Fantasy 1969 06 Understand

From Miami, Florida, this band's first LP is well worth a listen if you're into the 'West Coast sound' format, though they're closer sound-wise to Big Brother than Jefferson Airplane.

A strident female lead vocalist called Lydia belting it out and sounding not unlike her namesake - Lydia Pense - of Cold Blood. Some searing guitar and quite a hard rockin' style with more blues rather than folk influences.

This is an amazing piece of music, more like Iron Butterfly than Iron Butterfly! It lumbers and soars and crashes back to earth. "Stoned Cowboy" is mid tempo powerhouse psychedelia, with not a voice in earshot, thank you! Huge production, a very catchy riff, and an avoidably magnetic performance that uses reverb in a relatively aquatic fashion.

Stoned Cowboy, an instrumental, received considerable airplay in Miami / Detroit at the time and was on heavy rotation on KIMN-AM in Denver.

They were later known as Year One and their first 45 was non-album.

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Music

Tags:

• Fantasy
• psychedelic
• progressive
• rock
• USA
• Lydia Miller
• Understand

[Iwitchfinder]

there is also a version of this song that was done by Carmen Maki and Blues Creation!

[70erKrautrocker]

Wahnsinn, dass man so etwas noch finden kann. Ich habe diese Platte selber und finde sie einfach Fantastisch, vor allem diese Frauenstimme. Erinnert mich an Inga Rumpf.

Leider habe ich "Happy" von selbiger Platte noch nicht gefunden.