with Paul Beaver (of Beaver and Krause fame) to complete the soundtrack to the Trip, which really is a proto-American prog album in every sense....great fuzzed out guitar, psychedelic horn-organ riffs and Floydian touches all over.....but the CD version of the album cuts half of the music out! Anyone with the original LP, hold on to it! Their first album, A Long Time Comin', is more downhome blues and jazz-rock....nothing as trippy and ambitious as the Trip OST. Wish they'd have continued to mine that vein. Don't know if they're PA material but the Trip is a groovy soundtrack....but try to get your hands on the LP version. Edited by Intruder - November 10 2010 at 19:16
	I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....

himtroy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 20 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1601	Posted: November 10 2010 at 20:34
	I forgot that existed. I listened to that album a lot when I was getting into psych rock. Electric Flag is all around a great blues group, with touches of psychedelia here and there. Much like Paul Butterfield (and both have Mike Bloomfield)
	Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance.