Categories: Psychedelic Skeletons in the Closet

• Psychedelic Skeletons In The Closet No. 6: Herman’s Hermits by Serene Dominic

  It isn’t a dream-it really is Herman’s Hermits as seen through kaleidoscope eyes!!

• Psychedelic Skeletons In The Closet No. 7: *******Roy Orbison by Serene Dominic

  Everybody who made a record before 1967 has a bad psychedelic moment. This month we examine Roy Orbison’s darkest hour, or a least it seems like an hour.

• Kenny Rogers’ Psychedelic Skeleton in the Closet by Serene Dominic

  Everybody who made a record before 1967 has a bad psychedelic moment. This week, I give you star of stage, screen and rotisseries— Kenny Rogers! Most people think of Kenny as the play-it-safe Sentinel of slow poke, Driving-Miss-Daisy styled country music. Few remember the risks the Gambler took early on in his career with (insert shudder) psychedelic music!

• Psychedelic Skeletons in the Closet No. 2: The Dave Clark Five

  Everybody who made a record before 1967 has a bad psychedelic moment. The Dave Clark Five had three. The work that would get them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was already done by the Summer of Love.

• Psychedelic Skeletons in the Closet No. 1: Gerry & the Pacemakers by Serene Dominic

  Not wishing to venture one day into the Summer of Love, the Pacemakers called it quits on May 8, 1967. Few noticed but the group’s first (and last) defiant attempt at psychedelia.

• Iron Butterfly: The “Other Side” of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida Revealed! By Serene Dominic

  Barring side six of the Clash’s Sandinista! and sides two, three and four of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, few sides of vinyl were left as undisturbed as side one of Butterfly’s hippie meisterwork. For those of you whose copy still resides at your parents’ house or else wound up in an older brother’s record collection, we decided to take out our own dog-eared copy to find out just what we’ve been missing all these years!