The Syn - 14 Hour Technicolour Dream

[castingtherunes]

So what's LSD like nowadays? Probably as powerful as an aspirin.

[RebelVoDKa]

Root yourself???

[Khultan]

@RebelVoDKa The singer advises: 'Shoot yourself, root yourself....' I like writing lyrics myself and am the type that likes to try to decipher what's being said and so the meaning of what this guy is saying is lost to me. I KNOW that you can 'shoot' yourself meaning to inject yourself with drugs and this is sometime in the mid to late 60s pyschedelic dalliances with it's LSD infatuation and hash and speed. But these guys aren't shamans or gurus, just filler lines, I think.

[mrJimCharles]

@Khultan I think this guy likes to use a lot of rhymes delivered in like a certain cadence just for the sound of it, I like that myself, it sounds cool.

[Khultan]

@mrJimCharles Yes, yes, I understand what you mean. : ) I wonder if any meaning, in such lines, are not to be derived at.

[Khultan]

 'Shoot yourself?!?'

[summertimeblues49]

The Syndicate when recording for Joe Meek.. Great stuff. As a drummer from that era.. Always loved the fill, in the middle... A controlled Keith Moon!... A compliment.. I hope

[Cowri]

@summertimeblues49 I've always felt that this drummer was way better than Keith Moon! Just my tupence.

[Cowri]

@summertimeblues49 I've always felt that this drummer was better than Keith Moon + he had an infectious groove later in his career.  Unfortunately he died of AIDS some 10 years ago. Someone told me he was only 16 when this was recorded!

[666uberstud666]

@summertimeblues49

from 1:48 and 1:53? Yes - very snappy, reminding me of Mitch Mitchell's bounty of jazzy fills.

[shemanic1]

great B side to their single Flowerman. Still got my 45

[Dukered21]

Really nice song, and Chirs always play like a god. This song is availabel in the iTunes store! :-)

[diddilitli]

best drummer in the world! Gunnar Jökull Hákonarson!

[kink66]

that's the pre YES* band!

[LimeAndPepper]

I had no idea The Syn was a band. I always use that name in MMOs.

[aquazuki9]

i saw the band lol

[ScarletKnights]

I just saw The Syn live at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia. They mostly played newer songs, but they slipped in a few oldies from the sixties, including this one.

It was a great show. The singer prefaced each song with a little story about it. For this one, he said that one night they opened for Jimi Hendrix the first time he played at the Marquee Club in London, and when they took the stage, all four Beatles were seated in the front row. Pretty neat stuff.

[Ridian23072]

Saw them this past tuesday. Same deal, they held workships at my school great PR imo

[Xlightss]

They are coming to my highschool oddly enough

[pesus10]

Gunnar Jökull on the drums;)

[fearandconsumption]

You should be shot for playing this rare GBP60.00 single on that shit GBP10.00 turntable. That's one way to fuck the grooves of the record so there will be less good copies around. Go and get a turntable that will do justice to the rare records you have.

[rovercrew]

Yeah I agree, get rid of that record grinder and buy a decent one.

[jimmytheferret]

Not quite sure why you and the other guy have a problem with the turntable. Far from being a shit £10 turntable as stated above, it's actually a fairly expensive Kenwood (Trio) one and is far superior to anything that this record would have been played on forty years back. Or would you prefer me to dig out an old Dansette as would have been the norm when this record was made?

[thewordofgord]

hey guys,

jimmy's not kidding, I was a brit teen in the sixties and a Dansette was exactly what I had for the singles, Sgt. Pepper, Vanilla Fudge 1st, Procol Harum 1st, Traffic 1st, etc etc

wordofgord

[rearly62]

@jimmytheferret love this response, totally shows up the arsewipe trying to take a swipe at you for giving this quality music to the masses who never had a chance to tune in before. FWIW i am a vinyl dj playing 60's rnb, ska and soul who regularly plays records worth £100+ however, the point is that these are objects not animals and, bringing pleasure to others is more important to me than preserving them. i can leave that up to others...

[Khultan]

@rearly62 : ) Well said.

[Duenderelojero]

more please!!!!!!!!!

[dazedcola]

i love the fact that a band made a song in tribute to this huge acid rave back in the sixties.

[bluesbrother37]

Not as good as PF see emily play!

[AnarchoMojo]

Great stuff, sadly this guy had to play in Yes, one of the most boring bands ever.

[hodgepodgebuddhajoy]

Dude, you obviously haven't heard enough Yes in your lifetime. :)

[chuckieflem]

you havent listened to any Yes at all , have you?