Freak Pwr Radio Hour
June 11, 2007
Every now and then I like to think that I know a bit about 60’s music and have heard much of the eras better contributions. More often than not though I am interrupted with an album that completely blows me away that I’ve never heard before. Thinking the Zombies cornered the best that psych pop could provide-enter Gandalf, The Velvets with noise? Enter Les Rallizes, etc. Well if you haven’t had the time to pour through the 60’s back catalogue of lost 60’s rock, psych, drug, and pop music- Andrew Douglas Rothbard has culled some of its finer moments in a several part series podcast that is presented once each month. While I had heard lots of the artists he has put together on the series, there’s plenty that were new to me so head over there now to download them or click the streams below for some lost 60’s bliss.
Freak Pwr Episode 4
Ashbury Wednesday (1967) Boenzee Cryque
Haight Ashbury (1967) Teddy And His Patches
Aquarian Dream (196 
It’s A Beautiful Day
Hashish (196 Indian Puddin And Pipe
On The Last Ride (1969) Tripsichord Music Box
High All The Time (196 Mad River
Hearts To Cry (196 Frumious Bandersnatch
Down On Me (196 Big Brother And The Holding Company
Father Bruce (1966) The Great Society
When The Movies Are Over (1969) The Charlatans
The Great Morpheum (1967) The Sopwith Camel
Today (1967) Jefferson Airplane
Stranger In My Own Home Town (196 Mother Earth
Cold Rain And Snow (1967) The Grateful Dead
Grace (1967) Country Joe and the Fish
Children Of The Future (196 Steve Miller Blues Band
He (196 Moby Grape
Silver And Gold (196 Quicksilver Messenger Service
Andrew Douglas Rothbard
May 16, 2007
Out this week is a new mix of Andrew Douglas Rothbard’s debut solo album, Abandoned Meander, which came out this past Halloween. If you’re not familiar with his name you may be with his former band, Pleasure Forever. After Pleasure Forevers demise, Rothbard was said to have become a bit of a recluse, spending the last 3 years exclusively working on the album and planning out his series of upcoming albums. “Abandoned Meander is the first in a planned five-record series outlining the Discordiant concept of the “law of fives:” Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, Parenthesis, and Paralysis, each of which represents a different stage of life.” Abandoned Meander, has been hailed as a psychedelic masterpiece by several critics, yet seems to remain one of those gems that has been looked over thus far. Recommended if you like Six Organs of Admittance, Grizzly Bear or Robbie Basho. On Abandoned Meander, Andrew Douglas spins salacious spiderwebs of acoustic guitar and electric distortion, captured within are his shaking vocals embattled in the struggle between predator and prey. Now is as good a time as ever to jump onto the Rothbard wagon, his second album in the series focuses on the Antithesis and is due for release in only a few months.
Have a listen:
Andrew Douglas Rothbard - Rabbit Hole
and
Andrew Douglas Rothbard - Bull in the Dell
Buy the newly remixed LP here.
