VA - Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975 (2023) [3CD] Lossless
Artist: VA Title Of Album Deviation Street Year Of Release: 2023 Label (Catalog#) Grapefruit [CRSEGBOX123] Country: UK Genre: Art Rock, Hard Rock, Prog Rock, Freakbeat, British Psychedelia Quality: FLAC (*tracks+.cue,log) Total Time: 03:56:34 Total Size: 1.38Gb(+5%)(covers)
Most comprehensive overview yet of the Ladbroke Grove-based late 60s/early 70s freak scene. Four-hour anthology of locally based acts featuring much previously unreleased or rare material. Now widely acknowledged as Albion's equivalent of the Haight-Ashbury underground scene in San Francisco, Ladbroke Grove in West London developed into the epicentre of the late 60s British counterculture movement. Cheap rents had already attracted beatniks, bohemians and the Windrush generation of West Indian immigrants, and they were joined as the decade wore on by a motley crew of musicians, freaks and anarchists as the home-grown hippie sub-culture found a spiritual and physical base. Also housing the burgeoning underground press and various rock band management agencies, the area around Ladbroke Grove, Holland Park and Notting Hill Gate spawned its own music scene that included Hawkwind, Quintessence, Edgar Broughton Band, Skin Alley, Third Ear Band and High Tide. Featuring all of the above acts, ‘Deviation Street: High Times in Ladbroke Grove 1967-1975’ is the most comprehensive overview yet of the West London freak scene, incorporating such integral local movers 'n' shakers as Mick Farren and The Deviants, Twink, Steve Peregrin Took, Lemmy, Sam Hutt, Hapshash, Davey Graham, Graham Bond and Carol Grimes. Alongside Pink Fairies, Trees, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Quiver, Uncle Dog, Steamhammer, Mighty Baby, Family, Pretty Things, Junior's Eyes and Cochise, the collection incorporates key cuts from the local immigrant community (Mataya, Noir, Ram John Holder). With a lavish 48-page booklet and four hours of music that features much previously unreleased and rare material (including the first home-made demo recording by Roxy Music, who had their protracted genesis in the area), ‘Deviation Street’ is an essential purchase for anyone interested in the late 60s British underground.
Tracks: ------- Disc: 1 1 NOTTING HILL GATE (single version) - Quintessence 2 HURRY ON SUNDOWN - Hawkwind Zoo 3 BLIND TO YOUR LIGHT - Carol Grimes & Delivery 4 HALLUCINATIONS - Tomorrow 5 BLACK LEATHER GLOVES - Bodast 6 SUBWAY (SMOKEY POKEY WORLD) - The Tickle 7 LONG TIME COMING - Village 8 PAINTED LADY - Cochise 9 COLD EMBRACE - Sam Gopal 10 I'M A STRANGER - The Action 11 LIVING IN SIN - Skin Alley 12 CHANGES* - Mataya 13 SICKLE CLOWNS - The Pretty Things 14 SONG FOR LOTS - Family 15 GALACTIC ZOO - Kingdom Come 16 POWIS SQUARE CHILD - Roger Bunn 17 THE ANSWER - Peter Bardens 18 LOOKING FOR TIME - Bond and Brown 19 WHICH DREAMED IT - Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup 20 OUT DEMONS OUT - Edgar Broughton Band
Disc: 2 1 ALL IN YOUR MIND (single version) - Stray 2 BLANKMAN CRIES AGAIN - High Tide 3 TURN AROUND - Steamhammer 4 AFTA - Davey Graham & Holly 5 SLIPSTREAMS - Mighty Baby 6 SUN MUSIC - Skin Alley 7 GLAD I CAME AROUND - Quiver 8 A MIND BLOWN IS A MIND SHOWN - Hapshash and the Coloured Coat 9 WE TOOK THE WRONG STEP YEARS AGO - Hawkwind 10 SLUM LORD - The Deviants 11 NOTTING HILL EVICTION BLUES - Ram John Holder 12 CONCRETE LINE UP - Ron Geesin 13 SAD SONG FOR WINTER - Chimera 14 VELVET TO ATONE - Trader Horne 15 APRIL AFFAIR - G. F. Fitzgerald 16 RINGS OF FORTUNE - Tyrannosaurus Rex 17 MY MIND - The Misunderstood 18 IF - Rosemary 19 UNCLE HARRY'S LAST FREAK-OUT - Pink Fairies
Disc: 3 1 CIRCUS DAYS (single version) - Junior's Eyes 2 NOTHING SPECIAL - Trees 3 10,000 WORDS IN A CARDBOARD BOX - The Aquarian Age 4 COSMIC SURFER - Quintessence 5 THE SYSTEM - Noir 6 VERY FINE...FAR AWAY - Third Ear Band 7 STILL YAWNING, STILL-BORN - Shagrat 8 2HB (demo version) - Roxy Music 9 ONE HAND CLAPPING - Rosemary 10 OLD HAT - Uncle Dog 11 SUMMERTIME BLUES - Mick Farren 12 THE RIGHT STUFF - Robert Calvert 13 KINGS OF SPEED - Michael Moorcock & Deep Fix 14 LOST JOHNNY - Motörhead 15 SILENT TELEPHONE - The 101'ers 16 I'M A FREE MAN - Mataya 17 LADBROKE GROVE BLUES - Ram John Holder 18 WITCHDOCTOR - Ginger Johnson & His African Messengers 19 DEVIATION STREET - The Deviants
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